Sasha Baron Cohen’s satire “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” won film honors at the Golden Globes on Sunday in a largely bicoastal concert marked by pandemic situations and calling for more diversity.
“Nomadland,” a moving drama about female residents of America hit the recession from Searchlight Pictures, won top honors, including the best director award for China-born Chloe Zhao. He made Zhao only the second woman to win at the Globes in that category, and the first female leader of Asian descent to win.
“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” from Amazon Studios was named best film, comedy or music, and won Cohen, best actor in comedy. Referring to Rudy Giuliani’s acclaimed cameo, Baron Cohen thanked him for “a new talent that came from this place and turned out to be a comedy expert. “
“I mean, who would get more laughter from one unzipping,” he said.
The British royal drama “The Crown,” the comedy “Schitt’s Creek,” and the chess saga of the limited edition series “The Queen’s Gambit,” won major television awards.
Actors Emma Corrin, played by the young Princess Diana, Josh O’Connor, played by Prince Charles, and Gillian Anderson, played by Margaret Thatcher, won the Netflix royal series.
Netflix’s time-consuming drama “Mank,” about the screenwriter of “Citizen Kane,” went into Sunday’s show with a top six nodes but ended the night hands-free.
Elsewhere, “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, who died at 43 in an unpublished battle with cancer fans, won the Golden Globe best film actor for his last performance in jazz drama of all time ” Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. “
British actors Daniel Kaluuya and John Boyega, and the animated film “Soul” were among other diverse winners selected by the Hollywood Foreign News Association (HFPA), which was lambasted for the lack of black people among its 87 members.
Members of the HFPA appeared on Sunday’s show and pledged to do better.
The usual chummy collection of A-listers at a gala dinner in Beverly Hills has replaced webcams in the homes of glammed celebrities, small physical audiences made up of face-to-face workers, and a skit about self-proclaimed celebrities talk to doctors about their coronavirus concerns.