Nevertheless, the 78th Golden Globe Awards took place in two different locations, coast to coast. The event was hosted split-screen by Tina Fey in New York, live from the Rainbow’s Room, and Amy Poehler in Los Angeles, live from the Beverly Hilton, with a select group of guest presenters on scene with them. Nominees attended remotely from various locations around the world. And those physically seated in the audience were made up of well-heeled frontliners (a nice gesture), all masked up of course.
When it was announced that this year’s Golden Globes affair would be conducted virtually over Zoom, with celebs choosing to accept their awards at home, two things came to mind: tuxedoes over boxers, and why Zoom?
If there’s one thing we have learnt over a year of video-conferencing and organising webinars of our own, it is to never host an international award ceremony on Zoom. It simply doesn’t have the technical capabilities to support hybrid events — online affairs that blend the physical with the virtual. What you’ll end up with is plenty of audio lag, frozen screens, fuzzy video, inconsistent lighting … it goes on.
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