The historical drama film “Oppenheimer” swept the Golden Globe Awards the day before yesterday with five honors, and the film “Poor Things” surpassed the film “Barbie,” which topped the revenues during the summer, in the first major ceremony held in Hollywood since the long closure. Most of the entertainment industry due to two strikes last year.
The film “Oppenheimer,” which tells the story of the making of the nuclear bomb, won five awards, including the biggest award, which is Best Drama Film, and awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr., respectively.
Christopher Nolan won the Golden Globe Award for Best Director for the first time for the film, which was distributed by Universal Pictures, which is owned by Comcast.
“I’m very happy to honor Chris, because I think what he does is different from what anyone else does,” Emma Thomas, Oppenheimer’s producer and Nolan’s wife, said on stage.
“Poor Things,” starring Emma Stone and about a dead woman brought back to life by scientists, won the award for best comedy or musical.
Stone won the Best Actress Award in the Comedy or Musical category for her role in the film.
Those who followed the ceremony expected that the movie “Barbie” would win the grand prize, which revolves around women’s empowerment and is inspired by the famous doll, which topped the box office for the year 2023 and received nine nominations the night before last.
“Barbie” received only two awards, the first for the song “What Was I Made for” by Billie Eilish, and the second for a new category called Cinematic Achievement and Box Office, which is dedicated to films that received great demand in cinemas.
The winners were chosen by a group of about 300 entertainment journalists, as part of a new organization created after a scandal involving ethical lapses and a lack of diversity in the voting group.
Lily Gladstone, who won the Best Actress award for her role in the movie “Killers of the Flower Moon,” said, “This is a historic victory that not only concerns me, but also concerns all my beautiful sisters.”
She thanked director Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, the stars involved in the story of the killing of members of the Osage tribe in the 1920s.
Other acting award winners included Paul Giamatti and Joey Randolph for “The Holdovers,” a comedy set at a boys’ boarding school.
In the field of television works, the series “Succession” (Caliphate) won the award for best dramatic work, and outperformed the rest of the series with four awards, including the award for best acting performance for actor Kieran Culkin.
The series “The Bear,” which revolves around a struggle to win ownership of a restaurant, won the award for best comedy series and best acting performance for stars Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri.
The Golden Globe Awards ceremony marks the beginning of the annual awards season in Hollywood, which ends with the Oscars ceremony scheduled for March 10. The concert will bring the A-list stars together after six months that witnessed a strike by actors and writers in 2023.
The ceremony gave celebrities an opportunity to highlight their films and television programs after months of promotion ban.
The large attendance at the ceremony showed that Hollywood has brought back the Golden Globes ceremony as an important award-distribution event. Among the attendees were a number of legendary Hollywood stars such as Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster, all of whom were nominated for the Golden Globe Awards and are competing for the Oscars this year. Pop star Taylor Swift joined the audience as an award nominee for her latest musical. Oprah Winfrey presented tonight’s grand prize to “Oppenheimer.”
More fun than the Oscars
The Golden Globes are known to be more fun than the Oscars. It was almost canceled completely, as a report prepared by the Los Angeles Times in 2021 revealed ethical lapses and a lack of diversity among the group that was voting to choose the award winners, which numbered about 80 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The concert was canceled in 2022 while the organization made reforms.
