The Golden Globes went off well enough this past year that CBS has signed a five-year deal with the Globes to show on the network and stream on Paramount+, beginning in January, 2025. And yes, it is a wild development in the history of awards that Jay Penske owns Deadline, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire and Gold Derby and also the Golden Globes. It is one of those “snake eating its own tail” moments but you know, these are low stakes. He’s rescued the Globes because his outlets have to report on them and can’t shut them out, as they’ve been doing for the past several years.
So it is one of those weird situations where the Globes probably wouldn’t exist anymore if not for Jay Penske, who has emerged as a Louis B. Mayer figure in the end-empire era of film awards.
The press release as follows:
CBS’ recent broadcast of The 81ST ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBE® AWARDS on Sunday, January 7thaveraged 9.96 million viewers (Nielsen Live+7 Day national ratings), up nearly +50% from last year, its largest audience since 2020. The telecast was also the third-largest live-streamed CBS special event on Paramount+ ever in terms of AMA and reach.
“CBS’ collaboration with the Globes for this year’s broadcast was a big win for both of us and established strong momentum for awards shows in 2024,” said George Cheeks, President and CEO of CBS. “The Globes is a one-of a-kind live event that adds another marquee special and valuable promotional platform to CBS’ annual calendar. I’m excited to expand the partnership with Jay and the entire team to continue to drive the Globes forward.”
“We’re so proud to continue to call CBS our home for the Golden Globes,” said Jay Penske, Chairman and CEO of Penske Media and Dick Clark Productions. “CBS stepped up for the Globes during a very challenging time, and inherently understood its value, while having the foresight, imagination and conviction to bring this iconic show to its many platforms. We’ve long admired CBS’ commitment to some of the greatest cultural live events and partnering for the long-term further cements this show’s legacy and incredible place in history.”
“Today marks a significant milestone for the Globes as we solidify our partnership with CBS and Paramount+ for the next five years,” said Helen Hoehne, President, Golden Globes. “We are incredibly proud of the audience we garnered in 2024 and look forward to building upon the immense success to make the 82nd annual Golden Globe Awards the best and most memorable show yet.”
The Golden Globe Awards, often referred to as Hollywood’s “Biggest Party of the Year®,” is one of the biggest nights on the calendar for live viewing. It is also the largest awards show in the world to celebrate the best of both film and television.
Produced and owned by Dick Clark Productions, the Golden Globe Awards are viewed in more than 185 countries worldwide.
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I love the idea that the list of characters where one person has been nominated multiple times for the same role are two of the more iconic movie characters of all time (Rocky Balboa and Michael Corleone), two real-life British monarchs (Queen Elizabeth I and King Henry II) and two characters where the basic idea is just “what if this movie star did this thing for a living” (Paul Newman as a pool player and Bing Crosby as a priest).
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And then it was featured in a movie that had a sequel, which were both nominated for Best Picture, and for which two actors won the Oscar for playing the same character.
Praise be! It’s a miracle!
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Leo McCarey is for sure one of the most overlooked and (today) among the most sadly unheralded directors of his time. Even in film academia his work and life are barely explored.
Wonderful that you know that and admirable that you took time, there and here, to pay your respects.
Jonathan Pryce plays another sort of religious zealot in 3 Body Problem.
His zealotry leads him to worship a dubious diety, and he meets an interesting fate as reward for his devotion.
I suspect there are countless real-life priests who deserve the same fate.
I’d actually agree. Oscar Isaac is on my list of ppl who everyone wants to get nominated
I think there are all kinds of priests and not all would please the MAGA contingent, like awarding Johnothan Pryce’s role in The Two Popes.
Interesting and I’m a fan of the film Beckett.
Bells of St Marys and Going My Way were directed by the great Leo McCarey, and I saw his grave at a tour of a famous cemetery in Culver City. I have a feeling he was well-taken care of in life and death judging by his tombstone.
Can we just call it a competitive year?
