The Big Picture · Discussion
January 7, 2019/ 57 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins
Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins recap the 2019 Golden Globes an hour after it airs, and read the tea leaves for a wide-open Oscar race.
10 films across 6 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
The Two Head-Scratchers
Won Best Musical or Comedy plus screenplay and Mahershala Ali's supporting-actor prize. The hosts see the screenplay win as the real sore point on a movie written by one character's family and dogged by the Shirley family's objections.
Won Best Drama and Best Actor for Rami Malek. Dobbins calls the drama win 'just fucking weird'; Fennessey notes the telecast never mentioned Bryan Singer, who shot most of it.
Stock Up, Stock Down: A Star Is Born
Went home with a single award, for Mark Ronson and the song 'Shallow'; Lady Gaga never got the stage. The hosts wonder whether they've been overrating a movie most of the country still hasn't seen.
The Lead Actress Race Reopens
Glenn Close's win and her speech about her mother lands hard enough that Dobbins finally commits to seeing the movie she'd spent weeks joking didn't exist.
Olivia Colman takes Best Comedy Actress with a loose, off-the-cuff speech: 'blimey,' the sandwiches, Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz as 'my bitches.'
The Lead Actor Race and Vice
Christian Bale's Best Comedy Actor win, thanking Satan for inspiration, is the film's only prize on six nominations. Fennessey lays out his theory that Bale, not Cooper, is now the man to beat.
Around the Room
Best Animated Feature, and a shout-out to producer Amy Pascal, back in fur and a great blowout after engineering the Spider-Man producing deal on her way out of Sony.
Regina King's supporting-actress win, which Dobbins flags as the night's one result the critics would have picked.
Barely mentioned on the podcast until the final minutes. Alfonso Cuarón won Best Director and the hosts figure the film is bulletproof regardless.
The Oscars Still Need a Host
The movie Kevin Hart was promoting on Ellen when the show tried to broker him back into the vacant Oscars hosting gig, a plan the hosts read as celebrity ego-massage that satisfied nobody.
Also mentioned raised along the way
In the awards conversation First ManBlacKkKlansmanCrazy Rich AsiansMary Poppins ReturnsThree Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriBeasts of the Southern WildSpider-Man: HomecomingDeadpool 2Creed II
Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads
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