The Winners, Losers, and WTFs of the Golden Globes

The HFPA Under the Microscopethe LA Times exposé, Tina Fey's cold open, and a suspiciously well-timed run of Black winners

Judas and the Black Messiah 2021

Daniel Kaluuya's Best Supporting Actor win: his mic cut out the moment he started speaking, an accidental metaphor for the whole telecast.

Soul 2020

Co-director Kemp Powers wasn't told he'd been nominated ahead of the show; the HFPA appears to have only started crediting co-directors in the days before the ceremony, the same rule that left Coco's Adrian Molina uncredited a few years back.

Nobody Watched the Movies They're Introducingthe clip-package ritual, and what happens when almost nobody's seen the nominee

Music 2021

Kate Hudson, its star, had to introduce it herself. Nobody else who'd seen the film could be found.

The Father 2020

Colin Farrell did the honors from a room the hosts call his 'murder room,' complete with a stray bongo drum.

Best Speeches of the NightLee Isaac Chung's win with his daughter at his side

Minari 2021

Won Best Foreign Language Film, boxed out of the bigger categories by the same rule that limited Parasite the year before. Chung's speech about the language of family is the moment both hosts single out.

Sasha Baron Cohen's Double Night

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 2020

Won Best Musical or Comedy and got Cohen the acting prize in the same category; his 'thank you to the all-white HFPA' line was, per the hosts, the funniest of the night.

Jodie Foster's Surprise, and the Aaron Rodgers of It All

The Mauritanian 2021

Foster's Best Supporting Actress win was one of the night's bigger surprises; her speech thanked co-star Shailene Woodley's newly announced fiancé, Aaron Rodgers, which the hosts spend a while unpacking.

David Fincher Takes a Shot Every Time He Loses

Mank 2020

Up for Best Director, Best Drama, and Best Screenplay (written by Fincher's late father, Jack) and won nothing. The hosts clock him drinking on camera after every loss.

Aaron Sorkin's Screenplay Win Goes Sideways

The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020

Sorkin's Best Screenplay win, predicted by the hosts, comes with a speech they call patronizing: he seems to be addressing the wrong nominee, Emerald Fennell, while talking up his daughter.

A Wide-Open Best Actress Raceboth Best Actress prizes went a way nobody predicted

I Care a Lot 2021

Rosamund Pike's Best Actress, Musical or Comedy win. The hosts think the film itself is mediocre but note the punny title has become its own meme.

The United States vs. Billie Holiday 2021

Andra Day's Best Actress, Drama win was the night's biggest surprise. Neither host had heard anyone predict it, and both credit Day's own singing as the reason the performance works.

Nomadland Takes Best Drama

Nomadland 2021

The favorite over The Trial of the Chicago 7; the hosts read the win as part of a bigger Netflix sweep across the night's film and TV categories.

Mailbag: Is Music the Worst Globes Nominee Ever?a listener asks Sean and Amanda to rank it against history's worst nominees

Bobby 2006

Sean's comparison for a genuinely bad-but-explicable nominee: Emilio Estevez's star-studded, mediocre film about the hours before RFK's assassination, also a Best Drama nominee in its year.

Up Nextthe two episodes teased at the close

Promising Young Woman 2020

Teased as next week's episode; Carey Mulligan's Best Actress, Drama nomination went unrewarded tonight.

Coming 2 America 2021

The episode after that: an Eddie Murphy career retrospective ahead of the sequel's release.

Also mentioned raised along the way

In passing CocoGone GirlFreaky FridayThe PromFrench ExitDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Not films filtered out: TV, games, ads

TV The CrownSchitt's CreekEmily in ParisTed LassoThe Queen's Gambit

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