The 2019 Golden Globes WINNERS & LOSERS

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Who Should (and Will) Win at the Golden Globes This Weekend?
By Nate Jones and Jen Chaney

Homecoming and A Star Is Born. Photo: Amazon Studios/Warner Bros.

You may be doing a dry January, but I assure you Hollywood isn’t. Sunday brings the Golden Globes, awards season’s tipsiest ceremony, a night so crazy that they hand out trophies for film and TV. While they’re a pivotal step in the Oscars race, the Globes are also good for a few completely unpredictable choices each year … which is of course what makes them so fun to try to predict. Below, you’ll find Nate Jones (movies) and Jen Chaney (TV) make their best guesses at who the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will pile their celestial honors upon this year.

Film
Best Motion Picture, Drama
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Star Is Born
Black Panther

A Star Is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody both decided that running in the more prestigious Globes category was worth the risk, and both were rewarded with prime nominations. A Star Is Born seems an easy choice here, as it’s got everything the Globes usually go for — an actor reinventing himself as a director, a singer reinventing herself as an actress, heck, there’s even a musical element. The Globes leaving Sam Elliott off the Supporting Actor ballot could suggest that the HFPA is slightly cooler on ASIB than everyone assumes, but I think Bradley Cooper’s film has the star power to pull through.

Should win: A Star Is Born
Will win: A Star Is Born

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate
Lucas Hedges, Boy Erased
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody
John David Washington, BlacKkKlansman

Gold Derby’s Golden Globe predictors, including myself, is that this will either go to James, who’s had a breakout year thanks to his performances in both Homecoming and If Beale Street Could Talk, or Matthew Rhys, who won the Emmy in this category for his superb portrayal of Philip Jennings on The Americans. (I’ll also say it’s possible that Billy Porter, who infused Pose with so much spirit and pathos, could pull off an upset.) While the Globes usually trend toward whatever’s new, sometimes they give a trophy to an actor who’s clearly long overdue, much like they did with Jon Hamm in 2015. I guess what I’m saying is that Matthew Rhys will be this year’s Jon Hamm.

Should win: Matthew Rhys, The Americans
Will win: Matthew Rhys, The Americans

Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama
Caitriona Balfe, Outlander
Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale
Sandra Oh, Killing Eve
Julia Roberts, Homecoming
Keri Russell, The Americans

Like her Americans co-star, does Keri Russell also deserve a long-overdue Globe? Yes. Will she get one? Mmmm, not sure. I don’t see Moss winning again or Balfe winning for a first time. Like the Best Drama category, I think this comes down to Killing Eve and Oh versus Homecoming and Roberts. Both women give terrific, award-worthy performances. But it’s harder for me to imagine the HFPA overlooking Roberts.

Should win: Keri Russell, The Americans
Will win: Julia Roberts, Homecoming

Best Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy
Jim Carrey, Kidding
Sacha Baron Cohen, Who Is America?
Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method
Donald Glover, Atlanta
Bill Hader, Barry

If Michael Douglas were not in the mix, I’d say the trophy here would either go to Jim Carrey, a favorite of the HFPA, or Bill Hader, who already won the Emmy for Barry. But Douglas, a 12-time Globes nominee, five-time winner, and previous recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award is in the mix, and my best guess is that voters will lean his way.

Should win: Bill Hader, Barry
Will win: Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method

Best Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy
Kristen Bell, The Good Place
Candice Bergen, Murphy Brown
Alison Brie, GLOW
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Debra Messing, Will & Grace

Rachel Brosnahan, last year’s winner, is fantastic in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. But, unlike at the Emmys, there are rarely back-to-back wins in this category. (Fun fact: Julia Louis-Dreyfus has been nominated five times for Veep but has never won — not even once!) For that reason, I doubt Brosnahan will win. Instead, I’m looking at either Alison Brie, who goes from big to subtle and funny to dramatic in GLOW, or Kristen Bell, who strikes me as a strong contender, especially if the voters opt not to reward The Good Place for Best Comedy.

