79th Golden Globe Awards | The big winners of a shunned ceremony

With three prizes each, the feature film The Power of the Dog, by Jane Campion, and the musical West Side Story, by Steven Spielberg, are the big winners of the 79^e Golden Globes ceremony, held Sunday evening in the complete absence of artisans and leaders of the Hollywood industry and without being broadcast on television.

André Duchesne
Press

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Yes West Side Story won two acting awards (Rachel Zegler and Ariana DeBose) versus just one (Kodi Smith-McPhee) for The Power of the DogJane Campion, however, had the advantage over Steven Spielberg by winning the award for best achievement. With Belfast, a film inspired by his own childhood, British actor, screenwriter and director Kenneth Branagh won the award for best screenplay. Dune, by Denis Villeneuve, walked away with the prize for best original music, signed by Hans Zimmer, while the most recent James Bond film, No Time to Die, won the award for best original song, performed by Billie Eilish.

The evening in isolation

Undermined by several scandals in recent years, in particular as regards the flagrant lack of diversity among its members and a stay of several voters in Paris, at the expense of the production, to visit the set ofEmily in Paris, a series later cited, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) has seen the entire Hollywood industry turn its back on it. No celebrities attended Sunday night’s gala, if only to present a trophy. The former NBC broadcaster has also abandoned the ship. The association also did not accredit the media for the ceremony held in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton hotel. The results were communicated by the HFPA website and accounts on social networks. The organization ended the evening by thanking “everyone who made the past year memorable”. Joined Friday, two days before the ceremony, Roger Frappier, one of the producers of The Power of the Dog, said to Press that a “turnaround” was needed for HFPA, but he was optimistic about the future. “This year, for the first time, those who will win will not be for gifts sent, but because the members of the Golden Globes will have seen the films,” he told us.

Among performers

On the side of actors and actresses, Will Smith (King richard) and Nicole Kidman (Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos) won the awards for best actor and best actress in the category of dramatic films. In the category of comedies or musical films, these awards went to Andrew Garfield (Tick ​​Tick,… Boom!) and Rachel Zegler (West Side Story). For supporting roles, only two prizes are awarded for all films. They were attributed, as previously reported, to Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) and Kodi Smith-McPhee (The Power of the Dog).

Other cinema prizes

This is the Japanese movie Drive my Car, by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, which won the award for best film in a language other than English. Since its visit to Cannes (script award) last summer, this film has won several awards on the road to festivals and galas. The feature film Encanto (Disney) won the award for best animated film.

On TV

As for television works, the numerous prizes have been divided between several series. The popular series Succession was crowned Best Dramatic Work, in addition to two acting awards to Jeremy Strong (Best Actor) and Sarah Snook (Best Supporting Actress). It is Hacks who for his part won the prize for best television series in the comedy or musical category, while Jean Smart won the prize for best actress in this category. The Underground Railroad wins the trophy for best miniseries or best TV movie.

Michael Keaton and Kate Winslet

For his work in Dopesick, a Disney + work devoted to the ravages of the drug OxyContin, Michael Keaton won the Golden Globe for best actor in a miniseries or a film made for television. Kate Winslet won the award for best actress in the same category with Mare of Easttown, series in which she plays a policewoman who investigates the murder of a teenage girl and is murdered by her own personal troubles. O Yeong-su (Squid Game), Jason Sudeikis (Ted lasso) and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (Pose) also win performance awards.

By distributors

Movies Don’t Look Up (4 selections), Licorice Pizza (4), The Lost Daughter (2) and CODA (2) leave empty-handed. By distributors, HBO (Estate, Mare of Easttown, Hacks) is ahead of its competitors on television, while on the cinema side, Netflix (The Power of the Dog, Tick Tick,… Boom!) slightly ahead of 20th Century Fox and its three awards with West Side Story.