Long seen as an essential springboard to the Oscars and Hollywood’s favorite evening, the Golden Globes almost disappeared due to scandals. The ceremony was boycotted and deprived of television broadcast in 2022.
Bought the same year by a billionaire, who deeply diversified their jury, the Globes were relaunched on the CBS channel in 2023, rather than NBC.
Their new version seems to be settling into the American audiovisual landscape: among the big stars nominated on Sunday evening, there was no notable absentee, a sign that the ceremony is regaining its former glory.
Golden Globes: Belgian co-production “Emilia Perez” and “The Brutalist”, big winners of the ceremony, “Flow” best animated film
The evening crowned two big winners.
“Emilia Perez,” the musical odyssey by Jacques Audiard, a Belgian co-production, about the gender transition of a Mexican drug trafficker, won four awards, including best comedy. And “The Brutalist”, a long portrait of an architect who survived the Holocaust and tries to rebuild his life in the United States, won three awards, including best dramatic film.
The first woman to present the Golden Globes solo, comedian Nikki Glaser succeeded in her bet, flooding the ceremony with well-felt jokes. To the point that the American press is already raising the possibility that it will take place again in the next edition.
However, the Globes audience remains well below its pre-pandemic levels. In 2020, more than 18 million viewers watched the show.