Should win: Honestly, it’s a three-way tie between Brosnahan, Bell, and Brie.
Will win: Kristen Bell, The Good Place

Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television
Antonio Banderas, Genius: Picasso
Daniel Brühl,The Alienist
Darren Criss, The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Benedict Cumberbatch, Patrick Melrose
Hugh Grant, A Very English Scandal

Darren Criss’s performance as Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace was a breakout moment for the actor. It won him an Emmy, and there’s a good chance it could win him a Golden Globe, too. But he faces some tough competition, particularly from Hugh Grant, who does some of the best work of his career as the smug, duplicitous Jeremy Thorpe in A Very English Scandal. I’m betting that the HFPA will find Grant too hard to resist.

Should win: Hugh Grant, A Very English Scandal
Will win: Hugh Grant, A Very English Scandal

Best Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Made for Television
Amy Adams, Sharp Objects
Patricia Arquette, Escape at Dannemora
Connie Britton,Dirty John
Laura Dern, The Tale
Regina King, Seven Seconds

Wow, is this a competitive category. As strong as all the contenders are, though, I think it will come down to three nominees: the fantastic Regina King in Seven Seconds; Patricia Arquette, who physically transforms into Tilly Mitchell in Escape at Dannemora; and Amy Adams, whose damaged Camille dominates Sharp Objects. All three of these women have been nominated at the Globes before, but Adams has the most nods to her credit — counting her two this year for Sharp Objects and Vice, she has nine — as well as two wins. In other words, the HFPA likes her, and with a selection committee this small (there are roughly 90 members of the Foreign Press Association), a track record of being liked matters.

Should win: Amy Adams, Sharp Objects
Will win: Amy Adams, Sharp Objects

Best Supporting Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television
Alan Arkin, The Kominsky Method
Kieran Culkin, Succession
Édgar Ramírez, The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Ben Whishaw, A Very English Scandal
Henry Winkler, Barry

This is a tough call. Both Winkler and Arkin are industry veterans — a potential plus with the HFPA. A wave of support for The Assassination of Gianni Versace could push Ramírez into the winner’s column, and let’s not overlook Kieran Culkin, the best smarmy entitled richie on TV last year. But I keep getting stuck on Ben Whishaw, who is heartbreaking and maddening in equal measure in A Very English Scandal.I think that mini-series could wind up doing a mini-version of the Limited Series sweep Big Little Liespulled off last year.

Should win: Ben Whishaw or Henry Winkler
Will win: Ben Whishaw, A Very English Scandal

Best Supporting Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television
Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Patricia Clarkson, Sharp Objects
Penélope Cruz, The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Thandie Newton, Westworld
Yvonne Strahovski, The Handmaid’s Tale

While all the women in this category are deserving, the two front-runners seem to be Alex Borstein, nominated for Mrs. Maisel for the first time this year, and Patricia Clarkson, the passive-aggressive mommie worstest in Sharp Objects. I can imagine either of these ladies winning, so it’s ultimately going to come down to whether the HFPA love for Mrs. Maisel is stronger than its love for Sharp Objects. (I also wouldn’t rule out the possibility of an upset, perhaps by Cruz.) But my hypothesis is that Clarkson will prevail.

Should win: Patricia Clarkson, Sharp Objects
Will win: Patricia Clarkson, Sharp Objects

 

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The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2019 Golden Globes
By Jackson McHenry and Hunter Harris

Olivia Colman, center, and “[her] bitches,” Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz. Photo: NBC

Maybe it was the two hosts who committed hard to goofiness, maybe it was the list of winners that varied from nice surprises to baffling selections, but this year more than ever, the Golden Globes committed to its trademark vibe of Hollywood’s biggest drunk group hang. Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg filled out their hosting duties by aggressively complimenting the rest of the room. Chris Pine’s Jeff Bridges-esque facial hair presented an award to Jeff Bridges. Glenn Close moved the room to a standing ovation. Green Bookand Bohemian Rhapsody were somehow the night’s biggest winners. Somehow, there was also time for Taylor Swift to appear and for drama (maybe) to bloom between Chrissy Metz and Alison Brie. Like a complimentary bottle of Moët, there’s a lot to digest quickly, so we’ve broken down the key moments of the evening, from the highs to the lows and even the whoas.

