Weekend Argus (Saturday Edition)
Awards may be hack-free zone
Golden Globe hosts expected to open fire
THE PEOPLE behind tomorrow night’s Golden Globes show say they won’t address the Sony hack during the big show, but the subject is fair game for hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
“I think that especially in the last couple of months, the girls have been provided with some quite interesting fodder,” Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Theo Kingma said.
Twenty- t i me Globes producer Barry Adelman said he’s leaving discussion of the Hollywood hacking scandal to the stars.
“I’m sure there’ll be some comments this year about ( the Sony scandal and the film The Interview at the centre of it), but we’ll let that happen from the people who are on stage,” he said.
“Our focus is to provide the same prism that we always do, which is saluting excellence for the past year in both movies and TV, and whatever comes with that will come out naturally in the show.”
Adelman won’t see what Fey and Poehler have prepared ahead of time, and he expects the three-time hosting duo to make tweaks right up until show time. “They want the material to be as fresh as it can possibly be.”
Birdman leads film nominees at this year’s awards, with seven bids, including best pic- ture (musical or comedy), best actor for star Michael Keaton and supporting actor nods for Emma Stone and Edward Norton.
Other film f r o nt - r unners include the coming- of- age story Boyhood and World War II c o de- c r a c ki ng drama The Imitation Game, which have five nominations each, including best picture (drama).
On the television side, the FX crime drama Fargo has a leading five nominations, followed by HBO’s True Detective with four.
George Clooney, who called for an alliance to release The Interview in the name of artistic freedom after it was shelved by Sony, will receive the Cecil B DeMille Award at the ceremony.
He’ll be in starry company. Apart from the acting nominees – which include Julianne Moore, Ricky Gervais, Helen Mirren, Steve Carell and Jake Gyllenhaal – a spate of A-listers are set to serve as presenters.
With a mix of TV and film stars and a flowing open bar, Adelman is hoping for a festive launch to the industry’s awards season.
“We’ve always tried very hard to live up to the label ‘Hollywood’s party of the year’,” the producer said.
“And the way we do that is to let the party happen.” – SapaAP