Tom Cruise turned down Golden Globe awards after accusing the film awards organization as nest of white racists. The actor returned his awards for Best Male Actor in Jerry Maguire and Born on July 4th, as well as a statuette for a supporting role in Magnolia.

Whiteness of organizers of the film award were criticized by actress Scarlett Johansson and actor Mark Ruffalo, as well as streaming services Netflix and Amazon, both have already withdrawn all their films from nominations for the award.

The scandal began with an investigation into the financial schemes of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which awards the awards. The authors of the investigation pointed to the biggest crime they found during it - the white supremacism of the association: among its 87 members, there is not a single black one. The organizers promised to very quickly correct this and make at least half of the members black. But it did not help much. Now it is discussed that association should limit white members number to below 15% and also introduce special practice of getting on the knees during awards ceremony.

On smaller, rather unimportant note, the American Golden Globe Film Awards many months ago were convicted of corruption, but no one cared. In the summer of 2020, Norwegian journalist Kjersti Flaa filed a lawsuit against the jury of the event, as they did not accept her into the organization. Flaa said there is a "cult of corruption" flourishing within the HFPA and noted that the association accepts "thousands of dollars in rewards" from studios and celebrities who subsequently receive Golden Globes.