AGI – Disappointment for “Io, Capitano” by Matteo Garrone, great evening for “Oppenheimer” and “Succession”. The night of the Golden Globes, the American awards that open the film awards season and put the spotlight on the best productions of cinema and television, leaves a bitter taste in the mouth and confirms the predictions.
Christopher Nolan's film won five awards, including the for Best Film and Best Soundtrack as well as Best Director, Best Actor with Cillian Murphy and Best Supporting Actor Robert Downey Jr.
'Succession“, Saga of the Roy Family, won four Golden Globes: Best Television Series; best actress: Sarah Snook; Best Actor: Kieran Culkin and Best Supporting Actor: Matthew Macfadyen.
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Emma Stone
“Poor Things” surpasses “Barbie”
'Barbie'the film, which turns nostalgia for the popular doll into a sharp satire of misogyny and female emancipation, consoled itself with the award for the new category this year, that of the Blockbuster Film (dedicated to films that, at the time of the film, were more than… grossed $100 million). Box office in the USA, 150 million worldwide).
The film, which grossed a gigantic sum of around 1.4 billion dollars worldwide, was also awarded for the best song: “What was I made for?”, sung by Billie Eilish and Finneas. But surprisingly it is “Poor Things”, which had already won the Golden Lion in Venice, lost the award for best comedy: a coming-of-age fairy tale, surreal and sexy, that brought the protagonist, Emma Stonealso won Best Actress for her portrayal of Bella Baxter.
“Bella falls in love with life itself and not with a person. She accepts the good and the bad equally and that really made me look at life differently,” said the actress while receiving the award. Lily GladstoneNative American actress from the “Blackfeet” tribe won the award for best actress in a drama film, “Killers of the Flower Moon”: The actress thanked the entire mother present from the stage, first in English, but also in her native language in the room.
“I, Captain” was surpassed by Triet
On a night when awards were handed out following an inclusive trend, including “Beef,” a series starring two actors of Asian descent, Garrone's film failed to win the international Golden Globe despite its story dedicated to the heroism of immigration.
In the category of non-English language films it was chosen by “Anatomy of a fall“, the beautiful film by French director Justine Triet, which had already won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Triet also won the Golden Globe for best original screenplay, a double honor that puts the sophisticated French psychological mystery among the favorites for Oscar night, scheduled for March 10: Traditionally, the Golden Globes actually represent the prologue to can lead to the final victory for the most coveted awards in the history of cinema.
They emerge from the show in Beverly Hills weakened.master' by Bradley Cooper and 'Flower Moon Killer', by Martin Scorsese, for whom Gladstone's victory cannot be enough to make use of another disappointed expectation.
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