It's Bohemian Rhapsody, the film that tells the story of Freddy Mercury and Queens, to have triumphed at the Golden Globes 2019. The seventy-sixth edition of the award established by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which brings together foreign journalists in Hollywood, inaugurated the awards season which culminates with the awarding of the Oscars.
Green book is the best “comedy or musical”, while the account of the life of Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody is the best drama. Rami Malek, the English actor who plays Mercury was defined as the best leading actor, while the best supporting actor is Mahershala Ali for Green Book, a film that also wins for the best screenplay. The acclaimed Rome by Alfonso Cuaron is the best foreign film and Cuaron the best director.
disappointment for A star is born, nominated for 5 awards but which must be pleased with the one for best song, Shallow by Lady Gaga, who loses the award for Best Drama Actress, which went to Glenn Close, to The Wife.
The Vice, Gets Short: Best Actor Christian Bale as Dick Cheney. Olivia Colman wins the award for best brilliant actress for period film La Favorita. On the television side however, the first overall winner of the evening was Michael Douglas for the series the Kominsky Method who also won the Globe for best series. The Americans (about Soviet espionage in the USA during the Cold War), won the award for best drama series.
The theme of racial inclusion dominates the Golden Globes speeches:
Last year the focal point of the Golden Globes were women's rights and the Metoo and TimesUp movements, this year however, racial inclusion and diversity were the most felt social theme. The theme was treated starting with the speeches of Andy Samberg e Sandra Oh, presenters of the evening. Diversity triumphed when the awards went to Sandra Oh for the tv series Killing Eve, to Mahershala Ali (best supporting character of Green Book) ea Queen King awarded for Se la strada potesse parlare. King's speech was one of the few with a political content of the evening: she promised that in the next two years she will only produce projects with 50% of women employed in the cast and crew.
Another important speech came from Peter Farrelly (director of The Green Book), who spoke about the theme by telling the story of a black musician who couldn't express his music because of the color of his skin and of an Italian-American whose integration in the United States of the XNUMXs was not so much more easy. “Themes that are still present in our society today – said the director -, that's why certain stories are still so important”.
The most surprising speech came from Christian Bale, accepting the Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy Film Vice, thanked none other than the devil: “Thank you Satan for giving me the inspiration to play this role”. The actor with his usual ability (and also thanks to a high-calorie diet that made him gain 30 kilos) has transformed both physically and psychologically, in the figure of Dick Cheney, powerful vice-president during the administration of George W Bush.
