Vox - Golden Globes 2019: winners, nominations, and biggest moments https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/52517/voxv.png2019-01-07T17:40:04-05:00http://www.vox.com/rss/stream/178900102019-01-07T17:40:04-05:002019-01-07T17:40:04-05:00How gender-fluid fashion elevated men’s looks at the Golden Globes
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<p>Men’s red carpet looks are notoriously boring, but this year’s Golden Globes offered a glimmer of the unexpected.</p> <p id="LQp9Ue">At the 2019 Golden Globes on Sunday, gender fluidity surfaced as a major theme on the red carpet, with celebrities like Billy Porter, Judy Greer, and Cody Fern challenging traditional fashion gender norms with their looks. </p>
<p id="QyiAw2">Golden Globe nominee Porter, star of the groundbreaking FX series <em>Pose</em>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/6/1/17415634/pose-review-fx-ryan-murphy-paris-is-burning">which chronicles the drag ball scene of the 1980s</a>, arrived at the show in a floral embroidered suit and matching cape with a hot pink lining he held open for dramatic effect. </p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tonight’s <a href="https://twitter.com/goldenglobes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@goldenglobes</a> lewk. Spring is coming children! <br><br>Wearing custom couture by <a href="https://twitter.com/RandiRahm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RandiRahm</a> <br><br>Iconic Gardenia Lapel Pins and Ballerina Ring by <a href="https://twitter.com/OscarHeymanBros?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@OscarHeymanBros</a> <br><br>Shoes by <a href="https://twitter.com/gucci?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@gucci</a> <br><br>Tights: <a href="https://twitter.com/WolfordFashion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WolfordFashion</a> <br><br>Style by: Sam Ratelle / <a href="https://twitter.com/rrrcreative?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rrrcreative</a> <br>Grooming: Anna Bernabe <a href="https://t.co/iU8FHQBonx">pic.twitter.com/iU8FHQBonx</a></p>— Billy Porter (@theebillyporter) <a href="https://twitter.com/theebillyporter/status/1082107514299113472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2019</a>
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<p id="vGdwRj"><a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/24/18014670/american-horror-story-antichrist-michael-langdon-makeup">Fern, who starred with Porter on the FX series <em>American Horror Story: Apocalyps</em>e</a>, wore black trousers, curled hair, eye shadow, and a partly see-through shirt. (He was <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nicolaformichetti/">styled by Nicola Formichetti</a>, with clothing by Maison Margiela, makeup by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zaheersyn/">Zaheer Sukhnandan</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sussy_styles/">Sussy Campos</a>, and hair by Campos alone.) Fern’s look was far more subtle than Porter’s but earned him praise from the likes of <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/photos/2019/01/golden-globes-2019-all-the-red-carpet-looks">Vanity Fair</a>, <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/golden-globes-red-carpet-cody-fern">Vogue</a>, and New York Times critic <a href="https://twitter.com/VVFriedman/status/1082057361785847808">Vanessa Friedman, who commended the actor for elevating the tuxedo</a> with his awards show ensemble. </p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Early best dressed contender: "ACS: The Assassination of Gianni Versace"/"AHS: Apocalypse"/"House of Cards" star Cody Fern with a serve. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoldenGlobes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoldenGlobes</a> <a href="https://t.co/1Pu9IqcuY1">pic.twitter.com/1Pu9IqcuY1</a></p>— Ξvan Ross Katz (@evanrosskatz) <a href="https://twitter.com/evanrosskatz/status/1082055714942734336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2019</a>
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<p id="CkHtW8">But Porter and Fern weren’t the only men who stood out on the carpet. There was <a href="https://www.bustle.com/p/timothee-chalamet-2019-golden-globes-outfit-included-a-sequined-harness-i-am-not-ok-15653932">Timothée Chalamet in a sequined black harness</a> and <a href="https://people.com/tv/golden-globes-2019-best-actor-limited-series-tv-movie-darren-criss/">Golden Globe winner Darren Criss</a> (<em>The Assassination of Gianni Versace</em>) in a floral tuxedo jacket. These looks are part of a growing trend, with figure skater <a href="https://www.instyle.com/fashion/clothing/adam-rippon-oscars-harness">Adam Rippon making headlines for wearing a harness to the Oscars</a> last year. While the red carpet has long featured the occasional man willing to wear a ruffly shirt or powder blue tux to an awards show — <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z1E75hTtCA">Daniel Day-Lewis looked like a goth Colonel Sanders when he accepted his Academy Award</a> for <em>My Left Foot</em> in 1990 — the past few years have seen an uptick in male entertainers willing to experiment with fashion. </p>
