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Saturday, January 25, 2025

The 2025 Golden Globes: A golden night for ‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Shogun’

Demi Moore with her Golden Globe for best actress in a comedy, on January 5 at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California.RICH POLK (GETTY IMAGES)

MARÍA PORCEL

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Under the hot California sun and with heavy police protection, the 82nd Annual Golden Globes award ceremony was held on the evening of January 5. The Beverly Hilton hotel rolled out its red carpet for the more than 1,300 guests at the dinner event and party where the first major awards of the season are given out each year. But this time, unlike other years, the award winners were less obvious, especially those in film categories, which gave added excitement to the gala. The prizes were widely distributed between series and films: four went to Emilia Pérez, including the best comedy or musical category, and three to The Brutalist,including for best drama. As for series, Shogun won four, Hacks won two and Baby Reindeer won another two, repeating the Emmy scheme.

Golden Globes 2025 red carpet: Anna Sawai, Zoé Saldaña, Zendaya and more – in pictures

Anna Sawai celebrates winning the best actress award for her role in Shōgun, set in feudal Japan. Based on the 1975 novel by James Clavell, the series also won best TV drama, best actor, and best supporting actor

Photograph: Tommaso Boddi

GOLDEN GLOBES 2025

“Thank you to the voters for voting for me — even though I would vote for Kathy Bates any day.” — Anna Sawai in her acceptance speech.

From left: Tadanobu Asano, Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai, Cosmo Jarvis, Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo

Anya Taylor-Joy in Green Dior Dress for the 2021 Golden Globes

Anya Taylor-Joy in Green Dior Dress for the 2021 Golden Globes – CELEBRITY STYLE

April 24, 2021

Anya Taylor-Joy in Green Dior Dress for the 2021 Golden Globes. Anya Taylor-Joy è una giovane attrice che deve la sua fama planetaria alla serie tv La regina degli scacchi ideata e diretta da Scott Frank, targata Netflix. La sua interpretazione di Elizabeth Harmon, giocatrice di scacchi imbattibile dal passato travagliato, aveva già conquistato il pubblico di tutto il mondo, ma il riconoscimento più grande per Lei è arrivato con la vittoria del suo primo Golden Globe come Migliore attrice in una mini-serie.

Golden Globes 2017 / The full list of winners

Isabelle Huppert accepting the award for best actress in a motion picture drama for her role in ‘Elle’

Golden Globes 2017: the full list of winners

The ceremony was led by nominations for La La Land, The Crown, Moonlight and Westworld – and La La Land delivered, winning a record seven awards

Lanre Bakare
Monday 9 January 2017 07.40 GMT

Were the Golden Globes right to celebrate Woody Allen

- Hadley Freeman
- The Guardian, Tuesday 14 January 2014

Woody Allen, who has been given the Cecil B DeMille Lifetime Achievement award. Photograph: Andrew Medichini/AP

Is it OK to celebrate Woody Allen? Many fans thought, with some relief, that this question had finally been settled, with the public beginning to relax about the public scandals that destroyed his family in the 90s, and the filmmaker himself at long last returning to professional form. (It has never been clear to me, incidentally, which was deemed by the masses to be Allen's more grievous fault: running off with his longterm partner Mia Farrow's adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn, or going off the boil and making dross like The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. These, shall we say, missteps seemed, in the eyes of the media, to be interchangeable, probably with some mutual causation.) Clearly the Hollywood Foreign Press Association felt all that "unpleasantness" was over when they decided to give him the Cecil B DeMille Lifetime Achievement award this year, accepted on his behalf by his former partner Diane Keaton.

But, it turned out, they were wrong. Debates about Allen's morality began to roll like angry thunder early Sunday evening when various writersvoiced their impatience with the Globes for giving Allen the prize and an awards event that in recent years has been celebrated as being one of the most fun (thank you, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler) became one of the most divisive. By the end, the anger erupted into fury:

"Missed the Woody Allen tribute – did they put the part where a woman publicly confirmed he molested her at age seven before or after Annie Hall?" tweeted Ronan Farrow, Allen and Mia Farrow's son, when the event finished. Mia Farrow was more vague in her digs during the evening ("Time to grab some ice-cream and switch over to Girls [sic],"she tweeted obliquely minutes before the Allen tribute), but by the morning, perhaps inspired by her son, she was on the case with a vengeance: "A woman has publicly detailed Woody Allen's molestation of her at age 7. GoldenGlobe tribute showed contempt for her & all abuse survivors [sic]," she tweeted, while the photo of her sweetly smiling face sat somewhat incongruously next to her raging comment.

The Farrows have been building up to this fightback for a while. They clearly think, with justification, that the public has forgotten the real source of their anger, if it ever knew it at all. Everyone remembers that Allen left Farrow for her adopted daughter (even if this is often misremembered as "Allen left his wife for his adopted daughter" – Farrow and Allen were not married, he never adopted Soon-Yi. There is no need to make this saga more complicated than it was.) But what has since been obscured is that at the time Allen was accused of sexually abusing their adopted daughter, Dylan. Ultimately, a judge decided that the charges were inconclusive, but Allen was denied visitation rights with Dylan.

