{"id":233911,"date":"2026-01-12T07:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/233911\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:49:07","slug":"the-golden-globes-ceremony-ignored-politics-but-their-big-winner-taps-todays-unhappy-turbulence-golden-globes-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/233911\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Globes ceremony ignored politics. But their big winner taps today\u2019s unhappy turbulence | Golden Globes 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the political scene in the contemporary United States looks like an unending string of military PR coups for the Trumpian right at home and abroad, it\u2019s appropriate that Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s spectacular, mysterious counterculture epic One Battle After Another \u2013 with Leonardo DiCaprio as a clueless, dishevelled ex-revolutionary \u2013 should consolidate its current position as one of the leading movies of this awards season: winning four Globes including best musical or comedy and best director for Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a> \u2013 whose fluency, productivity and pure technique and ambition are arguably making him America\u2019s pre-eminent film-maker. The excellent Teyana Taylor got best supporting actress.<\/p>\n

This is a movie scene in which no mainstream is directly attacking the Trump regime head-on (such as, say, Ali Abbasi\u2019s satirical Trump biopic The Apprentice) but there is something in Anderson\u2019s film that inhales and intuits both the current febrile mood of reactionary hysteria and the tension and depression of those opposing it. Sean Penn wasn\u2019t up for any Globes last night for his role as the bullish and yet pathetic Col Lockjaw in One Battle After Another, the oppressor despised by his masters, but I see a great deal of Lockjaw in Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio, the disposable courtiers uneasily standing ramrod straight behind the president at public events.<\/p>\n

Jessie Buckley with her award. Photograph: Ariana Ruiz\/PI\/ZUMA Press Wire\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Yin to that picture\u2019s yang was Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s impassioned romantic fantasy Hamnet, which wins best drama and best actress for Jessie Buckley<\/a> as William Shakespeare\u2019s wife Agnes or Anne Hathaway: Buckley\u2019s award was very well earned, she was the heart and soul of a film which boldly, perhaps even heretically, reached back into the past and speculatively invented William and Agnes\u2019s anguish at the death of their son and created a new fiction that this bereavement fed into Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet or even governed its creation, almost line by line.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not intended as a documentary, but rather a kind of folk myth: for some Hamnet is pedantic and coercive, but I responded to its vehemence, its creative intelligence and its mystery and it\u2019s great to see Buckley rewarded at the Globes.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Josh Safdie\u2019s hellzapoppin\u2019 pingpong comedy Marty Supreme landed Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet<\/a> his first Globe for actor in a musical or comedy after years of losing out \u2013 and it\u2019s an amazing, exhilarating performance from Chalamet, his needy hyperactivity and charm entirely in tune with the rest of the film. What an amazing and distinctive actor Chalamet is, buzzing with energy and movie-star like a plucked guitar string.<\/p>\n

Nervousness and jittery high anxiety was also the performance keynote in Rose Byrne\u2019s turn in If I Had Legs I\u2019d Kick You, for which she was the winner of best actress in a comedy or musical, beating big hitters like Cynthia Erivo and Emma Stone. Certainly 2026 is the unhappy year for this kind of existential disquiet.<\/p>\n

Wagner Moura with his award. Photograph: Jim Ruymen\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

It was great to see two Globes going to a film which I think was the best of last year: Kleber Mendonca Filho\u2019s Brazilian movie The Secret Agent, about a scientist on the run from the authorities in 1970s Brazil \u2013 it was best non-English language film and Wagner Moura was the night\u2019s winner of best actor in a drama for playing the lead. Perhaps all the obviously big male acting contenders were in the musical\/comedy category but nonetheless it was great to see this excellent actor get an award.<\/p>\n

This was a good list for an award ceremony which has been tarnished by the Golden Globes\u2019s various scandals over membership non-diversity and bribes, although the resulting prizes were never obviously much different from those of other awarding bodies and sometimes more diverse. Some tonight will be very disappointed that Ryan Coogler\u2019s Sinners was not rewarded more than it was \u2013 Sinners was not my favourite Coogler film, though I think it\u2019s a shame that Delroy Lindo couldn\u2019t get a supporting actor Globe for his performance.<\/p>\n

This was an intelligent and serious list of prizewinners, leaving the Oscar field open between One Battle After Another, Hamnet and the delirious Marty Supreme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that the political scene in the contemporary United States looks like an unending string of military PR…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-233911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}