Director: Alejandro Inarritu, “The Revenant”.
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“Pain is temporary”, said Inarritu, referring to the film’s arduous shoot in the Canadian Rockies.
Matt Damon could be his top rival at the moment – he took home the Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy for space blockbuster “The Martian” – the other big victor on Sunday, with a victory for best comedy film. Winslet won for Best Supporting Actress in “Steve Jobs”, and DiCaprio was victorious in the Best Actor category for “The Revenant”. “David, I want us to be buried next to each other”.
The victor of Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture was Kate Winslet in Steve Jobs.
Even the network NBC and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which organizes the Globes, did not escape his wrath.
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.
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.
Pioneer-era tale “The Revenant” won three awards including best drama film, beating out front-runners “Carol”, a lesbian romance, and investigative journalism drama “Spotlight”. “She’s amusing and hilarious and will win many things”.
And for best actress in the TV drama category, Taraji P. Henson won the Golden Globe for her role in “Empire”, which looks at the struggle inside the family behind a major hip-hop label.
“I’ve made a lot of movies that people just didn’t go to see, so to make a movie that people just enjoyed this much … it really came down to (director) Ridley Scott”, Damon said.
Best foreign language film went to Hungary’s Laszlo Nemes’ “Son of Saul”, a harrowing view of life inside Auschwitz. The live show surely set a record for the number of times it was muted as
Hollywood’s brightest went blue on what is considered both a party and a kick-off
to awards season.
Best comedy TV series went to Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle”, which won over the HBO heavyweight “Veep”.
Actor, Drama: Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”. He mocked the whole enterprise, assuring losing actors that “no one cares about awards as much as you do”.
The Globe award, itself, he said, is “a bit of metal that some confused old journalist wanted to give you to meet you in person and take a selfie”.
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Experts point out that neither of last year’s Globes best picture winners – “Boyhood” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” – ended up with an Oscar.
