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Critic Reviews
IndieWireJan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
[Seth Meyers] delivered a damn fine and exceptionally funny performance under raw, delicate conditions, but this was Oprah’s Golden Globes, and no one was going to take it away from her and the women she championed. ... The women were magnificent Sunday night, and at least one man was phenomenal; let them set the tone for the future of Oprah’s vision.
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Jan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
Meyers did a good job, setting a high bar for hosting in a time of tricky comedy. He freely named names, throwing out early mentions of Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey. The laughter could be nervous, but Meyers was borderline whimsical in his fury. ... Everyone got their minute at the 2018 Golden Globes. And even the imperfections left me blissful.
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Jan 13, 2023
Season 80 Review:
The 2023 Golden Globes were delightful. The atmosphere was fizzy and fun, the jokes non-hacky, the winners well chosen, and the speeches alternately witty and moving, without edging into dopey or preening. Everyone there seemed to be having a good time, but not at the expense of the viewers at home.
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Jan 11, 2023
Season 80 Review:
There was a bigger topic to tackle, and so Carmichael did just that—admirably not letting the HFPA off the hook by doing some image rehab on their behalf, while also mordantly (and amusingly) acknowledging the morally compromising matter of money. ... There was plenty of fodder for us awards pundits to chew over, involving a host of exciting wins for long deserving actors like Angela Bassett and Michelle Yeoh.
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Jan 11, 2023
Jan 11, 2023
Season 80 Review:
The producers seemed to believe that if you’re going to bother hosting an awards show, you may as well let it breathe, lean into the elements of surprise that live TV offers, and enable the honorees to enjoy themselves while still mocking the frivolity of the whole exercise. This year’s Globes got that part right.
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Jan 9, 2018
Season 75 Review:
An evening that balanced the completely expected with a few moments that were refreshingly unpredictable, starting with the symbolic sartorial blackout for the Globes red carpet and ending with Natalie Portman’s sucker punch to the nads in the wake of Winfrey’s speech.
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Jan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
It was Winfrey’s speech, delivered after she became the first black woman to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Globes equivalent of a lifetime-achievement honor, that instantly established itself as the most memorable moment of the night. ... The late-night host struck the right tone more often than not, and to those who think he didn’t, I ask you to imagine what this night would have been like with Ricky Gervais holding a microphone in his hand.
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Jan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
In a cultural moment as fraught as this one, an awards show can't be everything to everyone. But as a host, Meyers did his best to make it work, with some help from the winners. His performance wasn't perfect, but it set a high bar for the rest of awards season, and repeat Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel.
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Jan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
Meyers delivered a carefully crafted monologue that took well-phrased shots at Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and Woody Allen, while also making room for Poehler, talking from her seat, to deliver the biggest laughs of the segment with a couple of raucous, mansplaining jabs. ...Sure, some of the chatter was a little bit tedious because of sheer repetition, but it was a higher class of tedium — nobler and more heartfelt, and effective in its fervor and sincerity. Later in the evening, Oprah Winfrey turned her acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award into a stirring talk about race and class and history. It was a world-class speech.
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Jan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
Oprah Winfrey brought the house down with a speech calling for the day when no woman would have to say “Me too.” ... Though many award recipients wanted to show solidarity, not all were as comfortable or animated in speaking, and at times the stream of “Up with Women” sentiments were as monochromatic as all those black dresses. Though seemingly well intended, it felt more perfunctory than a sign of some bigger shift. And then there were the poor, uncomfortable men who didn’t know what to do in this new world of truth-speak. ... During the ceremony, Meyers half entertained, half challenged the audience to take a good hard look at their own industry.
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Jan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
Irony is Mr. Meyers’s thing, and he was deftly funny pointing it out. ... And Oprah Winfrey, accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award, took the audience to church with a fervent, personal speech dedicated to abused women inside and outside Hollywood. ... For much of the night, though, it was a surprisingly ordinary Golden Globes. It wasn’t quite a celebration; it wasn’t entirely a protest.
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Jan 8, 2018
Season 75 Review:
After a long buildup to the awards, and a successful opening monologue, the awards just kind of... kept going, without much fanfare or pizzazz. It seemed as if the energy of the preamble couldn’t quite match with what is a pretty boring format of handing out awards and listing nominees. ... It turns out, the #MeToo, #TimesUp, and #WhyWeWearBlack soundbites on the carpet and onstage were just the canapés preparing the audience for the main course: Oprah Winfrey accepting the Cecil B. DeMille award and delivering a rousing speech that seemed to reach every remaining doubt and fear, boiling down to nothing less than a mission statement for the future.
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Mar 1, 2021
Season 78 Review:
The Globes made a valiant (if not always successful) effort to deliver some awards show glamour. ... If you squinted a bit, Fey and Poehler almost-not-really looked like they were on stage together, though that split-screen technology didn't help much with their toothless monologue.
