Dave Itzkoff Culture reporter
Mark Ruffalo is getting family-bombed during his acceptance speech, momentarily validating the noticeably ragged production value of this broadcast.
Best Actor | Limited Series
Mark Ruffalo
Wins best actor in a limited series for “I Know This Much Is True.”
Dave Itzkoff Culture reporter
Are ... we going to hear more later in the night from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association? Did they bring out three of their officers to say that their solution to having more representation in the organization is ... we’re working on it?
Best Animated Movie
“Soul”
Wins best animated movie.
Dave Itzkoff Culture reporter
It is truly impossible to tell if all these audio glitches are part of the actual program or just the usual level of chaos.
Best Actress | Musical or Comedy Series
Catherine O’Hara
Wins best actress in a musical or comedy series for “Schitt’s Creek.”
Dave Itzkoff Culture reporter
Seems appropriate to have Christian Slater on a night when the unofficial theme is “Pump Up the Volume.”
Feb. 28, 2021, 8:22 p.m. ET
“Mank,” David Fincher’s black-and-white tale of Old Hollywood, is nominated for six trophies at tonight’s Golden Globes, the most of any film. It has been available for viewing on Netflix since Dec. 4.
Seen it yet?
That’s OK. Neither have a lot of people in Hollywood.
What about “The Father,” about the devastation of dementia? It is a contender for best drama and three other prizes. Or perhaps “The Mauritanian,” set at Guantánamo and vying for two Globes in acting categories? Or the twice-nominated “Judas and the Black Messiah,” about Black political radicals in the 1960s? It actually received a national release in theaters (about 1,900 of the operating ones) this month.
Seen any of them?
Well, I don’t know what to tell you. Pretend like you have at least heard of a couple.
In a year when almost all of the nominated films have bypassed theaters because of the pandemic, the Globes — the biggest-tent awards show there is, given its dual focus on film and television — may feel rather small. Nominees have struggled to get noticed. For many people, including some in Hollywood, it is hard to care about little golden thingamabobs at a time when the coronavirus is still killing roughly 2,000 Americans on most days.
“The stakes have never been lower,” Tina Fey, returning to host the ceremony with Amy Poehler, has been saying in deadpan Globe ads.
Margaret Lyons TV critic
That’s one of the weird parts about the TV side of the Globes; it’s out of sync with the Emmys. So some shows nominated already had their final or only eligible Emmys last year (“Schitt’s,” “Unorthodox”) but some new shows won't be eligible until this coming fall (“Ted Lasso”).
Best Supporting Actor | Series or Limited Series
John Boyega
Wins best supporting actor in a series or limited series for “Small Axe.”
Dave Itzkoff Culture reporter
“Do I just talk automatically?” Boyega asks. Even he seems a little stunned to have unseated “Schitt’s Creek,” I think.
Margaret Lyons TV critic
I was just wondering what they were doing for the physical statues, and the answer is “just sending them later.” Easier than what the Emmys did, I guess?
Dave Itzkoff Culture reporter
I’ll have whatever Bill Murray was having.
Margaret Lyons TV critic
Nice to see generic Zoom shortcomings affect us all.
Dave Itzkoff Culture reporter
We didn’t get the initial audio from Kaluuya’s acceptance speech, and that didn’t bode well.
Kyle Buchanan The Projectionist
Daniel Kaluuya chewing gum on mute ... legendary.
Best Supporting Actor
Daniel Kaluuya
Wins best supporting actor for “Judas and the Black Messiah.”
Margaret Lyons TV critic
Fey closes the monologue with “Could this whole night have been an email?” We’ll see!
Feb. 28, 2021, 8:10 p.m. ET
Let the show begin! The Golden Globes just got underway, and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are back as the hosts, but, in an early reminder of how much the pandemic has changed this year’s ceremony, they are not in the same room, or even on the same coast.
Poehler is back at the Beverly Hilton, the traditional site of the Globes. But Fey is on the other side of the country at the swanky Rainbow Room in New York. The pair wasted little time before firing off the first zingers of the night — and also establishing their locations.
