Sunday evening’s Golden Globes Awards was a pleasant mixture of anticipated (however nonetheless nice!) wins — from Kieran Culkin and Zoe Saldaña to “Shōgun” and “Child Reindeer” — and real (and genuinely enjoyable!) surprises. Together with a reminder of what a reduction it’s when the present has a terrific host, which Nikki Glaser turned out to be, the Globes featured upsets in each movie and TV, with veterans Demi Moore and Colin Farrell incomes awards whereas “Anora” and “The Wild Robotic” went house empty-handed. A number of winners expressed shock of their speeches, like “I’m Nonetheless Right here” star Fernanda Torres and “Emilia Pérez” director Jacques Audiard. With wins for finest drama, director and actor in a drama, in the meantime, “The Brutalist,” emerged roughly anointed because the frontrunner for this awards season.
In fact, what these surprises imply for awards season total stays to be seen — there’s no actual overlap between Globes and Academy Awards memberships — although a few of the higher speeches, as all the time, might affect voters, even when they’d by no means need to admit it. Oh, and Selection mother or father firm PMC owns Golden Globes producer Dick Clark Prods. in a three way partnership with Eldridge.
Fernanda Torres Stuns Everybody With a Win for Actress in a Drama
The shock of the evening was simply Fernanda Torres successful for her efficiency in “I’m Nonetheless Right here,” as a girl who has to endure after her husband is disappeared throughout Brazil’s navy dictatorship. Torres’ deeply affecting, understated work within the movie stands outs in opposition to her fellow nominees — Angelina Jolie sings opera in “Maria”! Nicole Kidman bares every little thing in “Babygirl”! — all of whom, as presenter Viola Davis put it, are iconic in their very own rights. This 12 months’s finest actress race is an impossibly packed discipline, and Torres’ win right here (a shock to simply about everybody apart from Selection’s awards editor Clayton Davis) makes this race that rather more thrilling.
The Musical or Comedy Class Surprises with Wins for Demi Moore and Sebastian Stan
In one of many extra enjoyable — and gratifying — surprises of the evening, Demi Moore beat presumed frontrunners Cynthia Erivo and Mikey Madison for her position within the body-horror shocker “The Substance.” In her shifting speech, Moore mentioned that in her decades-long profession, that is the primary time she’s received something for her performing, and went on to say {that a} producer had instructed her earlier in her profession that she was a “popcorn actress,” one thing that had all the time made her suppose she was restricted in her decisions. However that producer was useless incorrect — as anybody who’s seen Moore’s beautiful efficiency in writer-director Coralie Fargeat’s movie is aware of. In “The Substance,” Moore performs Elisabeth Sparkle, an growing older actress who, in desperation, takes excessive measures to — properly, you simply should see the film to imagine it! Finest actress is extraordinarily aggressive this 12 months, however Moore might have delivered the sort of speech that ensures her an Oscar nomination.
Instantly following Moore’s win, Sebastian Stan was invited to the stage to simply accept for his efficiency in “A Totally different Man,” through which Stan performs a neurotic actor with the disfiguring situation neurofibromatosis who undergoes an experimental process that cures him so completely that he winds up trying just like the Winter Soldier. Most pundits had Stan as a darkish horse on this class, with Jesse Eisenberg the main contender for his affecting efficiency in his film “A Actual Ache.” However Stan was a double nominee this 12 months — he shouted out his different movie, the Donald Trump biographical drama “The Apprentice” — so maybe that put him excessive.
“Emilia Pérez” Beats “Anora” and “Depraved” for Musical/Comedy
In one of the broad open classes in an awfully broad open awards season, “Emilia Pérez” wound up dancing away with the highest Golden Globe for finest musical or comedy. Whereas the unconventional operetta — in regards to the head of a Mexican cartel (nominee Karla Sofía Gascón) who transitions to a girl after present process gender-affirming surgical procedure — is essentially the most nominated musical in Globes historical past, its win right here was by no measure assured. The stripper comedy-drama “Anora” has been charming audiences ever because it received the Palme d’Or on the Cannes Movie Pageant; the blockbuster Broadway musical adaptation “Depraved” has been breaking field workplace information for weeks; the pitch black satire “The Substance” has emerged as one of many largest word-of-mouth hits of the season; and the poignant “A Actual Ache” has charmed nearly everybody who’s seen it. (It’s saying one thing about this 12 months’s crop of contenders that Luca Guadagnino’s electrifying “Challengers” is the also-ran right here, just about solely as a result of it opened means again in April.)
