Last night reminded me of something I tend to forget, which is that the Golden Globes are completely irrelevant. I attempted to watch for a few minutes, but between the awkward order of the awards, the way they had people introducing their own films for Best Picture awards, and the fact that they gave an award to Burlesque, I realized that the Golden Globes are like the Deep Impact or Edtv of awards shows. They realize they are doing the same thing that other awards shows are doing and hope that, by setting themselves apart by appearing first or far enough after, people will pay attention. But they just don’t get it right. Hollywood pays attention to the Globes for about a month and then everything belongs to Oscar. It seems like television harps on Golden Globe achievements even less. The self-congratulations fall silent after a couple of weeks because the Emmys define good television.
The Golden Globes are awkward. The television awards get pushed aside – it seems like the night had barely started when they gave the award for Best Drama series, which is the ultimate prize at the Emmys – or are combined carelessly in categories that compare apples to airplanes. The TV people spend all night in the shadow of Movies, but Movies only care about these awards as a prequel to real achievement.
I’ve always heard that the Golden Globes are the most fun awards party, and that the stars like mingling with one another and having a big table full of food and drinks to enjoy while people aren’t talking about them. I think we should just let the Golden Globes be the fancy midwinter fashion show that it is, and let the beautiful people have their party with Ricky Gervais, because that’s fun. But pretending to assign significance to the trophy is a little silly. I think next year I’ll watch the Red Carpet, then spend the evening actually watching good films or good television instead of inevitably feeling awkward and sorry for half the people in the auditorium. Then I’ll do what everyone else does, and wait for the Oscar nominations…
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