Anna Daniels
In a move few — if any — saw coming, the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture — Drama went to director Sam Mendes’ 1917, an epic war drama that follows two British soldiers as they deliver a message. The film trumped Joker and The Irishman, the two biggest contenders for the award, as well as Marriage Story and The Two Popes.
What was far less surprising was seeing that Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood won Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy at the 2020 Golden Globes, beating out the Eddy Murphy-starrer Dolemite is My Name, Taika Waititi’s World War II satire Jojo Rabbit, Rian Johnson’s delicious whodunnit tale Knives Out, and the Elton John biopic Rocketman.
Missing Link, the Laika-produced stop-motion animated adventure film from director Chris Butler that Looper noted as one of the best movies of 2019, won the Golden Globe for best animated motion picture, while director Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, the critically acclaimed South Korean black-comedy thriller, scored the award for best foreign language film. Where the former beat out Toy Story 4, Frozen II, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, and the computer-animated The Lion King, the latter soared ahead of beloved contenders The Farewell, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Pain and Glory, and Les Miserables.
Written by: Looper
