The night of the Golden Globes was expected to belong to Barbenheimer, but of the two films that dominated the summer of 2023, it was " Oppenheimer " by Christopher Nolan that prevailed with five awards out of eight nominations , including those for best drama film, for best director and best actor in a drama (Cillian Murphy).
Greta Gerwig's " Barbie " remained on the bench with only two statuettes out of nine nominations : one for the highest grossing film (inevitable, with a global box office of 1.4 billion dollars) and the other for best song original, “What was I made for” by Billie Eilish and Finneas.
The golden globe for best comedy went to "Poor things" by Yorgos Lanthimos, with Emma Stone awarded as best actress, whose male counterpart was Paul Giamatti for "The holdovers" by Alexander Payne.
Italy was rooting for "I'm the Captain" by Matteo Garrone, but the winner of the award for best film not in English in the evening, live for the first time on CBS from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, was "Anatomy of a Fall". " by the French Justine Triet, who also won for best screenplay. But in what seemed like an evening destined to crown the success of the film snubbed by France in the Oscar race, the Globes jurors preferred Lily Gladstone to Sandra Huller: the protagonist of "Killers of the Flower Moon" by Martin Scorsese, she thus became the first Native American actress to win a golden globe and thanked the audience and jurors by starting out in the language of the "Black Feet".
There were many disappointments of the evening: in addition to Garrone also the British "The zone of interest", "Past lives" by the Korean-American Celine Song, "Nyad" with Annette Bening and Jodie Foster, "May December" with Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman , “Saltburn” by Emerald Fennell and “The color purple”.
Taylor Swift was also disappointed, as her concert film "The Eras tour" lost the statuette for best blockbuster won by Gerwig's film, the first directed by a woman to exceed $1 billion at the box office.
In total, the Golden Globes awarded 27 film and TV awards. On the television front, HBO's "Succession" took home trophies for best drama series, best actor (Kieran Culkin), best actress (Sarah Snook) and best supporting actor (Matthew Macfadyen). The Globes inaugurated the Hollywood awards season with a chaotic evening whose host, comedian Jo Koy chosen at the last moment, failed to hook the audience starting from the boring opening monologue. The ceremony was the first since the dissolution of Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which had awarded the awards for eight decades and which in 2020, on the eve of the ceremony, was accused by the Los Angeles Times of being a racist and corrupt caste.
This year, after the brand was purchased by a private equity company and Dick Clark Production, around 300 journalists from 76 countries around the world voted compared to around eighty in previous editions.
(Unioneonline/vl)
