The 2017 Golden Globes gave us its fair share memorable moments. But one of the calling cards for the annual, alcohol-fueled ceremony is sending the audience (at home and at the event) into fits of laughter. Let’s take a look back at the funniest moments from the 74th Golden Globe Awards.
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Golden Globes 2017: The 11 Best (and Worst) Moments
There was a lot of dramatic plunging going on at Sunday’s 74th Golden Globes, and we don’t just mean the necklines of several actresses’ gowns.We also mean the emotional rollercoaster of surprise wins, speechmakers tearfully thankful for the sacrifices made by their supporting families, denunciations of President-elect Donald Trump, and the often cringe-worthy jokes made by emcee Jimmy Fallon and the presenters. Here are some of those highlights and lowlights.
HONORABLE MENTION:
Denzel’s dead-in-the-eyes-but-still-awesome thumbs up is the GIF we need and deserve.
BEST
1. The Opening Number
In case you didn’t predict that “Stranger Things.” #SynchronizedBarbs.)
The whole thing was a lot like “La La Land” in that, whether you liked it or not, you had to be impressed just by the technical feat of pulling it off. (Bonus points for working Game of Thrones” character’s resurrection; he Skyped in his performance from London.) The lyrical and visual jokes went by too fast to spot; this is one you’ll be re-watching on your DVR for days.WORST
2. The Opening Monologue
Fallon’s first live bit started ominously, with a TelePrompTer malfunction, but he vamped well until the machine came back online. (He also got in a good inside joke later referencing both Mariah Carey and Dick Clark Productions, the company behind both Carey’s hot-mess New Year’s Eve performance and the Globe show.) It might have been better, though, if the TelePrompTer had stayed broken, since Fallon’s opening jokes weren’t that funny.Most were lazy barbs about Donald Trump that came off sounding like sour grapes from the comic who made Trump look like a cuddly uncle last year by tousling the Republican’s hair on “The Tonight Show.” The best thing about the monologue: it was mercifully brief.
BEST
3. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
She didn’t say anything during the sight gag that had her subbing for DJ Questlove while wearing his glasses, lapel pin, and hair pick. But she didn’t have to. The “Veep” star is simply hilarious, end of story.WORST
4. “Hidden Fences”
Both red-carpet interviewer Jenna Bush Hager and onstage announcer Michael Keaton mangled the name of current inspirational hit “Hidden Figures,” conflating it with fellow Globe nominee “Fences.” It was as if there wasn’t room in the speaker’s minds for the names of two movies showcasing black casts. Backstage, “Carol” screenwriter Phyllis Nagy told reporters that Keaton was joking, but if that’s true, it was hardly apparent to viewers in the ballroom and at home.BEST
5. Sunny Pawar
All due respect to the “Stranger Things” cast, but the most adorable kid at the Globes was the 8-year-old “Lion” star. He out-cuted everyone during his introduction of his movie (nominated for Best Film – Drama) along with co-star Dev Patel, who hoisted the pint-sized actor aloft so that he could reach the microphone.WORST
6. No “In Memoriam” Reel
There was such an unusually large number of celebrity deaths in 2016 that the show dealt with them by not dealing with them. Instead, there was a short clip paying tribute to the tragic double-whammy loss of Carrie Fisher and her equally iconic mom, Debbie Reynolds, within one day of each other during the final week of the year.Which was nicely done, but which meant that the fallen stars who meant a lot to fans worldwide got no love at all. Yet somehow, the show found time later to run a jokey montage of actors talking about their crappy first jobs — a bit that they do live every year at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
BEST
7. Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig
The “Despicable Me 2” duo introduced the Animated Movie nominees with what were supposed to be heartwarming stories of their own childhood experiences seeing their first animated movies. But the nostalgic memories turned out to be horrific, haunting, heart-wrenching tales of broken families and unforgettable childhood traumas. (Naturally, one of the stories involved seeing “Bambi.”)Yeah, it was a weird, dark bit, but Carell and Wiig delivered the material expertly and uproariously.
