Predictably, Oppenheimer swept pretty much every category this weekend at the 81st Golden Globes this weekend in Los Angeles. So what did it win?
Best Picture, Oppenheimer; Best Director, Christopher Nolan; Best Leading Actor in a drama, Cillian Murphy; Best Supporting Actor in a drama, Robert Downey Jr.; and best Original Score, Ludwig Göransson.
Emma Stone won for Best Leading Actress in a Musical or Comedy; Lilly Gladstone for Best Leading Actress in a Drama; Paul Giamatti for Best Performance in a Musical or Comedy; and Poor Things for Best Musical or Comedy picture.
Also, as we predicted in our recent post about potential Oscar winners, France’s Justine Triet picked up a statue for best screenplay f and for best film in a foreign language for her masterful, Anatomy of a Fall.
In contrast to the Oscars, the Golden Globes actually have two separate categories for best performance winners: ‘musical or comedy’, and ‘drama’. It’s no secret that comedic films and performances always get dismissed at the Oscars due to some pompous highbrow criticism, but both Lilly Gladstone and Emma Stone managed to win a Golden Globe for their respective performances in Killers of the Flower Moon and Poor Things. Who takes the home the best acting Oscar between the two is anyone’s guess, but as Lilly did win in the drama category, there is a chance she may bring home the little gold man.
Some serious Stone vs Gladstone fisticuffs brewing.
I managed to see Korea’s Past Lives this weekend, which was nominated for best International feature, and after I finished hysterically bawling, I found that not only is it a directorial debut, but also a female writer/director, Celine Song. As we saw with Parasite a few years ago, international films can now be nominated for Best Picture, and rightfully so. Now boasting 10 inclusions for this category, it would not surprise me to find Past Lives included.
Stay tuned for March 11 at 3:00 a.m.
