GOLDEN GLOBES 2018 REACTIONS
While the conversation on the red carpet may have been about “Times Up” and female empowerment, the Globes themselves fell into the same ol’ same ol’ awards patterns.
Before the show things seemed somewhat promising. The women of the red carpet did their best to keep their conversation on “Times Up” (much to the chagrin or confusion of the correspondents covering the carpet). It was sad to see that when some of the male nominees were asked about it they were underinformed or didn’t use the time as a platform to help bring light to the issue.
Host Seth Meyers tried to play into the topic/be the “good guy” and include women in the monologue/open with “jokes Seth can’t tell”… but it felt a little stilted.
Host Seth Meyers tried to play into the topic/be the “good guy” and include women in the monologue/open with “jokes Seth can’t tell”… but it felt a little stilted.
A few major things to point out, as both Natalie Portman and the legend Barbra Streisand pointed out: the directing category was devoid of women nominees (and a woman hasn’t won in 34 years… since Babs).
Also watch Ron Howard awkwardly laugh off her comment. It’s not funny Ron.
Yes they tried to include more women as at least presenters, but it also doesn’t matter if you have women present if you won’t nominate them in categories outside actress. Also there were ZERO Asian presenters, and only 2 Asian nominees (depending on your definition of Asian/if you count Aziz Ansari – and we will in this case cause any victory is a victory at this point).
Yes they tried to include more women as at least presenters, but it also doesn’t matter if you have women present if you won’t nominate them in categories outside actress. Also there were ZERO Asian presenters, and only 2 Asian nominees (depending on your definition of Asian/if you count Aziz Ansari – and we will in this case cause any victory is a victory at this point).
Even with some of the wins it was frustrating to watch. For example Lady Bird won for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, yet Greta Gerwig didn’t get a nod for director? Nor did she technically win that award as the rules say it goes to her producers. They at least had the presence of mind and respect to have her give the speech.
Or the win for Coco (Pixar folks you know I love you) which people might not realize had a straight white man accepting and thanking the people of Mexico – while the female and gay producer, and hispanic and gay co-director/writer stood quietly behind him. That’s Hollywood in a nutshell.
Or the win for Coco (Pixar folks you know I love you) which people might not realize had a straight white man accepting and thanking the people of Mexico – while the female and gay producer, and hispanic and gay co-director/writer stood quietly behind him. That’s Hollywood in a nutshell.
Hollywood: where the women and minorities stand behind the straight white men and don’t get to talk… Still, congrats to Pixar’s Coco for Best Animated Feature.
What the Globes showed is Hollywood is still all talk, and not backing it up. I think there are a lot of female filmmakers out there who’ve been inspired by the recent momentum and attention on the movement, so it’ll soon be hard to ignore their work. However by continuing to ignore the strong work by women/minorities out there Hollywood is still doing everyone a disservice.
Oprah knows: Time’s Up.
The Winners
Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies – One of the attendees at my viewing party was confused as to why the majority of nominees in the category only came from 2 shows. My response to that is “Oh didn’t you know? We women only get 2 shows a year.” Sad but true. Kidman’s win at the Emmy awards probably gave her the edge over co-star Reese Witherspoon, and the other nominees. Full disclosure: I didn’t finish the series, but I appreciate that it’s bringing attention to the issue of domestic abuse, and has female producers.
