I’ve always had a thing about the Golden Globe Awards — a negative thing. Somehow, for many years, this small group of fewer than 100 international journalists found itself behind a juggernaut TV awards show — or, really, a juggernaut promotional vehicle for the studios that was pretending to be a valid awards show. The group, the nonprofit Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was famous for exchanging votes for favors and gifts, nominating almost anyone willing to send them on a free vacation. And yet their awards for TV as well as movies were treated seriously. The best adjective I can...