This was supposed to go up yesterday but I was so tired I went immediately to sleep after work so you get a bonus/make-up post today!
The 76th Golden Globes ceremony was on Sunday night and was hosted by Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh. I've never been a fan of Samberg nor have I seen Oh in many things so both hosts were relatively new to me. I thought they had really good energy even when some of the jokes didn't land. The ones that did were funny and I think they outnumbered the flops so we're going to call it a success.
Best Actor in a TV series, Musical or Comedy went to Michael Douglas in The Kominsky Method as the first award of the night. Loved how he mentioned his 102-year-old father as if we wouldn't recognize his name outside of being a Hollywood legacy. It was presented by Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, two of the big frontrunners for awards themselves, who looked, respectively, like a waiter and the Fairy Godmother from Shrek 2. I love Gaga but the matching hair with the giant poofy dress was a no for me.
First (and most welcome) surprise winner of the night was Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse winning Best Animated Feature. Here's hoping it can continue that momentum all the way to upsetting the Pixar stranglehold on the Academy Awards.
Best Actor in a TV series, Drama went to Richard Madden for Bodyguard. I haven't seen it but Tyler said it was pretty good.
Best TV series, Drama went to The Americans. Apparently it's a big deal because they had been snubbed in previous years and this was their final season. Don't know but Keri Russell was looking FIERCE in that silver dress.
Best Supporting Actor in a TV series, limited series, or TV movie was Ben Whishaw, who gave an adorable speech, for A Very English Scandal.
Best Actress in a TV series, limited series, or TV movie was Patricia Arquette for Escape at Dannemora. She really, really liked working with Ben Stiller. That's all I got from her speech.
Festivities were interrupted slightly for one of the major awards, the inaugural Carol Burnett Award for Excellence in Comedy, being presented to Carol Burnett. Steve Carrell gave a very nice speech but I really loved the clip show highlighting her work. I loved watching her show. The episodes always felt fresh even when they were reruns. Her speech pointed out how insanely expensive it would be to do a variety show in this day and age and highlighted just how incredible it was to not only have a hit show run for 11 years but to be a female showrunner in an era still trying to get any sort of representation in front of or behind the camera.
Best Original Score went to Justin Hurwitz for First Man, the only award that film would win all night.
Best Original Song went to "Shallow" from A Star is Born. This was the expected winner and it won.
Best Supporting Actress in a Movie went to Regina King for If Beale Street Could Talk. She went way over her allotted time but I don't think anybody was mad about it. From what I can tell, her win was well-deserved, and any promises to provide 50% gender parity on subsequent projects are welcome.
Best Actress in a TV series, Drama, went to host Sandra Oh for Killing Eve, making her the first Asian-American woman to ever win that category. Her mom still didn't look super impressed.
Best Supporting Actor in a Movie went to Mahershala Ali for Green Book, a movie that has been hugely divisive. I haven't seen the film (but probably will because it's definitely getting nominated for an Oscar) but what I've read paints it as a rather tone-deaf story of race relations filtered exclusively through the experience of the film's white character. The fact that Ali is only considered a supporting actor seems to bear that through.
Green Book also picked up the award for Best Screenplay and was accepted by the real-life son of Viggo Mortensen's character.
Best Supporting Actress in a TV series, limited series, or TV movie was Patricia Clarkson for Sharp Objects, making her the second Patricia to win big that night.
Best Actor in a Movie, Comedy or Musical went to Christian Bale for Vice. He thanked Satan for the inspiration to play Dick Cheney. The Church of Satan actually issued a tweet thanking him for his kind words and that's the funniest thing I've ever heard.
Best Foreign Language Film went to Roma to the shock of no one.
Best Actor in a TV series, limited series, or TV movie went to Darren Criss for The Assassination of Gianni Versace: An American Crime Story. I had no idea he was Filipino.
Chris Pine presented Jeff Bridges with the Cecil B. DeMille Award and it was clear that Pine thinks Bridges is the funniest dude in the world. The video package highlighted exactly how few of his films I've ever seen, especially from his early career, and left out probably as many as it showed. Jeff Bridges has worked a long-ass time. Also, his speech was the most rambling, incoherent, hilarious one of the night. At this point, the champagne had been flowing freely for about two hours just of broadcast time so probably at least two or three hours before that as well (because they get dinner at the Globes and then fast at the Oscars) and everyone was pretty sloshed.
Alfonso Cuaron also picked up Best Director for Roma.
Best Actress in a TV show, Musical or Comedy went to Rachel Brosnahan for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, I think for the second time. And today I learned that show is also controversial because Brosnahan is not Jewish which raises concerns of anti-Semitism and now makes Samberg's joke about it make sense.
Best TV series, Musical or Comedy went to The Kominsky Method, which was somewhat of a shock because of how new it is but it is about old white dudes not aging gracefully and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association loves that.
Best Limited Series or TV movie went to American Crime Story.
Best Actress in a Movie, Musical or Comedy went to Olivia Coleman for The Favourite which pretty much guarantees her a nomination for Best Actress in a couple of weeks. Also, she looked fabulous.
Best Picture, Musical or Comedy went to Green Book in its third win of the night. This I thought was some bullshit on the part of the HFPA because nowhere did I see this movie being billed as a comedy. Even the clip they played when they introduced it wasn't funny.
In the second biggest surprise of the night, Glenn Close beat Lady Gaga for Best Actress in a Movie, Drama, for The Wife. Honestly, I think the person most surprised was Glenn Close but she's so good of an actress I could be wrong. She also gave a really nice speech.
Best Actor in a Movie, Drama, went to Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody. I have actually not heard a lot of praise for the movie itself, but what I did hear was for Malek particularly. This is another film embroiled in controversy for its treatment of Freddie Mercury's life, sexual orientation, AIDS diagnosis, and its direction by Bryan Singer, accused of sexual assault over several decades by multiple people.
In the Time's Up era, many are questioning the HFPA's endorsement of Singer, even tacitly, and especially in awarding the biggest prize of the night, Best Picture, Drama, to Bohemian Rhapsody.
I haven't seen the film (really, I have seen almost none of the films) but I am very conflicted about it. I'm also a little irritated that it and A Star is Born were even in the Drama category when I would definitely classify them both as musicals. I think if they were classified correctly it would have alleviated a lot of the ire. Green Book should have been a drama and then, placed in consideration with BlacKkKlansman, Black Panther, and If Beale Street Could Talk, judged on its relative merits. But I'm not in charge.
Anyway, Oscar nominations drop in a couple of weeks and then I will have until Feb 24th to watch all the nominees. Stay tuned!
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