from Karla Sofía Gascón’s tears to jokes against Trump and the Church

The Hollywood awards season has begun with a bang at the 82nd edition of the Golden Globes. Held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, the gala, presented by the comedian Nikki Glaser, He shone both for his show and for the moments that marked the evening. Among the main protagonists were Javier Bardem and Karla Sofía Gascón. None of them won an award for their roles, but Emilia Pérez’s protagonist did collect, along with her companions, the award for best foreign-language film. The musical was one of the great winners of the evening.

The Spanish actress lived a night full of emotions. Although failed to win the Golden Globe for best dramatic actress, snatched by Demi Moore for his impactful role in The Substance. Gascón, however, starred in one of the most memorable moments of the gala when he collected the award for best non-English speaking film with the team of Emilia Perez.

His speech was received with a standing ovation. Directed by Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez, arrived at the gala preceded by a mountain of awards that began in Cannes and as the most nominated production of the night with 10 nominations. In addition to the award for best foreign-language film, it won three other Globes, including best supporting actress for Zoe Saldaña. Gascón, who had already triumphed at the European Film Awards, is emerging as a strong contender for the next Oscars, where she could make history as the first transgender actress nominated in a main category.

In the television field, Javier Bardem It was also part of the headlines of the night, although its result was less fortunate. The husband of Penelope Cruz He was nominated for best supporting actor for his performance in Monsters: The story of Lyle and Erik Menéndez, a Netflix miniseries that reconstructs the real case of the Menéndez brothers, who murdered their parents in 1989. Bardem plays the severe and controversial José Menéndez. The award went to Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano for his work in The Master. Absent at the ceremony, With this, Bardem adds his sixth Golden Globe nomination, although he already owns one for his memorable role in It’s not a country for old people.

In the film, Swinton plays Martha, a war correspondent who does not want to live and prolong the agony of her illness.

The award finally went to Demi Moore, who won in a particularly competitive category. Swinton, always elegant and aloof, attended the gala wearing a sober look by Loewe, once again embodying her status as a muse of arthouse cinema.

If the phenomenon ‘Emilia Pérez’ won the Golden Globes this Sunday with four awards that add to her spectacular record, the post-war story ‘The Brutalist’, starring Adrien Brody, won the fight in the drama categories at the start of Hollywood awards season. The narco-musical by Frenchman Jacques Audiard was the big winner of the night by taking the awards for best comedy or musical film and best foreign language film, an unusual scenario for these awards.

The actress of Dominican origin Zoe Saldaña won the Golden Globe, the first of her career, for best supporting actress for her role as Rita Mora in ‘Emilia Pérez’, and best song for ‘El Camino’.

Demi Moore’s first award

The actress Demi Moore was the surprise of the night not only for snatching the Golden Globe for best comedy actress from the Spanish Karla Sofía Gascón for ‘Emilia Pérez’, but also for receiving the first recognition in her more than 40 years of career for his performance in ‘The Substance’.

At 62 splendid years, Demi confessed this Sunday that she felt like she was finished until the script for this film, directed by Coralie Fargeat, came into her hands: “I felt like the universe told me that it wasn’t finished,” she said emotionally.

‘Shogun’ strengthens his empire and ‘Hacks’ defeats ‘The Bear’

In the television categories ‘Shogun’ continued with the streak of success that began in September when it won 18 Emmy Awards by receiving this Sunday the four Golden Globes for which it was nominated: best drama series; best actor (Hiroyuki Sanada); actress (Anna Sawai); and supporting actor in a series (Tadanobu Asano). As for the comedy sections, ‘Hacks’ defeated the most nominated of the night ‘The Bear’, which had five, winning the award for best comedy or musical series and best actress for Jean Smart. Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano poses in the press room with the Golden Globe for best supporting actor on television for ‘Shogun’.

But ‘The Bear’ was not forgotten, its protagonist Jeremy Allen White won for the third consecutive year the award for best comedy actor for his role as chef Carmy Berzatto, although he was conspicuous by his absence at the gala, as was Javier Bardem, who, together with the Mexican Diego Luna, was chasing the statuette for best supporting actor in a series.

The story of harassment and abuse that screenwriter and actor Richard Gadd experienced, ‘Baby Reindeer’, triumphed as the best miniseries and its supporting actress Jessica Gunning snatched the Golden Globe from the interpreter of Puerto Rican descent Liza Colón-Zayas (‘ The Bear’).

As he walked the stage, Gadd asked platforms to save “a little bit of their budget” for “the little people” who seek to tell complex stories and that he hoped the success of ‘Baby Reindeer’ would “dispel” theories that The public does not want to see such “dark” plots on the screen.

Likewise, the chances of more Latinos succeeding in the television categories at night vanished when Jodie Foster (‘True Detective: Night Country Part: 1’) took away the Colombian’s opportunity Sofia Vergara to win his first Golden Globe for his performance in ‘Griselda’.