Jodie Foster has won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Limited Series for her work in True Detective: Night Country. This is the iconic actor’s third Golden Globe win. She has also won two Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award, so I don’t feel particularly bad in writing this — someone else should’ve won. Specifically, Cristin Milioti for The Penguinbut honestly, every other nominee deserved this award more thatn Foster.
The other nominees in the category were the aforementioned Milioti for The PenguinCate Blanchett for DisclaimerSofia Vergara for GriseldaKate Winslet for The Regimeand Naomi Watts for Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. Each of them gave fantastic performances of varying degrees. Naomi Watts completely transformed herself as usual, this time playing the magazine editor and socialite Barbara “Babe” Paley in the second season of Ryan Murphy’s Feud anthology series. She was glamorous, witty, and perfectly attuned to the period-specific production.
Griselda is one of the few projects that have successfully tapped into the dramatic potential of Sofía Vergara, because the actress is so much more than a repetitive Modern Family joke about the quality of her English. Kate Winslet, also great in last year’s Leewas regal, intimidating, and sly in The Regime; the series itself is a mixed bag, but almost everyone agreed that she gave an incredible performance. Cate Blanchett was staggeringly complex in Alfonso Cuarón’s masterful miniseries, incorporating her usual cold intellect but with a much more wounded, emotional bent.
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The biggest upset among all these nominees, though, is Cristin Milioti, whose ingenious performance as Sofia Falcone in The Penguin was pointed to as the main highlight in an already great show. Her beautiful, angry, multidimensional character gave Colin Farrell’s Oz Cobb a run for his money. While Farrell won the Best Actor in a Limited Series for his performance, he was gifted by an incredible makeup department (which he thanked profusely in his acceptance speech). Milioti did not have that to work with, and yet transformed into someone so different from anything we’ve seen before in her career (or on television, frankly). So, with all due respect to Ms. Jodie Foster, Milioti deserves much better and should get an apology on behalf of TV fans everywhere.