LOW: Chris Messina — Hollywood’s best (and sweatiest) Chris under six feet tall — debuted arctic silver hair on the red carpet. It’s probably for his role as Harley Quinn baddie Victor Zsasz, but still … do not want!

LOW: Ryan Seacrest’s appearance on the E! Red Carpet. After being accused of sexual assault by a former stylist last February, Seacrest was back on the Red Carpet for the Globes this year, happily smiling as if nothing had happened, and even discussing the fact he was wearing a Time’s Up x2 wristband as if nothing had happened. Time is certainly taking a long time to be up.

HIGH: The unwavering commitment of the Fiji water girl on the red carpet

HIGH: Sandra Oh razzing Lady Gaga by quoting her favorite “100 people in a room” verbatim in her opening monologue. Gaga and Cooper love each other very much, but they love their rote press tour anecdotes even more. Still, this is all going much better than what happened to Ally at her big awards show.



WHOA: Emma Stone shouting “I’m sorry!” after Sandra Oh called out Aloha for its whitewashing. Yes, it really was her, and it was unplanned.


WHOA: When Andy Samberg introduced Black Panther in the opening monologue, he said that as a kid growing up in the Bay Area, he never would have imagined that a movie called Black Panther would feature Oakland so prominently. “Just kidding, they were all framed and murdered for wanting justice and equality, the world is and has always been a nightmare,” he said quickly, too fast for the audience (including director Ryan Coogler!) to realize that he was right!



HIGH: Very sweet man Ben Whishaw sweetly shouts out the “true queer hero and icon” Norman Scott when winning for A Very English Scandal.

HIGH: Carol Burnett’s touching speech about her love of television after winning the first Carol Burnett Award. Back in Burnett’s day, they had 28-piece orchestras and variety shows with big budgets and now we only have “YouTube and reruns.” That’s kind of a tragic thing to say about the state of entertainment, but when Carol Burnett says it, it’s somehow still charming and sweet.

WHOA: Taylor Swift’s surprise entrance to present Best Score and Best Original Song, accompanying Idris Elba and introduced as his “Cats co-star.” The all-A-list Cats movie definitely still does not exist, but we’re happy that Hollywood is keeping up the pretense.

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HIGH: Regina King gives an acceptance speech so good they have to stop playing her off so she can finish talking. King thanked all her Beale Streetcollaborators, then pivoted to a larger point about how people in Hollywood can make a difference by virtue of the fact that they are given microphones, and also promised to produce projects with 50 percent female staffs. A whole essay in one speech!

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HIGH: Sandra Oh — [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vWegVQYMkQ']I don’t know a better person! After Oh won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series — Drama, she stepped onstage and continued her hosting duties with the trophy in tow. Wouldn’t you?

WHOA: After winning Best Actor in a Comedy for playing Dick Cheney in Vice, Christian Bale says, “Thank you, Satan, for inspiration.”

LOW: Jeff Bridges gave a lengthy speech while accepting the year’s Cecil B. DeMille award. The fact that presenter Chris Pine seemed to be the only person enjoying it was both sweet and charming (and a testament to his being the best Chris!).

Photo: NBC
LOW: Chuck Lorre, after The Kominsky Method pulled out a Best Comedy win, runs out of things to say in his rambling acceptance speech, which somehow involved the Time Warner merger, and resorts to just repeating “Netflix, Netflix, Netflix.” Whatever, whatever, whatever.

HIGH: Olivia Colman accepting the Golden Globe for Best Actress — Comedy or Musical, and thanking her co-stars Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz. But because she’s Olivia Colman she thanks “[her] bitches.”

LOW: Green Book wins Best Comedy. Peter Farrelly decides now is the time to give an extended lecture explaining how Green Book is a way to heal the country and “all we have to do is talk and not judge people by their differences,” and, and … Anyway, he shouted down the music playing him off to explain the whole movie and you just don’t get to do that if you’re not Regina King!

HIGH: Glenn Close’s reaction to her own win for The Wife. Close probably thought Lady Gaga was going to win, too, and previously insisted she thought her own nomination was a butt dial. Close delivered a heartfelt speech about how her own, oft-overlooked mother inspired her character, and how the role taught her that we “have to follow our dreams.” She insisted that women can “do that, and should be allowed to do that.”