WORST
8. Forgiveness
Doesn’t matter what you’ve done, whether it’s sexually harass women or make one of Hollywood’s biggest bombs, you’ll eventually be forgiven at the Golden Globes. Witness all the love for “Hacksaw Ridge” director Mel Gibson, or Best Actor – Drama winner Casey Affleck.Brad Pitt, who’s been keeping a low profile since the ugly allegations broke surrounding his split from Angelina Jolie, got an ovation just for showing his face in public (he was there to present the nominated drama “Moonlight,” which he co-produced).
Somewhere, with his laptop plunked on a table in a dimly lit Starbucks, “Birth of a Nation” writer-director Nate Parker is busy plotting his 2027 comeback.
BEST
9. Meryl Streep
Fittingly, the segment awarding Streep the Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement prize was the show’s most dramatic. It began with Streep’s “Doubt” co-star Viola Davis introducing her with a speech full of personal reminiscences and the compliment, “You make me proud to be an artist.” Streep ramped up the drama by delivering an impassioned, unabashedly political speech despite having lost much of her voice (to “screaming and lamentation,” she said).She echoed a joke that “Night Manager” honoree Hugh Laurie had made earlier, that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (which hands out the Globes) represented at least three groups (Hollywood, foreigners, and the press) out of favor with the incoming administration — but unlike Laurie, Streep got a sustained laugh from the assembled stars. She noted the foreign births of some of the evening’s biggest stars and added that, without such outsiders, “you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.”
She then called out the performance that affected her the most deeply this year, Donald Trump’s mockery of a disabled New York Times reporter. “It kind of broke my heart,” she said, adding, “This instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing.” But she ended by suggesting that she would channel her outrage into her work. “As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art.”Whether or not you agreed with her sentiments, Streep offered the kind of unpredictable spontaneity and heart-stopping suspense that awards shows like the Globes usually go out of their way to avoid.
WORST
10. Sylvester Stallone and Carl Weathers
Actually, it was pretty great to see the two “Rocky” rivals together, 40 years later. But they’d been oversold by the announcer as two surprise movie “icons,” so the reveal was something of a disappointment. (Besides, Stallone wasn’t that big a surprise; he won a Globe last year, and his three daughters shared the Miss Golden Globes honor of escorting the nominees on and off the stage.)Plus, Stallone and Weathers had nothing much to say, except Stallone’s churlish wish that he hadn’t written a victory for Weathers’ Apollo Creed into the “Rocky” screenplay. The only thing not anti-climactic about their appearance was their announcement of a Best Drama win for “Moonlight,” a surprising choice (“Manchester by the Sea” was the crystal-ball pick) but also a richly deserving one.
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Golden Globes 2017: The Complete Winners’ List
From Deadpool to Emma Stone, the 2017 Golden Globes has everything.The awards show airs live tonight on NBC, and some of your favorite movies, stars, and TV series will need to make some space in their trophy rooms. Will “La La Land” win pretty much everything and pave its way to Oscar gold? Will the gut-punch of a drama, “Manchester by the Sea,” take home Best Drama?
We’ll keep you posted right here with all of tonight’s winners, as we update live throughout the telecast.
