Deadline’s Golden Globes Live Blog

Mike Fleming Jr and Joe Utichi
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Here is Deadline’s live blog of the hopefully new and improved Golden Globes. It’s a new iteration of the awards on CBS after the Globes’ longtime network, NBC, ended its relationship after the awards show’s previous management was scandalized by revelations that the now-defunct HFPA had no Black voting members, among other improprieties.

Now the Globes are a for-profit venture under Dick Clark Productions, which is co-owned by Deadline parent PMC and Eldridge and run by PMC CEO Jay Penske, with 300 voters (some of them paid) representing 76 countries.

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The live blog again was handled by Deadline’s executive awards editor Joe Utichi and co-editor in chief Mike Fleming Jr, along with contributions by Deadline staffers who are at the Beverly Hilton on the red carpet, in the room and backstage. And as usual, we promise not to pull punches.

While some would say we risked life and limb with an edgy live blog for an event that means so much to our boss, he pays us to tell the truth, and we did that. But we also gave the Globes a chance, even as we all know that awards voted by any journalists pales in comparison to the voting system of the Oscars, where winners largely are judged by their peers.

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To try and be more relevant and inclusive to the mainstream, the Globes’ nominee lists have been expanded to six this year — there were five per category in the past — and there were two new categories meant to be crowd pleasers: Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television and Cinematic and Box Office Achievement, the latter meant to honor movies actually seen by the unwashed masses. As a result, there was a lot of hardware to be spread around.

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Veteran comedian Jo Koy had just a couple of weeks to prepare for his Globes hosting gig. He didn’t take many shots at the liquored-up Hollywood crowd as did past hosts Ricky Gervais or Tiny Fey & Amy Poehler, or go after those who hired him like Jerrod Carmichael did last year.

We were wondering whether the night would belong to such films as Killers of the Flower Moon, Oppenheimer, Barbie, Maestro and American Fiction or dark horses Poor Things and The Holdovers. And on the TV side, would Succession, The Crown and Ted Lasso wrap up their celebrated runs with Globes glory, or would the evening will belong to upstarts like 1923, The Last of Us or last year’s winners Abbott Elementary and The Bear?

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TV had less at stake — the postponed Emmy Awards air on January 15, with the Creative Arts Emmys this weekend, but the voting was wrapped long ago. The Globes will have more of an impact on an Oscar race that is in full gear as studios and streamers play catch-up on campaigns that were hobbled by long strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA.

Here’s how we saw it all go down tonight.

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