Epic immigrant drama “The Brutacatalog” and surauthentic narco-musical “Emilia Perez” are big triumphners at this year’s Gelderlyen Globes as prizes have been splitd expansively atraverse an international crop of films.
“The Brutacatalog” was crowned best film, drama, at the year’s first beginant showbiz awards gala on Sunday, putting it on course to be a beginant contender at the Academy Awards. It also picked up best actor for Adrien Brody, who take parts a Hungarian Holocaust survivor.
Meanwhile, French straightforwardor Jacques Audiard’s Mexico-set “Emilia Perez” took four prizes, including best comedy or musical film.
“Emilia Perez”, about a drug lord who transitions to life as a woman, had go ined the night with the most nominations at 10. It won for best non-English language film and best distinct song, while Zoe Saldana took best helping actress honours, nudging out her co-star Selena Gomez.
“You can maybe put us in jail, you can beat us up, but you never can consent away our soul, our resistance, our identity,” said Karla Sofia Gascon, the film’s star, who is transgender.
Big triumphs at the Globes can help movies get new audiences and originate vital momentum towards the Oscars in punctual March.
“The Brutacatalog”, which shrugged off troubles over its sprawling runtime, also geted best straightforwardor for Brady Corbet.
“I was telderly that no one would come out and see it,” said Corbet, of his epic about a Jedesire architect who endures Nazi persecution and emigrates to the United States.
“No one was asking for a three-and-a-half hour film about a mid-century scheduleer … but it labors,” he inserted.
Brazil’s Fernanda Torres won best actress in a drama film for “I’m Still Here”, which chronicles a family ripped apart by the country’s military dictatorship in the 1970s.
For best actor, Brody’s triumph was one of the night’s remarkworthy nurtureer comebacks, more than two decades after he became the youthfulest ever Oscar best actor triumphner for “The Pianist”, in which he also take parted a Holocaust survivor.
And there was another tardy-nurtureer triumph for Demi Moore, who won best actress in a comedy for body horror flick “The Substance”, which consents a satirical and frequently grotesque see at the prescertains placed on women by society as they age.
Accepting her prize, Moore mirrored on how decades ago, she had been telderly by a Hollywood originater that she was “a popcorn actress”.
Winners of the Globes are chosen by 334 delightment journacatalogs from 85 countries, contrastd with rawly 9,000 voters who pick the Academy Awards.
The Globes voting body was enbiged in recent years and organisers instituted reestablishs after being criticised for moral lapses and a deficiency of diversity.
In TV categories at the 82nd awards ceremony, “Shofirearm”, FX’s historical epic set in imperial Japan, claimed the prestigious best drama television series trophy while “Hacks”, understandn for its intricate female stand-up comedian, claimed the best comedy triumph.
A tale of political machinations, “Shofirearm”, also won best female and male acting awards for first-time triumphners Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada.
For the second time, Jean Smart won best guide actress in a comedy series for “Hacks”.
Other triumphs included Jeremy Allen White for “The Bear”, Jodie Foster for “True Detective” and Colin Farrell for his physical alteration in “The Penguin”.