WHOA: Rami Malek wins Best Actor in a Drama, and Bohemian Rhapsodywins Best Drama. Everyone thanks Queen and shouts-out the power of believing in yourself, and very, very carefully avoids mentioning Bryan Singer.
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The 2019 Golden Globes Were Anything But a Rhapsody
By Jen Chaney@chaneyj

“Come on, give us five stars!” Photo: Handout/NBCUniversal via Getty Images

The 76th annual Golden Globes Awards broadcast started out wobbly and ended with a shocker of a Best Motion Picture Drama win for Bohemian Rhapsody that sent film buffs — including, okay, me — into fits of hysterical outrage on social media. But for 75 percent of the ceremony’s three-hour-plus run time, brought to you as usual by Dick Clark Productions and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, it was mainly just boring.

The 2019 Globes were certainly a comedown from the previous two years. In 2017, we witnessed the first post-Trump-election Golden Globes and a barn burner of a Cecil B. DeMille Award acceptance speech from Meryl Streep, who closed by quoting the late Carrie Fisher and encouraging her colleagues to take their broken hearts and make them into art. Last year gave us the #MeToo Golden Globes, when the launch of the Time’s Up movement took center stage and Oprah Winfrey’s impassioned DeMille Award remarkskick-started a conversation about her potentially running for president.

By contrast, this year’s DeMille speech was delivered by Jeff Bridges, who, to be very clear, is a national treasure, but who also rambled endearingly and aimlessly for several minutes, which is the reason why everyone loves Jeff Bridges. Still: It didn’t make for the kind of moment everyone would be talking about the next day. The Time’s Up movement was represented — a number of red-carpet walkers sported ribbons or bracelets that said “Time’s Up x 2,” a reference to the organization’s effort to double the number of women in leadership positions and other roles where they are underrepresented. But the drumbeat around the movement was, perhaps inevitably, a bit more muted, albeit not entirely quiet. (Regina King, who won a Globe for her excellent work in If Beale Street Could Talk, made a commitment in her acceptance speech to push for male-female parity in all of her future projects.) The fact that the top film honor of the night went to Bohemian Rhapsody — which credits Bryan Singer, who has faced allegations of rape and sexual misconduct, as director even though he was fired before production was complete — suggests that Hollywood has not made nearly as much #MeToo progress as last year implied it might. (The win also suggests that everyone in the HFPA was high when they voted in that category. But I digress!)

Christian Bale, who cheekily thanked Satan for inspiring his portrayal of the former VP in Vice, for which he won the Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy. A Dick Cheney joke in 2019 is taking it relatively easy on the GOP, all things considered. So you can bet your life that it will be a major talking point on Fox News throughout much of Monday.

This was supposed to be an exciting year for the Globes, especially because Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh, the first Asian-American to ever host the show, would be acting as emcees in a year when the Academy can’t even find someone without a homophobic Twitter history to preside over the Oscars. But aside from the sincere remarks Oh made about seeing all the reflection of diversity in the room, their opening monologue fell flat.

It was apparent that attendees were still taking their seats when things got underway and the initial jokes, including one about the aforementioned still-hostless Academy Awards, didn’t land. The only bit of the kickoff that sort of worked was a prearranged bit that involved Oh and Samberg kicking Jim Carrey, nominated for his work on Showtime’s Kidding, out of the movies section and into the “less prestigious” TV set of tables. But even that felt a little off the Zeitgeist. (Isn’t TV where the cool kids sit these days?)

The pair had better luck with their often amusing presenter intros. (“Now here with a surprising, unrehearsed takedown of Les Moonves is the cast of The Big Bang Theory,” Sandberg said before Kaley Cuoco, Jim Parsons, and Johnny Galecki walked onstage.) But their valiant efforts mostly served as a reminder of several awards-show truths: Even two likable performers are not necessarily suited to co-host an awards show together; good writing is just as important as game hosts; and the duo approach works much better when there is shared history between the two partners. (Please see the years that Amy Poehler and Tina Fey co-hosted for further information.) Not helping matters were a few noticeable technical hiccups, including the audible sound of producers counting down when the show returned from a commercial break and a trigger finger so anxious to bleep out bad words that at times it was difficult to figure out what presenters were actually saying. (The Golden Globes: So daring and edgy, it won’t let you hear the word “asshole.”)

