Golden Globes 2021: the winners, the speeches, the controversy – live | Film

Now Sarah Paulson with a horrible reminder that The Prom is nominated for best musical or comedy. A truly cursed year.

Leaving this here:

It’s time for a parody now! Kenan Thompson and Maya Rudolph are giving a mock speech for an award that doesn’t exist, with the goal of showing how rambling acceptance speeches can often be. Kenan pays tribute to Adrien Brody with an inappropriate kiss as Maya goes straight to find Amy. Two of SNL’s most trusted artists (a former and a current) and they’re as good as ever, but it’s a bit difficult to create the right kind of energy without a huge audience. I’m not sure if this will be as viral as they hope. Also Kenan was on SNL last night and now he’s in Los Angeles. That is commitment! Or something!

Unusual recognition for female writers in this category, which is good, but in the end Sorkin wins for her script for the long-running fact-based drama. I have a feeling that tonight we will listen to this movie much more. It’s easy, exciting prize bait and the HFPA will beat it. More children too.

A tough category (Daniels! Grant! Cranston!) And while Ruffalo’s grim HBO series might not have become the talking point many expected during the pandemic, it’s a performance that deserves recognition. Ruffalo’s speech is a plea for all of us to come together, especially with a focus on climate change and to come together after four years of division. It’s also fun to watch your kids jump into the background.

I look forward to more unimpressed tweets like this one from a hugely disappointing HFPA moment right now …

And here is our recent interview with winner Catherine O’Hara:

Well, it’s time for something serious and necessary. “We recognize that we have our own work to do,” says a German HFPA member before colleagues speak of the lack of black members as a problem. “We have more work to do” is thrown away before speed is over. It’s clunky and last minute and we’ll need a much more comprehensive plan on how they’re going to change over the next week or the outrage will continue.

In a dire year for animated films, it was always going to be Soul’s victory. It’s a speech that’s said through a screen within a screen within a screen that’s a headache, but Soul deserved it by a mile.

No wonder here: another award for Catherine O’Hara for Schitt’s Creek. Nor was it a surprise even more tech glitches with a terrible sound interruption as he looked to speak. Oh wait, it’s deliberate. Her husband is on his phone all the time trying to pick up on audience noises before trying to pretend he is teasing her with music. A good idea for a play, but the man made it like a tank as we could barely hear what he was saying. No more of that, please.

As he accepted his well-deserved award for Judas and the Black Messiah, Daniel Kaluuya asked people to learn more about the real Fred Hampton. Here is a fascinating piece we recently published that provides a deeper insight into his life:

A creepy teaser for things to come when the nominees for best actress in a television comedy all awkwardly converse with each other across screens. Horror!

A helpful reminder from host Angela Bassett about the safety precautions that have allowed this evening to occur. Another great victory! John Boyega for his role in the Small Ax anthology and a hasty speech because he is concerned about his poor Wi-Fi connection. But the sound worked!

Alas, what a disaster of an opener! A great win, but errr, initially there is no sound for Kaluuya to speak through Zoom. Host Laura Dern talks to him, but then it starts to work just like we were told it wasn’t going to happen as planned. What a mess. Kaluuya’s connection isn’t great, but it’s a well-deserved win to start the night – a fantastic performance and Kaluuya ends with a tribute to his character Fred Hampton and his hope that people will learn more about his incredible life as a result. But urgh Zoom.

And so begins another bizarre semi-virtual awards ceremony in a bizarre year for all of us, but also a bizarre year for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), under scrutiny for allegations of corruption and lack of diversity with both members. and the artists they chose to nominate.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler reach a masked audience on different shores, united by technology. There are early jokes about tech problems, which were met with weird laughter from a small handful of people (that’s going to take some getting used to). The crowd in person is then revealed to be made up of lifeguards, a nice touch.

“Those bitches are messy,” Fey says of the normal entry tables of celebrities, like Meryl Streep and Brad Pitt.

Oh, and here are some jokes from the HFPA (“European weirdos”), which refer to the lack of diversity as well as the ridiculous nature of its members (“most of them may be ghosts”).

Amy Poehler yelling the word Mank is funny followed by Tina Fey calling The Queen’s Gambit “whatever James Corden was doing at The Prom” – hmmmm. Going to celebrities like laughing at jokes at home is weird, especially when Fey calls “French outing,” which she did after episode one of Emily in Paris and Lily Collins looks awkward.

Now they are criticizing the Globes again for their lack of inclusion. It means well, but it doesn’t really work. The HFPA and NBC are donating $ 2 million to Covid-19 relief, which is something. But wow, a rough start.

Here’s a reminder of who’s nominated for what and all of that (it’s about to start):

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It is a dress? Is it a tuxedo? It’s both, and it’s yet another vote for co-host Tina Fey’s heartening red carpet trend for tights. Well played.