On the eve of the Golden Globes ceremony, here is what you need to know about Sunday evening which promises to be, like every year, full of surprises of all kinds.
78 times
This is the 78th annual awards presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). Behind this name are 87 foreign journalists working in Los Angeles. This year, the “Los Angeles Times” took a close look at the composition of this association, noting that no black person is a member.
3,944 kilometers
This is the fourth time that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will officiate as Masters of Ceremonies. But this year, COVID requires, the two women will be separated by 3,944 kilometers, or the entire continent. The first will be in the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center while its accomplice will be held at the Beverly Hilton, the hotel where the evening usually takes place.
83 years old
Jane Fonda, 83, will this year receive the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. The actress and activist has won no less than seven Golden Globes and two Oscars since her debut.
3 directors
This year, three of the five directors nominated in the corresponding category are women, never seen before! They are Emerald Fennell for “A young woman full of promises”, Chloé Zhao thanks to “Nomadland” and Regina King behind “One Night in Miami”.
21 000 $ US
A total of 26 statuettes will be presented during the ceremony. In total, the production of these gold-coated zinc and marble trophies cost US $ 21,000. It is the Society Awards company, located in Grove, a small town in Oklahoma, that takes care of the manufacturing, with each statuette being cast, carved and polished by no less than six people spending a total of 12 to 20 hours. .
24 and 26 years old
Each year, the Golden Globes ambassadors present the prizes to the winners. While we do not yet know what form the most recent presentation of the statuettes will take, we do know that the ambassadors are Jackson, 24, and Satchel, 26, the children of Spike Lee.
100 shots
Charles Dance, the actor who plays mogul William Randolph Hearst in David Fincher’s “Mank,” revealed that a scene had been shot over a hundred times by the filmmaker before he was satisfied. It is a moment in which Gary Oldman, who plays Herman J. Mankiewicz, screenwriter of “Citizen Kane”, arrives at the home of the millionaire completely drunk. Apparently, still according to Charles Dance, Gary Oldman would not have failed to make known his exasperation to David Fincher.
600 auditions
Sacha Baron Cohen had no less than 600 auditions for young actresses before choosing Maria Bakalova to play the role of Tutar, Borat’s daughter in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”, recipient of three quotes.
Nominations by distributor
- Netflix: 22
- Amazon Studios: 7
- Focus Features: 5
- Searchlight Pictures: 5
- Sony Pictures Classics: 5
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures: 5
The 10 most named films
- «Missing»: 6
- «The Trial Of The Chicago 7»: 5
- “The Father”: 4
- «Nomadland»: 4
- “A young woman full of promises”: 4
- «Borat Subsequent Moviefilm»: 3
- «One Night In Miami»: 3
- «Hamilton»: 2
- «Judas and the Black Messiah»: 2
- «The Life Ahead»: 2
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