Barbie or Jo Koy: Who had a worse night at the Golden Globes?
The IndependentGet our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. If this year’s Golden Globes are anything to go by, the Margot Robbie comedy that practically everyone saw last summer could end up the redheaded stepchild of awards season – gaining lots of nominations but few wins, and upending the predictions of those who assumed it would at least sweep the comedy categories. Described as an opportunity to recognise films that both “garnered extensive global audience support and attained cinematic excellence”, the award is the inevitable endpoint of a genre in crisis: televised awards ceremonies run by people who don’t particularly like televised awards ceremonies, who get skittish about the recurring absence in the winners’ lists of enormous blockbusters. Elsewhere, Ryan Gosling’s celebrated performance as Ken – which for months seemed to be heading for a de facto “wacky Supporting Actor win” – couldn’t best Robert Downey Jr in Oppenheimer, while Greta Gerwig missed out on Best Director, which went to Oppenheimer’s Christopher Nolan. There were bright spots – a now-annual appearance by Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell that got by on sheer weirdness; Succession and The Bear dominating the TV categories; Nolan’s invocation of the late Heath Ledger during his Best Director speech – but otherwise an odd lethargy seemed to pervade, a sense of “Will this do?” The Jeffrey Epstein gag that no one wanted, the Harry and Meghan cracks, Taylor Swift absolutely refusing to entertain even the mildest of jokes made at her expense – it all felt a bit bleak, didn’t it?
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