In the US, Beverly Hilton Hotel hosted the ceremony, which named the winners of the 73th Golden Globe, an award by Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
The winner in the major categories was a historical drama The Revenant (marketed as The Legend of Hugh Glass in Ukrainian cinemas). The film was recognized as the Best Motion Picture – Drama, and Mexican Alejandro Inarritu, who enjoys a successful career in Hollywood (his last year’s movie Birdman being awarded the Oscar), was distinguished as the Best Director. The misfortunes, which Leonardo DiCaprio endured in order to convincingly portray the hunter Hugh Glass did not go unnoticed as well, and now the actor finally has The Globe as the best drama actor.
The Best Dramatic Actress is Brie Larson: in quite eerie Canadian-Irish film Room she played a young girl kidnapped and imprisoned for years in a room, where she gave birth to a son, who saw nothing except for the four walls.
Ridley Scott’s science fiction movie The Martian was awarded in a rather unusual category for this film: Comedy or Musical; accordingly, the film’s star Matt Damon won the nomination of the Best Actor in Musical or Comedy. The film budget amounted to 108 million dollars, NASA advisors actively helped in making it, and it bears no signs of the genres listed in the nomination.
On the other hand, the title of Best Comedy Actress for Jennifer Lawrence was quite reasonable, because Joy, where she played a single mother who becomes a successful businesswoman, indeed possesses some formal characteristics of comedy. It became the third Globe for Lawrence.
Probably the greatest sensation was the recognition of Sylvester Stallone as the most skillful supporting actor for his role of boxing trainer in the sports drama Creed (localized as Creed: Legacy of Rocky in Ukraine). This is the first Golden Globe in Stallone’s career, in which, let’s be honest, he has never been considered a serious artist.
Kate Winslet was named by the jury as the best supporting actress. She received her award for the role in Steve Jobs, the biopic for the famous founder of a computer corporation.
Finally, the Best Foreign Language Film was predictably awarded to Son of Saul, a Hungarian production. In the story, Saul Auslander, a prisoner working in the concentration camp’s Sonderkommando burning the bodies of the dead, tries to save from the fire a body of a boy, whom he considers to have been his own son.
The Golden Globe has been awarded since 1944 for movies and television films. The award ceremony takes place after voting among 86 leading journalists who specialize in Hollywood’s subject. The Golden Globe presentation starts a cinematic year, and is considered a prelude for the Oscars award ceremony, which will traditionally be held next month.