I assume that if there’s an easy way to classify people, they just split the vote. So in the supporting category, it was probably people that won before splitting the vote and Brad Pitt being the outliar.
Like Kimmel said people who are attractive like Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Eva Mendes, Jennifer Aniston don’t need Oscars as much because they won the genetic lottery, so I’d hardly call him due.
I’m not sure if I’d even have called Phoenix due on the same scale of Glenn Close, Amy Adams, or Peter O’Toole. He was more ready for it based on past work. Plus, it probably went against him that he likely didn’t want to be there, except for the fact that he’s passionate about veganism and campaigned for all the award ceremonies to be vegan that year
I’d like to add that a pair of Dune actors – Oscar Isaac and Stellan Skarsgard – are both overdue for their first Oscar nominations.
Fun fact: The Bells of St. Mary’s was the first sequel to receive a best picture nomination.
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oh wow!
so… like Joaquín and Joker… but I guess not exactly.
It’s actually the same priest since The Bells of St. Mary’s is a sequel to Going My Way
Used to happen on the regular.
Spenser Tracy and Bing Crosby both won Oscars for playing priests in the 1940s.
(although, on the flip side, the year after Bing Crosby won, he tried winning again by playing another priest — he and Gregory Peck were both nominated for playing priests in ’45 — but they split the priest vote and the drunk won (Ray Milland, The Lost Weekend)
Paul Scofield won for A Man for All Seasons.
If one wants to be perverse about it (and of course, I do) — then Burt Lancaster and Jean Simmons both won Oscars for playing Evangelists in Elmer Gantry.
I would put Evangelist in “eye-roll quotes” but that would be redundant.
Might be the right time in history for clergy characters to make a resurgence. MAGA want to Make America Fundamentalist Again.
Both Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins gave Oscar winning performances in The Two Popes.
Pryce lost to “overdue” Phoenix, and Hopkins lost to “overdue” Pitt..! 🙂
How often does someone win for clergy. Anthony Hopkins and Jon Pryce both got nominated in an insanely crowded year for 2 Popes so that’s a sign
Ralph Fiennes’ turn in Edward Berger’s upcoming papal drama Conclave might earn him that “well overdue” Oscar…!
Fingers crossed.
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Tom Cruise
I asked a question that was pretty popular:
Who is most due for lead actor Oscar (try to pick people who have been in lead roles. Also no one who has a supporting role):
I have
1. Ralph Fiennes-Film Experience often refers to him as the best actor of his generation not to win. In addition to his two nominations in the 90s, he also was a great lead in another Best Picture nominee in Quiz Show. In the 00s, he garnered buzz in Constant Gardener, and the trifecta of Reader/In Bruges/Duchess (which might have split votes) in 2008, in addition to infusing one of the decade’s big franchises with Voldemort. He also got in on the Hannibal action in Red Dragon. In the 2010s, his output lessened. He likely was the most inventive Wes Anderson protagonist ever put to film in Grand Budapest Hotel (sorry Jason Schwartzman in Rushmore), and was quietly brilliant in The Dig a bit more recently.
2. Bradley Cooper-While finishing a distant third in this past year’s Oscar race, Cooper is well-known to have the education bona fides (he went to an elite school) and to be a serious actor with a capital S. He now sits at 5 nominations within a 12 year period in addition to being a writer, director, producer, and co-vocalist for “Shallow.” He’s getting so immersive (and possibly desperate) that he might pull a more extreme stunt like Revenant and get himself eaten by a bear.
3. Paul Giamatti-I think the voters and media got a taste of how good the possibility of “And the Oscar goes to Paul Giamatti” would have sounded
4. Harvey Keitel-With people like James Caan, Ned Beatty, and Danny Aiello tragically gone, he might the last of the greatest generation of character actors who changed acting in the 1970s. Like Bill Nighy or Bruce Dern with recent noms, it might never be too late
5. Daniel Craig-Sean Connery won an Oscar for James Bond, but Craig had a far wider range, and showed before and after Bond that he was willing to take risky roles, like Truman Capote’s lover in Infamous or a detective whose idiosyncrasies seemingly are modelled after Foghorn Leghorn. There are a ton of great roles
6. Johnny Depp-I’m not sure I’d cast him on a film because his drunken and difficult on-set behavior has become quite legendary (exacerbated through accounts at the Amber Heard trial), but to the degree that he would get cast, he’s never less than brilliant and superbly inventive. That can’t be denied.