<p id="X7yFOW">In particular, the rise of gender-neutral fashion appears to be elevating men’s formalwear, long dismissed as boring since one standard penguin suit is pretty much indistinguishable from the next. But with capes, sheer cutouts, sequins, and embroidery, some men on the red carpet are wearing awards show attire as striking as their women colleagues’ ensembles. And actresses, such as Judy Greer, are challenging gender norms on the red carpet. <a href="https://stylecaster.com/judy-greer-tuxedo-2019-golden-globes/">Greer showed up to the Globes in a wide-legged tux</a> by Alberta Ferretti.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Judy Greer, ma'am. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoldenGlobes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoldenGlobes</a> <a href="https://t.co/5NLUwXacPr">pic.twitter.com/5NLUwXacPr</a></p>— cass (@winsletdavis) <a href="https://twitter.com/winsletdavis/status/1082058931571064833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2019</a>
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<p id="kzqXJZ">A long line of women, including <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/angelina-jolies-baftas-tux-680748">Angelina Jolie</a>, <a href="https://www.chron.com/life/article/Diane-Keaton-on-career-family-and-clothes-5193821.php">Diane Keaton</a>, <a href="https://www.wmagazine.com/gallery/janelle-monae-red-carpet-style-evolution/all">Janelle Monae</a>, <a href="https://footwearnews.com/2017/fashion/celebrity-style/evan-rachel-wood-westworld-suit-golden-globes-2017-293460/">Evan Rachel Wood</a> (and <a href="http://costumesociety.org.uk/blog/post/its-a-mans-world-marlene-dietrich-and-her-cross-dressing-wardrobe">Marlene Dietrich during Hollywood’s Golden Age</a>) have worn suits and tuxes on the red carpet. But Greer’s loose tux was truly gender-neutral, unlike the fitted numbers other actresses drawn to tuxedos have worn. </p>
<p id="dSNIY9">At Elle’s Women in Hollywood event in October, <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/17/17986264/lady-gaga-suit-speech-elle-women-in-hollywood">Lady Gaga also made headlines for wearing an oversized, rather than a fitted, suit</a>. Wearing a suit can not only give women a sense of power but can also spare them the experience of wearing the uncomfortable gowns, undergarments, and shoes they traditionally wear to formal events. </p>
<p id="PEXX04">That the Hollywood elite are more willing than ever to push the boundaries of masculinity and femininity on the red carpet stems, in part, from the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/04/joy-unisex-gender-neutral-clothing-john-lewis">growing popularity of gender-neutral fashion</a>, an outpouring of the fact that Americans are increasingly challenging gender constructs and have been for years. </p>
<p id="yYgFdf"><a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/Denying-our-very-humanity-Trump-proposal-13346647.php">Transgender people specifically continue to face serious threats to their civil rights</a>, but an increasing number of Americans, especially Gen Zers and millennials, identify as gender non-conforming. According to GLAAD, <a href="https://www.glaad.org/blog/new-glaad-study-reveals-twenty-percent-millennials-identify-lgbtq">12 percent of millennials identify this way</a>, twice the percentage of Gen Xers. A national study about teens and gender identity conducted by UCLA in 2017 found that just under <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/research/transgender-issues/new-estimates-show-that-150000-youth-ages-13-to-17-identify-as-transgender-in-the-us/">1 percent of teens identify as transgender</a>, roughly the same as the general US population.</p>
<p id="hYf1dt">For Gen Xer <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/movies/golden-globes-billy-porter.html">Billy Porter, gender fluidity in clothing choice has long been part of his identity</a>, but he has only openly embraced this part of himself more recently, he told the New York Times.</p>
<p id="NmT8RI">“One of the things I’ve realized is that I’ve always had a gender-fluid sensibility with clothes, and it was so squashed by homophobia,” Porter said.</p>
<p id="5Ud2iW">Today, the actor still faces bias, he told the Times. For the Golden Globes, he requested that fashion houses send him both men’s and women’s clothing, but he said that some designers hesitated to do so. That didn’t stop him from wearing his floral cape on the awards show carpet and a marigold gown at the American Film Institute luncheon, on Friday. </p>
