On the evening of the last day of
February, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association once again invited nominees
from the field of film and television to see if they were worthy in the 78th
edition of the Golden Globes. Rather than gather in person however, the awards
were done remotely, with Tina Fey presenting from the Rainbow Room at NYC, Amy
Poehler at the Beverly Hills Hilton, and the guests being medical workers
present by invitation while the nominees were at home or hotel rooms. In line
with this recourse, it is no surprise that the TV section nominees and winners
were streaming platforms, but there is more to it.
As CNBC puts it, the latest edition of the Golden Globes has been back
and forth when it comes to diversity in nominees and winners. Best Drama and
Musical/Comedy went to “Nomadland” and “Borat Subsequent MovieFilm”
respectively, with no film featuring an African-American lead or cast got
nominated. Instead, individuals from that sector prevailed in the acting
categories. Daniel Kaluuya for won Best Supporting Performance (“Judas and the
Black Messiah”) while Andra Day won Best Actress – Drama for his role as Billie
Holliday. But the most prominent victor is with Best Actor – Drama, which went
to the late Chadwick Boseman for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”
Other notable movie winners are
Disney-Pixar’s “Soul,” which streamed on Disney+ in lieu of a theatrical
release due to COVID. It also won Best Original Score, with Nine Inch Nails’
Trent Reznor being one of the awardees. Also interesting is the Best Foreign
Language film winner, “Minari,” which is American-produced (A24) but with
language primarily in Korean, about South Korean immigrants in 1980s rural
California.
On the TV section, Netflix
remained pretty dominant with nominees in nine categories and winners in six. British-Nigerian
actor John Boyega was another winning Black performance for Prime Video’s “Small
Axe,” while Netflix’s Queen Elizabeth II biopic drama “The Crown” won 4 Golden Globes.
Pop TV’s “Schitt’s Creek” and new Netflix miniseries “Queen’s Gambit” each got
two wins to round out the multi-winning TV nominees. In the special awards, veteran
Jane Fonda received the Cecil B. DeMille Award while sitcom writer-producer Norman
Lear got its TV counterpart, the Carol Burnett.
While there is a notable
posthumous winner in Chadwick Boseman, the Golden Globes have not done an “In
Memoriam” special feature as part of its program for years. Their rationale is
that other awards ceremonies already do them, so they do not have to follow.
Image courtesy of USA Today
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