Here’s the full list of nominations:
Best Motion Picture, Drama
- “Moonlight” — WINNER
- “Hacksaw Ridge”
- “Hell or High Water”
- “Lion”
- “Manchester by the Sea”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
- Isabelle Huppert, “Elle” — WINNER
- Amy Adams, “Arrival”
- Jessica Chastian, “Miss Sloane”
- Ruth Negga, “Loving”
- Natalie Portman, “Jackie”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
- Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea” — WINNER
- Joel Edgerton, “Loving”
- Andrew Garfield, “Hacksaw Ridge”
- Viggo Mortenson, “Captain Fantastic”
- Denzel Washington, “Fences”
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
- “La La Land” — WINNER
- “20th Century Women”
- “Deadpool”
- “Florence Foster Jenkins”
- “Sing Street”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
- Emma Stone, “La La Land” — WINNER
- Annette Bening, “20th Century Women”
- Lily Collins, “Rules Don’t Apply”
- Hailee Steinfeld, “The Edge of Seventeen”
- Meryl Streep, “Florence Foster Jenkins”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy
- Donald Glover, “Atlanta” — WINNER
- Anthony Anderson, “Black-ish”
- Gael Garcia Bernal, “Mozart in the Jungle”
- Nick Nolte, “Graves”
- Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent”
Best Director, Motion Picture
- Damien Chazelle, “La La Land” — WINNER
- Tom Ford, “Nocturnal Animals”
- Mel Gibson, “Hacksaw Ridge”
- Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight”
- Kenneth Lonergan, “Manchester by the Sea”
Best Television Series, Drama
- “The Crown,” Netflix — WINNER
- “Game of Thrones,” HBO
- “Stranger Things,” Netflix
- “This Is Us,” NBC
- “Westworld,” HBO
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Drama
- Claire Foy, “The Crown” — WINNER
- Caitriona Balfe, “Outlander”
- Keri Russell, “The Americans”
- Winona Ryder, “Stranger Things”
- Evan Rachel Wood, “Westworld”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for TV
- Tom Hiddleston, “The Night Manager” — WINNER
- Riz Ahmed, “The Night Of”
- Bryan Cranston, “All the Way”
- John Turturro, “The Night Of”
- Courtney B. Vance, “The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story”
Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language
- “Elle” — WINNER
- “Divines”
- “Neruda”
- “The Salesman”
- “Toni Erdmann”
Best Motion Picture, Animated
- “Zootopia” — WINNER
- “Kubo and the Two Strings”
- “Moana”
- “My Life as a Zucchini”
- “Sing”
Best Screenplay, Motion Picture
- “La La Land” — WINNER
- “Nocturnal Animals”
- “Moonlight”
- “Manchester by the Sea”
- “Hell or High Water”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
- Ryan Gosling, “La La Land” — WINNER
- Colin Farrell, “The Lobster”
- Hugh Grant, “Florence Foster Jenkins”
- Jonah Hill, “War Dogs”
- Ryan Reynolds, “Deadpool”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Actress in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Olivia Coleman, “The Night Manager” — WINNER
- Lena Headey, “Game of Thrones”
- Chrissy Metz, “This Is Us”
- Mandy Moore, “This Is Us”
- Thandie Newton, “Westworld”
Best Performance by Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- Viola Davis, “Fences” — WINNER
- Naomie Harris, “Moonlight”
- Nicole Kidman, “Lion”
- Octavia Spencer, “Hidden Figures”
- Michelle Williams, “Manchester by the Sea”
Best Original Song, Motion Picture
- “City of Stars,” “La La Land” — WINNER
- “Can’t Stop the Feeling,” “Trolls”
- “Faith,” “Sing”
- “Gold,” “Gold”
- “How Far I’ll Go,” “Moana”
Original Score, Motion Picture
- “La La Land” — WINNER
- “Moonlight”
- “Arrival”
- “Lion”
- “Hidden Figures”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for TV
- Hugh Laurie, “The Night Manager” — WINNER
- Sterling K. “Brown, The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story”
- John Lithgow, “The Crown”
- Christian Slater, “Mr. Robot”
- John Travolta, “The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story”
Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
- “The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story” — WINNER
- “American Crime”
- “The Dresser”
- “The Night Manager”
- “The Night Of”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Sarah Paulson, “The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story” — WINNER
- Felicity Huffman, “American Crime”
- Riley Keough, “The Girlfriend Experience”
- Charlotte Rampling, “London Spy”
- Kerry Washington, “Confirmation”
Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy
- “Atlanta” — WINNER
- “Black-ish”
- “Mozart in the Jungle”
- “Transparent”
- “Veep”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy
- Tracee Ellis Ross, “Black-ish” — WINNER
- Rachel Bloom, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep”
- Sarah Jessica Parker, “Divorce”
- Issa Rae, “Insecure”
- Gina Rodriguez, “Jane the Virgin”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama
- Billy Bob Thornton, “Goliath” — WINNER
- Rami Malek, “Mr. Robot”
- Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
- Matthew Reese, “The Americans”
- Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- Aaron Taylor Johnson, “Nocturnal Animals” — WINNER
- Mahershala Ali, “Moonlight”
- Jeff Bridges, “Hell or High Water”
- Simon Helberg, “Florence Foster Jenkins”
- Dev Patel, “Lion”
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Golden Globes 2017: Who Will (and Should) Win This Year
It can be tough predicting the whims of the 90 or so journalists in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who pick the Golden Globe winners.About all we can know for sure about this Sunday’s Globe ceremony is that Meryl Streep will be accepting a prize (the HFPA’s Cecil B. DeMille career achievement trophy) with her usual grace and humor.