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<p id="zsDpZJ">His decision to wear a floor-length dress in a bold hue didn’t come out of nowhere. More than six years have passed since <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2012/12/kanye-wests-givenchy-skirt-zooming-in.html">Kanye West wore a leather Givenchy skirt</a>. Three years ago, <a href="https://www.eonline.com/fr/news/727947/jaden-smith-models-skirt-for-louis-vuitton-campaign-why-the-brand-chose-him">Jaden Smith wore a skirt for a Louis Vuitton campaign</a>. And this past November, actor <a href="https://www.playboy.com/read/ezra-miller-fantastic-beasts-interview">Ezra Miller was widely praised for modeling high heels, lingerie</a>, and the iconic bunny ears for Playboy. Not only was Miller widely praised on Twitter for the shoot, but his <a href="https://twitter.com/StarDay95/status/1063956236566228993">photo shoot inspired several pieces of fan art</a>.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I think I've retweeted every version of this photoshoot, both here and on my main, already but I'm a good person and I deserve this so:<br><br>Ezra Miller for PLAYBOY MAGAZINE (NOVEMBER 2018). <a href="https://t.co/cE7PzTchDr">pic.twitter.com/cE7PzTchDr</a></p>— no crying in the club (monaco) (@sadaboutchiffon) <a href="https://twitter.com/sadaboutchiffon/status/1063548655871778816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2018</a>
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<p id="WSZqSG">Whether fashion’s approach to gender is changing or the public is pushing fashion to broaden its constructs of gender, it’s clear that celebrities feel more free than ever to embrace various aspects of their gender identities or to reject gender norms related to presentation. </p>
<p id="zAlf1T">Discussing the potential criticism he might get for wearing dresses, Porter told the Times that he had no plans to stop wearing dresses.</p>
<p id="HxprDi">“I represent a challenge to the status quo,” he said.</p>
<p id="LCwWwe">It’s a declaration that many people, regardless of gender or sexual identity, are now making on and off the red carpet. </p>
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https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/1/7/18172611/golden-globes-fashion-billy-porter-cody-fern-judy-greerNadra Nittle2019-01-07T12:40:08-05:002019-01-07T12:40:08-05:00Fiji Water Girl would be a great meme if bottled water were something to celebrate
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<p>We should probably let this meme die and drink more tap water.</p> <p id="Az6fui">For many social media users, the highlight of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/5/18125969/golden-globe-awards-2019-news-updates">2019 Golden Globes</a> was the woman dubbed “Fiji Girl” on Twitter, for drawing attention while handing out Fiji brand bottled water on the red carpet.</p>
<p id="oJPTUM">At Sunday’s Golden Globes, Fiji Water seems to have hired model Kelleth Cuthbert — <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/who-is-fiji-water-girl-golden-globes-2019.html">identified later</a> through Instagram sleuthing — to distribute its product on the red carpet. When asked by a friend if she knew the photos of her were going viral, she replied, “It’s calculated.” Indeed, the viral photos of her were taken by a professional working for Fiji Water. Wearing a glamorous blue dress, Cuthbert stood directly behind celebrities, bearing a tray of bottled water and often staring cannily into the camera. Fiji Water has not responded to a request from Vox for comment.</p>
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<p id="oKtviw">Though Cuthbert further <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-golden-globe-awards-2019-updates-fiji-water-photo-bomber-wins-the-golden-1546823092-htmlstory.html">told the LA Times</a> that her pose was “strategic,” the magic of social media did much of the work for her, serving up instant virality for her photobombs — and her trays of water.</p>
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<p id="IhaHMM">This made for some interesting and slightly eerie photo moments.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">and the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/goldenglobe?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#goldenglobe</a> for most ominous photobomb goes to . . . FIJI WATER GIRL! <a href="https://t.co/8zcxxDbeGJ">pic.twitter.com/8zcxxDbeGJ</a></p>— Quinn (@QuinnKeaney) <a href="https://twitter.com/QuinnKeaney/status/1082072501964951554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2019</a>
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<p id="Ve7HqH">Many social media users were quick to embrace Cuthbert, a.k.a. Fiji Girl, as a new style icon, implacable expression and all.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Got my Halloween outfit sorted. I’m going as Fiji water girl from the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoldenGlobes?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoldenGlobes</a> <a href="https://t.co/geZ7w7Uqit">pic.twitter.com/geZ7w7Uqit</a></p>— James Cooper (@coopdloop) <a href="https://twitter.com/coopdloop/status/1082069365376331776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2019</a>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">if Bradley Cooper doesn't bring the Fiji girl out on stage to perform "Shallow" with him I'm turning this show off</p>— Sam Lansky (@samlansky) <a href="https://twitter.com/samlansky/status/1082073996198318081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2019</a>
