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The statuette was one of 25 to be handed out Sunday by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in a NBC broadcast hosted by comic actors Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Other winners included Daniel Kaluuya, for best supporting actor in a motion picture, for his role in “Judas and the Black Messiah,” a Warner Bros. a film about the FBI’s infiltration of the Black Panthers, and John Boyega, who was voted best supporting actor in a TV role for his part in “Small Axe,” an Amazon.com show about London’s West Indian community. “Schitt’s Creek” captured the award for best TV comedy.
Nomadland makes Golden Globes history, as virtual gala honours Chadwick Boseman
By AFP
By Andrew Marszal
US road movie Nomadland made Golden Globes history Sunday as Chloe Zhao became the first female director to win the awards top prize for best drama with her film about a generation of marginalized Americans roaming the West in vans, which now motors into Oscars pole position.
Zhao also bagged the best director Globe, making her only the second woman to do so in the history of Hollywood s traditional awards season opener, which was a mainly virtual ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The late Chadwick Boseman won best actor for 1920s blues drama Ma Rainey s Black Bottom, six months after his death from cancer at age 43, in a night of emotional moments interspersed with technical glitches, awkward jokes and a row over the lack of diversity among event organizers.
Because that’s where all the winners came from this year. With vanishingly few exceptions, all the television awards went to Netflix shows. The Crown won a ton, with The Queen’s Gambit and Schitt’s Creek – a Netflix show by proxy, given that nobody outside Canada saw it before it was added to its library – mopping up the most of the rest.
And, look, that’s fine. Everyone likes The Crown. It’s big and grand and stately and expensive, and exists in that weird area where it makes you feel smarter for watching it, even if it doesn’t actually make you smarter. The most recent series was probably the best yet, since it was set in a period of time where the royal family actually did something, and the cast managed to elevate the material more than it deserved. Emma Corrin’s performance as Princess Diana was so extraordinary that her win was all but guaranteed the instant she appeared onscreen, leotarding around some shrubbery. The same goes for Josh O’Connor’s Charles