Beyond that, though, we can guess pretty safely who’ll win in the following major categories. And we can also grumble about who actually deserves to win.
BEST PICTURE – DRAMA
This year’s nominees are a harrowing lot to watch, from Mel Gibson’s brutal World War II drama “Hacksaw Ridge” to a crime drama inspired by the foreclosure crisis (“Hell or High Water“) to a biopic about a stranded Indian youth’s 20-year quest to find his parents (“Lion“).They’re all worthy movies, but this is a two-film race between “Moonlight” (about the coming-of-age of an African-American young man in a drug-blighted Miami project) and “Manchester by the Sea” (a family drama about a bereft Irish-American man in Massachusetts picking up the pieces after his brother’s death).
Who Will Win: “Manchester” has five Globe nominations, and “Moonlight” has six, but “Manchester” has the edge — a better-known cast (featuring Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams), and more impressive box office (about $30 million to date, compared to $13 million for “Moonlight”). And while it shouldn’t matter, the fact that “Moonlight” is about a character who’s poor, black, and gay could make it less relatable to Globe voters.
Who Should Win: Both films are shattering experiences, but “Moonlight” feels like something utterly new to the screen, and despite its often bleak subject matter, it has lyricism and poetry to burn.
BEST PICTURE – COMEDY/MUSICAL
This category often feels like padding — movies the HFPA has added to the mix to draw more stars to the party, even though they won’t be nominated for Oscars.This year, however, the category includes Academy front-runner “La La Land,” as well as “It can be tough predicting the whims of the 90 or so journalists in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who pick the Golden Globe winners. About all we can know for sure about this Sunday’s Globe ceremony is that Meryl Streep will be accepting a prize (the HFPA’s Cecil B. DeMille career achievement trophy) with her usual grace and humor. Beyond that, though, we can guess pretty safely who’ll win in the following major categories. And we can also grumble about who actually deserves to win. BEST PICTURE – DRAMA This year’s nominees are a harrowing lot to watch, from Mel Gibson’s brutal World War II drama “Hacksaw Ridge” to a crime drama inspired by the foreclosure crisis (“Hell or High Water”) to a biopic about a stranded Indian youth’s 20-year quest to find his parents (“Lion”). They’re all worthy movies, but this is a two-film race between “Moonlight” (about the coming-of-age of an African-American young man in a drug-blighted Miami project) and “Manchester by the Sea” (a family drama about a bereft Irish-American man in Massachusetts picking up the pieces after his brother’s death). Who Will Win: “Manchester” has five Globe nominations, and “Moonlight” has six, but “Manchester” has the edge — a better-known cast (featuring Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams), and more impressive box office (about $30 million to date, compared to $13 million for “Moonlight”). And while it shouldn’t matter, the fact that “Moonlight” is about a character who’s poor, black, and gay could make it less relatable to Globe voters. Who Should Win: Both films are shattering experiences, but “Moonlight” feels like something utterly new to the screen, and despite its often bleak subject matter, it has lyricism and poetry to burn. BEST PICTURE – COMEDY/MUSICAL This category often feels like padding — movies the HFPA has added to the mix to draw more stars to the party, even though they won’t be nominated for Oscars. This year, however, the category includes Academy front-runner “La La Land,” as well as “Florence Foster Jenkins,” which could mark the 892nd Oscar nomination for Meryl Streep. It’s nice to see “Deadpool” recognized, and it would be great if the nominations for musical “Sing Street” and family dramedy “20th Century Women” brought more attention to those two underseen films. Who Will Win: This race is “La La Land”‘s to lose. It’s the year’s most nominated film, and as a valentine to Los Angeles and show business, it literally hits the HFPA members