Here we have 71st Golden Globe Awards, a television event from 2014, so two more years until this has its 5th anniversary. It ran for slightly over 2 hours, not counting commercial breaks and this was one of the occasions where Amy (Poehler, also a deserving winner that night I guess) and Tina (Fey) hosted the show. I think they did a pretty good job and every time they were on screen the show got better. A bit of a shame they disappeared pretty much completely during the second half and you could see during their final words that they really had to rush it. Thumbs up for these two. Not as good as Gervais, but better than pretty much all other hosts in recent years, not just from the Globes. Now about the winners. There is one major letdown that night and that was the success of "American Hustle". I would have loved to give this show a ****/*****, but with Best Comedy and Best Supporting Actress (and Best Actress) going to such an undeserved movie, I just can't. At least the Oscars got it right. Not in terms of nominations, but in terms of wins. Another negative moment was probably Samberg's Best Actor win. His show is fine, but he is not the reason for it at all. A joke Braugher and others are running empty in terms of nominations and he won his category even. Bisset may not be a bad winner, but her speech felt really fake sadly.
Now the good: The love for Breaking Bad was amazing. Such an excellent show, such an excellent final season and it was really nice to see Cranston winning a Globe finally that night. And even most categories where I cheered for other films, I was still somewhat happy with the winners (U2 song over Frozen and ILD, Douglas over Elba, Voight over Paul, Jonze over Coogan, Blanchett over Dench). Woody Allen is of course a highly deserving Lifetime Achievement Winner, says a lot he had a great film in the running too that year. Happy for Elisabeth Moss too as I loved her on Mad Men and I really need to check out Top of the Lake at some point. I'd certainly have preferred Isaac, Phoenix and Dern for Best Comedy(?) Actor, but you can't be mad at Leo. Hill getting in at the Oscars is the bigger joke about TWoWS. The boys from Dallas Buyers Club deserve their wins too and McConaughey said that it was surprising as 12YaS (including Ejiofor) was the front runner before that night. But the losses for Director, Screenplay and Ejiofor showed that the film lost a bit of momentum. It was almost a surprise they won Best Drama eventually. Nyong'o's loss was shocking to me especially, but glad she took the Oscar then. "All is Lost" was a very inspired Best Score winner, shame they did not get in at the Oscars. Oh yeah and while I think 12 Years a Slave is a good film, I would have preferred all 4 other nominees to win instead. It was truly an amazing year for drama movies. It was also a good year for the comedy category as Nebraska, Her and especially Inside Lleyn Davis are all top-notch, TWoWS is also better than American Hustle, but no idea why they went for the letter so many times, at least not for Best Screenplay.
Overall, I can see why this awards ceremony became an awards winner as well, even if they lost the two Emmy nominations. It was pretty fun to watch for the most part and most winners were somewhat deserving I guess. Overall, I give it a thumbs-up and recommend checking it out.
Now the good: The love for Breaking Bad was amazing. Such an excellent show, such an excellent final season and it was really nice to see Cranston winning a Globe finally that night. And even most categories where I cheered for other films, I was still somewhat happy with the winners (U2 song over Frozen and ILD, Douglas over Elba, Voight over Paul, Jonze over Coogan, Blanchett over Dench). Woody Allen is of course a highly deserving Lifetime Achievement Winner, says a lot he had a great film in the running too that year. Happy for Elisabeth Moss too as I loved her on Mad Men and I really need to check out Top of the Lake at some point. I'd certainly have preferred Isaac, Phoenix and Dern for Best Comedy(?) Actor, but you can't be mad at Leo. Hill getting in at the Oscars is the bigger joke about TWoWS. The boys from Dallas Buyers Club deserve their wins too and McConaughey said that it was surprising as 12YaS (including Ejiofor) was the front runner before that night. But the losses for Director, Screenplay and Ejiofor showed that the film lost a bit of momentum. It was almost a surprise they won Best Drama eventually. Nyong'o's loss was shocking to me especially, but glad she took the Oscar then. "All is Lost" was a very inspired Best Score winner, shame they did not get in at the Oscars. Oh yeah and while I think 12 Years a Slave is a good film, I would have preferred all 4 other nominees to win instead. It was truly an amazing year for drama movies. It was also a good year for the comedy category as Nebraska, Her and especially Inside Lleyn Davis are all top-notch, TWoWS is also better than American Hustle, but no idea why they went for the letter so many times, at least not for Best Screenplay.
Overall, I can see why this awards ceremony became an awards winner as well, even if they lost the two Emmy nominations. It was pretty fun to watch for the most part and most winners were somewhat deserving I guess. Overall, I give it a thumbs-up and recommend checking it out.