The Globes has cultivated a reputation for its freewheeling, “everybody’s hella druuuunk” atmosphere, but throughout the evening, I kept thinking, “Wow, it’s too bad everyone isn’t more drunk.” The ceremony dragged, and several of the winners on both the TV and movie side — The Kominsky Method for Best TV Comedy, Michael Douglas for Best Actor in a TV Comedy for The Kominsky Method, the Best Motion Picture Comedy award for Green Book — were either expected, desperately dull, or both. (Notable exceptions: The extremely correct win for The Americans, which finally received the Best TV Drama award it has long deserved and that the Emmys never delivered; the Best Actress in a TV Drama award for Sandra Oh in Killing Eve; and the very predictable but nevertheless satisfying Best Song win for “Shallow,” the lone trophy that A Star Is Born would take home.)

The night’s best moments, as is always the case in any awards show, were spontaneous. And like the past two years, they came from women, including the aforementioned King; Olivia Colman, a winner for her scene-stealing work in The Favourite, who described how much fun she had eating while making the film; Carol Burnett, who received the first of what will be an annual lifetime achievement award for TV comedy named in her honor, and spoke beautifully about her career; and Glenn Close, who seemed shocked to the core when she won for her work in The Wife, yet still managed to give a moving and articulate speech about how important it is for women to seek personal satisfaction and achievement on their own terms. (“It was called The Wife,” she quipped. “I think that’s why it took 14 years to get made.”)

And yet, aside from The Americans, a show that certainly achieves 50/50 gender parity in its portrayal of married Russian spies, every series or movie that won a top prize last night — The Assassination of Gianni Versace, The Kominsky Method, Green Book, and Bohemian Rhapsody — focused primarily on men, albeit often marginalized ones. In particular, the two big film winners, both based on true stories, have been widely criticized for taking egregious liberties with the realities they portray, which is not an ideal look in a time of when there aren’t enough Pinocchio ratings to cover all the lies propagated by our national leaders.

“That’s our show,” Oh said at the end of the evening. “Please give us five stars,” added Samberg, an obvious Uber riff that also summed up the vibe of the evening. The Golden Globes, on one hand, asked us to applaud Hollywood for a year in which better representation resulted in big box-office numbers, thanks to films like Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians, while the Hollywood Foreign Press produced a rickety awards show that celebrated movies like Green Book, whose take on race relations is about as nuanced as a very special episode of Diff’rent Strokes.

Five stars? After three-plus-hours and a closing win for Bohemian Rhapsodyover If Beale Street Could Talk, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, and A Star Is Born, the only conclusion I could draw at the end of the night was that when it comes to this year’s Golden Globes ceremony, nothing really matters … nothing really matters to meeeee.

 

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hrissy Metz Denies Calling Alison Brie a ‘Bitch’ on the Golden Globes Red Carpet
By Devon Ivie@devonsaysrelax

Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

One of the strangest controversies that cropped up during this year’s Golden Globes happened before the monologue even began. This Is Us star Chrissy Metz was on the red carpet when she was asked, at the end of a Facebook Liveinterview, to introduce Alison Brie, who’s nominated for her performance in season two of GLOW. The camera cut away, but the Facebook Live microphones stayed hot, and some online observers were sure they heard Metz share a surprising assessment of Brie:




Brie was asked about the remark by a Vanity Fair reporter, replying, “But why? I know her. I saw her on the carpet and I told her how beautiful she looked.” The phantom “bitch” became enough of a trending topic that Metz felt compelled to respond during the Globes ceremony, tweeting, “It’s terribly unfortunate anyone would think much less run a story that was completely fabricated!” she wrote on Twitter. “I adore Alison and would never say a bad word about her, or anyone! I sure hope she knows my heart.”

