Golden Globes 2020: Red carpet, winners and losers; Ricky Gervais skewers Hollywood ‘hypocrites’
Ricky Gervais skewers Hollywood hypocrisy, as climate anger and bushfire tributes dominate the awards night | WATCH
The Golden Globes 2020. The first major ceremony of the awards season has been held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, hosted by Ricky Gervais.
6pm: Crowe flies the flag for Australia
Russell Crowe triumphed but several other Australian stars missed out on wins at the Golden Globes — however the night belonged to Australia as actor after actor sent a message of support for the country battling bushfires, AAP reports.
Crowe was not at the Golden Globes to pick up his award but used his speech to declare the Australian bushfires are the result of climate change. The audience at the Globes, underway in Beverly Hills, was told Crowe was in Australia protecting his family from the bushfires.
Crowe won for his performance as former Fox News boss Roger Ailes in the TV mini-series The Loudest Voice.
Jennifer Aniston, who presented the best actor in a TV limited series or movie award, read the speech.
“Make no mistake the tragedy unfolding in Australia is climate change based,” Aniston, reading the speech, said.
“We need to act based on science, move our workforce to renewable energy and respect our planet for the unique and amazing place it is.
“That way we all will have a future.”
The actor’s Nana Glen property near Coffs Harbour in NSW was affected by bushfires in November.
Margot Robbie missed out on the supporting actress Golden Globe for her performance in Bombshell. That was won by Laura Dern for her performance as a divorce lawyer in Marriage Story.
The Queensland actress plays a young producer in Bombshell, which also covers the sexual harassment at Fox news.
Nicole Kidman and Toni Collette also came up short. Kidman, nominated for Big Little Lies, was pipped in the lead actress in a TV drama category by The Crown’s Olivia Colman.
It was a rare loss for Kidman, who has dominated award shows for her role as physically, emotionally and sexually abused mother Celeste Wright in Big Little Lies.
Collette was nominated in the supporting actress in a TV series or movie category for Unbelievable. The Globe went to Patricia Arquette for her performance in The Act.
— AAP
Live blog below: how the Golden Globes ceremony unfolded:
Nicholas Adams-Dzierzba 3.25pm: Gervais’s brutal send-off
1917, the single-take World War I movie, takes out the final gong of the night: best motion picture – drama. Director Sam Mendes urges viewers to see the blockbuster at cinemas.
Host Ricky Gervais shoots off a final salvo to sign off: “That’s it, good night, please donate to Australia, take your drugs, f..k off.”
Nicholas Adams-Dzierzba 3.10pm: ‘Well wishes not enough’
Winning the best actor for a dramatic motion picture for Joker, Joaquin Phoenix adds to the list of actors using their speeches to address political issues and climate change.
“It’s really nice that people have come up and send their well wishes to Australia, but we have to do more than that,” he says.
Together, hopefully we can be unified. It’s great to vote but sometimes we have to do more than that ourselves ... we don’t have to take private jets to Palms Springs.”
The Joker star, who previously won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Johnny Cash in Walk the Line, also acknowledges the Hollywood Foreign Press for making the dinner menu vegan, and thanks his fellow nominees and girlfriend, actress Rooney Mara.
Nicholas Adams-Dzierzba 2.15pm: Blanchett ‘grateful’ at support
Australian actress Cate Blanchett thanked those who had addressed the Australian bushfires.
“There are a lot of Australians in the room and I know we’re all very grateful for the call-outs,” she said.
“A special call out to the volunteer firefighters who are at the centre of the climate disaster. And when one country faces a climate disaster, all countries face a climate disaster.”
Blanchett, presenting a highlight of the film Joker, nominated for four Golden Globes, has been nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for the Richard Linklater directed film Where’d you go, Bernadette?
Nicholas Adams-Dzierzba 1.25pm: Tribute to bushfire victims
Ellen DeGeneres wins the Carol Burnett award for excellence in television, acknowledged for her role in bringing LGTBIQ people into mainstream TV by coming out in her sitcom.
“My heart goes out to all those suffering in the fires in Australia, all the animals we’ve lost,” she says in her acceptance speech.
Her partner, Australian Portia de Rossi, was there to support her wife, who said since getting her talk show 17 years ago her life had been an open book.
Pierce Brosnan also acknowledged the bushfires in Australia after his sons were acknowledged for their charitable work with FEED.
Glynis Traill-Nash 1pm: Red carpet wrap
The red carpet offered up a mere handful of gems, as many stars opted for alarmingly saccharine princess gowns and Jennifer Lopez wrapped herself up as a giant present with a gold and green bow. But, given the Golden Globes is the first show of the awards season, you don’t want to peak too soon.
