One thing I learned from the Globes last night is, the
LOSERS don’t get any recognition apart from a free breakfast.
In an attempt to promote nominee awareness, I’ll focus a little on the
surprising (and some not so surprising) losers in Beverly Hills last night.
Obviously, after Birdman
won Best Screenplay over The Grand
Budapest Hotel, we thought it was a shoe-in for Best Picture. However, the Globes, in the ever popular trend
to honor as many movies as possible, with no clear justifying sense of how it’s
done but a clear reason why, gave Grand
Budapest Best Picture. That was the
closest we were to a true snub.
Best Actor Drama hopefuls that were happy to not be running
against Michael Keaton included four people playing real life people, and Jake
Gyllenhaal, who was lucky enough to watch his sister win. Anyway, Dr. King, John Du Pont and Alan
Turing all came out losers to Stephan Hawking (in both the films and in life,
since Hawking is the only one still alive.)
As I predicted, Eddie Redmayne was the winner for his portrayal in The Theory of Everything. Just to prove it wasn’t a fluke to just
recognize the movie once, the film also won Best Score, for what it’s worth.
Predictably, we heard speeches from winners J.K. Simmons,
Patricia Arquette and Julianne Moore.
Also from Michael Keaton, giving Birdman
two wins to tie The Theory of
Everything and Boyhood, who obviously
had a big night winning Best Picture Drama and Best Director. Julianne Moore did turn out to be a loser as
well, in Best Actress Comedy/Muscial for her role in David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars, for which she won
Best Actress at Cannes in 2014. Into the Woods’ Emily Blunt was also
overlooked in favor of Amy Adams in Big
Eyes as Margaret Keane. A big win
for her, although having lost an Oscar nomination five times now, does she even
want to be nominated for Oscar this year, or quit while she’s ahead? Unfortunately, her boring speech didn’t do
her any favors either. Best Speech? That would have to be Original Song winner “Glory”
from Selma:
DGA nominations come out tomorrow, Oscars come out on Thursday!
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