Last night the 2023 Golden Globes ceremony was held in its attempt to recover its status as a prelude to the Oscars after last year’s rejection in its public debacle (the prestige was not recovered because you cannot recover something that you have not had first). And one of the essential steps for this is to try to anticipate who will be the actors who win the performance awards.
Here they play with an advantage, because they reward double with categories for drama and comedy. Thus Cate Blanchett, Austin Butler, Michelle Yeoh and Colin Farrell were recognized for their respective work as they were placed in the shuttle for the final award. We are going to take the opportunity to recommend Other works by these performers that could well have given them an award before and it would have been more than deserved.
‘Carol’ (2015)
Direction:Todd Haynes. Distribution: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler, Jake Lacy.
Despite being one of the best works of his career and with the film boosted after passing through the Cannes Film Festival, Blanchett did not get her fourth Golden Globe or her fourth Oscar for ‘Carol’. The actress creates one of the most captivating characters of the decade in this classic Todd Haynes melodrama where she re-explores unconventional characters in oppressive environments.
‘Carol’ is one of those films that the less attentive eye or less willing to believe that there is something to observe can discard and ensure that “nothing is happening.” But things are happening all the time, through glances, subtle interactions, very calm and elegant dialogues that are speaking at full volume between the lines. an absolute marvel.
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‘Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood’ (‘Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood’, 2019)
Direction: Quentin Tarantino. Distribution: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Austin Butler, Margaret Qualley, Al Pacino.
Austin Butler is still a very young star to whom ‘Elvis’ has given his big chance to shine (there’s that Golden Globe for dramatic actor to testify that he has shined). So it was easier to miss him in previous projectsincluding some as choral as Quentin Tarantino’s impressive look at that Hollywood as active as it is decadent that received a stab of grace from Charles Manson’s henchmen.
Butler is one of those henchmen who take an active role in one of the most brutal and hilarious stretches of the tape, and he in particular manages to be great in both facets. Again, it’s easy not to notice his presence when there’s so much going on and so many excellent actors (he’s also dueling face to face with Brad Pitt) but he’s another of Tarantino’s great successes in an idyllic casting.
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‘Tiger and Dragon’ (‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’. 2001)
Direction: Ang Lee. Distribution: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Sihung Lung.
After many years being one of the best action actresses on the planetPutting on physical displays with martial arts and having her notable dramatic moments, Michelle Yeoh has been recognized for a film that celebrates both facets (and also lets her do comedy) with ‘Everything Everywhere’. Although it’s not like she’s stopped doing similar displays in the past.
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Obviously less funny, but incredible in terms of action and drama, ‘Tiger and Dragon’ was a phenomenon that everyone wanted to join. Of course, the compliments focused on the film and the director Ang Lee. less was celebrated a cast of great Asian actorsincluding an extraordinary Yeoh in a role that Hollywood continually tried to export without the same success.
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‘Lobster’ (‘The Lobster’, 2015)
Direction: Georges Lanthimos. Distribution: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman, John C. Reilly.
This may finally be Colin Farrell’s great year thanks to ‘Inisherin’s Banshees’, after beginning a rehabilitation of his acting career with another great Martin McDonagh film such as ‘Hiding in Witches’. His collaboration with Yorgos Lanthimos also contributed to this resurgence, which began with the quirky and hilarious ‘Locust’.
Like Blanchett with “Carol,” Farrell was nominated at the Globes but didn’t win, despite it being one of his most complete works. Melancholic and funny, fully reflecting the existential unease that Lanthimos seeks to reflect in his minimalist dystopia. A great job of black comedy where the Irishman is superbly employed to sustain the whole.
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