by Abe Fried-Tanzer
A collection of quick interesting stats for you given that the 76th annual Golden Globe ceremony is now part of history.
• This is only the second time in documented Globes history that the winner of Best Motion Picture –Drama (Bohemian Rhapsody) didn't have a corresponding Best Director (Bryan Singer) nomination. In 1992, Scent of a Woman took the top award at the Globes, but Martin Brest wasn't nominated in Director (though he did go on to an Oscar nomination!). Clint Eastwood collected the Best Director prize at the Globes instead for Unforgiven before that film went on to win both Director and Picture at the Oscars. If history literally repeated itself here, Bryan Singer would be nominated for an Oscar (!!!) and Roma would be our eventual Oscar winner for Best Picture and Director.
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• While Moonlight and 12 Years a Slave took home just the Best Motion Picture – Drama award in their respective years, you have to go all the way back to 1955 to find a movie, like Bohemian Rhapsody, with fewer than three nominations that won Picture. East of Eden won both Best Motion Picture – Drama and a special posthumous acting prize for James Dean but it ended up missing a nomination for Best Picture at the Oscars. The last film to win Best Motion Picture – Drama and not end up with a corresponding Oscar Best Picture nod was The Cardinal in 1963.
• Alfonso Cuarón is the fourth director to win for a film classified at the Globes as foreign language, following Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Ang Lee for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Richard Attenborough for Gandhi. All three went on to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar, with Attenborough winning. Ang Lee’s film was the only one of those eligible in Oscar's Best Foreign Film category, and it won. What this means? Well, we already all suspect that Roma has the Foreign Film Oscar in the bag so not much.
• Only once before in history (since the inception of the Screen Actors Guild Award in 1994) has an actress who took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress won without a SAG nomination, which is the situation in which Regina King finds herself in this year for If Beale Street Could Talk. What this means for Oscar night? Well, Marcia Gay Harden (the only previous example) didn’t have a Golden Globe bid for Pollock either in 2000 either, so Regina King has a leg up on her and a great shot on Oscar night.
• Christian Bale made mention of his tendency to say things he shouldn’t in his acceptance speech for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical. Only three times since the SAG Awards began in 1994 has a winner of this prize who was also nominated by SAG been snubbed by Oscar – Jim Carrey for Man on the Moon, Richard Gere for Chicago, and, last year, James Franco for The Disaster Artist when accusations about past inappropriate behavior surfaced before Oscar nominations were revealed. (What this means for Oscar? Probably not much. Bale, who is already an Oscar winner unlike those men, doesn't seem like he'll be a fourth addition of this small group.)
• Olivia Colman has no reason not to be confident in her chances for The Favourite. Only one Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical winner who was also cited by SAG didn’t end up earning an Oscar nomination, and that was Jamie Lee Curtis for True Lies, who was placed in SAG’s supporting race in the first year of its awards.
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse should feel good about its Oscar chances. Since the inception of the Best Animated Feature category at the Globes in 2006, all but one winner – The Adventures of Tintin – have gone on to earn an Oscar nomination after the Globes. All but two others (Cars and How to Train Your Dragon 2) have taken home the actual Oscar.
Any other trivia or stats you thought of last night at home?
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