Joey Magidson
Last night, the Golden Globe Awards went down, with Paul Thomas Anderson‘s One Battle After Another emerging with four prizes to lead the field. It took home Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, while Hamnet won Best Motion Picture – Drama. As always, the Globes had some snubs, some surprises, and generated new awards season conversation. So, while you can’t take any major Oscar hints from the results, which you can see here, they are still worth discussing a bit.
Prediction wise, I did decently well, only missing Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress. That doesn’t count the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement category, as well as the new Podcast one, since I don’t acknowledge their existence, really. That being said, more on the former in a moment.
The snubs? It wound up being Sinners, to the degree that snubs went down. Ryan Coogler‘s film took the Best Score category for Ludwig Göransson‘s music, as well as the Cinematic and Box Office field, but it fell short in Drama, as well as in Best Screenplay, where Globe voters doubled down on Anderson. Losing to PTA is hardly a snub for Coogler, but most of us had them splitting the directing and writing categories, though that wasn’t to be.
As for the surprises, the two main ones were Hamnet emerging in Motion Picture – Drama, alongside Teyana Taylor winning Supporting Actress. You could also claim that Best Supporting Actor was a surprise, though this more puts Stellan Skarsgård now on more equal footing with Jacob Elordi. Wagner Moura winning Best Actor – Drama might have been a surprise to some, but I’d had him for a while now, so whether I’m smart or just played a hunch, that wasn’t as surprising to me as it was to others.
As always, don’t pay any extra heed to these results. They’re only one piece of a larger puzzle and, at best, have a minor impact on the race. Guilds have more crossover with the Academy Awards, so when in doubt, look there for influence on the Oscars. At the same time, televised results never hurt a winner, so while losing isn’t the be all, end all, winning and being able to give a speech is certainly a feather in a contender’s hat.
Next up, Oscar voting begins later on today. So, the real Globes impact is that any Academy members who pay attention to these will be starting to fill out ballots with the results in their heads. Make of that what you will. We’re reaching the end of Phase One of awards season, regardless, so strap in for more surprises before all is said and done…
Stay tuned to see how the Golden Globe results impact the rest of awards season!
It’s interesting that the dumbest category of the entire ceremony – Cinematic and Box Office Achievement – was awarded to the fourth highest-grossing of the nominees and it wasn’t based on any pre-existing brand.
Frankly, if we’re going to hand out trophies for movies that make a lot of money, we should automatically disqualify anything that relied on a recognizable IP to sell itself to consumers. F1, KPop Demon Hunters, Sinners, and Weapons becoming mainstream hits impresses me far more than Avatar: Fire and Ash, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Wicked: For Good, and Zootopia 2 cleaning up at the box office.
The category is dumb and makes no sense, but then they try to vote for a “classy” winner to cover it up, which is also just ridiculous.