(AP) — Two wildly audacious movies — Brady Corbet’s 215-minute postwar epic “The Brutalist” and Jacques Audiard’s Spanish language, genre-shifting trans musical “Emilia Perez” — gained prime honors on the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday.
The Globes, that are nonetheless discovering their footing after years of scandal and makeover, scattered awards round to various movies. However the awards group put its strongest help behind a pair of flicks that sought to defy straightforward categorization.
“The Brutalist” was topped greatest movie, drama, placing one in every of 2024’s most formidable movies on the right track to be a serious contender on the Academy Awards. The movie, shot in VistaVision and launched with an intermission, additionally gained greatest director for Corbet and greatest actor for Adrien Brody. In his acceptance speech, Corbet spoke about filmmakers needing approval on the ultimate reduce.
“I used to be instructed that this movie was un-distributable,” stated Corbet. “Nobody was asking for a three-and-half-hour movie a few mid-century designer in 70mm. Nevertheless it works.”
“Emilia Pérez” gained greatest movie, comedy or musical, elevating the Oscar probabilities of Netflix’s prime contender. It additionally gained greatest supporting actress for Zoe Saldaña, greatest track (“El Mal”) and greatest non-English language movie. Audiard, the French director, made method for Karla Sofía Gascón, the movie’s transgender star who performs a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirming surgical procedure, to talk on behalf of the movie.
“The sunshine at all times wins over darkness,” stated Gascón, gesturing to her brightly orange costume. “You may possibly put us in jail. You may beat us up. However you by no means can take away our soul or existence or identification.”
“I’m who I’m. Not who you need.”
Demi wins her first Globe
Although the Globes viewers was significantly starry, together with nominees Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Angelina Jolie and Daniel Craig, many of the winners hailed from smaller, much less seen movies.
That included some surprises. One was Demi Moore’s win for greatest actress in a comedy or musical. Her comeback efficiency in “The Substance,” a few Hollywood star who resorts to an experimental course of to regain her youth, landed the 62-year-old Moore her first Globe — a victory that came visiting the closely favored Mikey Madison of “Anora.”
“I’m simply in shock proper now. I’ve been doing this a very long time, like over 45 years, and that is the very first thing I’ve ever gained as an actor,” stated Moore, who was final nominated by the Globes for a movie function in 1991 for “Ghost.” “Thirty years in the past, I had a producer inform me that I used to be a popcorn actress.”
Finest actress, in a drama movie, was an excellent greater shock. The Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres gained for her efficiency in “I’m Nonetheless Right here,” a based-on-a-true-story drama a few household residing via the disappearance of political dissident Rubens Paiva in Seventies Rio de Janeiro. Torres devoted the award to her mom, the nice actor Fernanda Montenegro, who seems in “I’m Nonetheless Right here,” too.
“She was right here 25 years in the past,” stated Torres. “And this is sort of a proof that artwork can endure via life even via tough moments.”
Finest supporting actor in a musical or comedy went to Sebastian Stan for “A Completely different Man,” by which Stan performs a person with a deformed face who’s healed. Stan, who was additionally nominated for taking part in Donald Trump in “The Apprentice,” famous that each movies have been laborious to get made.
“These are powerful topic maters however these movies are actual and so they’re needed,” stated Stan. “However we are able to’t be afraid and look away.”
Glaser flippantly roasts the Globes
Comic Nikki Glaser kicked off the Globes, with a promise: “I’m not right here to roast you.”
However Glaser, a stand-up whose breakthrough got here in a withering roast of Tom Brady, made her method across the ballroom of the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, on Sunday choosing out loads of targets in a gap monologue she had labored out extensively in comedy golf equipment beforehand.
Whereas Glaser may not have reached Tina Fey and Amy Poehler ranges of snickers, the monologue was a winner, and a dramatic enchancment over final yr’s host, Jo Koy. Final yr’s Globes, following a variety and ethics scandal that led to the dissolution of the Hollywood International Press Affiliation, have been broadly panned. However they delivered the place it counted: Rankings rebounded to about 10 million viewers, based on Nielsen. CBS, who waded in after NBC dumped the Globes, signed up for 5 extra years.
Internet hosting the Globes two weeks earlier than the inauguration of Donald Trump, Glaser reserved maybe her most chopping line for your complete room of Hollywood stars.
“You possibly can actually do something … besides inform the nation who to vote for,” stated Glaser. “Nevertheless it’s OK, you’ll get ’em subsequent time … if there’s one. I’m scared.”
The Globes are actually owned by Todd Boehly’s Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions, which acquired the award present from the now defunct Hollywood International Press Affiliation. Nevertheless, greater than a dozen former HFPA members are at present looking for to have the sale to Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions rescinded.
A win for ‘Depraved’
Not like final yr’s Oscar race, when “Oppenheimer” rolled, this yr’s season has extra unsure, with a area of contenders. A lot of the films which might be seen as having an opportunity — “Conclave,” “Emilia Perez,” “The Brutalist,” “Depraved” and “Anora” — got here away with a minimum of one award Sunday. The exception was Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning “Anora,” which went residence empty handed regardless of 5 nominations.
The Globes’ award for cinematic and box-office achievement went to Jon M. Chu’s “Depraved,” which has practically collected $700 million in theaters. In a closely arthouse Oscar area, “Depraved” is well the most important hit in one of the best image combine. Accepting the award, Chu argued for “a radical act of optimism” in artwork.
Although few awards have been predictable this season, Kieran Culkin is rising has the clear favourite for greatest supporting actor. Culkin gained Sunday for his efficiency in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Actual Ache,” his second Globe previously yr following a win for the HBO collection “Succession.” He known as the Globes “principally one of the best date night time that my spouse and I ever have,” after which thanked her for “placing up what you name my mania.”
The papal thriller “Conclave” took greatest screenplay, for Peter Straughan’s script. “Movement,” the wordless Latvian animated parable a few cat in a flooded world, took greatest animated movie, successful over studio blockbusters like “Inside Out 2” and “The Wild Robotic.” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross gained greatest rating for his or her thumping music for “Challengers.”
TV prizes
A lot of the TV winners have been oft-awarded collection, together with the Emmy champ “Shōgun.” It gained 4 awards, together with greatest drama collection and appearing wins for Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai and Tadanobu Asano. Different repeat winners have been: “Hacks” (greatest comedy collection, actress for Jean Sensible), “The Bear” (Jeremy Allen White for greatest actor) and “Child Reindeer” (greatest restricted collection).
Ali Wong gained for greatest stand-up efficiency, Jodie Foster for “True Detective” and Colin Farrell for his bodily transformation in “The Penguin.”
“I assume it’s prosthetics from right here on out,” stated Farrell.
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