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<p id="zmWQKy">“Thank you Fiji Girl for just, like, giving people water,” <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/fiji-girl-slay-me">BuzzFeed gushed</a>.</p>
<p id="npEoBP">But what’s really behind the Fiji Girl meme isn’t something we should be grateful for at all. In fact, her stone-faced presence on the red carpet really <em>was</em> ominous — but not because she looked creepy in many of her photos. It’s because she’s the current face of an industry that is wasteful and hurts the environment.</p>
<h3 id="yApJM7">Fiji Water has tried to present a positive public face — but it may be a mask </h3>
<p id="0LU547">Fiji Water is owned by the Wonderful company, which also makes and distributes Pom pomegranate juice and other food products. Founded in 1995, the brand gained its foothold over the economy in its namesake country and over the international global bottled water industry in part due to spending the first 13 years of its existence enjoying what was essentially a <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2010/11/fiji-water-announces-shutdown-world-freaks/">tax-exempt status</a> among businesses in Fiji. </p>
<p id="qfAGM0">In the process, it built a facility for extracting water from an underground aquifer that, according to Fast Company, was <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/59971/message-bottle">entirely run</a> on diesel-fueled generators, creating the crystalline imagery that defines its marketing amid a cloud of real-world pollution. </p>
<p id="tag033">Despite this, the company enjoyed positive relationships with local Fiji citizens, and many praised the company for bringing higher wages and economic growth and investment to the country. It has anecdotally been known to distribute free water and provide financial support during past local emergencies, and to invest in local infrastructure, education, and other benefits to the island nation. Many of these anecdotes come from the <a href="https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1032&context=etd">scholarship</a> of sociology professor Jessica Schad, who traveled to the country to interview Fijian residents about their relationship to the town while pursuing her masters degree. </p>
<p id="dO8Mc6">“I conducted my research in FIJI just over 10 years ago on how the extraction and bottling of water by an American owned multinational corporation was shaping the lives of people living nearby the plant economically, culturally, and socially,” Schad told Vox in an email. “While some Fijians were benefiting from jobs at the plant, and some nearby communities were receiving support from the company, I found many of the financial effects to be quite superficial and not long-lasting, that it was creating a dependency relationship on the industry, and that the extraction of the water was changing local views on the commodification of water and natural resources.”</p>
<p id="XXxgIX">Fiji Water’s tax-exempt status started to change in 2006, when Fijian military leader Frank Bainimarama <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/dec/05/fiji.travel2">staged a coup</a> and installed himself as leader of the country. The new government then turned its sights on increasing the amount of tax revenue from Fiji Water, which had become the nation’s top exporter. In 2008, Fiji Water <a href="https://www.npr.org/2010/12/01/131733493/A-Bottled-Water-Drama-In-Fiji">laid off employees</a> in response to a threat of a tax increase on its bottled water exports by Fiji’s military government under Bainimarama. </p>
<p id="k1VHGd">Two years later, when the government tried to raise the tax again in 2010, Fiji Water protested by briefly firing all its employees and shutting down. “As usual, Fiji Water has adopted tactics that demonstrate that Fiji Water does not care about Fiji or Fijians,” Bainimarama <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2010/11/fiji-water-announces-shutdown-world-freaks/">stated</a> at the time. The company ultimately <a href="https://www.ircwash.org/news/fiji-us-bottled-water-exporter-finally-pays">accepted</a> the tax hike, but the tension between its interests and those of Fiji have remained. </p>
<p id="GLaWTv">The company again <a href="http://www.pina.com.fj/?p=pacnews&m=read&o=20535336904eaa1236e26f55947a7a">laid of</a>f employees in 2011, and one Fiji resident, writing to New Zealand researcher Catherine Jones in 2012, <a href="https://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10063/2503/thesis.pdf?sequence=1">noted</a> that “FIJI Water have lost a lot [of] their creditability, they have made the boreholes, they have threatened to close, I think they lost a lot of creditability and dignity.”</p>