Ultimately, “Pérez” leapt previous all the competitors, and its a number of wins — supporting actress, unique music and movie not within the English language along with the very best comedy or musical win — has formally positioned the Netflix movie on the forefront of the awards season.
“Depraved” Wins Solely Field Workplace Achievement
“Depraved” is in some ways the film of the 12 months, in that it’s been an enormous field workplace success, a critically praised awards season film and a galvanizing cultural occasion. And although director Jon M. Chu was ignored for his work, the Globes voting physique did nominate the film for 4 awards, with each Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande representing within the actress and supporting actress classes, and the film itself being nominated in each finest musical or comedy and the newish field workplace achievement class. And ultimately, field workplace achievement is the Golden Globe award “Depraved” is strolling away with — beating Ryan Reynolds’ “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which was the favourite — as awards season kicks into excessive gear.
“Anora” Wins Nothing at All
Going into tonight’s Globes, “Anora” was the one movie among the many high nominees to have received a significant movie award, particularly the Palme d’Or on the Cannes Movie Pageant. With nominees for image (musical/comedy), director, actress, supporting actor and screenplay, most had anticipated the fizzy, deeply felt dramedy — about what occurs to the titular unique dancer and intercourse employee (Mikey Madison) when she will get swept up into the extravagant way of life of a Russian oligarch’s spoiled son (Mark Eydelshteyn) — would at the very least win one thing. As an alternative, “Anora” was the best profile nominee to go house empty-handed.
Colin Farrell Ices Out “Child Reindeer” Star Richard Gadd With Win for “The Penguin”
The Hollywood International Press Assn. might have been dismantled after its varied scandals and open-secret corruption had been uncovered by the Los Angeles Instances, however a few of the voting quirkiness has endured — and that’s enjoyable! On this case, Colin Farrell pulled out a win for HBO’s “The Batman” offshoot, “The Penguin.” Farrell performed Oswald Cobb underneath layers of prosthetics, which didn’t cease him from delivering a surprisingly heartbreaking efficiency as Oz ascended to the highest of Gotham’s felony underworld, at nice value. Farrell’s victory stopped Emmy-winner “Child Reindeer” from sweeping, regardless that Richard Gadd’s restricted collection did go on to win within the collection class and within the supporting actress class, through which Jessica Gunning was awarded for her efficiency of the stalker, Martha.
Tadanobu Asano of “Shōgun” Slices Via the Supporting Actor Competitors
For his scene-stealing efficiency because the opportunistic warlord Yabushige, Japanese star Tadanobu Asano had misplaced the Emmys drama supporting actor race in September, whilst “Shōgun” dominated that evening. However in opposition to formidable competitors on the Globes — particularly Ebon Moss-Bachrach of “The Bear,” who received the comedy supporting actor Emmy — he pulled out a shock win on this class, which incorporates drama, comedy and restricted exhibits. And he appeared delighted throughout his speech, even introducing himself to the viewers: “Perhaps you don’t know me. I’m an actor from Japan, and my title is Tadanobu Asano!” Perhaps there’s a method to deliver Yabushige again for Season 2? Come on, “Shōgun” creators!
Ali Wong Bests Jamie Foxx, Adam Sandler and Globes Host Nikki Glaser within the New-ish TV Stand-up Class
That is simply the second 12 months for this class recognizing stand-up specials as its personal class — Ricky Gervais received final 12 months — so there isn’t a lot precedent to go by. That mentioned, even Ali Wong appeared stunned to win for her Netflix particular “Ali Wong: Single Girl” over a number of heavy hitters, particularly Jamie Foxx for “Jamie Foxx: What Had Occurred Was…” — which provided his first public feedback in regards to the stroke he suffered in 2023. The night’s emcee, Nikki Glaser, was additionally a favourite to win for her HBO particular “Nikki Glaser: Sometime You’ll Die,” however she did have the (literal) final snigger. “I’ll not have received tonight,” Glaser mentioned. “However on the intense aspect, I simply made $11,000 betting on Ali Wong on a European playing website.”