The Brutalist, Brady Corbet's 215-minute postwar epic, was crowned Best Drama Film at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday, putting one of 2024's most ambitious films on course to be a major contender at the Academy Awards. The film, shot in VistaVision and being released with an intermission, also won Best Director for Corbet and Best Actor for Adrian Brody. The film, about a Jewish artist in the aftermath of World War II, bears many connections to one of Brody's most renown films, The Pianist.

The genre-shifting trans musical Emilia Pérez won Best Film in the Comedy or Musical category, handing Jacques Audiard's movie a major prize and elevating the Oscar chances of Netflix's top Oscar contender. It also won Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña, Best Song for El Mal and Best Non-English Language film.

The night's Big Actor winners included some surprises. One shocker was Demi Moore's win for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. Her comeback performance in The Substance, about a Hollywood star who resorts to an experimental process to regain her youth, landed the 62-year-old Moore her first Globe - a victory that came over the heavily favored Mikey Madison of Anora.

Best Actress, in a Drama film, was a surprise, too. The Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres won for her performance in I'm Still Here, a based-on-a-true-story drama about a family living through the disappearance of political dissident Rubens Paiva in 1970s Rio de Janeiro. Best Supporting Actor in a Musical or Comedy went to Sebastian Stan for another movie about physical transformation - A Different Man, in which Stan plays a man with a deformed face who's healed.

The Globes award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement went to Jon M. Chu's Wicked, which has nearly collected $700 million in theaters. India's All We Imagine As Light was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director for Payal Kapadia, but lost out in both the categories.

Though few film awards have been predictable this season, Kieran Culkin is emerging as the clear favorite for Best Supporting Actor. Culkin won Sunday for his performance in Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain, his second Globe in the past year following a win for the HBO series Succession.

The papal thriller Conclave took Best Screenplay, for Peter Straughan's script. Flow, the wordless Latvian animated parable about a cat in a flooded world, took Best Animated Film, winning over studio blockbusters like Inside Out 2 and The Wild Robot. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won Best Score for their thumping music for Challengers.

Source : DNA India