<p id="er5L12">“FIJI Water draws upon the ‘exotic’ nature of Fiji to differentiate its product in a competitive global market,” a <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apv.12144">2017 study</a> of Fiji Water’s marketing by Australian researchers<strong> </strong>noted. “Yet the places its imagery is founded upon appear to have received proportionally low benefits.” </p>
<p id="BgCyDG">For instance, despite a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/06/business/worldbusiness/06iht-water.4.8216299.html">much-touted</a> plan, <a href="http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/fiji-water-becomes-first-bottled-water-company-release-carbon-footprint-its-products-841845.htm">announced</a> in 2008, to reduce its carbon footprint by reducing its carbon emissions and planting natural forests, years later the company had planted <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/8585182/Fiji-Water-accused-of-environmentally-misleading-claims.html">only half the promised amount</a> of acreage, and had no ETA on when the rest would arrive. The company also celebrated its “carbon negative” plan despite noting at the time that its emission reduction goals would not be met until 2037; the company website devoted to tracking its pursuit of these goals, however, was <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/fiji-water-sued-greenwashing/">shut down</a> sometime after 2010.</p>
<p id="nzN3RU">Then there’s the issue of what many see as a two-faced relationship between Fiji Water and its local communities. The company has consistently invested in the communities it operates within, but the investments also serve to make its corporate goals more feasible. As Schad has <a href="https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1032&context=etd">noted</a>, “Providing funding for the local kindergartens is of particular interest to FIJI Water since it enables parents that work at the factory to leave the home and attend work.” </p>
<h3 id="bsrhfP">Fiji Water is part of an industry built on extreme wastefulness and manufactured demand — one leaving a potentially devastating global ecological trail</h3>
<p id="O9Xd0o">If the product behind this discussion was unimpeachable, the debate around bottled water might be different. But even though Fiji Water has made attempts to counterbalance its own ecological impact, its mere existence and operation are part of an industry with serious ramifications for the environment and the economy. </p>
<p id="mi0zKi">The demand for bottled water has caused us, as a culture, to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/bottled-sold-peter-gleick/story?id=11055042">shift toward showing disdain</a> for tap water and <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3084479/">fearing</a> locally produced drinking water, while drastically reducing the number of public water fountains and freely accessible water to the public. From a public health perspective, this demand is largely manufactured and unnecessary.<strong> </strong>(Notable exception: <a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/2/15/10991626/flint-water-crisis">Flint</a>, Michigan.)</p>
<p id="EpRV4p">And what lies at the heart of this cultural shift is sheer waste. For example, <a href="https://www.triplepundit.com/2007/02/whats-the-true-environmental-cost-of-fiji-water/">it takes around 6.74 kilograms, or 1.75 gallons of water</a>, to produce, export, and distribute one bottle of Fiji Water. It also takes <a href="https://phys.org/news/2009-03-energy-bottle.html">2,000 times</a> the amount of energy to produce bottled water as tap water, and each bottle costs up to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bottled-water-costs-2000x-more-than-tap-2013-7">2,000 times more</a> than tap water. </p>
<p id="M64l9O">Then there’s the oil consumption: “Overall, the average energy cost to make the plastic, fill the bottle, transport it to market and then deal with the waste would be like filling up a quarter of every bottle with oil,” journalist Anna Lenzer <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/08/fiji-spin-bottle/">wrote</a> for Mother Jones in 2009. The long-term impact of globally exporting drinking water is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/jul/09/bottled-water-shipped-halfway-round--world-madness">pretty much a giant mess</a> of un-recycled plastic bottles clogging landfills, depletion of energy and oil resources, and a lack of publicly accessible safe drinking water.</p>
<p id="kouuOb">All this for what? Tap water doesn’t actually taste bad, and, in most parts of the US, isn’t actually bad for you. In fact, in 2017, Fiji Water <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blind-taste-test-tap-water-premium-fiji-water-evian-2017-5">scored lower than tap water</a> in a blind taste test. This might have something to do with the fact that due to <a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/07/09/09greenwire-fewer-regulations-for-bottled-water-than-tap-g-33331.html">significant underregulation</a>, bottled water often contains more chemicals than tap water. In 2006, in fact, Fiji Water was found to contain <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/20/AR2006072000322.html">higher levels of arsenic</a> — yes, the poison — than local tap water.</p>
