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PEOPLE & ARTSTuesday 12 January 2016
‘The Martian’ flies high at Golden Globes Hamm, Henson, ‘Mozart in the
Jungle’ lead Globes TV honors
JAKE COYLE terrorism, the Gervais-led of the captive mother-son
AP Film Writer Globes, evidenced little drama “Room.” A glee- DAVID BAUDER
“The Martian” rocketed of seriousness that marks ful Larson concluded: “I’m AP Television Writer
to best film comedy at most award shows, or the sorry for anyone I forgot. Golden Globes voters showed sentiment in giving
the 73rd annual Golden teary-eyed acceptances I’ll write you a thank-you Jon Hamm a farewell award for leading “Mad Men,”
Globes, where even its di- speeches. Instead, the card.” but also fulfilled a traditional role in highlighting less-
rector, Ridley Scott, won- Globes had a particularly Lawrence, who spent er-known work on television.
dered whether his sci- unraveled atmosphere much of the night with her Amazon Prime’s “Mozart in the Jungle” won the
ence fiction epic about a that included Jonah Hill new friend and collabora- Globe for best comedy or musical and earned an
stranded astronaut quite dressed as the bear from tor Amy Schumer (herself a actor award for Gael Garcia Bernal, while USA’s “Mr.
belonged in the category. “The Revenant,” copious nominee for “Trainwreck”), Robot” won best drama and a supporting actor
“Comedy?” Scott won- discussion of “Transparent” scored her third Globe for award for veteran Christian Slater. Amazon and USA
dered, taking the podium, star Jeffrey Tambor’s male a David O. Russell-directed were the only two content services to win more than
answering with a skeptical anatomy by Gervais, and film. After winning for “Sil- once on Sunday.
wave of his hand. much buzzing about Sean ver Linings Playbook” and AMC’s “Mad Men” ended its run with a memora-
Sylvester Stallone scored a Penn’s escapade with “American Hustle,” she ble scene, ad man Draper supposedly getting the
idea for a Coke commercial that was a landmark in
Matt Damon poses in the press room with the award for best performance by an actor in a mo- the 1970s. Hamm, in accepting his second Golden
tion picture - musical or comedy for “The Martian” at the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards on Globe for his role, joked that he appreciated writers
Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. not taking his suggestion to end the series with music
from the British band Chumbawamba.
(Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) “Thank you so much to the Hollywood Foreign Press
Association for supporting our show for as long as you
knockout 29 years after the Mexican drug kingpin Joa- made it three for “Joy.” did — all the way to the end,” he said.
first “Rocky,” Jennifer Law- quin “El Chapo” Guzman. Damon had to suffer be- It almost felt like a lifetime achievement award, be-
rence notched her third Gervais greeted the crowd ing introduced by Gervais cause elsewhere the Globe voters were attracted to
Golden Globe and Matt (which he labeled “pill- as “the only person who whatever was shiny and new.
Damon landed both best popping sexual deviant Ben Affleck hasn’t been Taraji P. Henson came prepared, handing out cook-
actor for his stranded astro- scum”) with a predictably unfaithful to,” but he later ies to audience members as she came to the stage
naut in “The Martian” and astringent opening, set- won best actor in a come- to accept a best actress award. The reference is to
withering jabs from host ting the tone for a much- dy for Ridley Scott’s sci-fi hit her character’s name in Fox’s music business soap,
Ricky Gervais at the Beverly bleeped night that was “The Martian.” Damon said “Empire.” Like many honorees, she plowed through
Hills, California, ceremony. at turns irreverent and the film’s success was an the music that not-so-subtly reminds them to wrap up
Leonardo DiCaprio won for frivolous. In his fourth time unlikely pleasure: “I have their speeches.
best actor in a film drama. hosting, Gervais’ act domi- made a lot of movies that “I waited 20 years for this,” she said. “You’re gonna
Nominated for the same nated the evening, often people just didn’t go see.” wait.”
character that earned drawing loud laughs from (“The Martian” also won Pop music star Lady Gaga oozed Hollywood glam-
him his only other Golden the Beverly Hilton hotel best film comedy.) our with a gown that was some distance away from
Globe nod, Stallone took audience, but also the Scott was also pegged by her wild concert stage get-ups. Gaga, who won a
best supporting actor for expected criticism. In a many for best director, too, Globe for playing the Countess in “American Horror
the “Rocky” sequel-reboot particularly awkward en- but that honor went to Ale- Story: Hotel,” noted that she wanted to be an actress
“Creed.” The crowd greet- counter, he and Mel Gib- jandro Inarritu for the fron- before a singer.
ed him with a standing son stood arm-in-arm after tier thriller “The Revenant,” “This is one of the greatest moments of my life,” Gaga
ovation. exchanging insults. fresh off a $37 million de- said.
“I want to thank my imagi- “I love seeing Ricky once but that nearly topple the Rachel Bloom burst into tears upon learning that she
nary friend Rocky Balboa every three years because box-office behemoth “Star had won best comedy actress for the freshman series
for being the best friend I it reminds me to get a colo- Wars: The Force Awakens” “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” on the CW. The quasi-musical
ever had,” said Stallone. noscopy,” said Gibson. — which didn’t screen in has won critical plaudits but has struggled to find an
Though security was espe- Best actress went to Brie time for the Hollywood For- audience. She recalled how after another network
cially tight to guard against Larson, the breakout star eign Press to consider.q rejected the pilot, six other networks in a single day
turned down a chance to acquire it.
“We knew it was good and Mark Pedowitz of the
CW picked it out and he’s the one that saved us,”
Bloom said. A year earlier, the CW’s Gina Rodriguez
won the same award for “Jane the Virgin,” which airs
back-to-back with “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” on Mondays.
The USA network had to have the happiest execu-
tives on Sunday. It has been trying to make the turn
from blander programming to edgier fare, and the
critically acclaimed “Mr. Robot” is taking the lead in
that effort. Only series star Roni Malek fell short in his
effort at a trophy, losing to Hamm.
Bernal is the star of “Mozart in the Jungle,” about
backstage battles in New York City’s classical music
world. The actor winner portrays the conductor Ro-
drigo De Souza.
Jeffrey Tambor of “Transparent” was considered
such a favorite by insiders that fellow nominee Aziz
Ansari pretended to read a book, “How to Lose to
Jeffrey Tambor With Dignity” as he was introduced.
“This is incredible,” Bernal said. q