 

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ee Every Red-Carpet Look From the 2019 Golden Globes

Sandra Oh, Alison Brie, Lady Gaga, and more.
By Vulture Editors

Lady Gaga. Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images


While the Academy Awards tries to sort out its ceremony next month, the 76th Golden Globe Awards have arrived in Beverly Hills with iconic pairing and co-hosts Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg at the helm. The Golden Globes are “consistently a more entertaining sit than the Oscars or Emmys,” says New York and Vulture television critic Matt Zoller Seitz, “in part because the tone is less self-infatuated and the audience gets to drink.” But before awards season’s tipsiest ceremony can begin, the biggest stars in movies, TV, and music (hey, Gaga) will strut their glitzy celebrity selves across the red carpet. Scroll through the gallery below to see all the looks.

Sandra Oh. Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

Alison Brie. Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

Claire Foy. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Constance Wu. Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Julianne Moore.Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Jamie Lee Curtis.Photo: Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Rachel Brosnahan.Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Keri Russell. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Emma Stone. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Rachel Weisz. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Elisabeth Moss.Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Amy Adams. Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Patricia Clarkson.Photo: Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Danai Gurira. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Jessica Chastain.Photo: Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Amber Heard. Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Saoirse Ronan.Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

From left, Ryan Coogler, Danai Gurira, Michael B. Jordan, and Lupita Nyong’o. Photo: 2019 Getty Images

 

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Anne Hathaway.Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Charlize Theron.Photo: Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Allison Janney.Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Lupita Nyong’o. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Nicole Kidman.Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Maya Rudolph.Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

 

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Lady Gaga. Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

Photo: 2019 Steve Granitz

Debra Messing.Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Sacha Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher.Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Julia Roberts. Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Kate Mara. Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Rosamund Pike.Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

Chrissy Metz. Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Sterling K. Brown and Ryan Michelle Bathe. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Alana Mayo and Lena Waithe. Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Stephanie Beatriz.Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Nicholas Hoult.Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

Billy Porter. Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Gina Rodriguez Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Rami Malek. Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Janet Mock. Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

Adam Driver and Joanne Tucker.Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Sara Gilbert and Linda Perry. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Molly Sims. Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Carol Burnett. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Terry Crews. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Michael Douglas.Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Catherine Zeta-Jones. Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Emmy Rossum.Photo: Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Alex Borstein. Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Hugh Grant and Anna Elisabet Eberstein. Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Kieran Culkin and Jazz Charton. Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Octavia Spencer.Photo: Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Richard Gere. Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Glenn Close. Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

Kaley Cuoco. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Joanna Newsom.Photo: George Pimentel/WireImage

Giada Colagrande and Willem Dafoe.Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Ken Jeong and Tran Jeong. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Caitriona Balfe.Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Dick Van Dyke. Photo: Christopher Polk/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Jim Carrey and Ginger Gonzaga.Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Idris Elba and Sabrina Dhowre. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Connie Britton.Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Dakota Fanning.Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Joe Alwyn. Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Sam Elliott. Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Thandie Newton. Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Chris Messina.Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Luke Evans. Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

Jameela Jamil.Photo: Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Regina King. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Lucy Liu. Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Finn Wittrock.Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Leslie Bibb and Sam Rockwell. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Candice Bergen.Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

From left, Wendy Treece Bridges, Beau Bridges, Susan Geston, and Jeff Bridges. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Elizabeth Perkins.Photo: George Pimentel/WireImage

Spike Lee. Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Penélope Cruz.Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

Darren Criss. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Judith Light. Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Marti Noxon. Photo: Daniele Venturelli/WireImage

Felicity Huffman.Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

Yvonne Strahovski.Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

Nico Santos. Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Judy Greer. Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Alyssa Milano.Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Lili Reinhart. Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Elsie Fisher. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Natalie Morales.Photo: George Pimentel/WireImage

D’Arcy Carden.Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Manny Jacinto.Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Yvette Nicole Brown.Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Linda Cardellini.Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Marin Hinkle. Photo: Kevork Djansezian/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Jodie Comer. Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Lucy Boynton. Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP/Getty Images

Camilla Belle. Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

Michelle Yeoh.Photo: Todd Williamson/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

Cody Fern. Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

Ryan Seacrest. Photo: Steve Granitz/WireImage

Mario Lopez. Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

Holly Taylor. Photo: Valerie Macon/AFP/Getty Images

Missi Pyle. Photo: Daniele Venturelli/WireImage

 