7. Hugh Jackman-A convincing musical lead is hard to deny like his work in Les Miserables or Greatest Showman (a fan favorite, didn’t go so well with critics on the left). His popularity with the Wolverine roles, his range with work like The Front Runner or The Fountain, it’s not far-fetched at all that in a given year, he might have the best performance of the year. If it’s close, I have faith that the extremely amicable Jackman could get the award by doing well on the awards circuit
8. Benedict Cumberbatch-I tend to think best actors should be a little on the older side, and after Casey Affleck and Rami Malek, I’m definitely happiest with actors winning the lead award over, say, 40, which is why Adam Driver seems a bit young for me (he’s 39, and nowhere near due). Cumberbatch might be there at 48. Damn, how the time has flown. He’s been superb in movies dating quite a while, and even if he doesn’t have a gazillion nominations, he does have an Emmy, and he’s the kind of guy you know could nail any future challenging role. He has been in 5 BP nominees, so his filmography is solid even if his roles in Atonement and 1917 were quite small.
9. Ed Norton-An actor’s actor, Norton has had some great break out roles in the 90s, and has acted in a wide range (he even directed a romantic comedy). Motherless Brooklyn (his second directoral film) and his role in Glass Onion shows he’s still pretty ambitious.
10. Liam Neeson-His batting average of noticeable performance to regular performance is low considering how prolific he is, but he’s pretty beloved, and he has an excuse for acting in so many movies (it helps him get over his wife’s death). The probability that he has another brilliant performance like Kinsey or Schindler’s List shouldn’t be that far out of reach.
11. Eddie Murphy-The degree to which he held up SNL and the film industry in the 1980s can’t be underestimated. If you want to give a comic star an award, Murphy would be a good choice. The problem is that there isn’t that often a role like Dolemite is my Name or Dreamgirls
12. Michael Fassbender-In 2011, he broke out with simultaneous plaudits for Shame, Dangerous Method, X-Men and Jane Eyre all at once. He got 2 nominations in the next 4 years and I think he’s still growing strong. He’d be on the newer end of nominees.
13. Jon Hamm-The leading man on Mad Men fits the mold of a leading man very easily and I’m often thinking he’d be a good lead whenever I armchair cast a film idea I think of in my head.
14. Steve Martin-Hard to think of a more beloved legend in comedy. Roles like 2005’s Shopgirl show he can do something big if he gets the right role. He’s retiring soon, so he can market it as his swan song.
15. Richard Gere-This 75 year old actor has had roles in key films in the 70s (Days of Heaven), 80s (Officer and a Gentleman), 90s (Pretty Woman, Primal Fear), 00s (Unfaithful, Chicago, Amelia), and 10s (Arbitrage). He’s never been the preeminent of his generation and he’s never had the hot streak of a lot of great movies in a row, but his filmography stretches back a ways. With a good role, I don’t see why he wouldn’t be cheered as a consummate screen icon.
I feel like for anyone to be the host of something 4 times of the past 5 times is dragging the event down. At least the Globes don’t have to have the most neutral star in the world. I like that the GG can do Ricky Gervais or Amy and Tina or Jo Koy.
Or whomever.
Agree about streaming.
Not according to my reading of the online experts. They told me if the Golden Globes don’t bring back Ricky Gervaid then the Golden Globes will never be watched. They told me if the Golden Globes don’t get more viewers than the World Cup Finals then the Golden Globes are dead. They told me if Poor Things won any Golden Globes then all the voters would be convicted in prison as pedophile supporters. …… What happened? Did I get lied to?
