"Dog Power" for best drama and "West Side Story" of musical and comedy dominate the Golden Globes.
Jane Campion's western took home three awards including Best Director and Best Supporting Actor, 25-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee, while two more went to Steven Spielberg's revival thanks to the 20-year-old's stage presence. Rachel Zelger, in the part of Maria, and to Ariana DeBose, in that of Anita.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the 2022 winners on its social media platforms, with no journalists other than those of the organization participating in the evening and no celebrities on the red carpet and on stage as was customary in past years.
Hacked by controversy since the Los Angeles Times revealed on the eve of the 2021 edition that it did not have a single black journalist among its then 87 members, the HFPA has given up this year from the glitzy gala of the past by opting for a live Twitter. without videos or photos in which the announcements of the winners were interspersed with the list of philanthropic initiatives funded by the group.
This year, in addition to the VIPs, Nbc had also paraded, which in recent years had had the exclusive of the evening by paying tens of millions of dollars for the live broadcast.
OTHER AWARDS - "Succession" and "Hacks" were declared the best television series of the year and Logan Roy's family saga modeled on the Murdoch clan won two more awards for portrayals of Jeremy Strong (prodigal son Kendall ) and Sarah Snook, sister Shiv. Two disappointments for Italy. Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi's film "Drive My Car", based on a story by Haruki Murakami, won the Golden Globe for best foreign film in the race in which Paolo Sorrentino was competing with "It was the hand of God". The awards were also nominated for "Luca", the Disney Pixar animated film signed by the Italian Enrico Casarosa to which the jurors preferred "Encanto", a Disney production with original songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Other awards went to Nicole Kidman ("Being the Ricardos") and Will Smith ("King Richard"), Andrew Garfield ('Tick, Tick… BOOM! ") And Kate Winslet for the" Sea of Eastown "limited series.
(Unioneonline / vl)