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Golden Globes 2019: The Biggest Surprises From The Weirdest Awards Ever

• BY KAYLEIGH DONALDSON
  
• – ON JAN 07, 2019
  
• IN SR ORIGINALS

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The Golden Globes 2019 kicked off awards season with some big surprises and some very weird wins. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is an oft-mocked organization who have managed to insert themselves into the Oscar conversation through sheer will and good timing alone. A group with around 90 members, all of whom are journalists and photographers who report on the entertainment industry for non-American media, the HFPA are widely derided for their hunger for fame and questionable decisions. Their Golden Globe Awards, founded in 1944, were created in part to offer an alternative to the Oscars that was voted on by press and not the industry, much like the various critics circle awards given out around this time of year. Because it happens at the beginning of the year, the show is generally considered the official beginning of awards season, but the veracity of these awards has consistently been questioned over the years. Remember when The Tourist got nominated for Best Musical/Comedy in 2011 alongside Burlesque? No awards board is above nominating films of suspect quality - the Oscars do it all the time - but it's the HFPA who have the biggest reputation for being beholden to trends and celebrity.

However, it's still considered a big deal to win a Golden Globe and it can help cement a movie's journey to the Academy Awards by creating the right narrative. This year’s ceremony, which took place last night, is a prime example of that. But it was also a night of surprises and, to put it bluntly, weird choices.

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A lot of expected wins didn’t happen - see: almost everything A Star is Bornwas nominated for - and ones that did raised more than a few eyebrows. The Golden Globes are known for making more esoteric choices than the Oscars, who historically love to play it safe, and the results can be both delightful and utterly infuriating. Here are the Golden Globe wins that surprised us the most in a very weird year.

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RAMI MALEK AND BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY WIN BIG

Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody overcame middling reviews, controversy over its depiction of Freddie Mercury and the impossible to ignore elephant in the room that is Bryan Singer to win not only Best Drama but the Best Actor award for Rami Malek. Bradley Cooper had been the favorite to win the award going into the night but Malek had built up a lot of industry goodwill for his acclaimed performance and there’s nothing awards season loves more than a biopic.

This proved to be the most controversial win of the night as critics by and large had major problems with the movie, from its questionable quality on a basic film-making level to the treatment of Mercury itself at the hands of surviving band members and Queen estate holders Brian May and Roger Taylor. Yet none of that seemed to matter to the HFPA; or audiences for that matter, as Bohemian Rhapsody overtook Deadpool 2 to become the eighth highest grossing movie of the year.

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Oscar voting just opened up and this publicity certainly won’t hurt Bohemian Rhapsody's chances, but there’s only so far they can carry this campaign while ignoring the all too real issue of multiple accusations of sexual assault against Singer, who was fired from the film for unprofessional on-set behavior. Only one year on from the striking Golden Globes ceremony where #TimesUp took front and center, this win was a bitter pill to swallow for many and a stark reminder of the work that needs to be done before systemic change can take root.

Related: Bohemian Rhapsody's True Story: Everything The Inaccurate Queen Movie Changed

GLENN CLOSE BEATS LADY GAGA FOR BEST ACTRESS

Glenn Close entered the Oscars race early last Summer with The Wife, an indie drama based on the novel by Meg Wolitzer that received respectable reviews overall but garnered instant acclaim for its lead. While Close has been active on the awards season trailer and has a handful of critics wins to her name, she had mostly fallen out of the Oscars conversation. Most experts had predicted that she would lose in the category of Best Actress in a Drama to Lady Gaga, whose work in A Star is Born has been one of the most talked about elements of awards season for several months now. Close had already won two Golden Globes in the past and the HFPA love nothing more than anointing fresh new talent, so Gaga’s win seemed inevitable.

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But then it wasn’t. Much to the surprise of everyone in the room – including Close herself – she won the award and gave one if the night’s most heartfelt speeches. The win puts Close back in contention for the Oscar, although her main competition is now the other Best Actress winner of the night, Olivia Colman from The Favourite.

