These awards tend to confuse me in terms of math. How can Jennifer Lawrence lose Best Actress in a Comedy when she was the only one to also be nominated for Best Actress? How can EX MACHINA win Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie when it was competing with 2 Best Picture nominees? For the 1st time, they combined their movie and TV categories into 1 ceremony. I’m glad that they weren’t so strict about the rule that TV stars can only present TV awards (which the Golden Globes always follow). What I didn’t like was the atmosphere. A lot of the shots to the audience showed bored people. Too bad that Jacob Tremblay isn’t nominated for an Oscar, because I doubt the winners’ speeches will generate the same responses people had to Jacob’s speech last night.
The only thing I can think of is that in the sub categories they are rating on a more narrow set of criteria so Ex Machina, in the narrow criteria that they use for sci-fi is better than The Martian or Mad Max but as a whole it isn’t as good of a movie.
Because this is a comment section and something like this wouldn’t be complete without one, let’s butcher a car analogy! Put in a sports car category, a Porchse 911 beats a Honda Accord but that’s because they are being judged on the specifics of the sports car category, like horsepower and 0-60 acceleration. But put them both in a best car category where other criteria like practicality or gas mileage are also being considered and maybe the Accord comes out the better car overall.
KingRichard22
Excellent analogy..! “Best Film” or “Best Picture” is also a lot more subjective..
clone
This. I love this. Much much better than Golden Globes. Congrats to BFCA for their selection of winners.
