Golden Globes 2015: ‘Boyhood,’ ‘Transparent,’ ‘The Affair’ Clean Up
Indie films and quirky TV dramas won big at the Golden Globes Sunday night, as some of the biggest risks that film and television producers have taken in recent years were rewarded. Director Richard Linklater‘s life drama Boyhood took home three trophies, while nuanced television series like Transparent, The Affair and Fargo also won multiple awards.
Although the Golden Globes rarely predicts wins at the Oscars and Emmys in the coming months, the typically loose soiree has historically been the place where high risks are highly rewarded – and not just when it comes to Cosby jokes in the opening monologue. So when Linklater called his 12-years-in-the-making portrait of youth the “biggest leap of faith in film history,” during his acceptance speech for the night’s most coveted honor — Best Motion Picture, Drama — he wasn’t kidding. But even if the awards show isn’t the sure-thing arbiter of honors to come, this year it revealed itself as a predictor where Hollywood could be heading.
From speeches that recognized the evolving roles of women in Hollywood to streaming services beating out programs and actors on terrestrial TV, the Golden Globes this year showed that the worlds of film and TV aren’t nearly as predictable as they were even a decade ago. This was nowhere more apparent than in the shows that won in TV categories.