• It’s the night of the Golden Globes 2024: artists, films and TV series compete for the awards from the stage of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles
• «Barbie» and «Oppenheimer», the films that dominated the box office and generated countless memes last summer, are the favorites to win the most statuettes: they have 9 and 8 nominations, respectively
• Matteo Garrone is also in the running: his «I Captain» (Silver Lion in Venice, currently in French theaters and from January 23rd also in US ones) is in the shortlist for best foreign film, where, however, the competitors are very fierce.
02:01 – Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Robert Downey Jr. best supporting performers
We begin with the monologue of Joe Koy, a stand up comedian of Filipino origins. He had less than two weeks to prepare and watch all the nominated films and series. He doesn’t hide his emotion when faced with many of his legends: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Martin Scorsese, mixed together at the tables of the Beverly Hilton Hotel (“They called me ten days ago, do you also want a perfect monologue? Are you kidding?”) . And here comes the first prize, best supporting actress to Da’Vine Joy Randolph for The Holdovers – Life Lessons by Alexander Payne. And the first statuette to Oppenheimer: as a supporting actor Robert Downey Jr. for the part of Lewis Strauss, director of the Atomic Energy Commission of the United States of America (AEC). Best supporting actress is Elizabeth Debicki, Lady Diana in The Crown.
01.10 am – Voters and the new categories
The Golden Globes are traditionally the first stop of the awards season, which will culminate on March 10 in the Academy Awards ceremony. Whoever emerges as the winner has an excellent chance of repeating the Oscars, but the dynamics between the two awards are different. The Golden Globes reward cinema and TV (23 categories, this year also that of stand-up comedy and best-grossing film), there are around 300 voters (the majority of members of the dissolved HFPA, as well as new jurors from a seventy countries), while the Oscars are reserved only for cinema, the voters are the approximately 10 thousand members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Ore 00:42 – I favoriti sul red carpet
This edition’s red carpet of great occasions, the first after the long actors’ strike: at stake is the credibility of the new course, to put the boycotts of stars and productions behind us, with the memory of the returned statuettes, as said Tom Cruise. The list of expected stars is very long, including nominees and presenters: Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, Bradley Cooper, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Timothée Chalamet, Oprah Winfrey, America Ferrera, Daniel Kaluuya, Florence Pugh, Hailee Steinfeld, Issa Rae, Shameik Moore, Amanda Seyfried, Angela Bassett, Julia Garner, Justin Hartley, Michelle Yeoh, Patrick J. Adams, Will Ferrell, Carey Mulligan. Taylor Swift also arrived on the red carpet. And there are also the most rising actors of the season, from Sandra Hüller, the protagonist of Anatomy of a Fall and Andrew Scott, candidate for All of us strangers.
00:02 – Golden Globes, 81st edition, the first of the new course
Countdown at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles for the ceremony of the 81st edition of the Golden Globes, the awards established in 1943 and managed until the last edition by the HFPA, the association of foreign journalists in Hollywood. Overwhelmed by scandals and controversies – on the lack of representation and on practices that were not exactly crystal clear – and by the boycott of stars and TV chains, from which it was unable to recover, the HFPA was dissolved. The brand was acquired by Dick Clark Productions (DPC) and Todd Boehly’s Eldridge Corporation. For the newly formed Golden Globe Foundation, it is in fact the first edition of the new course, after privatisation. Comedian Jo Koy was chosen to host the ceremony two weeks ago: it will be live on CBS, streaming on Paramount+, not visible to us. The race is between Greta Gerwing’s Barbie – 9 nominations including best film (comedy), director, screenplay, actress (Margot Robbie) and supporting actor (Ryan Gosling), three songs and a new category, for box office films – and Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan: 8 nominations including film (drama), director, screenplay, actor (Cillian Murphy) and supporting actors (Emily Blunt and Robert Downey Jr.). Following behind is the indomitable Martin Scorsese with 7 nominations for Killers of the Flower Moon and Poor Creatures by Yorgos Lanthimos. On the television front, the series Succession, The Last Of Us and The Bear reign supreme. Italian hopes are linked to I Captain by Matteo Garrone (Silver Lion in Venice, currently in French cinemas and from 23 January also in those Americans, with some real sponsors such as Sting) in the shortlist for the best non-English language film, where however the competitors are very fierce: The Palme d’Or 2023 Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet (France), Past Lives by Celine Song ( USA but in Korean), The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer (Great Britain but in German), The Snow Society by JA Bayona (Spain), Leaves in the Wind by Aki Kaurismaki (Finland).
2024-01-08 01:27:30
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