The Golden Globes were useful because they helped “Oppenheimer” and “Poor Things” with their Oscar campaigns and started the farewell tour for “Succession.” However, Sunday’s televised event also reinforced the idea that Hollywood has a hard time saying goodbye to people who give it awards.
The 81st Golden Globes ceremony took place, but similarities to earlier events should be done with a warning. That’s because the Globes have gone through big changes as an organization. They got rid of the scandal-plagued Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. (HFPA) and set up a new, improved voting group with more members under the direction of Dick Clark Productions.
Not everyone got the message, though. Three of the winners thanked the HFPA, and Robert Downey Jr. was the only winner to directly mention the scandal when he thanked the Globes for cleaning up its act.
Still, Hollywood stars came out in droves this year after missing the event when it briefly disappeared from TV and moved from NBC to CBS. The Beverly Hilton Hotel was packed with stars. The tone, on the other hand, was a bit low, even though it was clear that the Globes wanted to reinforce their image as more of a party than the stuffier, more important Academy Awards. The voiceover speaker joked, “Censors will be standing by.”
Not only were they not needed, but there weren’t many political points to be made. The night got off to a rough start that it never fully recovered from. Host Jo Koy’s stand-up comedy didn’t work, which is another reason why comics and other performers aren’t lining up for these kinds of gigs these days.
Although the Golden Globes have been in a lot of trouble, they did something that the Oscars have tried to do but haven’t been able to: they made a category for movies that made more than $150 million worldwide at the box office, which has been hard for movies that have been nominated in recent years.
The first prize went to “Barbie,” the biggest hit of the year at the box office. Director Greta Gerwig, star Margot Robbie, and the rest of the cast can take a bow. Billie Eilish won a second statuette for best song. In 2018, the Academy Awards tried to get more viewers with a similar “popular film” plan, but the idea was shot down by the board. (“Barbie” is sold by Warner Bros., which is part of Warner Bros. Discovery and also owns CNN.)
In an Oscar year with a lot of open nominations, the other half of the “Barbenheimer” box office powerhouse had a better night with the awards. Downey, Cillian Murphy in the lead part, the musical score, and Christopher Nolan, who won his first Globe after six nominations, were among the film’s five winners. A three-hour historical epic about the bomb became a commercial hit thanks to Universal Studios’ ability to see “potential in very challenging material,” according to Nolan.
The silly movie “Poor Things” also got a boost, and singer Emma Stone won two awards: one for the movie and one for her. Among other important acting categories, Lily Gladstone won the only Globe for her role in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which was a first for a Native American actor. Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph won for their roles in “The Holdovers,” which brought Giamatti back together with directed “Sideways” Alexander Payne.
In the past, the Hollywood Foreign Press gave its choices a strong foreign flavor, and this seemed to continue even when the press’s members changed. France’s “Anatomy of a Fall” won best script, Japan’s “The Boy and the Heron” won best animated movie, and Ricky Gervais, a former Globes host, won a brand-new award for stand-up specials.
Also on TV, Warner Bros. Discovery’s “Succession” won four awards, more than any other show, including best drama and awards for stars Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, and Matthew Macfadyen. The show is getting ready for next week’s Emmys. It was the same story for the limited series “Beef” and the comic “The Bear,” which both won three.
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The Globes have always given awards to both movies and TV shows, but because they happen right before the Oscars, the films that get nominated are usually the ones that get the most attention. On January 23, the Academy Award nominees will be made public.
This year, the Emmys will happen after the Globes on January 15. They were moved back four months because of the writers’ and actors’ strikes. The last time the TV industry’s top prize was pushed back was after the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
There are no more votes to cast for the Emmys. In fact, the Television Academy mostly gave out technical awards over the weekend. HBO’s new thriller “The Last of Us” won the most awards, with eight, including awards for Nick Offerman and Storm Reid as guest actors.
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