Kidman accepting the award for “Big Little Lies”
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Co-star Reese Witherspoon trying her hardest to win an award as “most supportive co-star/gracious loser”
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy: Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – My limited experience with this show is hearing it in the background at my parents house over the holidays. It was non-stop talking and gave me a serious headache. I’m very disappointed to see Issa Rae shut out, or Alison Brie who’s great in GLOW. However that Amazon money does wonders for campaigning.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Drama: Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale – It’s nice to see Moss honored, especially since she never won for Mad Men. It’d be nice to say “yeah, it’s the year of the woman!” but then again ONLY women can be nominated in this category. Still, Moss’ speech is worth hearing.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Drama: Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid’s Tale – It’s nice to see Moss honored, especially since she never won for Mad Men. It’d be nice to say “yeah, it’s the year of the woman!” but then again ONLY women can be nominated in this category. Still, Moss’ speech is worth hearing.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama: Sterling K. Brown, This is Us – No one else had a shot at this category. Also, quite frankly it was a weak year. That shouldn’t diminish Brown’s win, as the show’s popularity meant it had to probably win at least one award at the show, and this was the most logical bet. Also on the front of small victories, he was one of two winners of color (maybe three if you count Guillermo del Toro of Mexico.
Best Television Series, Drama: The Handmaid’s Tale – Let’s be glad that this is still considered a work of fiction, and can’t be entered as a documentary. It was also a strong category so extra kudos.
Best Television Series, Drama: The Handmaid’s Tale – Let’s be glad that this is still considered a work of fiction, and can’t be entered as a documentary. It was also a strong category so extra kudos.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television: Alexander Skarsgård, Big Little Lies – I’d only seen a few of the other shows the stars in this category were in, but this night pretty much was a lock for Skarsgård.
Best Original Score, Motion Picture: Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water – I was surprised he beat Zimmer for Dunkirk, but it was a good score. No complaints from me.
Best Original Song, Motion Picture: “This Is Me” — The Greatest Showman – What the actual hell. This is a case of favoritism/legacy. This was not a better song than Mary J. Blige’s “Mighty River” from Mudbound. Quite frankly I’m disappointed The Greatest Showman was nominated for anything, let alone won.
Best Original Score, Motion Picture: Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water – I was surprised he beat Zimmer for Dunkirk, but it was a good score. No complaints from me.
Best Original Song, Motion Picture: “This Is Me” — The Greatest Showman – What the actual hell. This is a case of favoritism/legacy. This was not a better song than Mary J. Blige’s “Mighty River” from Mudbound. Quite frankly I’m disappointed The Greatest Showman was nominated for anything, let alone won.
Hugh Jackman’s reaction face to James Franco winning Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy perfectly encapsulates how I felt about “The Greatest Showman” winning Best Original Song.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: James Franco, The Disaster Artist – One of my favorite moments of the night was Tommy Wiseau rocking up on stage, 10 million belts and all. Also that James dragged his little brother Dave up on stage with him.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television: Laura Dern, Big Little Lies – Oh Admiral Holdo, way to make good use of your time to speak about the issues women are facing today. No complaints about this category either. After all if we women are only going to get 2 shows a year, at least the one produced by women wins again.
Best Motion Picture, Animated: Coco – I had a moment of wavering where I thought the two art house picks might dethrone Coco, but I’m happy this won, particularly since hopefully it’ll help signal studios that yes, you can make a movie (and animated movies) about not just white families.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture: Allison Janney, I, Tonya – Called it. Good performance, interesting speech, no complaints.
Best Motion Picture, Animated: Coco – I had a moment of wavering where I thought the two art house picks might dethrone Coco, but I’m happy this won, particularly since hopefully it’ll help signal studios that yes, you can make a movie (and animated movies) about not just white families.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture: Allison Janney, I, Tonya – Called it. Good performance, interesting speech, no complaints.
Allison Janney winning for “I, Tonya”
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Almost as exciting as Tommy Wiseau being at the Golden Globes was the presence of Tonya Harding.
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Best Screenplay, Motion Picture: Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – In my predictions I wondered if the HFPA would try to go artsy and give the prize to the playwright in the group. I guess they liked the film more than I expected (or my other theory is the other contenders helped split the votes and somehow Three Billboards eeked out wins in more categories than expected because of it).
Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language: In the Fade (Germany / France) – I knew and still know nothing about this film, but congrats.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television: Ewan McGregor, Fargo – I was a little sad MacLachlan didn’t win, and never having seen the Fargo series, I can’t speak to whether he deserves this. I did laugh at having two Star Wars characters win this year (with Dern’s Holdo and McGregor as Obi-Wan) but that was the extent of my feelings on the topic.
Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – Master of None was robbed.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy: Aziz Ansari, Master of None – Okay it was slightly redeemed. I thought Anthony Anderson had a long shot at this, but glad to see Aziz take home the trophy.
Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language: In the Fade (Germany / France) – I knew and still know nothing about this film, but congrats.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television: Ewan McGregor, Fargo – I was a little sad MacLachlan didn’t win, and never having seen the Fargo series, I can’t speak to whether he deserves this. I did laugh at having two Star Wars characters win this year (with Dern’s Holdo and McGregor as Obi-Wan) but that was the extent of my feelings on the topic.
Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – Master of None was robbed.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy: Aziz Ansari, Master of None – Okay it was slightly redeemed. I thought Anthony Anderson had a long shot at this, but glad to see Aziz take home the trophy.
Aziz Ansari winning for “Master of None”
Best Director, Motion Picture: Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water – The presentation of this category brought the sickest burn (and probably one of 3 highlights of the evening) with presenter Natalie Portman announcing the “and here are the all male nominees”. I can’t reiterate enough: You get em Natalie!
I love Guillermo del Toro, but like I said in my predictions, Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peele belonged in this category (and probably deserved to win it), and I forgot about Dee Rees for Mudbound or hell even Kathryn Bigelow for Detroit.
Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Big Little Lies – 0 surprise.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird – Also called it.
Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Big Little Lies – 0 surprise.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird – Also called it.
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: Lady Bird – I was glad to see this win, and to see Gerwig get to take the stage even though technically this award goes to her producers. I was a little sad for Get Out but mostly because I think it belonged in Drama and should have taken home that award.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama: Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour – I have seriously mixed feelings on this win. I respect Oldman’s work, he’s an amazing actor, no questions. However 1) I felt Darkest Hour was a little overrated. More importantly in 2) he’s got a tumultuous history and was accused of spousal assault and has made some excuses for pretty racist, anti-semitic, and homophobic things said by his peers. In his defense he also said some terrible things as “examples.” (For more context on the topic read Ira Madison’s article). I’m frustrated with Hollywood being willing to call out some people like Weinstein and Spacey, but continuing to laud and award others like Casey Affleck or in this case Oldman. Or to flat out ignore their transgressions like with Woody Allen.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Once again called it. I also appreciated her speech.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Once again called it. I also appreciated her speech.
Best Motion Picture, Drama: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – This one surprised me. As an overall film I don’t know if it was stronger than The Shape of Water and if anything was going to dethrone Water I thought it was going to be The Post (which I was actually glad to see shut out of all the awards. Not that I hated it, I just thought it was an okay effort by people who are capable of better). Once again my guess is a vote split happened, opening the door for Three Billboards.
I’m not sure what this means for the Oscar but I think Three Billboards just rose in my betting pool.
Also mega shout out to presenter Barbra Streisand for calling out the bullshit that is no women being nominated for director this year, and no woman having won since she did in 1984 (34 years ago) for Yentl.
I’m not sure what this means for the Oscar but I think Three Billboards just rose in my betting pool.
Also mega shout out to presenter Barbra Streisand for calling out the bullshit that is no women being nominated for director this year, and no woman having won since she did in 1984 (34 years ago) for Yentl.
Here to present our final award of the night is someone who needs no introduction… @BarbraStreisand! She introduces the nominees for Best Motion Picture – Drama. #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/Q946KYUjvH
— Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes) January 8, 2018
Finally the most important award of the night actually was in a non-competitive category. Oprah Winfrey accepted the Cecil B. Demille Award (becoming the first Black woman to do so) and gave a speech that was award worthy in and of itself. All I can say is Oprah 2020.