The Golden Globe Awards ceremony took place in Los Angeles.

The Golden Globe Awards ceremony took place in Los Angeles, the first of the major awards season. In the unofficial, but attracting the maximum attention of both industry experts and ordinary viewers, the rivalry between “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer”, the victory remained with the latter: Christopher Nolan’s film won in five categories out of the eight in which it was nominated, becoming the main triumph of the evening. Comments Julia Shagelman.

The Golden Globes have always had a reputation for surprises with unpredictable choices, and this year, expectations of surprises have increased due to all the changes that have occurred with the award in the past two years. After several scandals and organizational reforms, it is now presented not by the disbanded Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), but by an association of more than 300 journalists from different countries, and the Globe, transferred to commercial rails, is owned by Dick Clark Productions. The new owners had to spend more than one month finding a TV channel to broadcast the awards ceremony – as a result, it became CBS instead of NBC, where the Globes had been shown live since 1996, missing only 2022, when Hollywood boycotted the HFPA for racism and corruption and a number of related sins.

They were looking for the host of the ceremony until the very last moment.

Ten days before the event, this thankless task was enthusiastically taken on by Filipino-born stand-up comedian Joe Koy, who manages to simultaneously attract entire stadiums to his performances and be almost unknown to the general public.

Alas, his first (and, apparently, last) experience of hosting an award show turned out to be a disaster. Dubious jokes about the recent paternity of 80-year-old Robert De Niro, the huge running time of “Oppenheimer” and the penis demonstrated by Barry Keoghan in the film “Saltburn” were not successful either with the filmmakers in the audience or with television viewers, who immediately shared negative impressions on social networks. Fortunately, the awkwardness of the situation was smoothed out throughout the evening by the good Globus tradition of generously pouring alcohol for the guests.

And the updated Golden Globe really delivered the expected surprises.

The main one was that “Barbie” Greta Gerwig, who led in the number of nominations (she had nine), ended up receiving only two statuettes, and not the most important ones. They turned out to be victorious for her “Best Song” (it was “What Was I Made For” by Billie Eilish), and also “Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement” – a newly invented category, taken more ironically than seriously, in which eight box office champions were nominated.

In nomination “Best Comedy or Musical” the story of the plastic blonde was bypassed by the film by Yorgos Lanthimos “Poor Unfortunate” is an adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s novel about a woman who is transplanted with the brain of her unborn child by an eccentric scientist. Who played the main role in it Emma Stone was named best actress in her category. Lily Gladstone won Best Drama Actress (“Killers of the Flower Moon”) – the first Native American to receive a Golden Globe, Best Drama Actor – Cillian Murphy (“Oppenheimer”), and Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical – Paul Giamatti (“Left Behind”) Rewards for supporting roles got Robert Downey Jr. (“Oppenheimer”) and Davan Joy Randolph (“Left Behind”)

In addition to acting awards “Oppenheimer” received “Globes” for directing for Christopher Nolan (this is his first win after five nominations) and for soundtrack for Ludwig Göransson, and also won Best Drama Film.

Another surprise came in the screenwriting category: Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Trieu beat out all competitors, delivering her acceptance speech in a charming and almost indecipherable French accent. She repeated this number as an encore when her film was announced as the best foreign language film.

There were no surprises in the television nominations, except for the dominance of the Netflix mini-series “Rumble,” which won in its category and received two more prizes for leading actors. Hulu’s “Bear” also won three Globes for best comedy series. And the leader in the number of awards was predictably HBO’s Descendants, nominated in nine categories and winning in four of them, including Best Drama Series.

The most interesting question, as always, remains how much the Golden Globes will influence the upcoming Oscars. Last year, the intersection of the two premiums tended to zero, but this year everything may change again. This will be judged on January 23, when the American Film Academy announces its nominees, and, of course, on March 10, when the main film awards of the year will be presented to the winners.