“The Pitt” completed a hat trick, winning the Golden Globes Award for best drama series following its Emmy and Critics Choice wins in the same category. Star Noah Wyle also notched his third awards season win, taking home the Globes trophy for best lead TV drama actor.
Before Wyle’s win for “The Pitt,” presenter Lalisa Manobal (“The White Lotus”) said of the category nominees, “others took us to magical faraway lands – like Pittsburgh.”
Fellow presenter Priyanka Chopra Jonas replied, “That might not be a magical, faraway place, but, Go Steelers!”
To kick off the “83rd Golden Globes” telecast, second-time host Nikki Glaser made a few political jokes (about the Epstein list: “the Golden Globe for best editing goes to the Justice Department,” and the rightward tilt of CBS News with Pittsburgh native Bari Weiss at the helm: “CBS News; America’s latest place to ‘See BS News,’ ”) but mostly Glaser aimed her entertaining barbs at the Hollywood crowd in the audience at The Beverly Hilton.
On Leonardo DiCaprio (“One Battle After Another”) and his accomplishments, Glaser said, “You’ve worked with every breakthrough actor and the most impressive thing is to accomplish all that before your girlfriend turned 30,” which would have been a fine enough jab about DiCaprio dating younger women, but she followed it with, “We don’t know anything else about you, man. There’s nothing else! Open up!”
Glaser called the “Wicked” sequel “Wicked: For Money” and mocked Timothée Chalamet for gaining “60 ounces” of muscle for his ping pong movie “Marty Supreme.”
Unlike some awards show hosts who disappear, Glaser returned for comic interludes throughout the telecast, including a “K-Pop Demon Hunters”-“Marty Supreme” musical mashup. Glaser also rightfully mocked podcasts in what began as a parody of Nicole Kidman’s in-theater AMC promo and then morphed into familiar frustrations with podcasts, including banal banter and “vulnerable moments hijacked by inappropriate ad copy.”
New additions to the telecast included a marker showing where in the audience nominees were seated and tidbits on the winners shared by announcers Kevin Frazier and Marc Malkin as winners walked to the stage. Both elements worked well enough.
Among the winners, best film supporting actress winner Teyana Taylor (“One Battle After Another”) proved most emotional. After saying her children “upstairs watching, y’all better be off them damn phones and watching me right now!” (relatable to parents today, no doubt), Taylor spoke to “my little Brown sisters,” saying, “Our light does not need permission to shine. We belong in every room we walk into. Our voices matter and our dreams deserve space.”
Young “Adolescence” star Owen Cooper, youngest-ever Globes winner with his best supporting limited TV series actor award, proved the most real and authentic, mentioning, “I went to drama class, and I was the only boy there. I got through it.”
Best comedy actress winner Rose Byrne (“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”) had the most unexpected excuse for the absence of her spouse, Bobby Cannavale.
“We’re getting a bearded dragon,” Byrne said, “and he went to a reptile expo in New Jersey.”
Amy Poehler, reliably funny as always, said she respected her fellow nominees in the best podcast category, except NPR, who she called, “Just a bunch of celebrities phoning it in. So try harder.”
If there was a running theme through all the acceptance speeches, it was a call for kindness.
Poehler said her podcast, “Good Hang,” exists as “an attempt to make a very rough and unkind world fill with a little bit of love and laughter and laughing with people, not at them.”
In winning best TV comedy actress, Jean Smart (“Hacks”) said, “I think everybody in their hearts knows [what] the right thing to do is, so let us do the right thing.”
“The Pitt” showrunner Scott R. Gemmill said in his speech when the ER drama won, “We show people what we can do when hundreds of us have a common goal and work together. With decency and humanity and acceptance and respect for each other, we can do amazing things.”
Stephen Graham, limited series actor winner for “Adolescence” who recently wrapped filming Apple TV’s “Parallax” in Western Pennsylvania, concluded his remarks, saying, “In the words of Bob Marley, ‘One Love.’ ”
“Removing hate is our generation’s responsibility,” said the creator of multiple Globes winner “Adolescence.” “It requires thought from the top down. The possibility seems remote right now, but hope is a beautiful thing.”
And the winners were:
Drama series: “The Pitt,” HBO Max.
Comedy series: “The Studio,” Apple TV.
Limited series: “Adolescence,” Netflix.
TV drama actor: Noah Wyle, “The Pitt.”
TV drama actress: Rhea Seehorn, “Pluribus.”
TV comedy actor: Seth Rogen, “The Studio.”
TV comedy actress: Jean Smart, “Hacks.”
Limited series actor: Stephen Graham, “Adolescence.”
Limited series actress: Michelle Williams, “Dying for Sex.”
Supporting TV actor: Owen Cooper, “Adolescence.”
Supporting TV actress: Erin Doherty, “Adolescence.”
Best stand-up comedy: “Ricky Gervais: Mortality.”
Best drama movie: “Hamnet.”
Best comedy movie: “One Battle After Another.”
Drama actor: Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent.”
Drama actress: Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet.”
Comedy actor: Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme.”
Comedy actress: Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.”
Movie supporting actor: Stellan Skarsgard, “Sentimental Value.”
Movie supporting actress: Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another.”
Movie director: Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another.”
Movie screenplay: “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson.
Movie score: “Sinners,” Ludwig Göransson.
Movie song: “Golden,” “KPop Demon Hunters.”
Animated movie: “KPop Demon Hunters.”
Non-English movie: “The Secret Agent,” Brazil.
Cinematic and box office achievement: “Sinners.”
Best podcast: “Good Hang with Amy Poehler.”
Channel surfing
CBS News named Adriana Diaz and Kelly O’Grady co-hosts of “CBS Saturday Morning” and they’ll do daily co-hosting duties on “CBS News 24/7 Mornings” with “CBS Mornings” host Vladimir Duthiers on CBS News 24/7, CBS News’ free streaming service. … Netflix renewed “Black Mirror” for an eighth season.
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