Golden Globes Night: 11 Moments. 27 Winners. 3 Takeways.
Monday, January 6, 2020 at 1:17AM by Nathaniel R
How was Globe night for you? We don't plan to rain on your parade if you loved it as we'll focus on the positive herein. That said a dark storm threatened to dampen the jolly proceedings from Ricky Gervais opening monologue. The joke gathering the cloud "I don't care anymore. Kidding, I never did." We have personally never seen an awards show host phone it in as much as Gervais did on the big night -- even James Franco tried harder at his famously disastrous Oscar co-host gig -- so good riddance to Gervais forever and ever. There's insult humor and then there's being a walking insult to anyone who deigns to watch you. BUT ON TO HAPPIER THINGS.
After the jump we'll share the key moments, winners, and takeaways...
10 MOMENTS WE CHERISHED, IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
1. Our DVR failed to record (argh!) ruining some delicious plans of images to share with you but the first was Cate Blanchett's decidedly unamused grimace at Ricky Gervais's Epstein joke. To be honest his super-offense jokes were the best ones (comparatively speaking so "best" is still worst) because at least they elicited a reaction from people.
2. We live for the tiny snippets as we head to commercial breaks and in the first of these Meryl Streep talks to an enraptured Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. This image was frameable!
3. A rare glimpse of Elton John's eyes as he takes the stage with his lifelong writing partner Bernie Taupin but can't read the teleprompter through his giant colored lenses. "The Bitch is Back" isn't quite the right song to sing about Elton on this night because, though back, he was full of joy all night... especially when Taron Egerton won.
4. Stellan Skarsgard wins the first acting awards and sets the bar fairly high for speeches with a "where is this going?" story that begins with a drunken Milos Forman impersonation and ends with a punchline that doubled as an ode to his makeup artist.
5. Phoebe Waller-Bridges wins for Fleabag and begins by raving about Andrew Scott and how he could have chemistry with a pebble. This made us so happy as longtime fans of Scott and as longtime advocates that out gay actors can play any type or role, including romantic leads as Scott so expertly did. Later when Phoebe wins again for series she makes it at least partially about Barack Obama putting her on his "top movies and tv show" list. President of Good Taste!
6. We see Elton John's joy and raise you Margot Robbie's utter delight when she gets to hand Quentin Tarantino a Globe for his screenplay. Tarantino, who should never give his own acceptance speeches, ruins it by commenting on this but you can't have everything.
7. Another great pre-commercial glimpse. This time it's Toni Collette laughing heartily. But who is cracking her up? Since our DVR didn't record (Argh again) we have forgotten who was amusing her.
8. Seeing genuinely stunned winners including Stellan Skarsgard, Sam Mendes, and the Missing Link team who were "flabbergasted"
9. Tom Hanks and Ellen DeGeneres. Those tributes wow (Oscar producers were so stupid to drop the honorary Oscars from the broadcast as these tributes can be special). Best of all was Kate McKinnon's ode to Ellen which deserves essays of its own and will surely get them 'round the internet.
10. Michelle Williams gives the most political and brave speech of the night which is beautifully written and dovetails from her career choices and her right to choose. Revealing you've had an abortion when you're very famous might be the only way to wake people up that we must protect a woman's right to her own body. VOTE. As if the speech and the deserving win (she couldn't have been more incredible in Fosse/Verdon) weren't enough, the Globe control room team blessed us with a cutaway to another Michelle, La Pfeiffer, listening intently.
11. Did you feel the love in the room when Brad Pitt won? It was coming off of the TV like waves. Oscar completely locked up. More on Brad soon.
27 WINNERS
Best Picture, Drama 1917
Best Picture, Comedy/Musical Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Picture, Animated Missing Link
Best Picture, Foreign Language Parasite
Best Director Sam Mendes, 1917
Best Screenplay Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Best Score Hildur Gudnadottir, Joker
Best Song Elton John & Bernie Taupin, "I'm Gonna Love Me Again" from Rocketman
Best Actress, Drama Renée Zellweger, Judy
Best Actress, Comedy/Musical Awkwafina, The Farewell
Best Actor, Drama Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
Best Actor, Comedy/Musical Taron Egerton, Rocketman
Best Supporting Actress Laura Dern, Marriage Story
Best Supporting Actor Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Carol Burnett Award (TV Lifetime Achievement) Ellen DeGeneres
Cecil B DeMiller Award (Movies Lifetime Achievement) Tom Hanks
Best Series, Drama Succession
Best Series, Comedy Fleabag
Best Limited Series Chernobyl
Best Actress, Limited Series Michelle William, Fosse/Verdon
Best Actress, DramaOlivia Colman, The Crown
Best Actress, Comedy Phoebe Waller-Bridge Fleabag
Best Actor, Limited Series Russell Crowe, The Loudest Voice
Best Actor, Drama Brian Cox, Succession
Best Actor, Comedy Ramy Youseff, Ramy
Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette, The Act
Best Supporting Actor Stellan Skarsgard, Chernobyl
3 TAKEWAYS
1. The Irishman went home completely empty-handed. Will that repeat on Oscar night? Scorsese has been there before; Gangs of New York, Taxi Driver, and Wolf of Wall Street lost all their categories on Oscar night.
2. Phoenix, Zellweger, Dern, and Pitt are your probable Oscar winners. Usually once the televised awards begin voters turn hard into autopilot mode, repeating the same acting winners as the awards show before them. That said, only Pitt's speech might be read as an unqualified success in terms of the kind of speech you'd gladly hear again on Oscar night. Murtada has some things to say about Zellweger's speech so we'll save that for a bit later today. That's a very blonde and fifty-something lineup, Phoenix notwithstanding (brunette and forty-something).
