Two wildly daring films — Brady Corbett’s 215-minute postwar epic “The Brutalist” and Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language, genre-shifting trans musical “Emilia Pérez” — won top honors. 82nd Golden Globes On Sunday.
The Globes, still finding its footing after years of scandal and change, handed out awards to a number of films. But the awards group threw its strongest support behind a pair of films that were trying to be different from anything else.
“brutal” was crowned Best Picture, Drama, making one of the most ambitious films of 2024 a major contender at the Academy Awards. The film, shot in VistaVision and released with an intermission, also won Best Director for Corbett and Best Actor for Adrien Brody.
Corbett said, “I was told the film was not deliverable.” “Nobody was asking for a three-and-a-half-hour film about a mid-century designer in 70 mm. But it works.”
“Emilia Perez” won best picture, comedy or musical, boosting the Oscar chances of Netflix’s top Oscar contender. It also won Best Supporting Actress, Best Song (“El Mal”) and Best Non-English Language Film for Zoe Saldana. carla sofia gasconThe film’s transgender star, who plays a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender-affirmation surgery, spoke out for the film.
“Light always triumphs over darkness,” Gascón said, pointing to her bright orange dress. “You can probably put us in jail. You can kill us. But you can never take away our soul or existence or identity.”
“I am who I am. Not who you want me to be.”
The night’s big actor winners included a few surprises. Moore’s win for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical was a surprise. His comeback performance in “The Substance” is almost a The Hollywood star who resorts to an experimental procedure Recapturing her youth, the 62-year-old Moore received her first Globe — a win over heavily favored Mickey Madison of “Anora.”
“I’m in shock right now. I’ve been doing this for a long time, almost over 45 years, and this is the first thing I’ve won as an actor,” said Moore, who was last seen in action. Bar was nominated. Globes for film role in 1991 for “Ghost”. “Thirty years ago, a producer told me I was a popcorn actress.”
The award for Best Actress in a Drama Film was also a surprise. Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres won the award for her performance in “I’m Still Here”. drama based on a true story About a family living during the disappearance of political dissident Rubens Paiva in 1970s Rio de Janeiro.
The Best Supporting Actor in a Musical or Comedy award went to Sebastian Stan for another film based on body transformation: “A different man,” In which Stan plays the role of a man with a disfigured face who is healed. Stan, who was Also nominated for playing Donald Trump on “The Apprentice”. Note that both films were difficult to make.
Stan said, “These are difficult subjects but these films are real and they are necessary.” “But we cannot look away in fear.”
Glaser lightly fries the globes
Comedian Nikki Glaser opened the Globes with this promise: “I’m not here to roast you.”
But Glaser, a stand-up whose success came Making his way around the ballroom of the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, at Tom Brady’s withering roast on Sunday, he took plenty of targets in an opening monologue that he had previously worked on extensively in comedy clubs.
Although Glaser couldn’t reach the level of laughs Tina Fey and Amy Poehler did, the monologue was mostly a winner, and a dramatic improvement over last year’s host Jo Koy. Last year’s Globes, following a diversity and ethics scandal that led to the dissolution of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was widely condemned, but it delivered where it counted. Ratings soar According to Nielsen, approximately 10 million viewers. CBS, which joined the Globes after NBC dropped it, signed on for five more years.
Hosting the Globes two weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Glaser reserved perhaps her most cutting line for an entire room of Hollywood stars.
Glaser said, “You can really do anything … except tell the country who to vote for.” “But that’s okay, you’ll get them next time… if there is one. “I’m scared.”
The Globes are now owned by Todd Boehly’s Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions, who acquired the awards show from the now-defunct Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Following diversity and ethics scandals, the HFPA sold the Globes and disbanded. However, more than a dozen former HFPA members are seeking to void the sale to Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions.
victory of the evil one
Globes Award for cinematic and box-office achievement John M. Chu’s “Wicked,” Which has collected approximately $700 million in theaters. In a heavily artistic Oscar field, “Wicked” is easily the biggest hit with a chance to win Best Picture. Accepting the award, Chu argued for “a revolutionary act of optimism” in the arts.
Although there are few film awards to be expected this season, Kieran Culkin is emerging as the clear favorite for Best Supporting Actor. Culkin won with his performance on Sunday In Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain”, Her second Globe in the last year following her win for the HBO series “Succession.” He called the Globes “basically the best date night my wife and I have ever had” and then thanked them for “introducing what you call my mania.”
The papal thriller “Conclave” won best screenplay for Peter Straughan’s screenplay. “Flow,” a wordless Latvian animated parable about a cat in a flooded world, won best animated film, beating out studio blockbusters like “Inside Out 2” and “The Wild Robot.” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won Best Score for their groundbreaking music for “Challengers”.
tv awards
Most of the TV winners were repeat award-winning series, including the Emmy winner “Shogun.” It won four awards, including Best Drama Series and acting awards for Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai and Tadanobu Asano. Other repeat winners were: “Hacks” (Best Comedy Series, Jean Smart for Actress), “The Bear” (Jeremy Alan White for Best Actor) and “Baby Reindeer” (Best Limited Series).
Ali Wong won for best stand-up performance, Jodie Foster for “True Detective” and Colin Farrell for his physical transformation in “The Penguin”.
“I think it’s prosthetics from here on out,” Farrell said.