2024-01-08 04:57:51
‘Succession’, ‘The Bear’, ‘Bronca’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ took all the awards as expected, with the only big surprise being ‘Poor Creatures’ as best comedy
On the Golden Globes red carpet itself, the presenters wondered why more films had been nominated for best comedy having ‘Barbie’. Little did they expect to be disappointed in a gala that reserved the victory of ‘Poor Creatures’ as the only surprise, with a future of prizes that we might have guessed without much sweat and a presenter who has not lived up to the transgression what you would expect from the “thug” version of the Oscars and the Emmys. The Globes are back, yes, but with such great care when stepping that they have gone unnoticed.
Too much Koy, zero joy
A couple of years have passed since the Golden Globes were, so to speak, cancelled, and they have tried to stage this return to the front line ignoring making any kind of comment regarding it. Jo Koy, the gala’s surprise presenter, was officially announced on December 21 (a sign that absolutely no one with a name wanted to do it), just before the holidays. Come on, you’ve had just enough time to learn what he had to say (“They gave me the bolus ten days agodid you want a perfect monologue?”, he commented in his only brilliant moment of the gala). The monologue has been one of those so insipid and harmless that they cannot end a career, yes, but neither can they highlight it.
Between jokes regarding how long ‘Oppenheimer’ is (which did not please Christopher Nolan, by the way, who I attended the show with the look of preferring to be at Ikea on a Sunday) and small racial innuendos that were neither very vindictive nor very false – it made me brutally miss Ricky Gervais -, there was room for humorous comments regarding Bradley Cooper’s nose in ‘Maestro’ looking like a phallus straight out of ‘Saltburn’ or little jokes regarding Taylor Swift that didn’t make the aforementioned very funny.
In fact, he was booed by the public in an image that will haunt him throughout his life. In the end, the only thing that this disappointing start left us with was the image of Meryl Streep making the Wakanda symbol, the Gif that the presenter was looking for, and the desire to see the ceremony once and for all to remove the band-aid as soon as possible. And when it started, all of us spectators saw with astonishment that, without any further nonsense, one prize following another was being awarded. But the speed with which the prizes were given was caused by a maximum time when giving the speech that hindered many of the great moments. Good for going to sleep early, but definitely bad for giving us good television.
The main thing is the secondary thing
The gala was started by Angela Bassett and Jared Leto with a typical sketch as funny as it is forced, created exclusively to see if someone uploads it to TikTok in half a year and it goes viral by chance. In it, Leto has acted as if he were, wink wink, one of those actors who freaks out (“Call me by my character’s name”comments; “¿Jared Leto?”le responde Bassett). This is going to be a bit of the level for the next three hours. Prepare your energy drinks, because things are not going up.
The awards for supporting performances in cinema were, however, well distributed: the wonderful D’vine Joy Randolph for ‘Those who stay’, which came up with two pieces of paper with the speech written down (as it should be) and Robert Downey Jr for ‘Oppenheimer’, who brought the charisma that was missing to the gala while we might almost hear Charles Melton’s aspirations to win the Oscars dying in the background.
For its part, in acting in the miniseries ‘Bronca’ took it all: Ali Wong and Steven Yeun took the stage to cheers from the audience and a Netflix that, at least, has managed to scratch something. Yeun compared her situation (with a nod to her daughter and the family movie night included) to ‘Frozen’ in a joke that didn’t end up working, but his victory made one thing clear: these awards were trying to erase the stigma of previous years. In desperation.
For its part, in terms of secondary performances in series, Elizabeth Debicki he took it home for ‘The Crown’, leaving Meryl Streep without another Golden Globe to hold that table that’s lame, and Matthew McFadyen The expected reign of ‘Succession’ began. Spoiler: we keep hearing the name of the series over and over once more without stopping.
Telling the truth
Although the gala was much more hieratic and unsurprising than expected, there were still some jokes that were funny, such as the sincere dialogue between Keri Russell and Ray Romano, questioning the quality of the latter’s products and coming to the conclusion regarding what the truth, in Hollywood, is stupidKevin Costner repeating a dialogue from ‘Barbie’ to the surprise of America Ferrera or the sample of what would be a gala without scriptwriters and written by ChatGPT. Good moments that might not stand a comparison with the poor script that they left for the improvable Jo Koy (“They wanted to honor my culture and served sushi. I’m Filipino, we cook our fish”).
The prizes, at this point, arrived one following another like a trolleybus: the best script went to Justine Triet and ‘Anatomy of a Fall’, who recalled how, when writing his film, he believed that no one would want to see it because it was very long and they talked all the time. Once once more, we must remember that France has decided to take ‘The Slow Fire’ to compete in the best foreign language film category at the Oscars and no one understands why. There, by the way, ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ also wonwhich has been a real sensation in Hollywood, surpassing our ‘The Snow Society’ (something that, frankly, I might see coming).
Double also for ‘The bear’ in comedy actors, for Jeremy Allen Whitewhich received applause even before the nominations were read (and which did not name Rosalía, goodbye to the Spanish representation at the gala), and Ayo Edebiriterribly nervous, who ended up thanking “his family, the people of ‘The Bear'” and, shortly following, “his real family”. Between running a restaurant and receiving an award, I think Edebiri takes the former.
