Helen Mirren in red Photo: Frank Masi, SMPSP Burlesque: Best Picture – Musical or Comedy (2010)
Christina Aguilera's performance The debut, in which she stretched her Lady Marmalade video persona to the limit as a small-town girl trying to make it in the cutthroat L.A. burlesque scene, was essentially a more boring, heavily sanitized Showgirls. Even Aguilera's co-star Cher called the film “horrible… terrible director!” And a really terrible scenario.” But Golden Globe voters, perhaps dazzled by wall-to-wall corsets and fishnets, thought otherwise.
Hugh Jackman for Kate & Leopold: Best Actor in a Film (Musical or Comedy) (2001)
Make no mistake, Hugh Jackman is one of the most likable and consistently good actors working today, and he deserves every award he can get. But even he can admit that his role as a 19th-century Duke who somehow ends up time-traveling to modern-day New York to woo working girl Meg Ryan and make a joke about dog mess hardly ranks as his best 123 minutes. Gene Hackman won the award for The Royal Tenenbaums.
The Ninth Configuration: Best Picture (1981)
Exorcist writer William Peter Blatty makes his directorial debut with a charmingly strange adaptation of his own novel about a wounded colonel (Stacy Keach) sent to recover from the horrors of Vietnam in an asylum for ex-soldiers. A very violent fight takes place in a bar; prisoners perform Shakespeare plays with dogs; we see a crucifixion on the moon; and the main questions of life will be answered. Warner Bros. It was so hated that the film was barely released, but the Globes supported it. Yes, a somewhat baffling nomination, but it actually makes you love the oddball Golden Globes even more.
Halle Berry, for Frankie & Alice: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) (2010)
For reasons unknown, 2010 Golden Globe voters nominated Halle Berry for her performance in a film that almost no one but them had actually seen. Frankie & “Alice” is the true story of a young black go-go dancer with a multiple personality disorder that makes her think she is either a seven-year-old girl or a racist white woman. It was well received at Cannes, but only opened for a limited release in one theater in the US – just enough to qualify for awards season. Four years later, it finally received a wider release.
Ordinary Love by U2 from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom for Best Original Song (2013)
Somehow, this unforgettable U2 number – dull even by their usual standards – managed to beat out Frozen's Let It Go for best song. “Ordinary Love” was ostensibly a tribute to Nelson Mandela, but you'd never know it from its sentimental, anodistic lyrics (“Your heart on my sleeve/Did you put it there with a magic marker?”).
Jim Carrey for How the Grinch Stole Christmas: Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (2000)
There's something about Jim Carrey. Something that makes the Golden Globe jury irresistibly want to nominate him for almost everything he appears in. He was nominated for a Liar Liar Award in 1997 for the mediocre Liar Liar, and in 2000 things got even worse. While it's wholesome entertainment for kids during the holiday season, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Ron Howard's big-budget adaptation of Dr. Seuss's wacky tale, was a complete disappointment. And when you consider that the eventual winner in the category was George Clooney for his superb performance in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Carrey's fifth nomination seems even sillier.
The Great Debaters: Best Picture – Drama (2008).
No one could blame Saint Denzel Washington for wanting to tell the story of the black Texas college debate team that became national champions in Depression-era America, but it was a numbers-driven effort aided and abetted by the queen. schmaltz, Oprah Winfrey. Could it be that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has fallen victim to the “Very Important Movie” disease, where clichéd passion projects are saved from obscurity by their heavy-handed moralizing? No discussion is required on this matter.
Denzel Washington in The Great Debaters Photo: Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo “Tourist”: Best Film – Musical or Comedy (2010)
Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie's Venice Madness was neither musical nor comedic and hardly worked as the thriller it was intended to be. However, his multiple nominations for the 2010 awards caused a storm of laughter when announced to the world's press, and subsequently gave Ricky Gervais one of his best jokes of the night (“Everything this year seemed to be in 3D. Except for the characters in “The Tourist.”) Boom boom.
Patch Adams: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy; Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) (1999)
One Golden Globe nomination for Patch Adams could be considered a disaster; two looks like crazy. But this shameless tearjerker was actually nominated twice in 1999 for Best Picture (Comedy/Musical) and Best Actor (Comedy/Musical) for Robin Williams, which may have been the low point of his career. The eventual winners were Shakespeare in Love and Michael Caine (Little Voice), respectively (and much more deservedly).
