COLIN FARRELL WON a Golden Globe last night for his role as the title character in the DC Comics TV adaptation The Penguin.
The Dublin actor picked up the gong for Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television.
It is Farrell’s third Golden Globe win, having previously won for his performances in The Banshees of Inisherin and In Bruges.
After being presented the award, Farrell first quipped that he had no one to thank. “No one to thank on this when I did it all by myself,” he joked. “Just a raw, pared-away performance.”
He then focuses on the make-up team that performed the visual transformation that allowed him to play the bloated villain, saying that it took three hours to fit him with prosthetics each day.
“In the morning, I drank black coffee, listened to 80s music, and I became a canvas for that team’s brilliance,” he said.
Thank you for employing me. And yeah, I guess it’s prosthetics from here on out.
Farrell and fellow Irish actor Andrew Scott (Ripley TV series) had both been nominated in the category. In his acceptance speech, Farrell recalled their first onscreen collaboration.
“Andrew, you were in my first film, 25 or 30 years ago,” Farrell said while accepting the award on stage at at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
“You can’t even find it on Betamax. It doesn’t exist. We go back that far.”
Farrell follows in the footsteps of Joaquin Phoenix and Heath Ledger in winning a Golden Globe Award for playing a Batman villain.
Phoenix who won in 2020 for his role in The Joker and late actor Ledger who won in 2009 for The Dark Knight.
In the winners’ room, Farrell said the two actors are “for my money, the most extraordinary, talented and gifted and just brilliant artists in film that I’ve ever had the fortune to observe and be affected by”.
“What Heath did in Chris Nolan’s Dark Knight was extraordinary, and will live on for future generations and what Joaquin did with The Joker was as exemplified by all the awards that he won and the Oscar stuff – it was extraordinary,” Farrell said.
“So to have your name thrown into, just uttered in the same sentence, as those performances – honestly, it’s lovely, but I still approach it all more from just a fan of it all.
“I don’t feel like I’m part of that pantheon, I don’t think I’ll go home tonight thinking I’m part of that pantheon.”
Other awards
Across other categories at the Globes last night, surreal narco-musical “Emilia Perez” and epic immigrant drama “The Brutalist” were the big winners, as prizes were shared widely across an international crop of movies at the year’s first major showbiz awards gala.
French director Jacques Audiard’s Mexico-set “Emilia Perez”, about a drug lord who transitions to life as a woman, took four prizes, including best comedy or musical film.
It won for best non-English language film and best original song, while Zoe Saldana took best supporting actress honors, nudging out her co-star Selena Gomez.
Demi Moore won best actress in a comedy movie for the satirical horror The Substance, and the surprise winner was among the most popular award recipients of the evening.
“I’ve been doing this a long time – for 45 years – and this is the first time I’ve ever won anything,” she said.
During an emotional speech Moore, 62, whose character confronts the harsh reality of ageing in Hollywood in the body horror The Substance, said:
“Thirty years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a popcorn actress and at that time, I made that mean that this wasn’t something that I was allowed to have, that I could do movies that were successful, that made a lot of money, but that I couldn’t be acknowledged.”
I bought in, and I believed that, and that corroded me over time, to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it, maybe I was complete. I’ve done what I was supposed to do.
“And as I was at kind of a low point, I had this magical, bold, courageous, out-of-the-box, absolutely bonkers script come across my desk called The Substance, and the universe told me that you’re not done.”
The actress, whose win likely makes her a frontrunner for the Oscars, beat the likes of Wicked star Cynthia Erivo, Nightbitch’s Amy Adams and Challengers actress Zendaya to take home the award.
Best Drama
Immigration story The Brutalist took home several major awards including gongs for actor Adrien Brody and director Brady Corbet and Best Drama.
Brody scored his first Golden Globe for best male actor in a motion picture drama win for the role as a Hungarian architect attempting to build a life in the US after the Second World War.
Accepting the award on stage he said: “The character’s journey is very reminiscent of my mother’s and my ancestral journey of fleeing the horrors of war and coming to this great country, and I owe so much to my mother and my grandparents for their sacrifice.”
“Although I do not know fully how to express all of the challenges that you have faced and experienced and the many people who have struggled immigrating to this country, I hope this work stands to lift you up and to give you a voice. I will cherish this moment forever.”
The Brutalist director Brady Corbet, who took home the film directing gong, said: “I was told that no one would come out and see it.”
The annual ceremony, held in Beverly Hills, was dominated by first-time winners, including film gongs for A Different Man’s Sebastian Stan, I’m Still Here’s Fernanda Torres, and in the TV categories, Shogun stars Anna Sawai, Hiroyuki Sanada and Tadanobu Asano.
Netflix’s Baby Reindeer, about a comedian and barman who is stalked by an older woman after he offers her a cup of tea at the pub where he works, won best limited TV or anthology series or TV movie award.
The show’s creator, Scottish comedian Richard Gadd, pleaded with broadcasters and streamers to make stories that let the “little person tell their story” as he collected the gong.
His Yorkshire co-star Jessica Gunning secured her first win for the best female supporting actress in the television category.
Best film, drama: “The Brutalist”
Best film, musical or comedy: “Emilia Perez”
Best director: Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist”
Best actor, drama: Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
Best actress, drama: Fernanda Torres, “I’m Still Here”
Best actor, musical or comedy: Sebastian Stan, “A Different Man”
Best actress, musical or comedy: Demi Moore, “The Substance”
Best supporting actor: Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
Best supporting actress: Zoe Saldana, “Emilia Perez”
Best screenplay: Peter Straughan, “Conclave”
Best non-English language film: “Emilia Perez”
Best original song: “El Mal” from “Emilia Perez”
Best original score: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, “Challengers”
Best cinematic and box office achievement: “Wicked”
Best animated feature: “Flow”
Best drama series: “Shogun”
Best drama actor: Hiroyuki Sanada, “Shogun”
Best drama actress: Anna Sawai, “Shogun”
Best musical or comedy series: “Hacks”
Best musical or comedy actor: Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”
Best musical or comedy actress: Jean Smart, “Hacks”
Best limited series or TV movie: “Baby Reindeer”
Best limited series or TV movie actor: Colin Farrell, “The Penguin”
Best limited series or TV movie actress: Jodie Foster, “True Detective: Night Country”
Best performance in stand-up comedy on television: Ali Wong, “Ali Wong: Single Lady”
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