I’m not a pedophile
Among the maelstrom of jackpots, Jim Gaffigan came on stage to show that he might have been, perhaps, the presenterwith some much more social jokes, stating “I don’t know what I’m doing in the entertainment world, I’m from a small town in Indiana, I’m not a pedophile…”. This was the first time that an award was given for best stand-up host and, to no one’s surprise, Ricky Gervais ended up taking it, the person who helped put the Golden Globes on the map. Paradoxically, he was not in the audience, so we were left without that great moment that, without a doubt, they were looking for when giving him the award. I’m sure he was funnier than all of ‘Armageddon’.
For his part, there were no surprises even in terms of the television drama actor, who took Kieran Culkin for ‘Succession’ (the Culkin who triumphed when he played and who was already nominated twenty years ago) or best film director, a Christopher Nolan who already had to win following six! nominations over the years and that he has made up for it in a speech in which he has been allowed a little extra time. More surprising was one of the most competitive awards of the night, best animated film, in which ‘The Boy and the Heron’, the anime of Hayao Miyazaki, Disney was vented, putting one more nail in that critical coffin for the company that has been 2023.
For its part, there were no surprises in terms of best comedy actress: although it seemed that Margot Robbie might surpass the best performance of the year, Emma Stone She met the odds by taking home the prize thanks to ‘Pobre Creatures’, which she says she sees as a romantic comedy. Nor in terms of best drama actor: Did anyone doubt that Cillian Murphy Was he going to win the day thanks to ‘Oppenheimer’? That would have woken us up.
The gala valley
In every Golden Globes gala comes the moment of the downturn when we can relax a little, go to the bathroom and, perhaps, take a nap. Among fourteen – fourteen! – awards for best performances and eight for best films and series as a whole, somehow one for best soundtrack sneaks in (only for movies, of course. What are we? The Emmys?), which joined the ‘Oppenheimer’ counteras it might not be otherwise.
For its part, the best song award, presented by Andra Jay who read the cue terribly and made a brutal pairing with Jon Batiste, went to Billie Eilish by ‘Barbie’, as if completely ignoring the cries of the entire world public singing ‘I’m just Ken’ for an entire year. The cover album recorded by Ryan Gosling made exclusively to see if the awards were good may fall into the stellar void.
“The only awards gala with an open bar”. This is how Mark Hamill justified the existence of this ceremony to present one of those awards that no one fully understands, that of best highest grossing film, designed to directly pit ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Barbie’ once morest Taylor Swift. In this first big confrontation (of, believe me, many), ‘Barbie’ won the statuette, which Margot Robbie dedicated to everyone who dressed in pink to go to the movies. They had never given me an award, honestly, thank you very much, Margot.
And little by little the time for the jackpots arrived, which passed with almost no surprises of any kind. ‘Bronca’ was a triumph for Netflix in best limited series (whose creator thanked the host who was inspired by real life) and ‘The bear’ did the same for Hulu (in Spain Disney+) in comedy to the surprise of absolutely no one. Everyone took something home, everyone was a winner. Yes, HBO too. We all sensed what was going to come next.
Finally the end of the show has come for tonight
Dua Lipa and Elizabeth Banks presented the award for best drama actress, which won Sarah Snook, completing the ‘Succession’ repoker and leaving the next prize without any emotion. Beware of the surprise, what will leave you sweet potato pasta: ‘Succession’ became the big television winner of the night with four prizes. I don’t know how my heart has been able to withstand this cascade of surprises.
And with television over, the gala has moved on to the final film awards, with the return following a decade of some very sparkling Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig saving the final part of the gala in the considerable absence of Jo Koy at the helm. “The Golden Globes haven’t changed!”, Ferrell ended up complaining between laughs. The problem is that they have done it. Now they are terribly predictable. Paul Giamatti he won the comedy actor award for ‘Los que se quenta’ and, for his part, Yorgos Lanthimos won the comedy film award with ‘Poor Creatures’, one of the few surprises that the succession of continuous awards had in store for us. In the speech, Lanthimos dedicated himself, above all, to greeting Bruce Springsteen: it was the most Golden Globes thing of the entire gala.
Al final, Lily Gladstone He took the only award of the night for ‘The Moon Killers’ and hugged a Leonardo DiCaprio who was very surprised to touch a woman over 21 years old. Finally, and following four awards, ‘Oppenheimer’ took home the most coveted, best drama film, crowning Christopher Nolan as this year’s rival to beat. Of course, it’s three hours of a movie with a lot of dialogue regarding the creator of the atomic bomb designed exclusively for adults. It was predicted that something like this would succeed at the box office and in awards.
Ironies aside, the gala has excelled (only with five extra minutes!) three hours long, allowing those of us who cover it to sleep for a few hours. Has it been fun? Of course not. Has it been surprising? Quite the opposite. It has been functional. It’s what they were looking for, following all. Many awards, many famous people, give the public what they ask for and see if that is the key to returning to the fame of yesteryear… Forgetting that the best thing regarding the Globes was always the shocks, the craziness and the tachycardias. As if lying to himself and saying goodbye to the gala, Koy said “Hollywood is back!”. Look, unlike him next year.
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