Dick Clark Productions, the company organizing the Golden Globe Awards, has fired Anikko Navai and two other journalists, Howaida Hamdi and Munawar Hussein, for violating the organization’s code of ethics. writes The Hollywood Reporter.
According to the newspaper, Aniko Navai was removed along with two other members after complaints about her behavior were investigated.
As we previously reported, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which also gave out the Golden Globe Awards, ceased to exist in its previous form in June. HFPA members were exclusively journalists living in California who reported for foreign newspapers or television shows or ran their own YouTube channel. The organization was purchased in the summer by Eldridge Industries along with Dick Clark Productions (DCP), the company that organized the awards ceremony, and members of the organization became paid employees of the company.
The HFPA’s reputation has been tarnished by various scandals for years. We wrote more about them here.
Navai, Hamdi, and Hussein also became employees of the company. Their expulsion means they will not be able to vote for Golden Globes in the future, and by Sunday evening, all three of their profiles had disappeared from the Golden Globes website.
Howaida Hamdy, an Egyptian journalist and critic, was subjected to an internal investigation last month for allegedly tweeting anti-Semitic messages in Arabic and expressing similar sentiments in her criticism. Hamdi was admitted to the HFPA in 2021 after the organization received several criticisms that the composition of its membership was not diverse enough. Hussain has been a member of the organization since 1993, and Aniko Navai since 2000. In their case, The Hollywood Reporter did not specify exactly what type of complaints an internal investigation was opened against.
Aneko Navai’s name has been synonymous with Los Angeles coverage in the Hungarian media for some time, after 2010, as a member of the Golden Globe Awards team, her appearances on television were unavoidable for a few years. Scandals did not escape him. For example, two years ago he published an interview with Scarlett Johansson in Nok Lab, the text of which he took from another place, and he also admitted to plagiarism. Navai also came to light when in 2020 a Norwegian journalist named Kirsti Vla led her into a legal action because she was not allowed to join the HFPA. Fla’s lawsuit revealed some unpleasant details about the company that distributes the Golden Globes, including an “unnamed Hungarian member.”
We wrote more about Anikko Navai’s work in this article.
