The NBC censors worked overtime last night on the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards. Writer for stage and screen Aaron Sorkin won Best Screenplay for Steve Jobs.
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Well, the gambit paid off. The Martian, director Ridley Scott’s sublime Mars survival-and-rescue thriller, won the Golden Globe tonight for best comedy/musical.
Al Pacino was nominated for the 2016 Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy Golden Globe for his incredible performance in Danny Collins, which is based on the life of folk singer Steve Tilston.
Actor, Drama: Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”.
Quentin Tarantino accepted the award for Ennio Morricone’s score for his “The Hateful Eight” – a victor that presenter Jamie Foxx initially read as “Straight Outta Compton” in a parody of the Miss Universe victor debacle.
Also not appearing on the PGA list and conspicuously absent from this year’s Globes nominees is J.J. Abrams’ galactic juggernaut “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, which on Wednesday, became the highest-grossing movie of all time in North America. -Actress, Musical or Comedy: Rachel Bloom, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”.
What if a network aired an awards show and you couldn’t hear half of it?
Best supporting actress in a TV series went to Maura Tierney for Showtime’s “The Affair”, in which she plays a middle-age woman who learns that her husband is cheating on her. The drama, also starring Dominic West, Ruth Wilson and Joshua Jackson, just wrapped its second season. “Mozart” star Gael Garcia Bernal was also the unexpected victor of the best actor in a comedy, beating out “Transparent’s” Jeffrey Tambor. They mostly cared about his wife’s gown because it was a hue similar to something the “Frozen” character Elsa would wear. Best limited series went to “Wolf Hall”.
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Pop singer and American Horror Story: Hotel star Lady Gaga teared up when accepting her award for best actress in a TV miniseries. “I knew that we had something special”, she said of the show.