<p id="1qUHYk">Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/14/c_137323989.htm">12 percent of Fiji residents</a> have no access to safe, clean drinking water — something the UN defined in 2010 as <a href="http://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/human_right_to_water.shtml">a basic human right</a>. This is part of the widespread <a href="http://www.world-psi.org/en/how-privatisation-undermines-human-right-water">threat to global sustainability</a> that resource privatization poses, in which people living in wealthy nations across the world have quicker, cheaper, and freer access to the resources of developing nations than do the people living in those nations. </p>
<p id="nODQ9N">And when those of us living in richer countries accept the sanitized image of the bottled water industry as it’s been marketed to us, it gets easier to become thoughtless, and harder to stop and think about what the flip side is of having attractively packaged water at our disposal. </p>
<h3 id="4hfEae">Fiji Girl was a built-in advertisement — but a disturbing one</h3>
<p id="X1wCgj">To market itself, Fiji has always relied more on <a href="https://martinroll.com/resources/articles/branding/fiji-water-exotic-water-brand/">strategic product placement</a> than overt advertising. Writing for Fast Company in 2007, Charles Fishman <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/59971/message-bottle">noted</a>, “The marketing of bottled water is subtle compared with the marketing of, say, soft drinks or beer. The point of Fiji Water in the minibar at the Peninsula, or at the center of the table in a white-tablecloth restaurant, is that guests will try it, love it, and buy it at a store the next time they see it.”</p>
<p id="OClL5y">The advent of Fiji Water Girl at the Golden Globes shows how this approach has grown more sophisticated. By prominently positioning its glossy representative on the red carpet at what’s considered the “quirkiest” and most down to earth of Hollywood’s many award shows, Fiji Water was positioning itself as fashionable and elite, but still relatable. Fiji Girl just wants you to hydrate, guys.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">fiji water lady is deeply relatable <a href="https://t.co/HNHillls3h">pic.twitter.com/HNHillls3h</a></p>— #1 Rachel (@rachel) <a href="https://twitter.com/rachel/status/1082085105386967040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2019</a>
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<p id="bQdEpq">“As evidenced by the representative at the Golden Globes,” Schad told Vox, “FIJI Water is a heavily marketed product, which is often targeted at luxury or high-end consumers. In addition, marketing for FIJI water frequently plays on the remoteness of where it is extracted from, being ‘untouched by man’, for example, and few consider the environmental ramifications of transporting this product thousands of miles for human consumption when perfectly good drinking water is already readily available.”</p>
<p id="g0OqKc">This product, which has traditionally marketed itself by <a href="https://www.productplayoffs.com/best-bottled-water/">touting</a> its remote, exotic locale, presented itself as being just like you or me — while the meme around Fiji Water Girl did the work of further acclimatizing us to a culture where tap water is suspect and the ecological repercussions of bottling and selling free water don’t bear too much reflection. </p>
<p id="71ARMd">If you need any better proof that we’re all now living in a dystopia, merrily celebrating the instruments of our own planetary demise, Fiji Girl is your meme of the moment.</p>
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<p id="0wkOqj"><strong>Correction:</strong> This article originally misreported the amount of water needed to produce and export one bottle of Fiji Water. It is 6.74 kilograms, or 1.75 gallons of water, not 720 gallons.</p>
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/7/18171384/fiji-water-girl-meme-bottled-water-bad-environmentAja Romano2019-01-07T09:12:14-05:002019-01-07T09:12:14-05:00The Americans finally wins a Golden Globe for best drama
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<p>It picks up the award for its final season.</p> <p id="hNWDWD">Here is the number of <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/5/18125969/golden-globe-awards-2019-news-updates">Golden Globes</a> that <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-americans"><em>The Americans</em></a>, possibly the most critically acclaimed drama series of the 2010s, has been nominated for across its six seasons, which ran from 2012 through 2018: five.</p>
<p id="xAgAXw">To be clear: That is not very many! Four of those nominations are for the series’ two estimable leads, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys (who in 2018 finally won an Emmy for his work), and they’ve all come in the last two years, for the show’s last two seasons. The show only <em>just</em> got nominated for Best Drama Series for the first time this year, for its sixth and final season.</p>
