Someone should bring the guillotine back to life in France. In September, the French committee that chose its representative for the Oscars showered itself with glory. He left aside the Palme d'Or Anatomy of a Fall and opted for the clumsy A Slow Fire. Even the Golden Globes, handed out last night at another booze-and-sushi bash at the Beverly Hills Hotel, highlighted evidence of the error: Justine Triet's courtroom drama won the awards for best foreign language film and best screenplay, the Surprise of the night.
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Almost on the same level as the Best Comedy award won by Poor Creatures by Yorgos Lanthimos, when it seemed like it was being sung for Barbie. In addition to this award, there is also the best actress in a comedy or a musical for its protagonist Emma Stone, one of the bravest actresses of today… who could do without many more statuettes this season because she has Lily Gladstone in front of her. for The Assassins of the Moon.
Less surprising were Christopher Nolan's Best Director awards for Oppenheimer, even though he never won that trophy or ever an Oscar. By the way, the film is being re-released for awards season with its five Globes, including best drama, even though it was obvious the room was pro-Barbie (they could only applaud the stone-throwing, feeling like someone was watching the Mattel doll movie guillotined). ). And the Best Actor Oscar appears to be a tie at the Globes between Paul Giamatti (winner in comedy for Those Who Remain) and Cillian Murphy (winner in drama for Oppenheimer).
The couple consisting of director Christopher Nolan and producer Emma Thomas pose with the Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Drama.MARIO ANZUONI (Portal)
Da'Vine Joy Randolph won the Globe for Best Supporting Film as a college chef in Those Who Remain. She is the fourth artist in the secondary category to win awards from the four major American critics associations (NBR, LAFCA, NYFCC and NSFC). She's a sure bet for Hollywood's top trophies. Because will these awards mark the Oscar nominations? These votes will take place from the 11th to the 16th before being announced on the 23rd. So there will be some who change their decision, but the last decade has already made it clear to us that we need to know who will win the sacred statuette Wait for the awards from the different guilds. For Robert Downey Jr., who won second prize for Oppenheimer, things seem to be more complicated when Ryan Gosling stands in his way with Barbie.
Because the Golden Globes are more of a television show – so the presenters looked into the camera and left the stands behind them as a backdrop – there is no technical category and the series are awarded: the more famous people at the dinner, the better – as a report on the state of audiovisual media. And the x-ray image is manipulated. The Golden Globes and Variety magazines as well as The Hollywood Reporter are owned by the same company, Eldridge Industries. Everything stays at home, right? When the Los Angeles Times went to war with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the HFPA, its rockets weren't so much against its design as a closed reserve, which it was, but rather the paper was fighting to get more access to movie stars . . And really, did he do it?
From left Yorgos Lanthimos and actors Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo and Ramy Youssef, the “Poor Creatures” team, with their awards.MARIO ANZUONI (Portal)
A few days ago, Matt Belloni, former editorial director of The Hollywood Reporter before he founded the digital medium Puck and also took over the management of The Town, the most influential podcast about cinema and majors, wrote about who really won this battle: one Group of publicists. With their complaints they achieved that the old HFPA will be dismantled today. Complaints, obviously, interested. Two and a half years later we have the Golden Globes with a much larger number of journalists (spread around the world, which is confirmed by awards such as Best Screenplay or Best Animated Film for Miyazaki's “The Boy and the Heron”, first for a film, which is not in English), with more justifiable choices from an artistic point of view, but controlled as if it were a monopoly of these publicists and the two most powerful traditional magazines. Which, by the way, aired on CBS after an NFL game: a show for the whole family (hopefully these families decided to tune in to the Armageddon monologue by Ricky Gervais, winner of the new TV stand-up comedy category). Watch Netflix).
And yes, Hollywood corrupts. The Golden Globes were lazy; Now it's Critics Choice members who accept gifts and cash payments for moderating event presentation panels. Of course, access to filmmakers and performers becomes more complicated every year as the time for interviews becomes shorter, as if we were returning to the golden years of the industry, when every journalistic article went through the publicist department. If you remember the great gossip and dark affairs in the cinema basements written by Kenneth Anger, this is increasingly less Hollywood and more Babylon.
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