Award season has been underway for a few months now, and although some films have quietly been going about their business amongst the critics’ groups, the Golden Globes marks the first major televised precursor in the lead up to the Academy Awards. Unlike the Oscars. the Golden Globes split categories into Drama and Comedy/Musical, given ample opportunity for contenders to receive a nomination. It is not until the ceremony itself that you can start to piece together who may be in the running for an Oscar nomination, or potentially a win.
While they have undergone criticism over the years for heavily favouring Hollywood stars and blockbusters ahead of independent movies and their lesser known actors, the Globes have had a significant overhaul of their voting body in recent times. This has seen a plethora of journalists from overseas join the HFPA in the voting process, which has lead to some refreshingly surprising results of late.
It is important to note that the Globes can often kickstart a actor, or movie’s, awards campaign, as it is the first chance Oscar voters and the public get to seeing them deliver acceptance speeches. In the past, films and their stars have gone on to win at the Academy Awards purely based on their likeability, and the Globes is where that almost political campaigning starts.
In terms of the major winners this year at the Globes, there were no real surprises. Having received the most nominations, with a record-breaking 10, “Emilia Perez” unsurprisingly claimed the most awards of the night, with four – including; Picture – Comedy/Musical, Supporting Actress, Song and Picture – Non- English Language.
Similarly, the most nominated drama, “The Brutalist” had a great evening, taking home three globes for Picture – Drama, Actor – Drama and Director. These wins all but cement “Emilia Perez” and “The Brutalist” as the current frontrunners for Oscar gold, but with no major secondary category win, in either directing or screenplay, I still see an “Emilia Perez” win less likely despite performing well in other categories.
Conversely, it was a poor showing for “Wicked” and “Anora”, with only the former winning a single award, the recently introduced (and pointless) Cinematic Achievement Award. While “Anora” still remains favourite for Original Screenplay at the Oscars, it now looks unlikely to win in any other category following Mikey Madison‘s shocking loss to Demi Moore for “The Substance”. Moore now looks like a serious contender in Lead Actress, alongside Fernanda Torres, who got a much needed win last night following her absence amongst the BAFTA longlists announced on Friday.
Another star with a huge win on the night was Sebastian Stan for “A Different Man”, another actor whose performance was ignored by BAFTA last week. With the fifth Lead Acting slot up for grabs, this could provide Stan the momentum needed to sneak in ahead of Daniel Craig.
Another win that could be attributed to the “new Globes” came in Animated Film, where the Latvian film “Flow” took home the Globe, beating strong competition from “The Wild Robot” and “Inside Out 2”. This almost repeats last year’s ceremony when “The Boy and the Heron” beat out the heavily fancied “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”, with the Ghibli title going on to eventually win the Oscar.
Full list of winners from 82nd Golden Globes:
Motion Picture – Drama
- “The Brutalist” (A24) – Winner
- “A Complete Unknown” (Searchlight)
- “Conclave” (Focus Features)
- “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.)
- “Nickel Boys” (Amazon MGM)
- “September 5” (Paramount)
Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical
- “Anora” (Neon)
- “Challengers” (Amazon MGM)
- “Emilia Perez” (Netflix) – Winner
- “A Real Pain” (Searchlight)
- “The Substance” (Mubi)
- “Wicked” (Universal)
Director
- Jacques Audiard “Emilia Perez”
- Sean Baker “Anora”
- Edward Berger “Conclave”
- Brady Corbet “The Brutalist” – Winner
- Coralie Fargeat “The Substance”
- Payal Kapadia “All We Imagine as Light”
Female Actor in a Leading Role – Drama
- Pamela Anderson “The Last Showgirl”
- Angelina Jolie “Maria”
- Nicole Kidman “Babygirl”
- Tilda Swinton “The Room Next Door”
- Fernanda Torres “I’m Still Here” – Winner
- Kate Winslet “Lee”
Male Actor in a Leading Role – Drama
- Adrien Brody “The Brutalist” – Winner
- Timothee Chalamet “A Complete Unknown”
- Daniel Craig “Queer”
- Colman Domingo “Sing Sing”
- Ralph Fiennes “Conclave”
- Sebastian Stan “The Apprentice”
Female Actor in a Leading Role – Comedy/Musical
- Amy Adams “Nightbitch”
- Cynthia Erivo “Wicked”
- Karla Sofia Gascon “Emilia Perez”
- Mikey Madison “Anora”
- Demi Moore “The Substance” – Winner
- Zendaya “Challengers”
Male Actor in a Leading Role – Comedy/Musical
- Jesse Eisenberg “A Real Pain”
- Hugh Grant “Heretic”
- Gabriel LaBelle “Saturday Night”
- Jesse Plemons “Kinds of Kindness”
- Glen Powell “Hit Man”
- Sebastian Stan “A Different Man” – Winner
Female Actor in a Supporting Role
- Selena Gomez “Emilia Perez”
- Ariana Grande “Wicked”
- Felicity Jones “The Brutalist”
- Margaret Qaulley “The Substance”
- Isabella Rossellini “Conclave”
- Zoe Saldana “Emilia Perez” – Winner
Male Actor in a Supporting Role
- Yura Borisov “Anora”
- Kieran Culkin “A Real Pain” – Winner
- Edward Norton “A Complete Unknown”
- Guy Pearce “The Brutalist”
- Jeremy Strong “The Apprentice”
- Denzel Washington “Gladiator II”
Screenplay
- Jacques Audiard “Emilia Perez”
- Sean Baker “Anora”
- Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold “The Brutalist”
- Jesse Eisenberg “A Real Pain”
- Coralie Fargeat “The Substance”
- Peter Straughn “Conclave” – Winner
Motion Picture – Non-English Language
- “All We Imagine as Light”
- “Emilia Perez” – Winner
- “The Girl with the Needle”
- “I’m Still Here”
- “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
- “Vermiglio”
Motion Picture – Animated
- “Flow” – Winner
- “Inside Out 2”
- “Memoir of a Snail”
- “Moana 2”
- “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
- “The Wild Robot”
Original Score
- Volker Bertelmann “Conclave”
- Daniel Blumberg “The Brutalist”
- Kris Bowers “The Wild Robot”
- Clement Ducol, Camille “Emilia Perez”
- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross “Challengers” – Winner
- Hans Zimmer “Dune: Part Two”
Original Song
- “Beautiful That Way” “The Last Showgirl”
- “Compress/Regress” “Challengers”
- “El Mal” “Emilia Perez” – Winner
- “Forbidden Road” “Better Man”
- “Kiss the Sky” “The Wild Robot”
- “Mi Camino” “Emilia Perez”
Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
- “Alien: Romulus”
- “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”
- “Deadpool & Wolverine”
- “Gladiator II”
- “Inside Out 2”
- “Twisters”
- “Wicked” – Winner
- “The Wild Robot”
Most wins by film:
- “Emilia Perez” – 4
- “The Brutalist” – 3
- “A Different Man” – 1
- “A Real Pain” – 1
- “Challengers” -1
- “Conclave” – 1
- “Flow” – 1
- “I’m Still Here”- 1
- “The Substance” – 1
- “Wicked” – 1
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