3. 1917 really needed that. Now arguably the Globe voters loved Once Upon a Time in Hollywood just as much or more but the win for Sam Mendes war drama might just be the jolt the movie needs as it expands into wide release and as Academy members consider their votes. We still think the Best Picture win on Oscar night is anyone's game.
Reader Comments (73)
Joaquin Phoenix always looks so vulnerable. I love him.
But I hope his Oscar nomination and win come from a different performance and another year. He has such talent, I want his Oscar win to be one we can watch over and over.
Why Charlize for the Hanks tribute,where was Meg Ryan,Sandra Bullock or Julia Roberts,they have all worked with him and know him better than her.
My big takeaway is that the HFPA has beef with Helena Bonham Carter. She is now 0-8 with them despite many deserving performances.
It’s frustrating to me how certain actors become default winners while others who are just as talented can never catch a break. I admire both Olivia Colman and Patricia Arquette, but they don’t need to be awarded every time they show up for work.
HFPA also went all-in on theatrical releases: Judy, Joker, The Farewell, OUATIH, 1917, Parasite, Rocketman. Except for Dern's win, they totally skipped over the movies with theater-to-streaming release structures. Given that some of the most awardable movies of the year fall into that category it seems like a statement.
Where does TFE stand on Netflix/Amazon these days?
Reminder to everyone calling the acting quartet a lock that SAG and BAFTA are much more important predictors. Nobody was really predicting Olivia Colman or Mark Rylance after Globes night.
I probably should log off twitter, but the criticism Michelle Williams is getting for her speech today is just exhausting. Can we not notpick her lovely, well-prepared speech (given in recognition for career-best performance) please? This is why we can't have nice things.
Toni Collette was laughing at her Unbelievable co-star Merritt Wever.
I am not understanding this Dern thing. This does not feel at ALL like a steamroll based on performance. What did she do that was groundbreaking? Or if that’s too much, what did Dern show that we haven’t seen from her before? What did she do that surprised us? I love her as a person but this isn’t Best Supporting Personality.
Haha I loved Ricky's call outs. I don't like when he targets specific people, like years past but all of Hollywood? Fantastic.
That bit about diversity and then the camera pan out showing just white people
Or where he called out them for being morally bankrupt? Apple, Disney sweat shops on China and how if ISIS started a streaming platform all these actors would call up their agents asap. Great stuff and 100% true. Just remember how many of these actors knew of Weinstein's actions and supported it and sucked up to him for A + roles. Balls to call out some of this stuff.
Gervais was fantastic last night - calling out the hypocrisy, bullshit and double standards in corporate Hollywood with aplomb - and in a focused and biting way. Unlike previous times he hosted he didn't punch down once - only up! Criticising him for being 'offensive' seems like a 2011 take - what did he say last night that was anything of the sort apart from to the pampered millionaires in the room?
Blanchett was pulling that face because she knows that room is not down for it, and anyone who views Gervais as pro-right-wing' or pro-Tump probably needs to widen their lense.
I´m very happy about Missing Link winning over Toy Story 4 and Frozen II. I hope also takes the Oscar.
Very interesting note, JF.
And Twitter always bad and that's absolute.
I loved Ricky Gervais hosting, and find it hysterical that his attacks on the rich elite of Hollywood are considered "right wing". The HFPA was so smug about going vegan that they forgot they flew the bottled water in from Iceland!
My random takeaways:
1. Patricia Arquette? Why? Anyone else in that category would have made more sense.
2. Annette Benning's new face looked great.
3. Elton John bought all those awards for Rocketman, just like Queen bought all their awards for Bohemian Rhapsody.
4. It made me really happy that Eddie Murphy greeted Meryl Streep as lifelong friends. They both were/are still huge stars.
5. JLo was the worst dressed, by far, which is unusual for her.
6. Ricky, ugh. Reading from a card held in hjs hand? So lazy.
7. Brad Pitt gave the best speech, followed by Laura Dern. Joaquin and Renee were rambling fools.
I'm happy Pitt won- Tarantino really understand what makes a movie star special- the scene in which Pitt strips of his shirt and climbs the roof to fix the antenna is pure movie star worship
My biggest takeaway was that JLo lost, and it made me pretty sad honestly.
Gervais...if he weren't so hypocritical, himself, sure.
That's what makes it mean-spirited...5 times? Lol, yeah, ok.
I've a sinking feeling the moment i saw JLo in tt horrendous dress on the red carpet! She was alws so well dressed n put together! wtf happened!! 😱
I'm v surprised GG din go for her mega star turn! It was rite up HFPA's alley!! This is the best chance for JLo to position herself as the frontrunner!!
Its ironic come to tink o it now, had she been submitted as a co-lead under Comedy/Musical, she might hav won over Awkwafina! and give serious threat to Dern in the coming races.
As it stands now, her chance to a win is likely over.
I don’t really understand the hype for Brad in OUATIH. Yes, he’s charismatic and looks amazing for his age but there was nothing really special about his performance imo. Plus, he was better in Ad Astra.
Plus, it’s one of the worst category frauds of all time.
JF -- that's a really good point. They did sort of deny the streaming content. I'm okay with that even though I wanted Driver & Johansson to win because anything that helps keep theatrical alive we love... including Netflix trying a bit now with releasing things. If only Oscar rules were tougher so they had to leave them in theaters for at least a month first.
Has voting been cast for Oscars? Zee is no longer winning, but will she be shockingly left off? Stay tuned to find out.
'6. Ricky, ugh. Reading from a card held in hjs hand? So lazy.'
Ummm... that's... the joke?
I agree with you though about Patricia Arquette though. Above anything else, she never seems very grateful these days for winning awards. Poor HBC - now she would have been grateful.