Nicolet’s Justin Hurwitz wins 2 Golden Globes
Nicolet’s Hurwitz grabs two awards
“La La Land” steamrolled through a Jimmy Fallon-hosted Golden Globes that mixed the expected, champagne-sipping Hollywood celebration with often-voiced concern over president-elect Donald Trump.
Damien Chazelle’s Los Angeles musical “La La Land” came in with a leading seven nominations and won everything it was nominated for, including best film, musical or comedy. Chazelle won both best director and best screenplay. Ryan Gosling won best actor in a comedy or musical, Emma Stone took home the trophy for best actress in a comedy or musical, and Justin Hurwitz, who went to Nicolet High School, won for best score and shared best song for “City of Stars.”
Hurwitz, a composer and musician, shared original song with co-writers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
Hurwitz’s music for “La La Land” has already won a slew of honors this awards season, including best original score and song from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, and is a strong contender for this year’s Academy Awards.
Accepting his award for directing, Chazelle said, “I’m in in daze now, officially.”
In one of the evening’s more emotional acceptance speeches, Gosling dedicated his award to the late brother of his partner, Eva Mendes.
“While I was singing and dancing and playing piano and having one of the best experiences I’ve ever had on a film, my lady was raising our daughter, pregnant with our second and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer,” said Gosling, referring to Juan Carlos Mendes.
“Moonlight,” which follows a boy’s path to adulthood through a dangerous Miami neighborhood, won the Golden Globe Award for best film drama.
Meryl Streep, the Cecil B. DeMille Award honoree, supplied Sunday evening’s most striking rebuke to Trump. Streep, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention, called the president-elect’s mocking of a disabled reporter the year’s performance that most “stunned her.”
Arguing for the multinational makeup of Hollywood, Streep listed off the far-flung homes of stars from Dev Patel to Ryan Gosling.
“Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if you kick them all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts,” Streep said to loud applause.
The Beverly Hilton Hotel ceremony got off to a rocky start, as a broken teleprompter initially froze Fallon. “Cut to Justin Timberlake, please,” implored a desperately improvising Fallon. It was the second fiasco for Globes producer Dick Clark Productions, which presented the infamous Mariah Carey flub on New Year’s Eve.
The “Tonight Show” host started the show with an ode to “La La Land” in a lavish sketch more typical of the Academy Awards than the Globes.