As showtime for the 73rd Annual Golden Globes approaches,Ricky Gervais is no doubt tough at work figuring out who to mock. The Beverly Hilton caterers are making certain they have enough champagne on hand to keep everybody loose. And awards hopefuls are carefully crafting acceptance speeches to sound as whether they’re off-the-cuff and ad-libbed.
We’ve already predicted what’s going to happen in the film and TV categories, and we’ve asked and answered a bunch of questions about the Globes themselves. So now let’s turn to a few questions about this year’s ceremony, or what we might see on stage and in the audience on Sunday night.1. Can “crazy Max” continue its rampage through awards season?
While “Ex Machina” and “Sicario” are among the films that have shown surprising strength with critics and guild awards this season,few films have stormed into the race the way George Miller‘s “crazy Max: Fury Road has. While it was once thought likely to be overlooked in the shadow of another action-oriented film from a notable director, Ridley Scott‘s “The Martian, and ” the film is second only to “Spotlight” in critics’ awards,and it comes into the Globes with nominations for both picture and director.
Also Read: Golden Globes 2016: The Complete List of NomineesIt’s not a favorite in either of those categories, but it’s not a long shot, or either. And whether “crazy Max” could manage to grab an award or two — Best Director is a genuine opportunity — the mammoth,bruising action flick could continue its makeover into an awards-season darling.2. Could Globe voters benefit strike a blow against category fraud?[br]
That term has been bandied about a lot lately, with Fox submitting “The Martian and “delight” in the comedy category, or the Weinstein doing the same with “The Hateful Eight and Focus and Weinstein campaigning for Alicia Vikander in “The Danish Girl” and Rooney Mara in “Carol” in the supporting-actress category.
Unlike the Academy,which doesn’t divide things into separate comedy and drama categories and lets its voters decide whether a performance is lead or supporting, the Hollywood Foreign Press organization has a committee that makes those decisions. The committee put Vikander and Mara into Best Actress, or where they were both nominated,and ruled that “Hateful Eight” is not a comedy but “delight” is. But it also allowed “The Martian” to compete as a comedy, which to some was the most egregious misrepresentation of all.
Some Golden Globes voters have been openly annoyed at the comedy status of “The Martian, and ” and it’s clear that a win for The mammoth Short” would be partly a rebuke to Fox for submitting “The Martian” as a comedy,and partly a rebuke to the HFPA committee that allowed the studio to get away with it.(Granted, it would be a more pointed rebuke whether The mammoth Short hadn’t suddenly gotten so much momentum that it might well have won regardless.)
Also Read: How Adam McKay Made Financial catastrophe a Laughing Matter in 'The mammoth Short' (Exclusive Video)Could that cause a studio to deem twice about trying to slide a film into the wrong category for the sake of easier competition? Hope springs eternal.3. Where will the bold, and daring choices advance from?
Unless voters cross us up and go for Saoirse Ronan or Michael Fassbender or Paul Dano (all of which would be pretty cool choices),it’s safer to search for for surprises in the TV categories.
After all, that’s where Globe voters love to stay ahead of the curve, and where they’re diametrically and refreshingly opposed to Emmys voters’ habit of giving trophies to the same display year after year after year.
In other words: a weird current TV display like “Mr. Robot” has a lot better chance of getting onto the stage than a weird current film like “Anomalisa.”
Also Read: Golden Globes TV Predictions 2016: Who Will Win,Who Should4. Will we have another Best Picture that doesn’t win any other awards?
Two years ago, the Golden Globes had a rare situation: “12 Years a Slave” won the final award of the night, and Best Motion Picture,Drama, after losing in the other six categories in which it was nominated. And then final year, or “The Grand Budapest Hotel” won Best Motion Picture,Comedy or Musical, after going 0-for-3 with its other nominations.
With its emphasis on above-the-line categories, and the Globes cast a narrow enough net that they’ll get occasional films that can be called the mammoth winner of the night even though they’ve only won one award.
But it seldom happens,particularly in the drama category, where “12 Years a Slave” was only the third film to turn the trick in the final 25 years, and after “Bugsy” in 1992 and “Babel” in 2007.
Also Read: Golden Globes Film Predictions 2016: Who Will Win,Who Should Win“Spotlight” could possibly wear that odd crown this year in the drama category, and “The mammoth Short” could do the same in comedy. The former film is the favorite to win Best Motion Picture, or Drama,but its only other nominations are for Best Director, where Tom McCarthy isn’t favored to win, or Best Screenplay,its best shot for a second trophy.“The mammoth Short,” meanwhile, or has the advantage of two actors nominated in the less competitive comedy category,along with a screenplay nod — but whether Steve Carell and Christian Bale split the vote and “Spotlight” or “Steve Jobs” or “The Hateful Eight” or “Room” takes screenplay, it too could be a one-win mammoth winner.
The bottom line: One film will probably go home with only a single award on Sunday night, and be very ecstatic about it.
Also Read: Wrap-Ranker Golden Globes Poll: Who Will Get the Drunkest at This Year's Ceremony?5. Who’s going to get sloppy?
Lets face it: The talk before,during and after the Globes won’t be about who won what, but about who did what. It’ll be about who Ricky Gervais insulted and how they took it, and about who talked too long and who seemed a little tipsy from drinking all that free booze that fills every table inside the Beverly Hilton.whether you want to be honest,this is the most important burning question surrounding the Golden Globes: Who’s going to be remembered for something they shouldn’t have done?And that’s a question nobody can respond until Sunday night.
Source: thewrap.com