Every year the same game: Hollywoods awards season begins with a spectacle whose reputation, which has been tarnished for years (due to a lack of diversity and structural racism), has strangely not led to a noticeable loss of importance. Film and television celebrities continue to flock to the annual Golden Globes Gala – the awards have been presented in Los Angeles by representatives of the foreign press since 1944 – in astonishing numbers; and the awards made here are still seen as pointing the way for the Oscar show that will take place a few weeks later (this year on the night of March 10th to 11th).
In this respect, a sweeping victory for powerful and deafening prestige cinema can also be predicted at the upcoming Academy Awards; because Christopher Nolan’s three-hour atomic bomb political history “Oppenheimer” won five awards in the “Drama” category at this year’s Golden Globes in the early hours of January 8th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel – for best film drama, for best director, for most differentiated lead – (Cillian Murphy) and the finest supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr.) as well as the best, one would have to say: most manipulative film music (Ludwig Göransson).
Two of the most important awards in the “Comedy/Musical” category went to what is probably currently the most original cinematic work, Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things”: the Golden Globes for best film and best actress, the American Emma Stone (more on this work and you’ll find out more about Stone’s incredible performance in the upcoming issue of profil). Two equally virtuoso actors who carried Alexander Payne’s tragicomic college panorama “The Holdovers” were recognized as the best leading and best supporting actress in the comedic department: Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph.
Hayao Miyazaki’s surreal masterpiece “The Boy and the Heron” was honored as the best, naturally unrivaled animated film. Justine Triet’s subtle marriage crime thriller “Anatomy of a Case” was declared the best foreign language production and also received a Globe in the screenplay category. Greta Gerwig’s global blockbuster “Barbie”, although nominated nine times, was fobbed off with two awards: the new award for cinematography and box office performance and that for best film song (by and with Billie Eilish). Only Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” was even more ignored in terms of the number of nominations: only Lily Gladstone was honored as best actress in a drama film.
In the television department, the series “Succession” won four times: as best drama with three award-winning acting (Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, Matthew Macfadyen. The series “The Bear” (as best comedy, from whose ensemble Ayo Edebiri and Jeremy Allen White were also highlighted) and the tragicomic Road-Rage-Hit “Beef”: two deep dives into the madness of our everyday lives, into the chaos of cooking and the escalating petty wars in traffic.
2024-01-08 10:37:29
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