GREEN BOOK BECOMES AN OSCAR FRONTRUNNER

Green Book was always going to be a big Oscar player from the moment it opened at the Toronto International Film Festival to rapturous reviews and took him the much-coveted audience award. However, the film has also had to deal with controversies surrounding the veracity of its supposedly true story, particularly after the family of one of the subjects, jazz pianist Don Shirley, refuted many of those claims and condemned its portrayal of him.

Much like the backlash over race didn’t seem to hurt Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri at the Golden Globes, none of that seemed to effect Green Book, which took home three awards, including Best Comedy/Musical and Best Screenplay. Other films like Vice and The Favourite seemed more likely as winners but Peter Farrelly’s movie had the upper advantage.

Related: Green Book's True Story: What The Movie Controversially Changed

However, the question now is whether it can carry that hype to the Oscars or if the Three Billboards situation will repeat itself. Whatever the case, the controversies aren’t going away any time soon and the film-makers must grapple with the realities of their situation.

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ONLY ONE AWARD FOR A STAR IS BORN

One of the downsides of awards season is that it’s very easy to spend months at a time making assumptions. It doesn’t take much to find yourself swept up in a convenient narrative, like believing certain films or actors will win everything because that’s just the way it goes. Of all the films that are currently part of the Oscars conversation, A Star is Born is easily the one that’s swallowed up the most oxygen in the room. It is impossible to avoid chat about it or insistence that Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut will dominate every ceremony it attends.

Yet it only took home one award at the Globes, despite being nominated for five and seeming like the exact kind of film the HFPA love to award. Bradley Cooper went home empty-handed. Lady Gaga did not win Best Actress in a Drama as so many had predicted. Ultimately, the one award it took home went to Best Song for "Shallow", so at least Gaga got one statue out of the evening.

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It’s tough to assert that this means A Star is Born won’t do well at the Oscars. There’s a vast difference between the 90 or so voters of the HFPA and the thousands of members of the Academy. But what this does do is put a puncture in that seemingly invincible image of A Star is Born as the juggernaut of the season.

Golden Globes 2019: The Biggest Surprises From The Weirdest Awards Ever

• BY KAYLEIGH DONALDSON
  
• – ON JAN 07, 2019
  
• IN SR ORIGINALS

RICHARD MADDEN WINS BEST ACTOR IN A TV DRAMA

Game of Thrones favorite Richard Madden won for his performance in Bodyguard. This year, only one of the previous year's nominees for Best Actor in a TV drama appeared in the category (Jason Bateman for Ozark), so without any competition from Better Call Saul, Ray Donovan or This Is Us, this was one of the tougher categories to predict. Madden had received career-best acclaim for his work in Bodyguard and being a non-American series has always been good for Golden Globe contenders with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Still, it's one few would have bet on.

MICHAEL DOUGLAS WAS IN A COMEDY TV SERIES?

Yes, Michael Douglas is currently starring in a television comedy and yes, he did win a Golden Globe for it over actors like Bill Hader for Barry and Donald Glover for Atlanta. The Kominsky Method is a Netflix series that may have passed you by unless you’re a huge Chuck Lorre fan. Douglas stars alongside Alan Arkin and Danny DeVito as an aging actor who runs an acting school in Hollywood. The series has actually been very well-received critically and has a bunch of SAG Awards pending on top of its Golden Globe win, so this victory for Douglas wasn't so much a shock as the kind of thing you only expect if you know what the Golden Globes love. Still, many had predicted Bill Hader would replicate his Emmy success here, so Douglas’s win was never a lock.

THE AMERICANS FINALLY GETS ITS DUES

FX’s The Americans has been a critical darling since its first season, but awards success largely eluded it for the majority of its six-season run. Things picked up in the second half of the show's lifespan but they never did win that elusive Best Drama Emmy. Now that the show is over, the HFPA saw fit to give the show its dues and award it with the Golden Globe for Best Television Series - Drama. It didn't hurt that The Americans didn't have to face the might of Game of Thrones, but competition was still tough in the form of Amazon's Homecoming and BBC America's Killing Eve. For TV lovers, this was one of the best awards in a very odd night.

 

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