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Past the sensible facet of the Golden Globes, which superior “Oppenheimer” (particularly) and “Poor Issues” of their Oscar campaigns and started the “Succession” farewell tour, Sunday’s televised ceremony strengthened the notion that Hollywood has a tough time quitting those that lavish honors upon it.
Though this marked the 81st edition of the Globes, comparisons to earlier ceremonies ought to include an asterisk. That’s due to sweeping modifications the Globes have undergone as a company, phasing out the scandal-plagued Hollywood Overseas Press Assn. (HFPA) and establishing a revised and expanded voting group underneath new administration, Dick Clark Productions.
Granted, not everybody received the memo, with three of the winners thanking the HFPA, whereas Robert Downey Jr. made probably the most overt reference to the scandal from the recipients, thanking the Globes for cleansing up its act.
That stated, after staying away from the ceremony, which briefly left TV and shifted this 12 months from NBC to CBS, Hollywood once more turned out in power, with high expertise filling the Beverly Hilton Resort. The tone, nonetheless, felt considerably subdued, regardless of a transparent need to buttress the Globes’ status as extra of a celebration than stuffier, higher-stakes Academy Awards, with the voiceover announcer joking, “Censors will probably be standing by.”
They weren’t wanted, nor was there a lot in the best way of political statements. The evening received off to an ungainly begin from which it by no means completely recovered, with host Jo Koy’s stand-up materials falling flat, underscoring why comics and different expertise haven’t been lining up to take on these gigs within the fashionable period.
Regardless of the turmoil surrounding the Golden Globes, they structurally achieved one thing that the Oscars have tried to do however couldn’t: Making a class to incorporate films that achieved box-office success (greater than $150 million worldwide), which have discovered nominations scarce in recent times.
“Barbie,” the 12 months’s box-office champ, received that inaugural prize, giving director Greta Gerwig, star Margot Robbie and firm an opportunity to take a bow, whereas nabbing a second statuette for greatest tune for Billie Eilish. The Academy Awards notably floated an analogous “popular film” plan in 2018 hoping to spice up scores, earlier than its board nixed the thought. (“Barbie” is distributed by Warner Bros., like CNN, a unit of Warner Bros. Discovery.)
The opposite half of the “Barbenheimer” box-office juggernaut had the higher evening award-wise, augmenting its standing in a wide-open Oscar 12 months. The movie’s 5 victories included Downey, Cillian Murphy within the title position, musical rating and director Christopher Nolan, receiving his first Globe after six nominations. Nolan thanked the studio, Common, for seeing “potential in very difficult materials,” remodeling a three-hour historic epic concerning the nuclear bomb right into a industrial sensation.
The whimsical “Poor Issues” additionally acquired a lift, doubling up its win for musical or comedy film with one other for star Emma Stone. Amongst different key performing races, Lily Gladstone took residence the only Globe for director Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” in a historic acknowledgement of a Native-American actor; and Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph received for “The Holdovers,” reuniting the previous with “Sideways” director Alexander Payne.
Traditionally, the Hollywood Overseas Press gave its picks a robust worldwide taste, a development that appeared to outlive its membership modifications. That included a greatest screenplay win for France’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” Japan’s “The Boy and the Heron” claiming greatest animated film and Ricky Gervais (a previous Globes host) snagging a newly created award for stand-up specials.
Elsewhere in tv, the ultimate season of “Succession” (one other Warner Bros. Discovery property) tuned up for subsequent week’s Emmys by garnering 4 awards, greater than some other collection, together with greatest drama and for stars Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin and Matthew Macfadyen. There have been comparable sweeps by the restricted collection “Beef” and comedy “The Bear,” with three every.
The Globes have all the time acknowledged each films and tv, although its calendar placement through the run-up interval to the Oscars has historically made the present most carefully watched as a bellwether for the movies that get acknowledged. Academy Award nominations will probably be introduced on January 23.
This 12 months, the Emmys will truly comply with the Globes on January 15, having been postponed 4 months as a result of writers and actors strikes. The TV trade’s high prize was final delayed in 2001, after the Sept. 11 assaults.
Voting for the Emmys has lengthy since been accomplished. Actually, the Tv Academy handed out honors primarily in technical areas over the weekend, with HBO’s new drama “The Final of Us” topping all packages with eight awards, together with guest-actor honors for Nick Offerman and Storm Reid.