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Jan 11, 2023
Season 80 Review:
The awards show long billed as “Hollywood’s Party of the Year” felt more like a humble comeback than a cork-popping spectacle. ... The more streamlined show, and the cool, disciplined delivery of Carmichael, were also indicators that the formerly loose and boozy event was headed in a new direction.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
None of Gervais’s jokes were as cutting as, say, when Sacha Baron-Cohen likened Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to the protagonist of “Jojo Rabbit” (“a naïve, misguided child who spreads Nazi propaganda and only has imaginary friends”). ... The microclimate in the room for the night was breezy with patches of sincerity. ... But the room truly came together for the Cecil B. DeMille award speech from Tom Hanks.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
It was two shows in one. For the most part, the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards on NBC was a better-than-average awards show, with surprise winners, humorous touches and some heartfelt speeches. But then there was that other show, the one with Ricky Gervais as the supposed host of the festivities. ... [Gervais] came off like the guy sitting at the back of the auditorium who’s had one too many, and keeps yelling out unfunny, sarcastic remarks.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
[The Golden Globes] felt more grown-up than usual in its 2020 outing. ... Its reputation, perhaps, was always a bit inflated on the basis of a few instances of ragged speeches and stars caught in the bathroom, but the ceremony had, historically, felt like a respite from the awards season’s particular gravity. Inasmuch as a show more professionally produced than ever before can be said to have been a victim, the Globes may be a victim of its own success.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
Ricky Gervais was so consumed with reminding us this was his fifth and final time hosting the Globes, so intent on congratulating himself for being edgy and not caring the least about anything, so obsessed with taboo, bleep-inducing zingers, he forgot something. He forgot to be funny. ... Not that the broadcast was lacking in memorable moments. ... These Golden Globes should be remembered for a more lasting legacy: singling out truly outstanding work in nearly every category.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
Despite the preshow line about Gervais being a “controversial,” unpredictable host — hyped unpredictability is the most predictable thing about the Golden Globes — what he did was totally expected. ... Fortunately, there were other moments in the evening that genuinely were surprising and made hanging in for the duration of the three-hour broadcast less of a slog than it was in the beginning.
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IndieWireJan 11, 2023
Season 80 Review:
Carmichael proved himself a distinct, snappy, and suave host. (Those unremarked upon costume changes were an absolute highlight.) But with awards shows in general facing steep viewership declines, the Globes’ return failed to provide any unique reason this particular show is worth saving.
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Mar 1, 2021
Season 78 Review:
It didn’t take long for the Globes to fall prey to the same types of snafus and stumbles we’ve all experienced in the Video Chat Era. ... The telecast was also filled with fantastically awkward and therefore entertaining reaction shots. ... We also had some pretty cool video moments. ... As for the actual awards: There were no great shocks, though it was a definite upset when Andra Day won (deservedly so) for “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” and a bit of a surprise, at least to Jodie Foster, when she won best supporting actress for “The Mauritanian.”
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
There weren't many barbs to [Gervais'] supposedly sharp humor, merely a few weak jabs at Apple and political celebrities. More than anything else, it was dull. ... [Tom Hanks'] speech made the pursuit of acting and filmmaking feel like a noble one, captivating the audience in the room and at home. ... Michelle Williams, Jared Harris, Patricia Arquette and even Russell Crowe – in a statement all the way from Australia – got political and moving in their speeches, without a hint of exploitation or grandstanding.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
Minus some memorable victory speeches—particularly Michelle Williams (winning for Fosse/Verdon) emphasizing the importance of women’s right to choose; and whatever sort of Joker-esque barn-burning Phoenix did—the 2020 broadcast of the Golden Globes felt like a staid one.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
The most memorable awards of the evening, and most entertaining interludes, involved the HFPA’s heritage prizes. ... Actor Tom Hanks accepted the DeMille Award with a speech that was moving, if rambling. ... As for the awards, most seemed to barely move the excitement needle for viewers at home as the show nudged past 11 o’clock.
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Jan 6, 2020
Season 77 Review:
The last thing anyone needed was for the smirking master of ceremonies to reprimand them for having hope, or taunt the room for trying to use their influence to change things for the better. Almost immediately, however, it became clear Gervais wasn’t the funniest guy in the room at the 77th Golden Globes — and he wasn’t running the show, either. ... Politics aside, the telecast’s strongest comedic moment erupted when Gervais was off stage.
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Jan 11, 2023
Season 80 Review:
The best awards-show opening monologue I have ever heard. ... The crowd laughed sparingly and uncomfortably. I’m not even sure that Carmichael was trying to make them laugh so much as to make them think, and to think things through himself. ... For now, at least, the Golden Globes are back, too big to fail, but perhaps not too big to fail upward.
