Golden Globes: No Cecil B. DeMille & Carol Burnett Awards In 2024 Amid Change

Nellie Andreeva
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Two staples of the Golden Globes will be sitting out the upcoming 2024 edition of the awards show, which airs on CBS this Sunday, Jan. 7 — the honorary Cecil B. DeMille and Carol Burnett trophies.

The two life-achievement awards, given to Eddie Murphy and Ryan Murphy, respectively, last year, will not be presented this year but expected to return in the future.

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The development comes as the Globes over the past 12 months changed ownership and status, becoming a for-profit organization owned by Deadline parent PMC along with show producer Dick Clark Prods. in a joint venture with Eldridge; their voting body, expanding to 300 members representing 76 countries; and network, moving to CBS (streaming on Paramount+) after decades on NBC.

The ceremony added two new categories this year, for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement and for Best Performance By a Stand-Up Comic On Television, the former featuring eight nominees.

“The awards also grew with 25 of the competitive categories expanding from five nominees to six, but with that increase comes a reduction for this year with no presentation of the Cecil B. DeMille and Carol Burnett Awards,” Globes’ Tim Gray wrote in a post on the show’s Web site last month. “This is not a permanent change, with future awards slated to be given.”

The film-focused Cecil B. DeMille Award has been presented every year, starting with DeMille in 1952, except for 1976; 2008, when there was no ceremony because of the WGA strike, with winners being announced at a press conference; and in 2022, when the ceremony was not televised following HFPA voting body diversity and other controversies.

The TV-themed Carol Burnett Award was established in 2019 with Burnett as the first recipient. It has been given out yearly since then, except for 2022.

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