Pastel shades, puffs and ruffles were trending early, on guests including Kirsten Dunst, Dakota Fanning in lavender Dior. Ten-year-old breakout star Julia Butters of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood wore it best, in a daisy-embellished cream tulle gown.
With a number of Australians up for gongs, fashion plate Cate Blanchett dazzled in a custard-yellow pleated gown with cut-out embellished bust detail by London-based Mary Katrantzou. Margot Robbie looked relaxed with hands in pockets of her strapless Chanel Haute Couture gown.
Women in suits continue to gain traction, with Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge leading the pack in a lace-and-sequin pairing by London-based Australian couturiers Ralph & Russo. Others choosing the suit memo included Kate McKinnon, Kathy Bates, and couple Portia De Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres.
Stylish standouts who didn’t adhere to the main trends included Zoey Deutch in a daffodil custom Fendi jumpsuit with plunge front and balloon sleeves, Gugu Mbatha-Raw in a sequin dress in that most difficult of colours, chartreuse, and Joey King in Spirograph-inspired Iris Van Herpen.
Nicholas Adams-Dzierzba 12.20pm: Crowe gets a win
Russell Crowe has won the Golden Globe for best actor in a limited series for his portrayal of Roger Ailes, the late head of Fox News in The Loudest Voice.
Crowe was not in attendance, so actress Jennifer Aniston, who was presenting the award, read a statement from him, drawing Hollywood’s attention to the Australian bushfires, saying “the tragedy unfolding in Australia is climate changed-based. We need to act based on science, move our global workforce to renewable energy and respect our planet.”
Nicholas Adams-Dzierzba 12.15pm: Gervais skewers celebs
Host Ricky Gervais lampooned the stars attending the 77th Globes ceremony: “Don’t use this as a platform to make a political statement ... Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg.”
Ashleigh Wilson 11.30am: Aussie stars on show
They might have dubious value as Oscar predictions, and curious omissions are almost as noteworthy as winners, but there’s no doubt that the Golden Globes can pull a crowd.
A constellation of stars have descended on the Beverly Hilton in California for this year’s Globes, the 77th chapter, with Netflix set to continue its dominance of Hollywood with a record number of nominations.
Margot Robbie, Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, Toni Collette and Cate Blanchett lead the Australian contingent in the running for honours, which are hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Robbie and Crowe have both been nominated for acting gongs in productions based on the controversial stewardship of Fox News by the late Roger Ailes: Crowe, who played the news boss in The Loudest Room, and Robbie, who is nominated for Bombshell, which also received nominations for her co-star, Charlize Theron.
One of the big stories of the award season will be the performance of Netflix, which received only a single nomination three years ago and this year leads with 34 across both film and television. The streaming service has six nominations for Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, while Martin Scorsese’s the Irishman is up for best film.
But as well as all the winners, and all the frocks, the industry will be watching closely how they are treated by Ricky Gervais, who is returning to host the awards for a fifth time. If you missed his previous material, here is a taste:
11am: Many judged by the few
The Globes, decided by a relatively small group of just over 90 voters and with separate drama and comedy/musical categories, often throws up surprise nominees and Cate Blanchett was one, AFP reports.
She was nominated for best actress in a musical or comedy movie for Where’d You Go, Bernadette and is up against Emma Thompson (Late Night), Beanie Feldstein (Booksmart), Awkwafina (The Farewell) and Ana De Armas (Knives Out). Kidman picked up the Globe nod for her second season TV performance in Big Little Lies, based on Australian author Liane Moriarty’s novel. Kidman cleaned up on the awards show circuit two years ago for her complex and challenging performance as Celeste Wright, in season one.
She faces Big Little Lies co-star Reese Witherspoon, nominated for her new show The Morning, Jennifer Aniston (The Morning), Oscar winner Olivia Colman (The Crown) and Jodie Comer (Killing Eve).
The Globes mark Crowe’s first nomination at a major Hollywood awards show for more than a decade.
He was nominated for playing Ailes in The Loudest Voice, the HBO TV mini-series also about sexual harassment at the US cable news channel.
Crowe is nominated in the limited series or TV movie best actor category against Sacha Baron Cohen (The Spy), Sam Rockwell (Fosse/Verdon), Christopher Abbott (Catch-22) and Jared Harris (Chernobyl).
Collette, nominated in the supporting actress in a TV series or movie category for Unbelievable, also faces star-studded competition with Meryl Streep (Big Little Lies), Patricia Arquette (The Act), Helena Bonham Carter (The Crown) and Emily Watson (Chernobyl) receiving nods.
Additional reporting: Agencies
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