Robbie Williams in Patch Adams Photo: PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy Stock Photo Glenn Close, 101 Dalmatians: Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy (1996)
And Golden Globe for Best Villain -the pantomime goes to… well, not Glenn Close, actually, who was actually nominated for best actress for her sleazy turn as Cruella de Vil in the mediocre live-action version of the classic 1996 children's tale, 101 Dalmatians. . In an even more bizarre coincidence, the winner in the category (remember, best actress) was Madonna for her leading role in the film Evita.
Pia Zadora for Butterfly: Newcomer of the Year (1981)
In one of the most controversial episodes in Golden Globe history, former child star Pia Zadora was nominated in the Newcomer of the Year category for her role as a woman who seduces her own father in an erotic drama “Butterfly”. Except her performance wasn't good, she wasn't new, and the film hadn't even been released in the US at the time – yet she still won, beating out both Elizabeth McGovern and Kathleen Turner.
How? It was rumored that Zadora's husband (and “Butterfly” producer) Mechoulam Riklis, a multimillionaire businessman 30 years her senior, was lavishly entertaining Hollywood Foreign Press Association voters at the Riviera Hotel, which he owned. Zadora and Riklis denied all accusations, but the scandal continued to haunt her. She later admitted that she “felt so bad that she wished she had won.”
Emma Thompson (Jr.): Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical (1994)
Who knows what Emma Thompson (deservingly nominated in 2014 for Saving Mr. Banks) was thinking when she signed up for this ridiculous comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a doctor who manages to get pregnant in the name of research. And who knows what Golden Globe voters were thinking when they nominated Thompson for her role as Schwarzenegger's bumbling scientist love interest. After all, Jamie Lee Curtis won the award for her role in True Lies.
Danny DeVito, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Emma Thompson in the Junior category Credits: PictureLux/The Hollywood Archive/Alamy Stock Photo Bobby: Best Film – drama (2006)
It's safe to say that Emilio Estevez is no Robert Altman. “Bobby,” his attempt at a Nashville-style ensemble drama, can be placed more neatly next to the later work of Garry Marshall, whose calendar of films (“New Year's Eve,” “Valentine's Day”) is nauseatingly star-studded.
The film, set on the day Robert Kennedy was assassinated, was poorly received by critics, but voters may have been blinded by the sheer number of bold names (Helen Hunt, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Fishburne, Demi Moore , William Macy). , Sharon Stone) on sale; or perhaps they really are a bunch of European pinkos in thrall to the Kennedy legend.
Madonna's masterpiece from W.E. for Best Original Song (2011)
Madonna's Wallis Simpson biopic was panned by critics, but the pop star's second effort as a director still won a Globe for the mid-tempo ballad called “Masterpiece” (it's not). It wasn't a particularly strong shortlist that year, but even Elton John's collaboration with Lady Gaga for Gnomeo and Juliet would have been a better choice than this.
Get Out: Best Musical/Comedy (2018) 
Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out Photo: Universal Pictures via AP
Jordan Peele's edgy, edgy horror debut is a sharp and unsettling satire of American relations: a toothy take on the genre. What it doesn't have are musical numbers and no laughs unless you like your comedy completely black. So the reason it was nominated in this category is because of one of the HFPA's most outlandish calls. And given the organization's troubled history with racial tensions, nominating it for The Greatest Showman and The Disaster Artist wasn't exactly a good decision. However, Peele was optimistic, suggesting on Twitter that it should have been selected in the documentary category.
Music: Best Musical/Comedy (2021)
At least Sia's controversial misfire was categorized correctly. However, that is all that makes sense in this stifling attempt at neurodiversity understanding. Starring Kate Hudson as an irresponsible child forced to care for her autistic little sister, the film was panned by critics as well as criticized by neurodiversity organizations for its caricatured portrayal of autism. In fact, some even tried to exclude it from the award entirely.
James Corden for The Prom – Best Musical/Comedy (2021)
There were a lot of stinkers at the Covid-rejected Globes, especially in the Musical/Comedy category. And yet, while The Music of Sia was—if you look at it charitably—a worthy failure, James Corden's performance as a toothy Broadway camp goon who parachutes into small-town Indiana to save it from the curse of homophobia was equally offensive as it sounds. Tim Robey of The Telegraph noted: “The film is overall painful, but Corden is the absolute leader in what's bad about it.”
The Golden Globes will air at 7:00 pm (ET) on January 7 on the channel CBS. and Paramount Plus. The ceremony will not be shown in the UK
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