“I’m Tina Fey, coming to you from the beautiful Rainbow Room in New York City, where indoor dining and outdoor muggings are back,” Fey said.
“Yes, and I am Amy Poehler here at the Beverly Hilton, District 7, New Angeles, and this is the 78th annual hunger games,” Poehler said.
“Golden Globes,” Fey corrected her.
Dave Itzkoff Culture reporter
The Globes are missing one of their most distinctive elements: the well-fed and slightly soused celebrity guests laughing in person at all the hosts’ jokes. Fey had a decent line about “The Queen’s Gambit,” which she described as “whatever James Corden was up to in ‘The Prom,’ I guess.” But seeing Corden smile wanly over Zoom in reaction didn’t have quite the same effect.
Kyle Buchanan The Projectionist
Tina Fey briefly addresses the controversy about Globes diversity, tucking “no black journalists” into a longer joke about what exactly the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is.
Dave Itzkoff Culture reporter
This is not the Golden Globes show of years past, that's for sure. The room — rooms — are quieter and the hosts' entrances are more muted. It's clever to see how they're using split-screen to make it seem as if Amy Poehler (at the Beverly Hilton) and Tina Fey (at the Rainbow Room) are somehow side-by-side. Fey says she's in New York “where indoor dining and outdoor muggings are back”; Poehler says she's hailing from “District 7, New Angeles, and this is the 78th annual Hunger Games.”
Feb. 28, 2021, 7:41 p.m. ET
Because of the pandemic, the stars are far-flung this year, and the live audience for the Golden Globes is being made up of select front-line workers. We asked our reporter Cara Buckley, who formerly covered awards season, what the scene inside the Beverly Hilton is normally like. Here’s what she told us:
Being inside the ballroom at the Beverly Hilton is like going to celebrity zoo.
The famous people sit at tables toward the front near the stage, and people of diminishing importance are seated further toward the back. When the cameras are on, no one is supposed to mill around or be standing in the front area, but during commercial breaks, it’s like a stampede — people from hinterland tables basically gallop toward the stage area to fawn over celebrities until members of the production staff herd them out again when the show comes back on.
That’s part of the reason the Globes are more fun than the Academy Awards — people can actually move around, and go grab food and drinks, instead of being poured into Spanx and gowns and stuck in their seats for hours on end at the Oscars.
The Globes have a reputation for being quite boozy — celebrities are greeted with flutes of champagne the moment they step on the red carpet — but that bawdiness has diminished over the years as the television audience grew: It’s hard for anyone to cut loose knowing that there’s something like 18 million viewers watching them live. But off-camera and certainly at the afterparties, there’s dancing, imbibing, clandestine smoking and a sense of relief that the first big show of awards season is in the rearview mirror.
Feb. 28, 2021, 7:24 p.m. ET
Forget the Zoom shirt; welcome to the Zoom evening gown. Also the Zoom tux.
If the Golden Globes red carpet wasn’t exactly the red carpet we were used to, nor was it the dressed-down stars-in-their-jammies-pretending-to-be-just-like-us reveal that marked the celebrity-packed fund-raisers of the pandemic past. Instead, the first of the big award shows of 2021 gave us the hitherto before unimagined … home red carpet.
Turns out you can only keep the Hollywood-fashion industrial complex down for so long. But this time, the sight of stars in their finery in their social isolation seemed less like a mercenary marketing play (though there’s obviously still some of that) than a refusal to wallow and an understanding of the value of vicarious escapism.
As Laverne Cox said during the preshow segment as she posed in what she called “a standing Zoom” — the better to show off her frock — “we should have a moment.” And if not now, when? So she, and the rest of the nominees and presenters, proceeded to provide one.
Elle Fanning beamed in to show off a mint green silk charmeuse Gucci frock with elaborate diamanté straps, worn “to walk from the kitchen to the living room,” because — well, “why not?” Josh Charles showed off his Loewe-meets-Edward Scissorhands tux lapels from his hotel in London, flapping them at the camera with aplomb. Amanda Seyfried posed in a hallway wearing crimson floor-length Oscar de la Renta with a built-in stole of fabric flowers draped around her shoulders.
