A STAR FADES AT GLOBES
GAGA’S SMASH MOVIE FALLS SHORT AT AWARDS:
IT WAS three straight losses for Australia at the Golden Globes with Nicole Kidman, Troye Sivan and Yvonne Strahovski missing out on awards night glory.
But it was also a night of upsets with the biggest movie of the year – A Star Is Born – snubbed by Golden Globes voters, landing only one trophy, for song of the year.
A Star Is Born headliners Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper missed out on best actress and actor awards, while Cooper was also overlooked for best director.
Meanwhile, the classic rock drama Bohemian Rhapsody, roundly panned by critics, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 62 per cent, won best motion picture.
Rami Malek, who played Freddie Mercury in the Queen biopic, took home the best actor statuette.
“To Queen,” Malek said at the podium, “for ensuring that authenticity and inclusivity exists in music and in all of us. Thank you to Freddie Mercury for giving me the ride of a lifetime.
“Thank you, you beautiful man. This is to you, gorgeous.”
Perth pop star Troye Sivan was directly up against Gaga for best original song with his track, Revelation, from the Joel Edgerton directed film, Boy Erased.
Former Sydneysider Yvonne Strahovski missed out on the best supporting actress in a TV drama series for her role in Foxtel’s The Handmaid’s Tale. She lost to Patricia Clarkson in Sharp Objects.
While Gaga delivered shock on the red carpet, with her flowing lavender gown and matching hair, the real drama happened inside the Beverly Hills event, when the pop provocateur didn’t get an expected win for her role as Ally Campana in A Star Is Born.
Still, a tearful Gaga, was grateful Shallow, a song she cowrote for the film, was recognised.
But the message in her acceptance speech was sobering: “I just have to say, as a woman in music, it is really hard to be taken seriously as a musician and a songwriter.”
Glenn Close, who won best actress in a motion picture (drama) category, was gracious in victory. She paused on her way to the stage to shake hands with Lady Gaga, her felllow contender.
“We have gotten to know each other a little bit so far, and I can’t wait to spend more time with you,” Close said, acknowledging the other nominees.
“Everything that you did this year, or what you are here for – we all should be up here together, that’s all I can say.”
Close added: “We have to find personal fulfilment. We have to follow our dreams. We have to say, ‘I can do that,”
The Golden Globes, run by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, precedes serious awards events including the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Oscars.