A year after going silent – no red carpet, no stars, no television broadcast in 2022 – the Golden Globes have returned to form at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles: champagne bottles opened, over time and overloaded, gesturing to improve your longstanding diversity issues by taking pictures of host Jerrod Carmichael.
The big winners of the night were The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical family drama that also won him the best director award, and Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, while network darling Abbott Elementary, the HBO prequel , House of the Dragon and The White Lotus took home the top TV awards.
The 80th annual Golden Globes, an image rehabilitation program of sorts after a February 2021 investigation by the Los Angeles Times found the Hollywood Foreign Press Association lacked black members and several ethical lapses, saw a diverse list of winners. , including absent Zendaya for the second season of Euphoria; Quinta Brunson and Tyler James Williams of Abbott Elementary; and the night’s first winner, Ke Huy Quan, who celebrated an exciting return to acting after child stardom in the 1980s with Everything Everywhere All At Once. Angela Bassett of Wakanda Forever has become the first person to win a major individual acting award for a Marvel film.
The HFPA made some changes ahead of the three-hour-plus broadcast from the Beverly Hilton Hotel, such as hiring a diversity consultant, who promptly resigned, and adding six black journalists (among 21 new members) and a more diverse group of 103 non-member international voters. But Carmichael, a North Carolina comedian, clearly stated the status of the Globes: “I’m only being invited to host this, I know, because I’m black.”
“I won’t say they were a racist organization, but they didn’t have a single black member until George Floyd,” he said of the Hollywood Foreign Press. “Then do with that information what you will.”
Carmichael joked — or didn’t joke, as his speech throughout the night was low-key, direct and unflappable — that he was “indispensable” as the first black host in the show’s 80-year history. He downplayed the HFPA’s image rehabilitation efforts, recounting a one-on-one meeting with the group’s president, Helen Hoehne, which he repeatedly turned down. “I took this job assuming they hadn’t changed anything,” he said. “I heard they got six new black members, congrats to them, whatever of course. But that’s not why I’m here. I’m truly here because of all of you” – as in the room full of “really amazing artists” he looked up to. “Regardless of whatever the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s past is, this is a night we celebrate, and I think this industry deserves nights like this.”
Carmichael didn’t relax, eliciting some awkward gasps at the end of the night with a joke about Tom Cruise while introducing his Top Gun co-stars Maverick, Glenn Powell and Jay Ellis: “Backstage, I found these three Golden Globe awards that Tom Cruise returned it… maybe we can take those three things and trade them for the safe return of Shelly Miscavige,” he said, referring to the long-unseen wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige.
True to Carmichael’s intent, most of the night was spent celebrating talent, some of it late. “This is also for all the shoulders I stand on, everyone who came before me who looks like me and everyone who is on this journey with me,” said Michelle Yeoh, winner of best actress in a musical or comedy for her first leading role. on a call sheet in a decades-long career. Best dramatic actor Austin Butler, for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, dedicated his award, in part, to Lisa-Marie and Priscilla Presley, who were in attendance, as well as the King – “you are remembered and I will never forget”.
Ryan Murphy, accepting the Carol Burnett Lifetime Achievement Award, used much of his speech to celebrate the achievements of queer actors such as Billy Porter, MJ Rodriguez, Jeremy Pope and Matt Bomer as a “point of hope and progress”. for LGBTQ+ viewers watching. at home. “When I was a young man at home in the ’70s watching The Carol Burnett Show, I never saw a person like me winning an award or even being a character on a TV show,” he said. “It’s tough being an LGBTQ kid in America.”
The ceremony also included a lifetime achievement award to Eddie Murphy, who offered his “blueprint” for success: “pay your taxes, mind your own business and keep the name of Will Smith’s wife out of your fucking mouth.”
Because it’s the Globe, there were some unforced errors, such as persistent issues with running speeches too early, including a full-on music blast drowning out the acceptance speech for Best Non-English Language Film, Argentina, 1985. The question generated a number of comments. of talent on stage – “you can forget about that piano,” said Colin Farrell, who won best supporting actor in a drama, as he praised his Banshees of Inisherin co-star Kerry Condon. “I can hit you, okay?” joked Yeoh. Jennifer Coolidge has been through it twice, as a presenter and as an emotional winner for her supporting role in the second season of The White Lotus.
Other winners throughout the night included Cate Blanchett for Tar, Jeremy Allen White for The Bear, Evan Peters for Ryan Murphy’s controversial Netflix hit, Dahmer, Paul Walter Hauser for Black Bird, Kevin Costner for Yellowstone and Amanda Seyfried, by The Dropout. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio won the award for best animated film.
Spielberg took home the best director award and the final award of the night for The Fabelmans, a story based on his family.
“I’ve been hiding from this story since I was 17. I put a lot of things my way into this story,” he said. “Everyone sees me as a success story… But no one really knows who we are until we have the courage to tell everyone who we are.”
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