right where they live. Who Should Win: “La La Land.” Critics and viewers alike have been swooning over it for a reason. BEST ACTOR – DRAMA Andrew Garfield and Joel Edgerton shine playing obscure but important real-life historical figures in “Hacksaw Ridge” and “Loving,” respectively. Viggo Mortensen brings his usual intensity to his hippie dad role in “Captain Fantastic.” But this is a two-man race between “Manchester” star Casey Affleck and “Fences” director/star Denzel Washington, reprising his Tony-winning role as a striving garbageman. Who Will Win: Affleck’s performance is more likely to impress voters, if only because it’s no surprise to see awards magnet Washington deliver greatness. Affleck’s subtle turn is the star-making role that Ben’s little brother has been waiting two decades for, and Globe voters will relish the opportunity to be the first major awards group to crown him. Who’s Should Win: Washington the director doesn’t do the best job showcasing the work of Washington the actor, but this is still a performance for the ages. BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA It was a good year for red-headed actresses, with nominations for Amy Adams in sci-fi hit “Arrival,” Jessica Chastain in political drama “Miss Sloane,” and Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven’s thriller “Elle.” They join Ruth Negga and Natalie Portman in historical dramas “Loving” and “Jackie.” Who Will Win: Portman is all but assured of a win for her portrayal of a grief-stricken Jackie Kennedy burnishing her slain husband’s Camelot mythology. Who Should Win: Huppert has been a leading light in French cinema for four decades. It would be great to see her honored for what many critics think is a career-milestone performance, especially over Portman’s sometimes frustratingly opaque Jackie. BEST DIRECTOR In another year, Mel Gibson might be riding a comeback narrative to awards-season glory. But while “Hacksaw Ridge” has been a critical and commercial hit, Gibson has strong competition from directors whose films critics generally liked even more, including Tom Ford (“Nocturnal Animals”) and Kenneth Lonergan (“Manchester by the Sea”). The top contenders are the directors whose movies transported critics the most: Damian Chazelle (“La La Land”) and Barry Jenkins (“Moonlight”). Who Will Win: Chazelle, both for his grandly ambitious project and for the technical feat of actually pulling it off most of the time. Who Should Win: Jenkins, for pulling off an even more unconventional storytelling coup. BEST TV SERIES, DRAMA “Game of Thrones” had one of its strongest seasons ever, but the HFPA’s eagerness to recognize TV newcomers a full eight months before the Emmys means a battle royale among “GoT” and four new shows: Netflix historical drama “The Crown,” the streaming service’s sci-fi chiller/’80s nostalgia piece “Stranger Things,” NBC’s time-jumping family drama “This Is Us,” and HBO’s sci-fi puzzler “Westworld.” Who Will Win: “This Is Us” may be the buzziest show on TV right now, but since the HFPA is the group that nominated “Downton Abbey” 11 times and gave it three trophies, “The Crown” has the edge. Who Should Win: Don’t you want to see the “Stranger Things” kids do more at an awards show than pass out sandwiches? BEST TV SERIES, COMEDY Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle” was the upset winner last year, while the streaming channel’s “Transparent” won the year before. Both are up for the top prize again this year, but since the novelty has worn off, they face strong competition from FX’s “Atlanta,” ABC’s “Black-ish,” and HBO’s awards-hogging “Veep.” Who Will Win: “Atlanta” is the lone new series on the list, so it has a slight edge. Who Should Win: “Atlanta” also is one of the year’s best new shows, full of subtlety and lived-in wisdom and rewarding repeat viewings.” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Florence Foster Jenkins,” which could mark the 892nd Oscar nomination for Meryl Streep. It’s nice to see “Deadpool” recognized, and it would be great if the nominations for musical “Sing Street” and family dramedy “20th Century Women” brought more attention to those two underseen films.
