Dust off the crimson carpets and the sequins, and maintain your breath. Because this Sunday the Golden Globes are celebrated, one of many nice occasions between Hollywood and the world of cinema. But not alone. The awards ceremony additionally marks the beginning of the lengthy, intense and highly-publicized movie (and tv) awards season, which is able to final two months, till the Oscars are awarded on Sunday, March 15. With the exception of the 2021 version, in the midst of the pandemic, it has been twenty years for the reason that Film Academy’s huge awards have been held so late, giving rise to one of many longest seasons in reminiscence in years. And this 12 months, as has been occurring lately, with a excessive Latin and Spanish presence, because of the Mexican Diego Luna for Andora Frankenstein of his compatriot Guillermo del Toro already Sirâtby the Spanish Oliver Laxe.
Tonight in Los Angeles (early morning on Monday in Spain), the Mexican and Spanish movies will battle it out to take a few of the golden globes in opposition to rivals like One Battle After Another, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, The Sinners, A Simple Accident o Bugoniaamongst others.
With very totally different beginning factors, each Del Toro and Laxe come into the combat sturdy. The Mexican is already a traditional of this occasion and has 20 years of nominations since Pan’s Labyrinthin 2007, to his present movie, by The form of waterwhich swept in 2018, and Pinocchioin 2023. For Laxe, the whole lot is new. He has realized to maneuver in Hollywood, though it isn’t even remotely his habitat. Del Toro has been a lighthouse and information. On Friday night time, in a Nineteen Thirties Beverly Hills movie show, after a screening of Sirât Before a packed auditorium, each filmmakers—together with the protagonist, Sergi López—held a relaxed dialogue organized by Egeda, the audiovisual rights administration entity for Spanish producers, and the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts. Laxe arrived simply in time, in a rush to make Del Toro, the moderator, wait, who was joking within the auditorium foyer with López and the producers of the Spanish movie whereas the music of the final minutes of the movie was enjoying loudly contained in the room.
Sirât It is coming into like silk amongst critics and Hollywood voters, and the 2 Globe nominations and the 5 Oscar preselections (within the absence of the ultimate candidacies, which might be introduced on January 22) reveal it. “There is a want for brand new, overseas, totally different films, proper? They see it, there’s openness, and so they need novelty. People are bored with watching the identical films“. ¿Maybe that’s why I like it so much Sirât? “Because it’s bold,” the director instantly responds. “Because nowadays making a movie like Sirât It is very difficult and they know it. They tell me: ‘These movies can’t be made in Hollywood anymore, they could be made in the sixties.’ And I tell them: ‘What do you think can be done in Europe? “Nor!”, he laughs. “There was a crazy mix in us… And we have been brave and people recognize it. I’m happy, I don’t know if we have talent; We are not geniuses, of course; but we are brave, and that is rewarded. Nowadays in this world we live in, where there is so much fear, bravery is rewarded.”
It was the second when the Galician filmmaker, 43 years previous and with solely 4 movies, arrived not solely on the doorways of the Golden Globes, but in addition when Del Toro, a longtime filmmaker with three Oscars, introduced, analyzed and praised his characteristic movie. The Mexican removed “Amazings!” (fabulous) speaking about Laxe, and requested him questions and jokes that delighted the viewers. He even refused to complete the discuss on time, due to how a lot enjoyable he had.
If they’d instructed Laxe all this when he was filming his movie, he wouldn’t have believed it. “No, I didn’t expect it,” he acknowledged on Friday in conversation with EL PAÍS about how far, at the doors of the awards, his length has come. “Partly due to ignorance. For years the Academy has been changing and expanding, rejuvenating, and I think it is very good news,” he reflects. For him, one of the points in favor of all the exhausting promotion that the nominations entail is being able to “get to know the guilds” of the world of cinema, and notice “how there truly is a type of activism in each one.” “It seems to me that there is truth, artisans from each guild that you know, with whom you have meetings and talk,” he says about his immersion in the world of Los Angeles and what he is learning from it. “And then I tell them about my moves. You may like it or you may not like it, but I am honest, I show myself as I am. And so I enjoy it a lot.”
The 28 golden awards will be presented after dozens of stars walk for more than three hours along the red carpet along Wilshire Avenue in Beverly Hills — the Beverly Hilton hotel, where the awards have been held since 1945, will only host the ceremony, but not the carpet, because it is undergoing an immense renovation; For the first time the arrival of the actors takes to the street. In addition to being given to both series and movies (both divided into drama and comedy), this year and as a novelty in its 83-year history there is a category for the best podcast.
In this 83rd edition of the Globes, of the 12 nominated films (between drama and comedy), five are foreign. There are new faces and surnames in many of the categories. There are powerful platforms and studies loaded with know how. There is tension. And everything will be appeased with laughter. Comedian Nikki Glaser will once again serve as presenter after the success, measured in laughter, she achieved last year.
The awards make Hollywood nervous, which is filled with parties and events to promote its films. Los Angeles has been hectic and vigorous since the end of August, when the passes of the most powerful candidates in this long race began, which still has a couple of intense months left. Although on January 4, the Critics Choice Awards were presented, which marked the path of clear triumph for actors like Jessie Buckley (Agnes from Hamnet) and opened juicy possibilities to others like Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein) y Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme), the Globes are still the Globes. They were and are considered under the tagline of “prelude to the Oscars” due to their enormous impact. Historically delivered by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, in 2021 several diversity scandals, irregularities and perks left them almost dead, until they were bought and cleaned up by a private media and entertainment company. They went from having barely 90 members to now having 400 journalists who vote – among them, the signatory of this text –, coming from more than 110 countries, without remuneration or gifts and whose membership is reevaluated every year.
On the eve of its celebration, the controversy that hit the Globes 4 years in the past appears very far-off. Today it is all laughter, champagne and lobster from the celebrated Nobu for the nominees. At least on the surface; Inside, they run for all of the inevitable nerves. The awards are way more than pats on the again: they’re the car to advertise sequence and movies, which with a statuette are positioned within the orbit of viewers around the globe. Although corporations spend hundreds, thousands and thousands of {dollars} on advertising and marketing of their audiovisual merchandise, they don’t do it blindly, however they know very properly the essential return, by way of spectators and cash, that comes with leaving with the award below their arm. And that is what this Sunday’s gala is about: that sequins really feel good, however the golden balloon is the start of an amazing blockbuster.
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