Fey and Poehler, speaking for everyone about the Golden Globes. Photo: NBC The Golden Globe Awards are known for their messiness: the public displays of drunkenness, the unpredictable winners, the crowd reaction shots that inevitably become GIFs and memes.
A lot of the Golden Globes was indeed messy this year, but not necessarily the good kind of messy. The pandemic forced the ceremony to be a largely remote affair, five months after the pandemic forced the Emmy Awards to be a largely remote affair.
The maddening awards-show tendency to cut to the audience when recipients are speaking — because, you know, GIFs and memes — was even more frustrating in this hybrid realm where the members of the crowd were just hanging at home. Jodie Foster is great, her dog is adorable, and it was wonderful when her wife, Alexandra Hedison, who was dressed in a nice pair of satin PJs, kissed her after she won for her performance in The Mauritanian.
The Golden Globes organizers always pray for happy, funny, or touching accidents, and despite some of the Zoom mayhem, there were times when those prayers were answered. Chadwick Boseman’s widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, gave a teary and moving acceptance speech on her late husband’s behalf when he posthumously received a Globe for his work in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
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