And thus the human desire to get dressed up was the first winner of the night.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that puts on the Golden Globes, has long been widely viewed as colorful, if not necessarily journalistically productive. But this year, in the run-up to the awards, a recently filed lawsuit, a review of financial records and a series of interviews all put the organization under an unusual amount of outside scrutiny.
Courting the favors of the group’s members — there are only 87 — has become a ritualized Tinseltown pursuit. A Golden Globe nomination, and certainly a win, is a publicity boon that can boost careers, jack up box office earnings and foreshadow an Academy Award. So studios, production companies, strategists and publicists feverishly chase members’ votes.
Celebrities send them handwritten holiday cards. Studios put them up at five-star hotels. Champagne, pricey wine, signed art, cashmere blankets, slippers, record players, cakes, headphones and speakers have arrived at their doorsteps, recipients say.
In 2018, NBC agreed to pay $60 million a year for broadcast rights, about triple the previous licensing fee. In the tax year ending in June 2019, the tax-exempt nonprofit was sitting on about $55 million in cash, donated about $5 million to assorted causes and paid more than $3 million in salaries and other compensation to members and staff. (Being on the association’s TV Viewing Committee, for instance, paid members $3,465 a month, internal reports showed.)
A recent investigation by The Los Angeles Times found, among other things, that the group has no Black members — a problem the group subsequently acknowledged and vowed to remediate.
Some of the renewed attention came in the wake of a lawsuit brought by Kjersti Flaa, a Norwegian reporter who has thrice been denied admittance to the group, who alleged that the association acted as a monopoly, hogging prized interviews.
A judge threw out the majority of the lawsuit filed against the association, but the plaintiff has amended it and refiled. Gregory Goeckner, the organization’s chief operating officer and general counsel, described the allegations in the suit as “salacious.” And he said the association only remunerates members when they do extra work.
Meanwhile, the Golden Globes go on.
“It’s a big-tent network television show, and as such, invaluable to film campaigns hoping to contend for Oscar nominations and wins,” said Tony Angellotti, a publicist who runs awards campaigns, in an email. “And the H.F.P.A. track record for identifying worthy films is indisputable. That’s not nothing.”
Feb. 28, 2021, 7:01 p.m. ET
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which puts on the Golden Globes, likes to bestow its trophies on films that already have plenty of Oscar momentum, but the small size of the group — around 90 eccentric journalists who vote — leaves every category open to a shock winner.
Then there’s the fact that the H.F.P.A. is also under fire after a raft of recent articles exposed double-dealing practices and an insular membership. There are no Black voters, and that may explain the absence of any of the acclaimed Black-led ensembles like “Da 5 Bloods” and “One Night in Miami” from the best drama nominations.
Will voters respond to the controversies by picking a diverse set of worthy winners, or will the usual Globes anarchy prevail? We asked our awards expert, Kyle Buchanan, and he said he expected a bit of both. Here’s what else he predicted:
— “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” could sweep the comedy categories, with Sacha Baron Cohen and Maria Bakalova, the movie’s breakout star, getting acting trophies as well as the film itself taking home best motion picture, comedy.
— The drama races are tougher to call. “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Nomadland” will battle it out for best motion picture, drama, with the edge going to the courtroom tale. For best actress in a drama, Carey Mulligan (“Promising Young Woman”) may pull out the victory over Frances McDormand (“Nomadland”).
— But when it comes to best actor in a drama, Chadwick Boseman, nominated for his final performance, in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” is as close to a lock as there is. He’s the front-runner for the Oscars, too.
Feb. 28, 2021, 7:01 p.m. ET
When the 78th annual Golden Globes are handed out on Sunday, they will be the first major awards show of the season, coming nearly two months after we would typically find out the best picture winner.
The ceremony begins at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific. The network broadcasting the ceremony, NBC, has a preshow; with Jane Lynch and Susan Kelechi Watson as hosts, it starts at 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific.
On television, NBC is the official broadcaster. Online, if you have a cable login, you can watch via NBC.com/live. Depending on where you live, there’s also Hulu + Live TV, Sling TV, AT&T TV Now, YouTube TV or FuboTV, which all require subscriptions, though many are offering free trials.
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