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The Breakdown with Shaun King

Ep. 141 - White men dominate the Golden Globe nominations

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.812.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The Golden Globe nominations were just announced and Shaun unpacks and explains why it's a problem, and why it matters that women and people of color were left out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Golden Globe nominations were just announced a few minutes ago and so many of us are really disappointed, not because we think people need that kind of validation.

1:10.0

I'm going to address that in just a second.

1:12.0

But those nominations are very important for filmmakers,

1:15.6

for actors and actresses, for everybody who's nominated.

1:19.3

And I got a text from my daughter, my 17-year-old,

1:21.6

who's a budding filmmaker filmmaker and even she was just

1:24.5

disappointed not only because in the best director category it was all men five men it was

1:30.2

that way in most categories for producers and everything else.

1:33.7

So today I'm going to talk a little bit about those Golden Globe nominations and why it bothers me,

1:39.4

not because I'm looking for outside validation for all the people in those fields.

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