Deadline’s Golden Globes Live Blog: How It All Went Down

Harvey Weinstein booed in 20 years during the in memorium? wow have things changed in Hollywood.

Wow this is getting painful!

Kimmel is a lifer for the Oscars, i hope. It makes one wonder how Ricky Gervais might have done, but he likes to lacerate the people in the room, not beat up on those who aren’t in the room.

Nicole Kidman with the longest acceptance speech in history. Will they dare play off women who go on and on, if they might say something about #metoo. Perhaps men deserve to be the ones played off this year

Wow, a standing ovation for Jennifer Aniston!

I know everybody is wearing black, but this show is sooo serious it’s beginning to feel a bit like a funeral.

Seth Meyers ought to come out and do something. The Globes were always fun with the attendees getting loaded at their tables. I respect the seriousness of themes surrounding this gathering, but this is by far the dullest, most self serious awards show I can recall.

I thought it might suck, and so far, spot on.

Dwayne Johnson’s line about loving charitable causes, and that’s why he lets Kevin Hart be in his movies is about the only funny thing in about the last hour. Does anybody remember laughter?

I don’t see how Allison Janney doesn’t win Best Supporting Actress Oscar for I, Tonya. Hilarious performance, mixed expertly with the subtext of her portraying a loveless woman who forged her daughter Tonya Harding’s skating expertise with coldness and brutality. As a bird pecked at her ear, the entire film.

Not enough people have seen I, Tonya. too bad the Globes doesn’t show us why her performance is so exceptional. why take time away from these endless speeches.? The Golden Globes is making C-Span feel compelling.

Brilliant script by Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards. I thought his script for In Bruges was as close to a perfect, seamless script as it gets.

Fox Searchlight has won three of the eight film awards so far. Three Billboards has won two and The Shape of Water won one. I’m declaring right here that Francis McDormand wins in her category. Disney, the studio which acquired Fox and will decide the future of Fox Searchlight, has won only one award, for Coco.

The Globes made a tactical error, getting so caught up in the sex harassment vibe that it didn’t intersperse enough humorous interruptions from Seth Meyers, or anything funny, at all. The clips of the films and TV programs are so brief, especially in the nominated categories that are shown. 

Our Pete Hammond reporting that Call Me By Your Name producer Rodrigo Teixeira has filed a protest with AMPAS, appealing his omission from the nominated producers in the Producers Guild’s announcement of Best Picture nominees. Several producers didn’t make the cut including Howard Rosenman, who along with Peter Spears, were the first producers on the project. Teixeira told Hammond that it was agreed in advance that Rosenman and James Ivory would stand aside, but not him. Teixeria said he worked three years on that film but had a child in the hospital and missed many days on the set. The Academy could make an exception, but they have mostly taken the Producers Guild vetting system to heart. This came about because the PGA watched an excess of producers getting credits to the point it was becoming a joke. Stay tuned. 

How about some fun?

Wow, Guillermo del Toro, looking svelte and winning Best Director Prize over Steven Spielberg and the other nominees. He has always been a visual genius. Many felt he got close to greatness with Pan’s Labryinth. But he has put together all his talents with Shape of Water, a wonderful fairy tale. And another win for Fox Searchlight.

Did they just really show the accountants to tease the Best Picture categories? It’s Ernst & Young, not Price Waterhouse Cooper, which sent last year’s superb Oscarcast off a cliff when a starstruck bean counter assigned to deliver awards envelopes was distracted tweeting star photos and handing  the wrong envelope to Warren Beatty.

Two big wins for Lady Bird, Best Picture and Best Actress. The Globes usually are some kind of indicator of Oscars, but the hardware is being scattered so far and wide it is difficult to clear up what is the most wide open Best Picture race in years.

Gary Oldman’s win for Darkest Hour cements him as front runner for Best Actor Oscar. Hard to imagine that in a career filled with crazy good performances, he has only been Oscar nominated once. That will change, and perhaps he’ll win one, despite the presence of perennials Denzel Washington and Daniel Day-Lewis, latter in his final performance.

This firms Fran McDormand’s place as frontrunner for Best Actress Oscar in her best work since the original Fargo. Not a false note in the movie.

Seems hard to believe a woman hasn’t won the Best Director prize here since Streisand did in 1984. but then it seems hard to believe that Patty Jenkins took 14 years between directing features, from Monster to Wonder Woman. You can feel the ground shifting, and we’ve written far more stories in the last year of movies getting green lit with female directors.

Three Billboards winning Best Drama confuses Best Pictures. It is a surprise that The Post came away empty handed. The big winner was Fox Searchlight, which walks away with a total of six awards, between Three Billboards and The Shape of Water. A good showing for Steve Gilula and Nancy Utley as Disney ponders whether it wants to add a prestige film business to its silo of Pixar cartoons, superheroes, animated classics remakes and Star Wars sequels and spinoffs.

The final grade on the 75th Golden Globes is that it was strong on politics, but it was hard pressed to overcome the serious overtones of the sexual harassment scandals that have paralyzed Hollywood. Seth Meyers started that tone with some good material on the subject, but then he seemed to disappear so completely that you forgot who the host was. Maybe he gets another chance next year, when there might be room for more levity. But the Globes in past years has often been more fun than the Oscars because of the rigid format of the latter and the obligatory below the line categories and speeches by people you’ve never heard of that bog down the Oscarcast. This Globes was so politicized, not with Trump barbs but the shameful secrets in Hollywood’s own backyard, that perhaps it was impossible to expect an entertaining show. There were certainly organic highlights, most significantly Oprah Winfrey’s electric speech that summed up the crisis and honored the victims who are still coming forward. But there was little room for fun this year.