Golden Globes 2016: ‘Revenant,’ ‘Martian’ Win Big
The 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards were a typically loose affair on Sunday, thanks to comically sloshed host Ricky Gervais, and it made for a night filled with bawdy laughs and unpredictable wins. The Revenant, The Martian and Steve Jobs earned multiple trophies in a surprising upset that left the evening’s most-nominated film, Carol, empty-handed. Moreover, Leonardo DiCaprio won Best Actor, Drama for his gritty role in The Revenant, while Jennifer Lawrence (Joy), Matt Damon (The Martian) and Brie Larson (Room) all took home major acting awards.
In television, cable and streaming-only shows won big over terrestrial programming with Mr. Robot and Mozart in the Jungle garnering multiple globes at the typically loose event. The program was broadcast on NBC, a network that ironically had no shows in the running.
Gervais, the awards show’s most infamous repeat offender, led the show for the first time since 2012. He opened the show by promising that he’d “try and be nice” this year, but as his monologue quickly proved no one was safe. With a pint of beer in front of him, he took jabs at Caitlyn Jenner (she’s done a lot this year but “not much for women drivers”), Jennifer Lawrence (“How can a 25-year-old live on $52 million a year?”) and NBC (“the only network that is fair and impartial” because of its dearth of nominations). Later in the broadcast, he’d make fun of Mel Gibson in his introduction and even returned to the stage to skewer the actor to his face, making fun of the former Mad Max’s truly mad meltdown in 2010. Gervais set the tone for the evening, which frequently derailed into maudlin, censored sarcasm.
At its worst, the event provided a podium on which Jonah Hill donned a silly bear hat and made insipid jokes about The Revenant, and it served as a platform for copious name dropping: Christian Slater said, “Hi, Harrison,” while accepting an award; Jamie Foxx shouted out Will Smith; Aziz Ansari read a fictional book titled Losing to Jeffrey Tambor With Dignity (even though both lost to Mozart in the Jungle’s Gael García Bernal). Elsewhere, Jaimie Alexander broke an awkward exchange at the teleprompter, which was moving slower than usual, by saying, “Dude, who’s typing this shit?” And Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling carried on a ridiculous routine in the lead-up to introducing The Big Short, in which Gosling pretended to act petulant; it was so convincing it deserved its own trophy.
Foxx also skewered the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s lack of ethnic diversity in its nominations by repeating Steve Harvey’s Miss Universe flub almost word-for-word when naming the Best Original Score winner as Straight Outta Compton – a movie snubbed in the nominations – instead of its winner, Hateful Eight composer Ennio Morricone. He also later deadpanned the words “the ghetto” after Quentin Tarantino used them with regard to soundtrack artists in an effort not to let that slip by.
“I want to share this award with all the First Nations people represented in this film and all the indigenous communities around the world,” Leonardo DiCaprio said.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Revenant director Alejandro Iñárritu both used acceptance speeches to draw the attention to the rights of indigenous peoples. “I want to share this award with all the First Nations people represented in this film and all the indigenous communities around the world,” said the actor. “It is time that we recognize your history and that we protect your indigenous lands from corporate interests and people that are out there to exploit them. It is time that we heard your voice and protected this planet for future generations.”
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