Who Will Win: This race is “La La Land’s” to lose.
It’s the year’s most nominated film, and as a valentine to Los Angeles and show business, it literally hits the HFPA members right where they live.
Who Should Win: “La La Land.” Critics and viewers alike have been swooning over it for a reason.
BEST ACTOR – DRAMA
Andrew Garfield and Joel Edgerton shine playing obscure but important real-life historical figures in “Hacksaw Ridge” and “Loving,” respectively. Viggo Mortensen brings his usual intensity to his hippie dad role in “Captain Fantastic.” But this is a two-man race between “Manchester” star Casey Affleck and “Fences” director/star Denzel Washington, reprising his Tony-winning role as a striving garbageman.Who Will Win: Affleck’s performance is more likely to impress voters, if only because it’s no surprise to see awards magnet Washington deliver greatness. Affleck’s subtle turn is the star-making role that Ben‘s little brother has been waiting two decades for, and Globe voters will relish the opportunity to be the first major awards group to crown him.
Who’s Should Win: Washington the director doesn’t do the best job showcasing the work of Washington the actor, but this is still a performance for the ages.
BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA
It was a good year for red-headed actresses, with nominations for Amy Adams in sci-fi hit “Arrival,” Jessica Chastain in political drama “Miss Sloane,” and Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven‘s thriller “Elle.” They join Ruth Negga and Natalie Portman in historical dramas “Loving” and “Jackie.”Who Will Win: Portman is all but assured of a win for her portrayal of a grief-stricken Jackie Kennedy.
Who Should Win: Huppert has been a leading light in French cinema for four decades. It would be great to see her honored for what many critics think is a career-milestone performance, especially over Portman’s sometimes frustratingly opaque Jackie.
BEST DIRECTOR
In another year, Mel Gibson might be riding a comeback narrative to awards-season glory. But while “Hacksaw Ridge” has been a critical and commercial hit, Gibson has strong competition from directors whose films critics generally liked even more, including Tom Ford (“Nocturnal Animals“) and Kenneth Lonergan (“Manchester by the Sea”). The top contenders are the directors whose movies transported critics the most: Damian Chazelle (“La La Land”) and Barry Jenkins (“Moonlight”).Who Will Win: Chazelle, both for his grandly ambitious project and for the technical feat of actually pulling it off most of the time.
Who Should Win: Jenkins, for pulling off an even more unconventional storytelling coup.
BEST TV SERIES, DRAMA
“Game of Thrones” had one of its strongest seasons ever, but the HFPA’s eagerness to recognize TV newcomers a full eight months before the Emmys means a battle royale among “GoT” and four new shows: Netflix historical drama “The Crown,” the streaming service’s sci-fi chiller/’80s nostalgia piece “Stranger Things,” NBC’s time-jumping family drama “This Is Us,” and HBO’s sci-fi puzzler “Westworld.”Who Will Win: “This Is Us” may be the buzziest show on TV right now, but since the HFPA is the group that nominated “Downton Abbey” 11 times and gave it three trophies, “The Crown” has the edge.
Who Should Win: Don’t you want to see the “Stranger Things” kids do more at an awards show than pass out sandwiches?
