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Schitt’s wins, and saves the Globes from an awkward Emily in Paris moment
By Michael Idato
Catherine O’Hara’s win for best actress, television series, musical or comedy for Schitt’s Creek is not only deserved, it saves the HFPA from a potentially awkward moment had the controversial Emily in Paris nominee, Lily Collins, won the award.
There has been a lot of focus this year on the nomination of Emily in Paris, a fairly lightweight Netflix series whose fortunes and fate were sealed, according to The Los Angeles Times, when the Globes-voting Hollywood Foreign Press Association were taken on a junket to the show’s set in Paris, France.
Lily Collins in Emily in Paris.
Compounding the problem, the HFPA seemed to overlook Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You which is considered one of the year’s most impactful titles. Those line calls are not backed by the numbers either: the critical aggregator Rotten Tomatoes lists Emily in Paris at 63 per cent and I May Destroy You at 98 per cent.
What is worse ... they’re not out of the woods yet. Emily in Paris has another nomination coming up.
But where are you really from...?
By Karl Quinn
What a bitter irony it is that a year after Korean film Parasite made history by winning both best picture and best international (formerly foreign language) picture at the Oscars, we have American film Minari consigned to the best foreign language picture category at the Globes because more than 50 per cent of its dialogue is Korean.
Another Round and Minari are both strong contenders for best picture, foreign language.Credit:
I mean, sure, but this is such an American story – a beautiful, moving, utterly honest tale about immigrants struggling to make a go of it in a new land, sacrificing so much so that their kids can have a shot at a better life. American-born writer-director Lee Isaac Chung – the son of Korean immigrants who lived in a railway car and farmed tough land in Arkansas, just like the film’s Jacob (Steven Yeun) and Monica (Yeri Han) – insists it’s not exactly his family’s story, but gee it comes close. In a recent interview he talked about the moment his father first saw it, turned to him with tears in his eyes and said “Good movie”, and hugged him – a first.
Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round is probably Minari’s strongest competition here, and it’s a great film – a social allegory about alcohol abuse, in which four middle-aged male teachers embark on a madcap experiment to stay permanently inebriated, in the name of science. Mads Mikkelsen is always mesmerising, but teh final scene, in which he dances with wild abandon on the Copenhagen waterfront, is just wonderful. (Mikkelsen is a one-time professional dancer, and Vinterberg has admitted that seeing him strut his stuff was a major reason for his wanting to make the film.)
There’s also the tragic backstory, in which the director’s daughter died in a car crash a week into production (the film is dedicated to her), and that might lend some sentimental weight to its chances. But in terms of the bigger picture, a win for Minari would be a win for diversity, and hopefully the jolt the Globes need to fix a silly rule that put the film into this category in the first place.
Jane Fonda: 68th Cecil B. DeMille winner, but only the 16th female recipient
By Michael Idato
This year’s Cecil B. DeMille award recipient is actress Jane Fonda. The honorary award is bestowed for outstanding contribution to the world of entertainment and its first recipient was, obviously, legendary director Cecil B. DeMille, who was awarded it in 1952.
Cecille B. DeMille award recipient Jane Fonda.Credit:Brook Mitchell
Other iconic recipients include Walt Disney, Fox studio founder Darryl F. Zanuck, legendary entertainers Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope, actors Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston and Joan Crawford, and director Alfred Hitchcock.
Last year’s recipient was actor Tom Hanks. The award has been handed out 67 times previously, but to women only on 15 of those occasions. Fonda will be the 16th female recipient.
Whatever happened to the 45-second rule?
By Karl Quinn
Mark Ruffalo’s speech was pretty much a repeat performance of the one he gave at the Emmys, a long, rambling, impassioned plea for love and decency and diversity. He’s followed by Aaron Sorkin, who rattles off his words with all the speed you’d expect, though sadly there’s no walkin’ and talkin’ from Sorkin.
That’s followed by a sketch in which Kenan Thompson and Maya Rudolph play a pair of award winners whose speech wanders hopelessly off the rails, thanks in no small part due the the fact she’s taken a “vodka epidural” beforehand. It’s a cute parody, though if they hadn’t framed it as such I wonder how many people would have realised it wasn’t just another self-indulgent acceptance speech.
Aaron Sorkin picks up award for best screenplay, motion picture
The category: Best screenplay – motion picture
The nominees:
Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
Jack Fincher, Mank
Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Christopher Hampton and Floran Zeller, The Father
Chloe Zhao, Nomadland
Winner: Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7
Mark Ruffalo wins best actor in a limited series
The category: best performance by an actor in a limited series, anthology series or a motion picture made for television
The nominees:
Bryan Cranston, Your Honor
Jeff Daniels, The Comey Rule
Hugh Grant, The Undoing
Ethan Hawke, The Good Lord Bird
Mark Ruffalo, I Know This Much is True
Winner: Mark Ruffalo, I Know This Much is True
Sorry, did someone say sorry?
By Karl Quinn
Three journalists from the HFPA take to the stage to acknowledge the fact there is not a single black person among their 87 current members. They are German, Indian and Turkish, and they talk about the need to do better. And then we cut to an ad break. Truly bizarre.
The crows have ayes
By Karl Quinn
Judging by the cheers, Catherine O’Hara is a very popular winner. There’s a weird background noise as she thanks the Levy family for creating a role in which she got to “wear a hundred wigs and speak like an alien”, but the noise just keeps getting louder, and eventually it becomes obvious that it’s the phone in the hand of Bo Welch, her production designer husband. Well, it’s obvious to everyone but him. “Seriously,” she says, scowling at him. He’s oblivious. She talks louder, and eventually starts singing her speech. Still he has no idea what’s going on. The crows have eyes, but the husband has no ears. Hilarious.
How can you even pick a winner in this field?
By Karl Quinn
As is often the way, the best actress category makes for one of the strongest fields of this event. And that means those of a parochial bent are in for disappointment today because Australia’s perennial awards contenders Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman are both up for the same category, best actress in a limited series.
Blanchett is up for Mrs America, the period feminist drama in which she plays conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly. It’s her 11th nomination (she’s won three times previously), and if the strength of the performance is any indication she’s a strong contender.
Kidman is up for The Undoing, in which she plays a po-faced psychotherapist whose husband (Hugh Grant) may or may not be a murderer. It’s her 14th nomination – the first coming way back in 1992 for Billy Bathgate – and if she wins (frankly, I think it’s a long shot) it would be the fifth time.
This is a seriously strong field though, with all three other nominees having a good claim to the Globe. Anya Taylor-Joy for The Queen’s Gambit would make for a very popular choice, but I’m going to suggest Shira Haas might sneak this for her superb performance in Unorthodox, in which she plays a woman who flees her strict Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn to pursue her musical dream in Berlin (as you do). That said, Daisy Edgar-Jones is terrific in Normal People too.
OMG, it’s just so hard to pick. Who do you think should win this one? And who do you think actually will?
Pixar movie full of heart wins best animated motion picture
The category: best motion picture – animated
The nominees:
The Croods: A New Age
Onward
Over the Moon
Soul
Wolfwalker
Winner: Soul
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