The start of 2024 will be a strange one in terms of awards for American television. Strikes by writers and actors led to the postponement of the 2023 Emmy Awards, originally scheduled for September. Although their candidacies have been known since July, it will be on January 15th when their winners will receive the statuettes. This means the Golden Globes are ahead of the Television Academy Awards this year. And so “The Bear” (Disney+) and its two protagonists, Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, picked up awards this week for the second season of their series, while it is very likely that in eight days they will take a stand for the accolades for his first chapter. The Emmys honor the series broadcast between June 2022 and May 2023 and the Golden Globes honor those that were seen in 2023.
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This gibberish has no bearing on succession. The HBO series hits the awards (all) with its fourth and final season. She was the clear favorite to win the awards in the dramatic categories at the Golden Globes, which were held in the early hours of January 7-8. The story of the Roys' business and family problems was met with widespread applause from both audiences and critics and brought up to three actors into the Drama Protagonist category. Ultimately, it was Kieran Culkin who excelled in his role as the Roys' foul-mouthed little brother, a character full of contradictions where Culkin excelled in his ability to express the enormous range of emotions he experiences. The award was sung for Australian Sarah Snook, Shiv in fiction, heartbreaking in some passages in the final episode. There were also no surprises in the “Supporting Actor” category (in which all actors compete together: drama, comedy and miniseries): Matthew Macfadyen very deservedly won the award.
Ayo Edebiri and Jeremy Allen White, winners of the Golden Globe for Best Actress and Lead Actor in a Comedy for “The Bear.” MARIO ANZUONI (Portal)
Historically, the Golden Globes have been awards that have dared to innovate more in terms of television than the conservative Emmys. If there was any interest this year, it was how the change in organizers (from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to Eldridge Industries) might affect the awards and their decisions. But especially in the year in which the succession ended, there was little room for change. There were no surprises in the comedy categories either, where the highly acclaimed second season of “The Bear” asserted its dominance over innovative offerings like the combination of fiction and reality of “The Jury” and departing veterans like Ted Lasso and Barry. Of course, it's still hard to understand that a series about grief and fear, with disturbing chapters and characters teetering on the edge of the abyss, is considered a comedy just because its chapters last about 30 minutes.
Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, stars of “Bronca.” ALLISON DINNER (EFE)
The miniseries category was perhaps the least clear that night, but in the end Bronca (Netflix) emerged as the big winner, a production that takes place at an accelerated pace and transfers the stresses of modern life and the competitiveness of capitalist society onto others A story on the verge of madness, in which a man and a woman, after a silly car fight, get involved in an absurd fight to make each other's lives impossible. Both the series and its two protagonists, Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, won awards in categories in which the final season of Fargo, Fellow Travelers, Everybody Loves Daisy Jones and Cooking with Chemistry also competed.
Only Elizabeth Debicki, who played the role of Diana of Wales in the last months of her life in the last season of “The Crown”, was able to secure the prize alongside the three big winners of the evening. She did this in a category that included nominations for actresses from Succession, The Bear and even Meryl Streep herself. The Crown has always been one of the most popular awards. It remains to be seen what the Emmys will do with it next year once Succession is no longer a rival.
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