IAs it turns out, these gloves surprised us, and we undeniably appreciated their obvious quality in some categories, but we're also impressed by Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Right and Timothée Chalamet's He ignored other major achievements, such as his performance as Bob Dylan in . (And it still hurts to completely ignore Ramel Ross's brilliant Nickel Boys.)
This blockbuster musical, Wicked, has won hearts and been received with varying degrees of grudging (including from our correspondents), but it's not what everyone expected. It did not win Best Musical or Best Comedy, but instead received a Globe Award. “Cinematic Achievement,'' an award designed to recognize films with extraordinary box office success (including those in the now-sleazy superhero genre) that would otherwise receive critical attention. The only arbiter of what is certainly meaningful is a rather strange award where box office receipts are themselves numbers.
Otherwise, the Globe's Best Musical/Comedy award, along with Best Non-English Category, Best Supporting Female Actor (Zoe Saldana) and Best Original Song, went to director Jacques Audiard's bizarre melodrama Sweets like “Emilia Perez'' (Mexican crime musical) won the award. About the Trans Cartel mob, about a 1:2 ratio of being brilliant and ridiculous, but a quarter of them being taken absolutely seriously by some people. The award for musicals, slashers, and comedies is a well-deserved award in more ways than one.
In the end, trans actor Carla Sofia Gascón, who was a formidable candidate for the film, didn't win the Globe for Best Actress (Comedy/Musical), and was instead cast in Coralie Farguito's body-horror satire, The The award went to Demi Moore, who made a shocking comeback with “Substance''. With his career on the line, a struggling movie star and television training queen takes an underground drug that creates a younger version of himself.
On the “serious” side of the Globes, director Brady Corbet's grand, creepy, mystical, quasi-Randian epic “The Brutalist” ruled the night. The film is about a fictional Hungarian Holocaust survivor and architect who comes to the United States and is taken in by a capricious plutocracy. . It won Best Picture (Drama), Best Director Corbett, and Best Actor for Adrien Brody, an eerie echo of his prestigious award more than 20 years ago for his starring role in Roman Polanski's The Pianist. .
Perhaps “The Brutalist'' will become this year's Oppenheimer. It's a gritty, super-serious movie that award voters can feel comfortable supporting. But I think it's a richer, more complex, more challenging film than Oppenheimer's, and one with the most extraordinary twists. -Reveal an ending that doesn't feel like a gimmick. This is a movie of Welles vigor and dash.
The night's other big surprise was Brazilian star Fernando, who won praise for his heartfelt performance in director Walter Salles' real-life political family drama I'm Still Here, about activist Eunice Paiva. Da Torres won the Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama. It deals with the disappearance of her husband, Rubens, during Brazil's military dictatorship in the 1970s. Torres beat out a list of big names to win the award, including Tilda Swinton, Kate Winslet, Nicole Kidman, Pamela Anderson and Angelina Jolie. It was a great night for Torres.
Elsewhere, male actors in musicals and comedies were another surprise. Sebastian Stan won for his role in Aaron Simberg's doppelganger fable “Different Man,'' co-starring Adam Pearson, who was not nominated. Stan outperformed our very own Hugh Grant, but his hilarious performance in The Heretics was better for me, and in fact, Stan was nominated in the Drama category for his younger role in The Apprentice. I thought he gave a more interesting performance playing Donald Trump. .
Elsewhere, it was good to see Peter Straughan win the Globe for Best Original Screenplay for his outstanding work in the highly entertaining drama Conclave. However, I'm sad that we didn't get anything else, and I'm worried that Ralph Fiennes' starring role will be overshadowed by the rest of the film. awards season. And Kieran Culkin won Best Supporting Actor for his neurotic, hyperactive, totally characterful, and totally brilliant performance as the impossible cousin in Jesse Eisenberg's excellent A Real Pain. It was very satisfying to see.
After all, this was Brady Corbet's “Brutalist” night. And this is a full-fledged blockbuster that is currently in pole position for the BAFTAs and Academy Awards.
