DiCaprio’s revenge drama “The Revenant” and Damon’s space adventure “The Martian” took the top film awards at Sunday’s Golden Globes.
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Matt Damon won the Golden Globe for best actor in a movie comedy Sunday for his role as a stranded astronaut in “The Martian” – a box-office smash that many didn’t consider a comedy.
“I want to share this award with all the First Nations people represented in this film and all the indigenous peoples around the world”, said DiCaprio.
He was making an appearance at the ceremony, however, to present a trailer for best drama nominee Mad Max: Fury Road because he starred in the original version of that film franchise.
But the censors left the audience wondering, what did host Ricky Gervais say to Mel Gibson as the two exchanged profanity-laced jabs onstage?
Winslet, 40, who played the role of Joanna Hoffman, marketing executive for Apple in biopic Steve Jobs, walked away with the golden trophy in the supporting actress category.
Elsewhere, Sam Smith’s Writing’s On The Wall won a Golden Globe in the Best Original Song category.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon could be on a collision course for the Oscars. Winning her fourth Globe in 11 nominations, Winslet triumphed over the lauded Alicia Vikander for “Ex Machina”, though Vikander is also contending for best actress in “The Danish Girl“. Jane Fonda, sitting at her table after congratulating Aaron Sorkin on his best screenplay win for Steve Jobs, said she hadn’t read up on Penn’s interview enough to comment; Quentin Tarantino, caught in the bar, claimed to have only seen the headlines: “Teaches you to not just read the headlines”, he quipped.
The Globes got it right here and there: Brie Larson winning best actress (drama) for her tour de force in Room, Jon Hamm for the last season of Mad Men, Sylvester Stallone taking best supporting actor for reviving Rocky Balboa in Creed.
Glass is betrayed by colleagues who leave him for dead and kill his half-Indian son.
Referencing the Globes ceremony, he added, it is “a bit of metal that some nice, old, confused journalists want to give you to meet you and take a selfie with you”. The award went to The Hateful Eight.
Other shockers, “Mozart in the Jungle” won the Globe for Best TV Comedy Series, upsetting fan favorites like “Orange is the New Black” and “Veep”.
– Actress, Musical or Comedy: Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
USA’s freshman show “Mr. Robot” grabbed the Best TV Drama Series award.
He also revealed that he has three Golden Globes himself, which he uses in various ways: “One’s a doorstop, one I use to hit burglars with and one I keep by the bed to, doesn’t matter why, it’s mine”.
Still, industry observers agree that the Globes can generate buzz for certain films – and thus influence voting among the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The night is split in two categories: Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical and Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, which allows less competition.
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Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement honoree Denzel Washington also fumbled his way through his speech, which generally serves as a poignant respite in an otherwise irreverent evening.