Contrary to the retrospectively written narrative that Allen's career karmically collapsed after he left Mia, he in fact directed some of his sweetest films in the immediate aftermath of that scandal, such as Bullets over Broadway and Sweet and Lowdown, before his relatively brief creative slump in the 2000s. But there is a feeling now that the good ol' Woody is back, especially since the release of the painful but brilliant Blue Jasmine. As chance would have it, or not, just as Blue Jasmine was released, the Farrows gave a now infamous interview to Vanity Fair in which they and several other of Farrow's adopted children described the damage Allen did to their family, and Mia suggested that Ronan was possibly Frank Sinatra's child, not Woody's. On top of this, Dylan (who now has a new name) described in painful detail the abuse she suffered as a child. Whatever happened back in the 90s, there is no doubt that this family was devastated and continues to suffer, and whatever queasiness one might have felt at Mia's use of her (adult) children in that interview, they all clearly want the public to know this, by whatever means necessary, and it takes a cold heart to not to have sympathy for them. They all, Allen included, lost their family.

Allen's persona and life have always been a major part of his work. Every actor who plays the lead in an Allen film sounds like they're doing an Allen impression – even Cate Blanchett has his staccato rhythms in Blue Jasmine – and this difficulty was obvious on Sunday night. In the long montage of Allen films at the Golden Globes, Mia Farrow was completely, awkwardly omitted and movies which look, in retrospect, decidedly weird were barely shown, such as Hannah and her Sisters (in which a young Soon-Yi appears) and Manhattan (although Mariel Hemingway, who played Allen's schoolgirl lover, gave a cheery wave to the camera from the audience during the homage). Even Blue Jasmine can be read as a dig at Farrow, seeing as it's about a self-obsessed blond woman who discovers her husband is having an affair with a teenager and vengefully destroys her family, including their adopted child. Diane Keaton did not help matters by accepting Allen's award with a long speech about how great Allen is to actresses – other than the one he had a long relationship and children with, presumably – and finished by singing a creepily childish song about friendship. Keaton might have made life easier for herself, and Allen, if she'd stuck to praising the work. But then, that is difficult when it comes to Allen.

Allen is legally innocent and therefore deserving of all celebrations people send his way. But seeing as he has never been interested in awards, it was hard not to feel that the Foreign Press Association might have done him a bigger favour by leaving him be and letting him quietly get on with his work and his life. It is totally OK to celebrate Woody Allen, but that doesn't mean you have to.

THE GUARDIAN

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Golden Globes / Britain's disappointing night as long list of stars misses out

Jacqueline Bisset

Golden Globes:

Britain's disappointing night as long list of stars misses out

Jacqueline Bisset is the sole British female winner, with Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave another solitary success

Press Association
The Guardian, Monday 13 January 2014

Jacqueline Bisset with the award for her role in Dancing on the Edge. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

The Golden Globe award to 12 Years A Slave for best movie drama provided a much-needed boost for Britain, after a number of leading actors and actresses missed out on wins despite nominations.

Steve McQueen's hit film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor will be widely tipped for Oscar success after its triumph at the glitzy ceremony in Beverley Hills.

It saw off competition from Captain Phillips, Gravity, Philomena and Rush to become a rare success story for Britain.

Idris Elba and Chiwetel Ejiofor had been tipped for the most success, going head-to-head with each other for two gongs before both losing out.

Elba was nominated for best actor in a motion picture for his performance as Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom and best actor in a mini-series or TV movie category for his role as the troubled detective in the BBC's Luther.

Ejiofor was nominated in the same category for another BBC drama – Dancing On The Edge – while his role in McQueen's epic 12 Years A Slave got him a nod for best actor in a motion picture. That award went instead to Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club.

McQueen lost out on the battle for best director to Alfonso Cuaron and his space adventure Gravity.
Jacqueline Bisset was Britain's only woman to triumph, winning best supporting actress in a series, mini-series or movie for Dancing On The Edge, beating fellow Brit and White Queen star Janet McTeer.

The nominees for best actress in a motion picture drama read like a roll call of UK acting talent, with nods for Emma Thompson in Saving Mr Banks, Kate Winslet in Labor Day and Dame Judi Dench for Philomena.
But they were all left behind as Cate Blanchett took home the gong for her role in Blue Jasmine.

Helena Bonham-Carter also missed out after being nominated for best actress in a mini-series for her starring role in the BBC Four TV film Burton And Taylor.

Writers Jeff Pope and Steve Coogan watched on as their hit film Philomena lost out to futuristic romance Her, written by Spike Jonze, in the best screenplay category.

Nominee Christian Bale was left empty handed after Leonardo DiCaprio took home the Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy or musical for The Wolf Of Wall Street.

Bale was shortlisted for his starring role as conman Irving Rosenfeld in American Hustle.

Blue Jasmine star Sally Hawkins lost out in the best supporting actress category to Jennifer Lawrence, who collected the award for her role in American Hustle.

U2 and Danger Mouse won the award for best original song for Ordinary Love, in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – the band's first recording since 2010.

That meant Coldplay missed out with their chart hit Atlas for the US blockbuster Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Despite its latest series breaking audience records on the other side of the pond, ITV's Downton Abbey failed to win best TV series drama after coming up against Breaking Bad.

THE GUARDIAN