Today, the awards season officially begins. Well, technically it has been rolling on for quite a while now, but the Golden Globes marks the first big ceremony of the year.

There will be glitz, there will be glamour, there’ll hopefully be a bit of controversy (who’s going to turn down E!‘s mani-cam this time?) – and, undoubtedly, there will be backlash.

It becomes clear every year – thanks to social media – that there is a very vocal bunch of people out there who don’t consider awards ceremonies interesting in the slightest.

They don’t care who’s wearing what, they don’t care who picks up Best Original Screenplay, and they certainly don’t consider them news – unless a Kiwi wins of course, then it’s the best thing ever, but all the other winners? Stuff ’em.

But if we didn’t have awards ceremonies, then our culture would be all the worse for it.

 

Full article published on nzherald.co.nz January 9th 2017.