11 Jan Golden Globes & Telluride Film Fest &…
The reviews are in and unanimous: worst Golden Globes ever: long, dull, tacky, bleeped into near oblivion, messy, smarmy, unbelievable (Gaga a serious actress???), hard to bear ( if you saw Jonah Hill’s bit, you get it), odd, (“The Martian,” a comedy, now that’s funny; and Mel Gibson), plus the technology failed (teleprompter malfunctioned, mikes glitches.) Though there were more than a few very good dresses and tresses.
Brie Larson of “Room,” (which premiered in Telluride) at the Golden Globes.
In the midst of the sulfurous Gervais debacle, how did the Telluride Film Fest fare?
Well, pretty well, if you think of the Globes as a warm up to the Oscars.
Back in September, we predicted Brie Larson would get an Oscar nod for her powerfully moving portrayal of Ma in Lenny Abramson’s caring, careful, highly suspenseful, deeply emotional adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s taut, tense novel “Room,” the story of a young woman and her son (Jacob Tremblay) held captive for years in an enclosed space. Larson won a Globe for Best Actress (in a motion picture drama).
We enjoyed Danny Boyle’s honest, insightful “Steven Jobs” and predicted its writer, the legendary Aaron Sorkin would get an Oscar for his 200 pages of rapid-fire dialogue laced with insults and great ideas. Sorkin won a Globe for Best Screenplay.
And for her bravura performance as Joanna Hoffman, Job’s marketing executive, most trusted and only friend, the Globes awarded the shape-shifting Kate Winslet Best Performance by actress in supporting role, motion picture.
“The Hateful Eight,” which was still an embryo back in September 2015, but was Made in Telluride, won for Best Original Score, motion picture, (Ennio Morricone).
“Carol,” and “Spotlight” also received nominations in several categories.
For my full review of the Telluride Film Fest, go here.
Here’s the rundown from cnn.com:
The winners at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards are noted with an asterisk (*):
Best motion picture, drama
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“Carol”
* “The Revenant”
“Room”
“Spotlight”
Best motion picture, musical or comedy
“Joy”
“Spy”
“The Big Short”
* “The Martian”
“Trainwreck”
Best performance by an actress in a motion picture, drama
Saoirse Ronin, “Brooklyn”
Cate Blanchett, “Carol”
Rooney Mara, “Carol”
* Brie Larson, “Room”
Alicia Vikander, “The Danish Girl”
Best performance by an actress in a motion picture, musical or comedy
* Jennifer Lawrence, “Joy”
Melissa McCarthy, “Spy”
Amy Schumer, “Trainwreck”
Maggie Smith, “The Lady in the Van”
Lily Tomlin, “Grandma”
Best performance by an actor in a motion picture, drama
Bryan Cranston, “Trumbo”
* Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Revenant”
Michael Fassbender, “Steve Jobs”
Eddie Redmayne, “The Danish Girl”
Will Smith, “Concussion”
Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture
Paul Dano,” Love”
Idris Elba, “Beasts of No Nation”
Mark Rylance, “Bridge of Spies”
Michael Shannon, “99 Homes”
* Sylvester Stallone, “Creed”
Best performance by actress in a supporting role in a motion picture
Jane Fonda, “Youth”
Jennifer Jason Leigh, “Hateful Eight”
Helen Mirren, “Trumbo”
Alicia Vikander, “Ex Machina”
* Kate Winslet, “Steve Jobs”
Best director, motion picture
* Alejandro González Iñárritu, “The Revenant”
Todd Haynes, “Carol”
Tom McCarthy, “Spotlight”
George Miller, “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Ridley Scott, “The Martian”
Best performance by an actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy
Christian Bale, “The Big Short”
Steve Carell, “The Big Short”
* Matt Damon, “The Martian”
Al Pacino, “Danny Collins”
Mark Ruffalo, “Infinitely Polar Bear”
Best screenplay, motion picture
Emma Donoghue, “Room”
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, “Spotlight”
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, “The Big Short”
* Aaron Sorkin, “Steve Jobs”
Quentin Tarantino, “The Hateful Eight”
Best original score, motion picture
Carter Burwell, “Carol”
Alexander Desplat, “The Danish Girl”
* Ennio Morricone, “The Hateful Eight”
