Golden Globes 2020: The best, worst and weirdest moments from this year’s awards ceremony GlobeArts
, took home the award for Best Motion Picture less than an hour into the ceremony, allowing South Korean director Bong Joon-ho to get the best and most economical line of the evening in early: “Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many amazing films.”There was no doubt that Tom “Hollywood’s Nicest Man” Hanks was going to deliver an aw-shucks speech upon accepting the Globes’ Cecil B. DeMille Award.
Speaking of sincerity, direct all the applause to Patricia Arquette and Michelle Williams, two winners who decided to use their time at the podium to spotlight causes bigger than themselves. Williams, who won for her lead performance in FX’s, passionately advocated for abortion rights.
Entering his fifth go-round as Golden Globes host, there was every reason to fear that Ricky Gervais would treat the show’s opening monologue as his own private Twitter feed. Which he mostly did. But instead of offering more of his tired routine as the world’s only defence against the horrors of the ultra-woke, Gervais directed his you-can’t-silence-this-superstar! shtick toward the Hollywood elite. And ... it mostly worked.
Whoever decided that it was a good idea to let Tim Allen into the proceedings surely realized their error once the erstwhile Buzz Lightyear broke out some mid-'90s-fresh sitcom shtick, and made co-presenter Lauren Graham visibly uncomfortable. (Insert
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