It was not until the home stretch of the 78th Golden Globes ceremony, on the night of Sunday February 28 to Monday March 1, to shiver with emotions and surprises in an evening organized at a distance, where the speeches have long remained wise and sanitized.
Tears when Chadwick Boseman's widow, Simone, posthumously accepted his Best Actor trophy for
The Blues of Ma Rainey
.
Shock when Andra Day, star of the biopic on singer
Billie Hollyday against the State
, blew the statuette of the best actress to the archifavorites Carey Mulligan, Frances McDormand or Vanessa Kirby.
Pure joy like that of Jodie Foster when she receives in pajamas, her dog on her knees, the title of best supporting role for
Designated Guilty
, immersed in the hell of Guantánamo.
Jodie Foster - / AFP
It felt like writing history and reshuffling the cards of the Oscar race when
Nomadland
won the two most prestigious awards of the evening: best dramatic film and best director.
Award-winning in Toronto and Venice, this hymn by Chloe Zhao to the glory of modern hippies crisscrossing the United States in their vans was not a favorite against Netflix's feature films, the
Chicago Seven
politician
by Aaron Sorkin and
Mank
du veteran David Fincher.
Holder of the record for nomination, this account of the genesis of
Citizen Kane
finally left empty-handed.
Despite 22 nominations, Netflix will still have to wait before claiming the title of best film.
Chloe Zhao becomes only the second director to win the Golden Globes, decades after Barbara Streisand.
She hits the pawn on her sisters Regina King and Merald Fennell, who fail to materialize any of their nominations for
A Night in Miami
and the corrosive tale of revenge post "MeToo
Promising Young Woman
."
Like the French competing for the evening: actor Tahar Rahim, and directors Florian Zeller and Filippo Meneghetti
Do his mea culpa
Perhaps a sign that, like the Oscars, the Golden Globes, awarded by 87 journalists, have finally started their
aggiornamento
.
Of Asian origin, Chloe Zhao was also able to witness the triumph of her colleague of Korean origin Lee Isaac Chung.
His semi-biographical integration story,
Minari,
came away with the title of best foreign film.
The controversial Golden Globes regulations placed it in this category since Korean is spoken more there than English, even though the film is indeed American!
At the Oscars, for which the Golden Globes are rightly or wrongly considered an antechamber,
Minari
will be eligible in all categories.
Weighted down by all the controversies over its lack of transparency and diversity, its interpersonal skills, the Golden Globes, which are organized by the Association of the Foreign Press in Hollywood (HFPA) and do not have any black critics, have had other choices than to recognize from the outset that they had to reform.
The task of self-criticism was devolved to the two facilitators of the evening: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who multiplied the spikes in their opening speech.
“Soul
is a beautiful Pixar animated film where the soul of a black man is transferred from his body to that of a cat.
This really touched the HFPA which has five voters of feline origin in its ranks,
"joked Tina Fey, who also explained that Germany"
was represented by a sausage
".
The prize list was an opportunity to catch up quickly.
The first winner of the evening was Daniel Kaluuya, crowned best supporting role for the film
Judah And The Black Messiah
on the infiltration of the Black Panther.
Amy Poehler even quipped: "
Alright, we've fixed the Golden Globes."
The
Get Out
star
was followed by John Boyega.
The
Star Wars
hero
won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Miniseries, notably beating Hugh Grant, for his performance as a British black policeman discriminated against by his hierarchy in
Steve McQueen's
activist anthology
Small Ax
, portrait of the Caribbean community in England during the post-war boom.
"Chadwick Boseman would thank God and his ancestors"
Recipient of an honorary trophy, Jane Fonda urged Hollywood to be more open-minded: “
Stories can really change people.
But there is a story we've been afraid to see and hear about ourselves in this industry, the one of the voices we respect and raise and the one of the voices we ignore.
Who sits at the table?
Who is kept away from the rooms where decisions are made
”.
Rosamund Pike NBC HANDOUT / REUTERS
Often delivering political commentary, the winners have remained low-key with the exception of comedian and humorist Sacha Baron Cohen, who, for his satire of the Trumpian presidency
Borat 2
, collects the trophy for best comic actor and best comedy.
Facetious and abrasive, the Briton thanked
"the very white HFPA and praised the talent of the new hope of comedy Rudy Giulani".
The former New York mayor and Trump lawyer is immortalized in a compromising position.
Another surprise winner, Rosamund Pike, best actress in the black comedy
I Care A Lot
, pointed out that the film could never have existed without
"an American legal system at the end of its rope".
Chadwick Boseman and his wife Simone - / AFP
But the speech that will remain of the evening will be that of the wife of Chadwick Boseman, who died of cancer and awarded posthumously for her incandescent performance as a jazz trumpeter in
The Blues of Ma Rainey
.
“
He would thank God.
He would thank his parents.
He would thank his ancestors for their advice and sacrifices, ”
said his widow.
“He would say something beautiful,”
his wife continued in a speech that brought tears to the eyes of some remitters like Renée Zellwegger.
And to conclude:
“Something inspiring, something that would amplify this little voice inside us that tells us that you can, that tells you to continue.
I don't have his words, but we must take the time to celebrate those we love
”.
Emma Corrin CHRISTOPHER POLK / AFP
Another emotional moment took place on the side of the sections rewarding the small screen.
As expected,
The Crown
did a heist, leaving with four trophies, including the best soap opera.
Loving to crown young actors, the HFPA surprised by preferring the debutante Emma Corrin, astonishing Diana, to the confirmed Olivia Colman who plays Elizabeth II.
Very moved, the young woman, of which it was the first leading role, displayed a contagious stupefied joy.
Corrin's victory preceded that of his partners Gillian Anderson, stunning Margaret Thatcher, and Josh O'Connor.
The interpreter of the wonderful and flabby Prince Charles hoped that after
"a year of confinement, fiction will be able to address the question of psychological suffering"
.
Anya Taylor-Joy NBC HANDOUT / REUTERS
Another hope to triumph with his series: the revelation of the
game of the lady
Anya Taylor-Joy, best actress of the top of her 24 years against Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman.
Andra Day stunned CHRISTOPHER POLK / AFP
List of main awards
Best Dramatic Film:
Nomadland
Best Comedy or Musical Film:
Borat 2
Best Director: Chloé Zhao (
Nomadland
)
Best Actress in a Dramatic Feature: Andra Day (
Billie Holiday, A State Affair
)
Best Actor in a Dramatic Film: Chadwick Boseman (
The Blues of Ma Rainey
)
Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical Film: Rosamund Pike (
I Care a Lot
)
Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical Film: Sacha Baron Cohen (
Borat 2
)
Best Supporting Actress: Jodie Foster (
Designated Guilty
)
Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya (
Judas and the Black Messiah
)
Best Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin (
The Chicago Seven
)
Best Foreign Language Film:
Minari
Best Animated Feature:
Soul
Best Musical or Comedy
Series
:
Schitt's Creek
Best Drama Series:
The Crown
Best Mini-Series or TV Movie:
The Queen's Gambit
