The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which ran the awards show until a couple of years ago, has voted to investigate the deal that sold the event to a joint venture.

In 2023, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was declared dead. The organization, which oversaw the annual Golden Globes awards, was sold to a joint venture after a series of scandals led to the cancellation of its 2022 telecast.

But the association never really went away, because the deal has not been officially approved by California’s attorney general. In a startling change of events, members of the semi-disbanded association, around 77 foreign journalists, are trying to take matters into their own hands, wrest back oversight of the awards show and reinvigorate their charitable foundation.

The journalists, who still vote annually for the awards show but are not involved in the for-profit company that runs the splashy telecast, voted on Monday to formally reconstitute their