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Emma Thompson: the real winner of the Golden Globes |
The night's winner for Best Actress in a Comedy, Amy Adams, confirmed that American Hustle could now be the film to beat come Oscar night. Adams certainly gave a worthy performance in Hustle and it's nice to see a trophy go to an actress who genuinely deserves a break. (Adams is a lead actress who seems stuck in supporting roles.) I'll admit that I was rooting for Meryl Streep in August: Osage County (which I maintain is the performance of the year), but being in favour of one performer doesn't necessarily mean one is not supportive of the other four nominees. (The entire process of selecting a winner from a pool of nominees essentially requires one to choose one above the others, after all...) The Hollywood Foreign Press Association clearly loved Hustle and Streep made it clear that she didn't care about another award, so whether Adams or Streep moves on to the next round remains to be seen.
American Hustle scored an expected Best Picture award and was easily one of the few predicted winners to pull through. Hustle's third win, Jennifer Lawrence for Best Supporting Actress (which makes back-to-back Golden Globes for her performances in David O. Russell films after Silver Linings Playbook), was a mild upset over 12 Years a Slave's Lupita Nyong'o. Nyong'o's loss in Slave's first category led the Globes into a nail-biter of a finish, as only one of the show's Best Drama nominees, Gravity, had won a single award before the big prize was handed out. Slave won in the end. I breathed a sigh a relief and then quickly lamented the fact that one of my few correct predictions of the night was the loss for Meryl Streep. (I did terribly with a mere 6 correct predictions out of 14 categories.) The most unpredictable turn, perhaps, was that the night's big dramatic winner might have been Dallas Buyers Club, directed by Canada's Jean-Marc Vallée, which the only dramatic film of the night to win two awards.
The highlight of the night for me, though was probably Diane Keaton's acceptance speech of the Cecil B. DeMille award for Woody Allen. Keaton looked back on her friendship with Allen, connecting both her professional and personal insight of his great work, and summed up the legacy of his roster of great female characters that have been played by many actresses who were applauding him in the room. (Allen's contribution to cinema was underscored when Oscar shoo-in Cate Blanchett won the Best Actress in a Drama award for Allen's Blue Jasmine.) Keaton the dropped a few F-bombs and closed the tribute by singing the camp song ”Make New Friends (But Keep the Old)” in an nice, weird, Annie Hall-ish send-up to her friend.
Best Picture – Drama
Best Picture – “Comedy”/Musical
Best Actor – Drama
★Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Actress – Drama
★ Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Best Actor – “Comedy”/Musical
★ Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Actress – “Comedy”/Musical
★ Amy
Adams, American Hustle
Best Supporting Actor
★ Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Supporting Actress:
★ Jennifer
Lawrence, American Hustle
Best Director:
★Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Best Screenplay:
★Her - Spike Jonze
Best Animated Film:
★ Frozen
Best Foreign Language Film:
★The Great Beauty - Italy
Best Song:
Best Score: