‘ Rome ‘ and Alfonso Cuarón triumphed in a ceremony that ignored the favorites ‘ backseat ‘ and ‘ Born a Star ‘
Paul Xie
In a particularly difficult year for predictions regarding the Hollywood awards, the Golden Globe decided to ignore the favorites and Premied Bohemian Rhapsody as best drama and Green Book as best comedy. The disappointment was capitalized to the film with more indications, backseat, and for one of the phenomena of criticism and public of the year, born a star, who only received the award for Best Song. Amid the surprises, the 76 Golden Globe Edition consecrated, as expected, the drama Rome, by Alfonso Cuarón, which came out with two trophies.
Rome has triumphed within the possibilities offered by the rules of the Golden Globe. Reinherited to the best Foreign Film category, he took this award, but Alfonso Cuarón was also voted the best director, overcoming Bradley Cooper, Adam McKay, Spike Lee and Peter Farrelly. The smile of Ted Sartals, content director of Netflix, said everything. The online platform got the whole of Hollywood to see this film, and the feat of Cuarón put the industry at his feet. This is the Netflix bet to get your first Oscar for best film. The Golden Globe has nothing to do with the Academy Awards, but the triumph of Cuarón indicates that it has achieved the necessary impact.
The two times he went on stage, Cuarón thanked the women who support the film and who interpret the nanny of his childhood and his mother. “I feel like I’m cheating a little while accepting this award, because much of what I did was to be a witness to Marina da Tavira and Yalitza Aparicio. This film was directed by Libo, [a empregada de sua infância, que inspirou a protagonista]by my mother and by my family, and especially for this place that created me. Thank you very much, Mexico. ”
This was the second Golden Globe of Best direction for Cuarón, which won in 2013 by gravity. Since then, the award was also given to Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro. Cuarón continues the haunting saga of Mexican directors in Hollywood in the last decade. All previous prizes were for feature films from large studios directed by Mexicans. Not this. “This award has more meaning because it is a Mexican film, in Spanish and Mixteco, in black and white, and on an invisible character in cinema and society,” Cuarón said later, in the press room.
Backseat, film with more nominations in the evening, was unbanked as the best comedy by Green Book. Peter Farrelly directs one of the doubles of the year on the screen, Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, on a journey through the deep south of the United States from the beginning of the years 60, in full era of racial segregation. The film, inspired by a real story, throws an optimistic message of Concord that Farrelly, upon receiving the award, wanted to bring to the present times. The film also received the best screenplay trophies and the supporting actor for Ali.
In the case of Bohemian Rhapsody, the surprise was absolute at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The prize given to Rami Malek was in the betting pockets. But not that the film was to take the main trophy, overcoming a star, Black Panther and undercover in the Klan. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which awards the award, decided to take on the role of outsider this season. This is, among all, the prize in which the least important conventions and bolons (only 88 people vote to decide). But the bet is very risky, and not just from the point of view of quality. In a few minutes, social networks were recalling that the film director, Bryan Singer, was denated for raping a minor. He denies it.
Christian Bale took the award for Best Comedy Actor for the incredible presence he boasts in backseat as he interprets the former vice President Dick Cheney. It is the most acclaimed interpretation of the year along with those of Bradley Cooper (with whom he did not compete) and Viggo Mortensen. The physical transformations tend to seduce the jurors of the prizes, and Bale’s is the best ever seen. I’m going to go into the ‘ market without charisma, Bale said on stage. “What about Mitch Mcconell?” He fired, in reference to the Republican factotum in the United States Senate. In passing, he thanked “Satan” for the inspiration for the character.
The award for Best Actress in a drama was for Glenn Close, by the wife. Close, 71 years old, received the prize to tears. “I think of my mother, who spent her life taking care of my father. I think your 80 years old told me I couldn’t get anything. We’re expected to be carers, but we have to find time to say, “I can do this and I will.” It was the most exciting moment of the party.
The most wanted couple of this season of awards, Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, ran out of prizes for their performances. The Golden Globe for best drama actor went to Rami Malek for turning into Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. Brian May and Roger Taylor were sitting in the audience.
Lady Gaga ran out of the award for Best Actress, but went on stage to receive the Best Music Award by Shallow. The song, which signs with Mark Ronson, is something more than a follow-up of a star is born; It is by itself one of the most exciting moments of the film and one of the legs of history. The best soundtrack was for Justin Hurwitz, the brain behind La La Land, for the song of the first man. Won the return of Mary Poppins, a huge challenge for which Marc Shaiman created a completely new soundtrack.
The rumor in Hollywood is that the film academy, after the Kevin Hart fiasco, is thinking of doing the Oscar without a presenter. Each passing week is harder for someone to take the job with so little time to prepare it. Actors Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh, with their little striking work as presenters of this globe, demonstrated this Sunday that it is perfectly possible.
Sandra Oh, however, flashed on her own merit at the party while receiving the award for Best Television drama series actress by Killing Eve. The award came after making a sincere speech about the importance of a film that made a very successful U.S. box office, such as Rotten rich, had for the representation of Asian Americans in Hollywood.
In 1952, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association established an honorary award that would take the name of Cecil B. de Mille, one of the Titans who invented Hollywood. The first to receive the award was De Mille himself. This year, the group inaugurated a prize for the whole of the television career under the name Carol Burnett. Whoever received it – could not be less – was Carol Burnett, at 85 years old. Qualifying her as an American television legend would be little. The first woman to have a program of her own, winning a dozen awards between the Golden Globe and the Emmy. “Sometimes I dream of being young again and doing it all over again,” said Burnett from the stage. “And then I realize how lucky I was to be there when it all started.”
The Honorary Film Award was received by Jeff Bridges. Chris Pine called him “your dudeness” intranslatable joke with the character of the Dude, of the Great Lebowski, cult film that transformed into legend 20 years ago an actor who already had a career of first level (the last session of film, Tron, Starman, Susie and the Baker Boys , the fisherman of Illusions, Tucker – a man and his dream). He thanked Peter Bogdanovich, the director who launched his career, and the Coen brothers, who gave him the role of his life. The honorary prizes must be indisputable for them to work. The two of you this Sunday have been.
On television, the reign of the Marvelous Ms. Maisel gave way to the Kominsky method, a great comedy in half-hour chapters of Netflix on the friendship of two old Hollywood friends. Rachel Brosnahan won the Golden Globe for the role of Ms. Maisel, but Michael Douglas received the award for Sandy Kominsky. The series is the best comedy of the Year for the Foreign Press Association, which boasts of discovering new things to the public in the television Awards. He couldn’t do it in the other two categories. The award for best drama was for the Americans, in his farewell, and the best miniseries was for the assassination of Gianni Versace, two works already awarded at the Emmy.
