NOMADLAND MAKES GLOBES HISTORY
Nomadland stood out at the Golden Globes as Chloe Zhao became the first female director to win the awards’ top prize for best drama, putting her film about marginalised Americans roaming the West in vans into Oscars p l positio
ZHAO AWARDED
Chloe Zhao also bagged the best director Globe, making her only the second woman to do so in the history of Hollywood’s traditional
wards season opener, which was a mainly virtual ceremony due to the pandemic. The semi-fictional film stars Frances Mcdormand alongside a rag-tag bunch of non-actors who live on the open road, working mostly menial jobs
AFTER HE’S GONE
The late Chadwick Boseman won best actor for 1920s blues drama "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," six months after his death from cancer at age 43. "He would thank his ancestors for their guidance and their sacrifice," said his widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, accepting on his behalf
COVID SPECTRE
Usually a star-packed party that draws Tinseltown’s biggest names to a California hotel ballroom, this pandemic edition of the Globes was broadcast from identical sets at the Beverly Hilton and New York’s Rainbow Room, with essential workers and a few A-list presenters among the few in attendance
NETFLIX, DISNEY WIN BIG
Netflix and Walt Disney emerged as the big winners, taking home most of the prizes. Disney grabbed the top award, best dramatic motion picture, for Nomadland. Netflix dominated in television, with The Crown and The Queen’s Gambit, grabbing a handful of awards at the ceremony. The two studios won 15 of the prizes handed by the Hollywood
Foreign Press Association
COMEDY CLUB
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, a sequel about the fictional Kazakh journalist, won the comedy section’s best film and best actor prizes for creator Sacha Baron Cohen. Best comedy actress went to Rosamund Pike for Netflix's
dark thriller I Care A Lot
DIVERSITY DEBATE
Comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler — hosting from opposite coasts — opened the ceremony making fun of the HFPA, which has been under mounting pressure for its lack of diversity. "The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is made up of around 90 — no Black — journalists that attend movie junkets each year, in search for a better life," said Fey. Three senior HFPA officials took the Globes stage early in the night, pledging "a more inclusive future," after several influential showbiz groups had piled on criticism including actors and directors unions