Daniel Pemberton, “Steve Jobs”
Ryuchi Sakamoto, “The Revanant”
Best motion picture, animated
“Anomalisa”
“The Good Dinosaur”
* “Inside Out”
“The Peanuts Movie”
“Shaun the Sheep Movie”
Best original song, motion picture
“Love Me Like You Do,” “Fifty Shades of Grey”
“One Kind of Love,” “Love & Mercy”
“See You Again,” “Furious 7”
“Simple Song #3,” “Youth”
* “Writing’s on the Wall,” “Spectre”
Best motion picture, foreign language
“The Brand New Testament”
“The Club”
“The Fencer”
“Mustang”
* “Son of Saul”
Best television series, drama
“Empire,” Fox
“Game of Thrones,” HBO
* “Mr. Robot,” USA
“Narcos,” Netflix
“Outlander,” Starz
Best television series, musical or comedy
“Casual,” Hulu
* “Mozart in the Jungle,” Amazon Video
“Orange Is the New Black,” Netflix
“Silicon Valley,” HBO
“Transparent,” Amazon Video
“Veep,” HBO
Best television limited series or motion picture made for television
“American Crime,” ABC
“American Horror Story: Hotel,” FX
“Fargo,” FX
“Flesh and Bone,” Starz
* “Wolf Hall,” PBS
Best performance by an actor in a television series, drama
* Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”
Rami Malek, “Mr. Robot”
Wagner Moura, “Narcos”
Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan”
Best performance by an actor in a television series, musical or comedy
Aziz Ansari, “Master of None”
* Gael García Bernal, “Mozart in the Jungle”
Rob Lowe, “The Grinder”
Patrick Stewart, “Blunt Talk”
Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent”
Best performance by an actor in a leading role in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television
Idris Elba, “Luther”
* Oscar Isaac, “Show Me a Hero”
David Oyelowo, “Nightingale”
Mark Rylance, “Wolf Hall”
Patrick Wilson, “Fargo”
Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television
Alan Cumming, “The Good Wife”
Damian Lewis, “Wolf Hall”
Ben Mendelson, “Bloodline”
Tobias Menzies, “Outlander”
* Christian Slater, “Mr. Robot”
Best performance by an actress in a TV series, drama
Caitriona Balfe, “Outlander”
Viola Davis, “How to Get Away With Murder”
Eva Green, “Penny Dreadful
* Taraji P. Henson, “Empire”
Robin Wright, “House of Cards”
Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television
Uzo Aduba, “Orange Is the New Black”
Joanna Froggatt, “Downton Abbey”
Regina King, “American Crime”
Judith Light, “Transparent”
* Maura Tierney, “The Affair”
Best performance by an actress in a leading role in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television
Kirsten Dunst, “Fargo”
* Lady Gaga, “American Horror Story: Hotel”
Sarah Hay, “Flesh and Bone”
Felicity Huffman, “American Crime”
Queen Latifah, “Bessie”
Best performance by an actress in a television series, musical or comedy
* Rachel Bloom, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”
Jamie Lee Curtis, “Scream Queens”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep”
Gina Rodriguez, “Jane the Virgin”
Lily Tomlin, “Grace and Frankie”
Late Winslet (of Danny Boyle’s “Steven Jobs”) at Golden Globes.
And here’s a review by Hank Stuever from The Washington Post:
Golden Globes review: We ask for the worst, so we get the worst
“Kill me,” moaned Golden Globe host Ricky Gervais, far past the point-of-no-return of Sunday’s schlocky telecast of Hollywood’s most meaningless (but by reputation loosey-goosiest) awards show. But the thing is, nobody really wanted to kill him for anything he said during the show – and only in this day and age could that could be seen as a disappointing breach of contract. We’ve developed a bad habit in our culture now, bleeding into our politics and our civil discourse as well as some of our awards shows: We demand the worst, so we get the worst.
Kill me, I hate this, this show sucks – that’s been Gervais’s M.O. ever since he took NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press’s presumably lucrative offer to return to the job – pretending that it’s a lousy gig, that the Golden Globes’s tackiness and NBC’s obsequiousness to celebrityhood is somehow beneath him (beneath us all), and that it is, in short, an utter waste of three hours. He’s not wrong about most of that….
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