[[This is humor, this is how I audition to be host of the Golden Globes in 2025-2030]]
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This is where online media at it strongest rather than doing opinion generated rumours sourced off social media, they go to source do interviews let main person speak for themselves yes it big part of vanity fairs dna I guess, but ie: why didn’t media think be patient wait for Princess Katherine to do interview before launching vicious rumour ? Why didn’t online media wait for Glazer to collect himself yo speak for himself rather others smearing his name??
In any event Anne Hathaway is truly gracious outstanding talent amongst my favourites absolutely .. but what she says on Nolan’s praise really stands out whrn u read Vanity Fair interview wirh Hathaway you see why: basically she praises Nolan’s humility and compassion as she implies : ” as much as she admires Nolan’s controlling as director on set management if actors she admires even MORE his sense of compassion , reassurance and humility personally to her.
I know Oscars ought be given first n foremost on merit of actual film competing the filmmaker does but we know in rule of Oscars ‘ I owe you’s’ and reputation in film industry esp to actors matters …u could argue it secondary or tertiary factor why in part Spielberg joined rare air 2 be 2 time directing Oscar winner and on that front u be certain that Nolan’s level of esteem he be deservedly least 2 time directing oscar winner given extent of massive praise he mostly gets from his peers as often as he does..
Good On Nolan good on Hathaway for finding inspiration out of Nolan’s support have courage to resurrect her career – disgraceful AGAIN it was scourge of social media thst threatened to rip her soul lose her heart from continuing her acting career ..Nolsn changed her perspective gave her renewed hope but I totally acknowledge her own will power to go on..
Look like a definitive turning point fact I ( obviously, ) not only embraced BIGGEST winner in Oppenheimer even before it win at globes was assured, but on basis of fsct in principle the Globes signalled a measured sensibility pivot to bigger cinematic films more people cared about rather than select limited small target release films that made film masses feel isolated in many years prior… bur fir the Globes ro bring back the true spirit, essence of what rhe Globes truly are about not just whrn it came to the winner but the nature of the nominees and overall quality of most of them too compared to most of past Golden group nominees in past years.
I don’t know about individual you raise and objectively you could argue maybe,? It conflict of interest however, if it works if this new look Globes that PROVEN as of outcome this year you STILL have expanded diversity k3nebership yet still back more traditional film through it sheer persuasion on basis of CINEMATIC MERIT alone becoming the UNIFYING FORCE .. and so Globes I never thought I say it are LEADING THE WAY it appears thanx to individuals investment and stake in bringing all their diverse reforms together WITHOUT leaving mainstream film goers those who.love high quality highly acclaimed cibema that truly resonates to them – behind..
I applaud this deal … it a potential touchstone turning point clearly the Hollywood Foreign Press no longer want to appear dare I say it ‘ foreign ‘ to traditional film goers or traditional industry base industry anymore..
Going forward the Oscars where noteworthy and telling got much smaller % rating boost compared to gloves who deservedly DOUBLED from what u stated Sasha if + 50% WOW improvement ..but unlike Globes Oscars have compounded their reputation for making majority former oscar watchers feel marginalised for too long and hence it Been longer stretch since rhe time I believe BTW when Academy last had strong ratings and decade or so ltr ..whereas if I mistaken the Globes were in doldrums of ratings slump for shorter period of time than the Oscars..law of averages hence I suggest explains why Oscars need more than one positively predictable outcome ..and Globes recovered too cos dramatic change of leadership via positive influence if this individual… hats off to him..may not be ideal influencer / investor given he a proprietor or multiple major entertainment media, HOWEVER IT bet thst paid off thankfully for Globes to turn a corner ..
Now let us hope and pray Globes build on this positive momentum shift fir several years to come at least or decades as Oscars should strive learn from Globes example too.. what you think ,?
Bravo Globes ..but it Oscars need work harder to regain the neglected oscarcwatchers trust in medium term here.. Here’s hoping full marks to the Globes this year.. not just cos they set trend for Oppies domination either….