Golden Globes Announce New Box Office & Streaming and Stand-Up Comedy Awards
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00:00 The Golden Globes has just announced two new categories,
00:03 one for box office and cinematic achievement,
00:05 and one for comedic stand-up special.
00:07 I'm here to talk with my colleagues
00:09 about this new turn of events.
00:10 Okay, let's talk about this new Golden Globes Award
00:14 for cinematic and box office achievement.
00:16 What do you guys think?
00:17 - Tatiana, this is a resurrection of an idea
00:22 that was floated for the Oscars about five years ago.
00:25 - Yes.
00:26 - An idea that was floated and shot down, I should add.
00:28 (Tatiana laughs)
00:29 - Short-lived.
00:30 - Yeah, that's right.
00:30 And some of us really were not crazy about this idea
00:33 in that what bothered me about what was called
00:37 the popular category, introducing that to the Oscars,
00:40 was not so much the idea of honoring the box office,
00:43 but for me, it created this kind of dichotomy
00:47 in our thinking, where we have the quality films over here,
00:51 and then we have the blockbusters
00:53 that the people go to see over here.
00:56 And I think the more that we think about movies like that,
00:58 the more that becomes self-fulfilling.
01:00 We had two incredible examples of how that kind of thinking
01:04 is pretty short-sighted, namely "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie,"
01:08 both films that critics love,
01:09 that have had extraordinary acclaim and excitement about them
01:13 as works of art, and they're also huge hits.
01:17 I think that's where we should be moving in our thinking.
01:19 Having said all of that, I think this category fits
01:21 into the Golden Globes a lot better than it did at the Oscars
01:26 because the Golden Globes is a more kind of relaxed,
01:29 there's a, you know, what the heck,
01:31 let's just do this quality about them.
01:33 - Yeah, "Barbie" fits in more.
01:35 - Yeah, and so I think the way this category's gonna play
01:38 is it's gonna feel like one of those MTV Movie Awards things
01:42 where it's gonna be, let's do the best blockbuster now.
01:46 And why not?
01:47 Let's have a vote for films that are maybe not
01:51 the best films of the year, but are a certain kind of film.
01:54 It just feels to me like it fits into the Globes.
01:57 - I think it's interesting because, like you said,
01:58 "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" are going to fit
02:00 into this category, but we have to think about other films
02:03 that have reached that $150 million mark
02:06 at the global box office, like "Little Mermaid" and "Mario."
02:09 They may not win this specific category,
02:11 but I think in an alternative year,
02:13 we can celebrate those films
02:15 that really brought people together.
02:17 Holly Bailey's performance as Ariel
02:19 was absolutely outstanding, for example.
02:21 And then with "Mario" in particular,
02:23 it was such a huge hit.
02:24 I don't think that many people expected it.
02:26 It brought so many people back to the box office
02:29 at a time when it was still a little bit uneasy.
02:31 We're still recovering from COVID a little bit.
02:34 So I think it'll be a really good category in that sense
02:37 to celebrate films like that in the future.
02:40 - I think you're absolutely right.
02:41 And I think the category really does exist
02:44 to celebrate those films, because ironically,
02:47 in the year of "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie,"
02:50 I don't think we'd want one of those films
02:52 winning this category, because they're good enough
02:55 to compete in the real category.
02:56 - Exactly.
02:57 - So in a way, this category really is for something
03:00 like the "Super Mario Bros." films or "The Little Mermaid."
03:04 - Or how about "Sound of Freedom?"
03:06 Could be "Sound of Freedom's" opportunity,
03:08 which would never otherwise have an opportunity.
03:10 - That could definitely be the dark horse in that category.
03:13 Well, we'll see how daring the voters are.
03:16 - So we also have this new category for the Golden Globes,
03:19 which is best performance by a performer
03:22 in a stand-up comedy for television.
03:25 - I think this is a really interesting category, actually.
03:27 I'm much more interested in this, I think,
03:29 than the box office performance.
03:32 I think when we think about comedy specials,
03:34 some of them can be really stand-out.
03:36 I know Deion Cole, he did a performance
03:38 on the anniversary of his mother's death.
03:40 It had been a year since she had passed away.
03:42 I thought it was really moving.
03:43 I cried, actually, during the special, and I laughed a lot.
03:47 So it was very intriguing.
03:48 It was very dynamic.
03:49 He's such an incredible performer.
03:51 So I really enjoyed that one as well.
03:53 - I think this is a great innovation
03:55 of the Globes to do this,
03:56 because we all know that stand-up comedy
03:58 is really, at its best, a towering art form.
04:02 I mean, there have been so many great artists
04:04 who've worked it, and interestingly enough,
04:06 way back in 1979,
04:08 the very esteemed film critic Pauline Kael,
04:11 her choice for Best Actor of the Year
04:14 was Richard Pryor in "Richard Pryor Live in Concert."
04:18 And that always kind of spun my head around,
04:20 because that is one of the great concert films.
04:22 But what she was saying is not just,
04:24 this is great comedy or profound comedy
04:27 or whatever you wanna call it.
04:28 She was saying, this is great acting.
04:30 And I think that great stand-up comedy is great acting.
04:33 - It's a performance.
04:34 - It is such a performance.
04:35 And I think it's gonna fit into the Globes great
04:39 and really add something to it.
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