BEST TV SERIES, COMEDY
Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle” was the upset winner last year, while the streaming channel’s “Transparent” won the year before. Both are up for the top prize again this year, but since the novelty has worn off, they face strong competition from FX’s “Atlanta,” ABC’s “Black-ish,” and HBO’s awards-hogging “Veep.”Who Will Win: “Atlanta” is the lone new series on the list, so it has a slight edge.
Who Should Win: “Atlanta” also is one of the year’s best new shows, full of subtlety and lived-in wisdom and rewarding repeat viewings.
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25 Things You Never Knew About the Golden Globes
For a night known as Hollywood’s most notorious open-bar gala, the Golden Globes ceremony remains (somewhat) shrouded in mystery.Most viewers probably don’t even know who presents it (the Hollywood Foreign Press Association), how many voting members it has (only about 90), or what qualifies them to pass judgment on movies and television. Yet movie fans and awards mavens continue to take the Golden Globes seriously as a precursor to the Academy Awards, since some of the Globe honorees will indeed go on to win Oscars.
With Jimmy Fallon set to make his hosting debut this weekend, here are 25 things you never knew about the Golden Globes.
1. Founded in October 1943 by eight foreign-market journalists, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (then called the Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association) held its first awards ceremony the following spring, as a luncheon at 20th Century Fox. Instead of trophies, the winners took home scrolls.
2. The next year, the foreign press group held the ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel, but the young group had so little money to stage the event that it solicited actress Joan Bennett‘s gardener to supply the flowers for the centerpieces.
3. Bette Midler raised eyebrows with her speech in 1980, when she won a pair of trophies for her film debut in “The Rose” (Best Actress and Best New Female Star). Purporting to quote Joan Crawford, she mimed cupping her breasts and said, “I’ll show you a pair of Golden Globes!”
4. For the first 14 years, the Globes were presented by HFPA journalists, but, in 1958, Rat Packers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr. stormed the stage, wielding whiskey glasses and cigarettes, and began riffing. They were a hit, and the next year, they were asked back as presenters. Now all the awards are presented by celebrities, just like at the Oscars.
5. The Globes first handed out a career achievement prize in 1952, to legendary director and Hollywood founding father Cecil B. DeMille. The award has been named for him ever since. (Meryl Streep will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at this year’s ceremony.)
6. Since 1961, the Golden Globe ceremony has been held at the International Ballroom of The Beverly Hilton.
7. The Miss Golden Globe tradition, in which a starlet helps the presenters usher the winners on and off the stage, began in 1963. Originally, there were two Miss Golden Globes, one for TV and one for film. Today, there’s just one, and she’s traditionally the daughter of a star.
8. The Golden Globes were first televised nationally in 1964, as a segment on “The Andy Williams Show.” Shirley MacLaine won Best Actress for “Irma La Douce,” but her speech was abruptly cut off by a commercial break.
9. NBC stopped airing the show in 1968, after the FCC complained that the HFPA “misled the public as to how the winners were determined.” According to the FCC, the judges would choose winners based on attendance; if the chosen star didn’t show, they’d pick someone who did. The HFPA revised its voting procedures and handed over the responsibility of tallying the votes to an outside accounting firm, as the Oscars do. NBC lifted its ban and resumed broadcasting the Golden Globes in 1975.
10. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” one of only three films in Oscar history to win the top five awards (Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Screenplay), was the first (and only) movie to pull off the same feat at the Golden Globes, in 1976.
11. The most nominated movie ever was 1975’s “Nashville,” with nine nods, but it won only one, for the original song “I’m Easy.”
12. Before he was famous as a conspiracy theorist, Oliver Stone was a Golden Globe winner for his screenplay for “Midnight Express.” His 1979 speech turned into a tirade against U.S. drug policy (a theme relevant to his movie) that soon had the audience booing and presenter Chevy Chase urging him to just say thank you and exit. Finally, security guards approached, and Stone left the dais.
13. Group president Marina Cisternas designed the trophy in 1946, envisioning a golden globe encircled by a strip of film. The strip is delicate and flimsy, and more than one honoree (including Laurence Olivier) has accidentally broken it even before leaving the podium.
