Golden Globes appear to be back to form, with all the A-listers in attendance, several feel-good wins – particularly Demi Moore for best female actor in a musical or comedy – and some tea leaves for the Oscars in March.
Nikki Glaser, a roast comic new to awards hosting, avoided the low punches and lazy cliches of Jo Koy’s disappointing monologue last year; her bits balanced warmth and bite, neither offensive nor weak, and were consistently funny.
Awards-wise, it was a disappointing night for the musical hopeful Wicked, which snagged only the box office award. Instead, Emilia Pérez and The Brutalist emerged poised for strong Oscar campaigns, with four and three wins apiece. On the TV side, things went about as expected, with Emmy favorites Shōgun, Hacks and Baby Reindeer winning most of the awards.
All in all, a solid (and not noticeably boozy) broadcast for an awards show that needed a solid showing. Thanks for sticking with us! We’ll see you back here for the Oscars …
And here’s my colleague Benjamin Lee’s nice summary of the evening:
Worth watching Adrien Brody’s speech in full:
And here’s the full list of winners:
Here’s our red carpet gallery for the evening featuring the night’s top looks, from Zendaya (obviously) to Timothée Chalamet and more:
In case you missed it, there was a lil Fast & Furious reunion tonight, in service of the award for cinematic or box office achievement:
Club Chalamet has spoken on Timothée’s loss. No word yet on his date this evening…
Another film with an excellent night –Jacques Audiard’s operatic Emilia Pérez wins best musical or comedy. Audiard calls up Emilia herself, the Spanish actor Karla Sofia Gascón, to accept the award for the Spanish-language Netflix film.
“Light always wins over darkness,” says Gascón, now the first out transgender actor to win a Golden Globe film award. She has a rousing message to viewers: “You can maybe put us in jail, you can beat us up, but you can never take away our soul or resistance or identity.”
As expected by now, The Brutalist is tonight’s best drama film, capping off a solid night of best director and best actor.
“I prepared one speech, not two,” says the director, Brady Corbet, though he thanks the people who “over and over again bet on this film that kept falling apart”.
And he makes clear how much this film had to overcome, in a long point on the importance of directors: “I was told that this film was undistributable. I was told that no one would come out and see it. I was told that it wouldn’t work. I don’t resent that. But I want to use this as an opportunity to lift up … all the extraordinary film-makers in this room. Films don’t exist without the film-makers.”
This one tracks – an emotional Adrien Brody wins for The Brutalist, a frontrunner for best drama tonight.
“I’m deeply humbled by this,” he says with a wavering voice, praising the film as a “monument to humanity and the arts”. He thanks his parents – particularly his mother and her parents, who, like his character, fled the Holocaust in Hungary for life in the US.
“There was a time not too long ago where I thought this may be a moment never afforded to me again,” he adds, “so thank you.”
Golden Globes – Hacks wins best comedy series over last year’s winner The Bear.
The co-creator, writer, executive producer and star Paul W Downs accepts in several languages – as many as his reps would allow (lol). “We do have to shoot tomorrow and we have a call time of 6am, so if Jean Smart asks for a shot, please do not give it to her,” he notes, specifically calling out Kate Winslet.
No surprise here – Baby Reindeer, Richard Gadd’s Netflix series that cleaned up at the Emmys, wins again.
“The Rock’s here, this is crazy!” says the Scottish comedian, clearly excited. But on a more serious note, “people were kinda crying out for something that spoke to the painful inconsistencies of being human”, he adds of the series based on his real-life experience with being stalked.
“We need stories that speak to the complicated and difficult nature of our times,” he advocates. Cut to Ted Sarandos, as Gadd calls on streamers to save money for “the little people to tell their stories”.
Source: theguardian.com
