In the tradition of ambassadors past, the Lees have each selected a nonprofit organization to champion-the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center for Satchel, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America for Jackson-both of which will receive a $25,000 grant from the HFPA. While they’re the third set of siblings to be co-ambassadors-in 2017, the job was divided between Sophia, Sistine, and Scarlet Stallone and last year, by Dylan and Paris Brosnan-the appointment makes Jackson, who recently launched his own creative agency, Indigo212, the Golden Globes’s first Black male ambassador, and Satchel, a writer and photographer, the first to openly identify as queer. Stepping up to the plate for this year’s bifurcated telecast-co-hosted by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey from the Beverly Hilton and the Rainbow Room, respectively-are Satchel and Jackson Lee, the daughter and son of director Spike Lee (whose latest film, Da 5 Bloods, was one of the Globes’s more egregious snubs) and his wife, the producer Tonya Lewis Lee. From 1971 onward, the title was conferred almost exclusively to celebrity children-a young Shatner here, a Gable there, and people like Laura Dern, Melanie Griffith, and Dakota Johnson who would soon become stars in their own right-and in 2018 it took its present form, with Simone Garcia Johnson (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s eldest daughter) serving as the inaugural, less old-fashioned-sounding “ambassador.” Known for years as Miss (or Mr.) Golden Globe, the Golden Globe Ambassador has been a fixture of the ceremony since 1963, when actresses Eva Six and Donna Douglas were tapped to help hand off awards throughout the evening.
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