14. The Golden Globes took the biggest hit to their credibility in 1982, when Pia Zadora won the Best New Female Star prize for her campy turn in the exploitation melodrama “Butterfly,” a movie that hadn’t even opened theatrically at the time of the nominations. (Among the actresses she beat: Elizabeth McGovern in “Ragtime” and Kathleen Turner in “Body Heat.”) The award was widely assumed to be payback to Zadora’s husband, casino mogul Meshulam Riklis, who had treated some HFPA members to a lavish junket at his Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas (where Zadora had a nightclub act) and to an extravagant luncheon at his house. A couple years later, the group stopped giving out the New Star awards altogether.
15. Everyone remembers that Chicago Hope” in 1998. Not many remember, however, that the same humiliating moment befell Renée Zellweger three years later.
16. Ties are extremely rare at the Oscars, less so at the Golden Globes. In 1949, “Treasure of the Sierra Madre” and “Johnny Belinda” tied for Best Picture.
17. The only three-way tie in Golden Globe history occurred in 1989, when the Best Actress award was shared among Jodie Foster (“The Accused“), Shirley MacLaine (“Madame Sousatzka“) and Sigourney Weaver (“Gorillas in the Mist“).
18. Jamie Foxx holds a record for the most nominations in a single year. He came into the 2005 ceremony with three nods, for his role in TV movie “Redemption,” his supporting role in the big-screen thriller “Collateral,” and his lead role as Ray Charles in “Ray.” His “Ray” performance won him the Golden Globe (and the Oscar).
19. Calista Flockhart and Harrison Ford met when she accidentally spilled wine on him at the 2002 Golden Globe ceremony.
20. Golden Globe voters once nominated a fictional character for a screenwriting award. The nomination came in 2003 for the “Adaptation” screenplay, credited to real-life screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and his imaginary brother, Donald — both of whom were played in the film by Nicolas Cage. The Oscars later went on to nominate Donald Kaufman as well.
21. In 2008, the Golden Globes were pre-empted by the Writers Guild strike. NBC simply ran a two-hour episode of “Dateline” instead, while the winners were announced via press conference.
22. The red carpet hasn’t been immune to controversy. In 2005, Kathy Griffin joked that 10-year-old Dakota Fanning was entering rehab, which led to a forced on-air apology from the E! channel, a donation from the channel to Fanning’s favorite charity, and Griffin’s firing from future E! awards show coverage. The following year, E! red carpet interviewer Isaac Mizrahi generated complaints for grabbing Scarlett Johansson‘s breasts during their chat. Maybe the designer was measuring her for a gown.
23. The most notorious backstage interview came in 2007, among the “Grey’s Anatomy” cast, involving Isaiah Washington making an offensive comment regarding co-star T.R. Knight. Washington soon left the drama series under a cloud of controversy.
24. Worst fashion faux pas? Probably Lara Flynn Boyle‘s notorious ballerina tutu in 2003, along with her David Cardona leotard and lace-up slippers. Runner-up: Whoopi Goldberg‘s yellow track suit, worn at her first Golden Globe appearance in 1986.
25. Allegations of payola surfaced again in 2011, when Columbia’s thriller “The Tourist” was nominated for Best Comedy/Musical, as was the studio’s “Burlesque.” (Also nominated, for their lead roles, were “Tourist” stars Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.) Both movies had underwhelmed critics, and it was a real stretch to call the mildly tongue-in-cheek “Tourist” a comedy, but it came out that the studio had flown HFPA members to Vegas on a junket that included a private concert by “Burlesque” star Cher. (It was almost the same situation as the “Butterfly” scandal three decades before.) There was no proof of a quid pro quo, and in the case of “The Tourist,” there might not even have been one. Rather, its nominations were a way of ensuring that Depp and Jolie would show up on the red carpet.
The 74th Golden Globe Awards airs Sunday, January 8, on NBC.