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Mar 2, 2021
Season 78 Review:
Fey and Poehler, on different coasts but framed as if on the same stage, delivered their one-liners with their usual warmth, even if the goofs on the likes of Big Red Carpet (like Big Pharma) and “The Prom” were forgettable. ... During Fey and Poehler’s opening bit, the producers flashed to the Zoom feeds of the subjects of many of their jokes — we saw Nicole Kidman having to laugh at a joke about her wig and coats in “The Undoing,” for example, a few seconds after the punchline due to a lag. It was just clunky, lacking the good-spiritedness of seeing famous people laughing at themselves from the audience.
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Mar 1, 2021
Season 78 Review:
What was never in question was the wisdom of having Fey and Poehler back as hosts. ... As a party, it was a Zoom call. ... Attempts to make nominees seem as if they were in a shared space, a party space, chatting away with one another as the telecast went to commercial breaks, fell flat.
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Mar 1, 2021
Season 78 Review:
A lot of the Golden Globes was indeed messy this year, but not necessarily the good kind of messy. ... The electricity usually generated between the pair [Fey and Poehler] and their audience when everyone’s in the same ballroom was notably absent, but nothing about their performance was cringey or embarrassing, which is the bar we have now set for entirely or semi-virtual award shows.
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Mar 1, 2021
Season 78 Review:
Like a lot of our mediated experiences over the last year, the night begged to be rated on a curve. It was more often fun in a “Good for them for giving it a shot” way. Even with living-room champagne, teleconferencing is still teleconferencing. ... The association acknowledged the racial issue in a perfunctory, we-have-work-to-do statement from the stage. It addressed the self-dealing charges not at all. ... This disjointed version of a usually carefree production felt like it was ailing.
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IndieWireMar 1, 2021
Jan 11, 2023
Season 80 Review:
Tuesday's broadcast was an awkward affair, hosted by comedian Jerrod Carmichael, a huge talent who was completely out of place on the stage of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. He popped up too frequently all night, making barbs at the expense of Cruise and "The Little Mermaid" a bit too casually. ... It all felt more fake and more hollow than the already curated, gilded production of other awards shows.
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The Daily BeastJan 11, 2023
Season 80 Review:
A whiplash match of tonal ping pong that one human neck couldn’t possibly keep up without snapping. Carmichael, to his credit, never relented with his jokes throughout the night, even though the audience proved unfriendly to how provocative they were. ... The irritation in the room that [a skewering of the Globes] was happening gave off a noxious energy that the show couldn’t overcome, even as it churned out a series of meaningful moments.
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Mar 2, 2021
Season 78 Review:
Returning hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey did what they could, with Poehler beaming in live from the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, where the awards are typically held, and Fey broadcasting from the Rainbow Room in New York. Each played to reduced capacity rooms comprised of front line workers in the audience and approximated being onstage together by way of an awkward split screen. But the whole night was a cake with a saggy middle and burnt edges.
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Mar 2, 2021
Season 78 Review:
Tina and Amy (who represented the West Coast branch of the industry at the Beverly Hilton) did a pretty admirable job for two people co-hosting a primetime telecast from opposite sides of the country. ... [But] A three-hour Zoom meeting with appearances by Elle Fanning and Regina King in evening gowns is, alas, still a three-hour Zoom meeting—which is to say, it’s riddled with technical difficulties and not exactly an escapist treat for a nation with Zoom fatigue.
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Mar 1, 2021
Season 78 Review:
Nothing in this show was appreciably more innovative than what the Emmys did five-plus months ago, and the Emmys nailed almost every challenge and avoided almost every disaster. The Golden Globes had a Zoom failure on the first award of the night and it basically didn't stop after that.
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Mar 1, 2021
Season 78 Review:
With the exception of a few highlights, mostly involving returning hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s opening monologue, and touching speeches by Taylor Simone Ledward, accepting a best actor in a motion picture drama award for her late husband, Chadwick Boseman, and Lee Isaac Chung (and his daughter), accepting the best foreign-language film prize for “Minari,” Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards show was a mess.
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Mar 1, 2021
Season 78 Review:
Baffling production choices like keeping all nominees in major categories onscreen to clap and smile mutely as one gave an acceptance speech, and strange snafus like the deafening background noises drowning out winners like Catherine O’Hara, kept the story on the show rather than its substance. It can’t have been an intentional strategy — who’d choose to create a disaster?
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Mar 2, 2021
Season 78 Review:
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s bicoastal hosting job was plagued with weird timing mishaps, but they landed several funny jokes in spite of the technical issues. Fonda’s speech accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award was a terrific call for better diversity in Hollywood. ... But by and large, the Globes were an awful awards show that proved nobody involved in the production had bothered, say, to watch the Emmy Awards.
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The Daily BeastMar 1, 2021
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