The 2021 Golden Globes elevated some kooky critical favorites, but also shunned several important Black films.
Since the Golden Globes are voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (a tiny contingent of journalists) and not the Oscars’ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (whose membership numbers in the thousands), the awards body’s tastes tend to be more unpredictable. And let’s just say things didn’t change in the pandemic movie and TV year of 2020.
So, with a mixed bag of nominations, let’s look at the ones that left awards season junkies soaring, sinking and just plain shrugging their shoulders.