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With all eyes on whether Netflix would dominate the GoldenGlobes this year, early wins went to a late-breaking front-runner,the World War I epic '1917.'
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Sam Mendes won the directing award for his real-time World War Ifilm, which he engineered so it would feel like a single continuousshot. The film from Universal Pictures was a showy technical featwith intimate underpinnings, based on stories Mr. Mendes heard fromhis grandfather growing up. The win shut out both Martin Scorseseand Quentin Tarantino from one of the night's biggest awards.
'Chernobyl' picked up the award for best TV limited series ormotion picture made for television, notching one of HBO's many winson Sunday night.
'Sorry, Netflix,' Jared Harris, the show's star, said as hehelped accept the trophy. The historical drama also scored avictory when Stellan Skarsgård won best supporting actor in aseries, limited series or TV movie.
Expectations for Netflix were high going into Sunday night'sawards. Netflix dominated the nominations with 34 honors across themovie and television categories. The closest rival was SonyPictures, which had a total of 10. In the best motion picture dramacategory, three of the five nominees--'Marriage Story,' 'The TwoPopes,' and 'The Irishman'--come from the streamer. At the start ofthe night even host Ricky Gervais appeared to expect Netflixdominance, saying in his opening monologue 'This show should justbe me coming out going 'Well done Netflix. You win. Everything.Goodnight.'
Brad Pitt, whose charismatic performance fueled 'Once Upon aTime...in Hollywood,' won the Globe for supporting actor in a film.Beating out three actors from Netflix films in that category: AlPacino and Joe Pesci from 'The Irishman' and Anthony Hopkins from'The Two Popes.'
Host Ricky Gervais kicked off tonight's Golden Globe Awardsceremony with pointed jokes that drew laughs, bleeps and theoccasional gulp from the audience.
'I mean, Kevin Hart was fired from the Oscars because of anoffensive tweet,' he said, reminding the audience of thecontroversy surrounding the comedian who withdrew as Academy Awardshost last year. 'Hello, lucky for me the Hollywood Foreign Presscan hardly speak English and they have no idea what Twitter is,' hesaid before chiding the crowd that his zingers were all 'justjokes' and the stars 'all look lovely.'
Then Mr. Gervais -- hosting for the fifth time -- launched intoa monologue calling the Hollywood Foreign Press Association'racist,' while taking on Netflix's domination and the ceremony'sruntime. 'You could binge watch the entire first season of 'AfterLife' instead of watching this show,' he said. And he brought upJeffrey Epstein, the American financier and convicted sex offenderfound dead in his prison cell. The topic drew gasps from the crowd.'Shut up, I know he's your friend but I don't care,' Mr. Gervaissaid.
He made a joke about 'Cats' star Judi Dench as a cat groomingherself that was met with a long bleep and nervous laughter. And heurged winners to avoid politics in their acceptance speeches. 'Yousay you're woke...if ISIS started a streaming service you'd callyour agent. Wouldn't you? So if you do win an award tonight don'tuse it as a platform to make a political speech. You're in noposition to lecture the public about anything...If you win, comeup, accept your little award, thank your agent and your God...It'salready three hours long.'
As for the awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, theroughly 90-member group that votes on the awards, is known forquirky choices and can often lead to snubs and surprises.
The night started off with a surprise when newcomer Ramy Youssefpicked up the first trophy for best actor in a TV series musical orcomedy for 'Ramy.' In the Hulu series, he portrayed a Muslim fromNew Jersey who grapples both with his religion and millennialangst. Mr. Youssef joked about his outsider status. 'Look, I knowyou guys haven't seen my show -- everyone thinks this is aneditor,' he said.
The award for best performance by an actor in a limited seriesor motion picture made for TV went to Russell Crowe for 'TheLoudest Voice,' the story of late Fox News chief Roger Ailes's riseto power in the conservative world. Mr. Crowe didn't attend as hewas at home in Australia, sending word that he was protecting hisfamily from the devastating brushfires there. In a statement, Mr.Crowe urged people to acknowledge the fires are a result of climatechange.
The award for best supporting role in a series, limited seriesor TV movie went to Stellan Skarsgård who won for his portrayal ofa Soviet bureaucrat in HBO's historical drama 'Chernobyl,' beatingout predicted winners including the 'hot priest' from 'Fleabag'(Andrew Scott) and the messed-up son from 'Succession' (KieranCulkin).
'Succession' won for best dramatic TV series, as predicted. Thesecond season of the HBO drama became a pop-culture phenomenon asit chronicled a media magnate's empire and his family'smachinations to control it.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge continued her skyrocketing moment with awin for best TV series musical or comedy for 'Fleabag,' which dovedeeper into the mainstream in its second and last season. She alsopicked up best performance by an actress in a TV series musical orcomedy for the Amazon show. In her speech, she thanked her co-starAndrew Scott, saying, 'He could have chemistry with a pebble.'
'Parasite,' a critical darling that offered a sly take on classwarfare, picked up the trophy for best foreign film. South Koreandirector Bong Joon Ho urged viewers through a translator to'overcome the 1-inch tall barrier of subtitles' to watch moreforeign films. The award helps set up the indie movie as acontender for the best-picture Oscar, an achievement that would bea first for any foreign-language film.
Accepting the Carol Burnett award for excellence in television,Ellen DeGeneres, who came out on TV at the height of her sitcomfame, said after being a TV host for so many years, she feltviewers finally understood her. 'I am an open book,' she said, 'andI couldn't have done it without my husband Mark.' The camera cut toMs. DeGeneres's wife, Portia de Rossi. 'The point is,' Ms.DeGeneres said, 'you all know me.'
Movies about show business often do well at awards shows, andthis year was no different, as Quentin Tarantino picked up thetrophy for best screenplay for 'Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood,' astory of a fading screen star that wove in an alternate version ofthe Manson story. This was Mr. Tarantino's third Golden Globe forscreenwriting. Directing has remained an elusive category for himduring awards season, despite multiple nominations at the Globesand the Oscars over several decades.
As widely anticipated, Laura Dern picked up the trophy for bestsupporting actress in a motion picture as the hard charging divorcelawyer in 'Marriage Story.' The Netflix film went into the eveningwith six nominations, more than any other film.
The Globes are known for being the most freewheeling ofHollywood's award celebrations, with cocktails flowing freelyaround the celebrity audience. But as the first major awards of theyear they also set the tone for the season to come -- particularlythe bigger, glitzier and more prominent Academy Awards inFebruary.
This year, debate has swirled around the lack of femaledirectors nominated (in a year when women directed more films thanthey have in the past 13 years, according to a study from theUniversity of Southern California's Annenberg InclusionInitiative), and the role Netflix will have on the moviegoingexperience. And not only that, with the Oscars airing at thebeginning of February instead of the usual end of the month, theGlobes might have quite a bit of sway in how the Academy Awardsplay out. Voting on Oscar nominations closes just two days afterthe Golden Globes ceremony, which doesn't leave much time forvoters to watch lower-profile films.
Occasional Gasping For Breath
In short: 'There's a panic across Hollywood because of theshortened Oscar schedule,' Tom O'Neil, editor of the awardsprediction site Gold Derby, told The Wall Street Journal. 'We couldsee the shortened season have an impact on diversity' innominations, he said.
Write to Ellen Gamerman at ellen.gamerman@wsj.com
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January 05, 2020 23:22 ET (04:22 GMT)