The 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards overflowed with shocks, surprises, new faces, and enough bad language to send the censors into an early grave. And yes, Leo Dicaprio also won an award for his role in the movie Revenant. Here are some highlights from the show as compiled by Yahoo.
HIGH: Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer had the crowd in Stitches!
We’ve been hearing for weeks about Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer as new BFFs, but aside from their YouTube’d collaboration with Billy Joel, we hadn’t yet seen this power duo in action. Their first big public splash had the Globes crowd in stitches, from Schumer giving herself her own “J.Law”-esque celebrity nickname (“A.Schu”) to admitting her desire for “all the Hemsworthes.”
LOW: Jonah Hill Bombs as a Bear
It must have seemed like such a great idea in rehearsal: Jonah Hill would tweak his Wolf of Wall Street co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio, by dressing up as the actor’s nemesis in his new box-office hit, The Revenant: a fiercely protective Mama Bear. Unfortunately, the bit didn’t just bomb… it bombed hard, and Hill tried to save it by going blue, unleashing a series of f-bombs that the censors had to mute and rendering his appearance incomprehensible as well as unfunny. The only thing that actually made us laugh about the bit was Tatum’s hairstyle.
HIGH: Sylvester Stallone Gets a Standing Oviation
Don’t call it a comeback, but Sylvester Stallone has been getting some of the best reviews of his career for his mentoring role in the Rocky spin-off Creed (no offense, Expendables trilogy). The wave of Sly appreciation hit its zenith when the Globes crowd greeted his KO in the Best Supporting Actor race with a standing ovation.
HIGH: America Ferrera and Eva Longoria Know You Think They All Look Alike
It took a month, but America Ferrera got ultimate revenge on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. On the morning that the Globes nominations were announced, the HFPA’s Twitter feed accidentally identified Ferrera as Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez. In response, Ferrara and Eva Longoria dedicated their gig as awards presenters to tweaking the HFPA for its goof-up. “Hi, I’m Eva Longoria, not Eva Mendes,” Longoria said. “And hi, I’m America Ferrara, not Gina Rodriguez,” Ferrara added, to much laughter.
HIGH: Jason Statham Abuses His Director
Remind us to never write and direct a movie for Jason Statham. The action-turned-comedy star was presenting an award alongside his Spy boss Paul Feig and co-star Melissa McCarthy when (in a choreographed bit) he introduced himself not only as the actor who played the film’s lead, Susan Cooper (that would be McCarthy), but also as its writer-director. When Feig had the nerve to correct him, Statham went full Crank on him and put the lightweight filmmaker in a headlock. And it looked like it really hurt.
LOW: So Much Profanity
It’s unclear whether NBC is prudish or just really afraid of getting fined by the FCC, but its censor was not only very trigger-happy on the bleep button — and he or she held it down for way too long. When any halfway risqué word was bleeped, the whole sentence ended up getting blocked for the audience at home, meaning large parts of Ricky Gervais’ monologue — as well as speeches by Amy Schumer, Gael García Bernal, Jonah Hill, Jaimie Alexander, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, Mark Wahlberg, and Will Ferrell — went unheard by the audience at home.
HIGH: Tom Hanks Brings Out Denzel Washington
Like his Bridge of Spies character James B. Donovan, Tom Hanks seemed to be nursing a nasty cold as he introduced his Philadelphia co-star Denzel Washington as recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award (the Globes’ lifetime achievement honour). But he brought his A-game to the stage. “A single name can define an artist who is a peer and equal with all of the greatest legends of our craft,” Hanks said. “If ‘Washington’ doesn’t ring out loud enough, then let the first name carry all the weight. And that name is… Denzel.”
HIGH: Taraji’s 20-Years-in-the-Making Moment
The Emmys may have passed her over, but Globes voters knew that nothing would be sweeter than handing Taraji P. Henson a Best Actress victory for Fox’s hit Empire. And the actress made sure to remind the crowd of her namesake, passing out cookies on her way up to the stage. (Even Leo DiCaprio received one, which he clearly enjoyed far more than his brush with Lady Gaga.) And just like Cookie, Henson made it clear she wasn’t about to have her voice silenced by anyone, repeatedly defying the “wrap it up” music until she finished praising all of her Empire co-stars and collaborators. Sing it, sister.