distribute funds; $2.1 million was donated to nonprofits in 2015, leaving $8 million not being donated to any charities. According to the HFPA, from 1990 to 2015, over $23.9 million was donated to charity and used to fund scholarships and grants; this averaged less than $1 million dollars per year. In 2019, the organization disbursed grants worth under $6 million from a total income of over $30 million. Funds have also been used to restore more than 90 films, including King Kong (1933) and Woman on the Run (1950). HFPA Residency , the HFPA announced its residency program in partnership with Film Independent. The program selects three winners from the Italian Venice Film Festival’s Orizzonti section and three participants from Canada's Toronto International Film Festival to Los Angeles for an intensive workshop. The 2019 residency fellows include Emir Baigazin, Mahmut F. Coskun, Georgia Fu, Maria Bozzi, Avril Z. Speaks, Rati Tsiteladze, Cynthia Kao. The 2020 residency program winners were TIFF participants: All These Creatures by Australian Charles Williams, Misterio by Chema Garcia from Spain, and Measure by Canadian director Karen Chapman. This is in addition to Venice winners: Atlantis, by Ukrainian Valentyn Vasyanovych, Blanco en Blanco by Spaniard Théo Court and Filipino Raymund Ribay Gutierrez. The 2021 residency program winners were TIFF participants: Hair: The Story of Grass, Maha Al–Saati's, Jeff Wong's H’mong Sisters, and Matria by Alvaro Gago Diaz. This is in addition to the Venice winners in the Orizzonti section: Best Film - Dashte Khamoush ("The Wasteland"), by Ahmad Bahrami; Lahi, Hayop ("Genus Pan"), Lav Diaz; Best Director, and Special Jury Prize Listen, by Ana Rocha de Sousa. Controversies Sexual harassment allegations In 2018, actor Brendan Fraser accused former HFPA president Philip Berk of groping him in 2003. The organization commissioned an internal investigation, which concluded that while "Berk inappropriately touched Mr. Fraser, the evidence supports that it was intended to be taken as a joke and not as a sexual advance.” HFPA officials asked Fraser to sign a joint statement about the matter but would not share the complete findings with him. After returning to acting in The Whale in 2022, Fraser stated unequivocally he would not attend the 2023 Golden Globe Awards ceremony due to a lack of reconciliation or apology regarding his assault accusations. Membership and accusations of self-dealing Although it counts some prominent journalists among its membership, since at least the 1990s, the HFPA