I am going to spare you the BS about the Golden Globes, and
instead tell it to you like it really is.
The people who put on the Golden Globes are misleading the
public. I know and everyone else knows the recipients proclaimed to
be the “best” really weren’t at all.
After watching the “middle child” of award shows on
TV Sunday night, I was left stunned and baffled, wondering why in
the world the spiteful votemongers would make a musical win the
most awards from such a talented pool of nominees?!
Don’t get me wrong, the talent from “Chicago”
was amazing, but let’s be honest here, was it truly better
than all of its competitors? That’s something to think twice
about.
My other problem is that these award conspirators can’t
keep their lies straight. Several of the expected champs (or they
were when the lies were just buzz instead of actual awards) ended
the night empty-handed. Was “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”
not large or Greek enough for the Hollywood Foreign Press
Association (the tricky Dicks who put on this bastardization of an
award show)? Or did “The Two Towers,” which lost to
“The Hours,” just have too much thrill and excitement
for a film?
While the school of thought generally runs that the Golden
Globes are a decent indication of who will win at the Oscars, for
the sake of some losing films deserving merit, let’s hope
that this isn’t the case. Let’s hope that the Oscars
don’t continue to propagate these lies.
The winners of the Golden Globes are determined by the opinions
of the 97 journalists who belong to the HFPA in comparison to the
Academy Awards, which takes the votes of over 5,600 members
affiliated with the academy. This means, theoretically, that the
Oscars should be a better indicator of true film quality because it
will factor in more opinions. On the other hand, it might also just
be a bigger pack of liars. I’m skeptical that they’ll
get it right anyway, because, for some reason, they didn’t
ask me to vote.
The Golden Globes did get one award right. “Gangs of New
York,” received its rightfully deserved award for Martin
Scorsese’s superb direction. Still, I think that might have
been an accidental glitch in the system of lies as many other
well-made films that got left off the radar completely. Where was
Derek Luke’s nomination for acting in “Antwone
Fisher?” Or Antwone Fisher’s own nomination for the
screenplay?
For many of the categories, I didn’t even understand why
the members of the HFPA nominated the films that they did. These
are some strange people who put everything from “8
Mile” to “The Banger Sisters” in the running for
the oversized paperweights. Even “Secretary,” a dark
film about S&M that probably less than 2 percent of moviegoers
even heard about, received a nomination for lead actress. Why would
these people do this to us? Why would they purposely nominate and
award the wrong films, misleading the general public to possibly go
and see the films they shouldn’t see and give people ego
boosts who don’t deserve them?
Sometimes, I like to think it might have been better if the
public had been able to give their input. Then again, reflecting on
the fact that “Mr. Deeds” was nominated for best comedy
motion picture at this year’s People’s Choice Awards, I
realize the public lies just as much as the foreign press. That
movie sucked.
After fuming about this for almost 15 and a half seconds, I
realized something. Even after all those awards were given out, I
still had my own opinions. The lies didn’t win. They
didn’t corrupt me, and in the end they don’t really
matter.
Yu’s picks for the least-respected award shows are: the
American Music Awards, the Blockbuster Awards and the Teen People
Awards. E-mail him at cyu@media.ucla.edu.