<p id="JC98vL">And wildly enough, at an awards show that has never awarded a drama series in its sixth season thusly (though it did honor <em>Breaking Bad</em> under very similar circumstances), <em>The Americans </em>won. The series, which couldn’t get <em>arrested</em> at the Golden Globes for ages, won for a season that wrapped up its storylines perfectly, while also casually reflecting the national mood and conversation without once overplaying its hand. (The show, as you are surely tired of people pointing out by now, is about KGB spies living and working in Washington, DC, in the 1980s.)</p>
<p id="Shw9tj">Anyway, you should watch <em>The Americans, </em>which not only offered a tremendous dissection of a marriage that doubled as a thoughtful take on global geopolitics but also managed to find a way to end its run in a way that both honored its storylines <em>and</em> its characters, which too many final seasons of TV shows have shown us is an all but impossible task.</p>
<p id="qa3LJt">As I <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/5/29/17392150/the-americans-fx-final-season-series-finale-review-philip-elizabeth">wrote of the final season</a>, back as it approached its final episode in May:</p>
<blockquote><p id="eh6wGX">But <em>The Americans</em> has balanced a growing tension around the series’ spycraft — in that Elizabeth is growing more desperate to accomplish her goals and Stan is slowly starting to suspect something might be up with his neighbors — with its ever more acute drill-down into the Jennings marriage. Indeed, as the final season has gone on, it hasn’t done any of the things you’d expect from a final season, like killing off lots of viewers’ favorite characters or showing Philip and Elizabeth on the run from those who know their secret. But it <em>has</em> maintained almost all the emotional devastation you’d expect from a final season, and much of that has to do with its ingenious idea of pitting Philip and Elizabeth against each other.</p></blockquote>
<p id="Hxthxg">But we’ve written so much more about the show here at Vox, from a deep dive into the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/4/14/11411564/how-tv-gets-made-americans-fx-production">production of one particular episode</a> to a take on the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2015/1/28/7923027/americans-season-three-premiere">show’s global themes</a> to <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/6/2/17418380/americans-series-finale-tv-deaths">an article you should only read</a> after you’ve watched the series finale on how it breaks with a long-standing TV tradition. We even did <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/5/31/17414946/the-americans-series-finale-start-showrunners-interview-secrets-spoilers">a podcast</a> with Rhys and <a href="https://art19.com/shows/i-think-youre-interesting/episodes/a8c58f38-642d-4f2b-9010-e647b21f6800">the series’ showrunners</a>, Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields.</p>
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<p id="apOklg">Or just go look at <a href="http://www.vox.com/the-americans">everything we’ve written about the show</a>, including recaps of the final three seasons. You won’t be disappointed! </p>
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/6/18171349/the-americans-golden-globe-dramaEmily St. James2019-01-07T09:11:57-05:002019-01-07T09:11:57-05:00Golden Globes 2019: the complete list of winners
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<p><em>Green Book</em> and <em>Bohemian Rhapsody</em> took home the night’s biggest prizes.</p> <p id="whtIVf">The <a href="https://www.vox.com/golden-globes">2019 Golden Globes</a> were handed out on Sunday night. The cordial mingling between television stars and movie stars, Amy Adams overachieving and being nominated in both the film and television categories, jokes about alcohol being served, and witty banter between co-hosts Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh — it was all part of the evening. </p>
<p id="Gr3lqV">The Golden Globes kick off the pocket of time known as awards season, in which Hollywood tastemakers honor the best performances in film for the previous year. Going into the ceremony, Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney biopic <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/12/21/18144605/vice-review-dick-cheney-adam-mckay-christian-bale-sam-rockwell-bush-steve-carell-rumsfeld"><em>Vice</em></a> led the comedy or musical film categories with six nominations, followed by <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/21/18069758/favourite-review-stone-colman-weisz"><em>The Favourite</em></a><em> </em>and <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/16/18069756/green-book-review-racism-schomburg-segregation"><em>Green Book</em></a>, both of which received five.<strong> </strong>And though Christian Bale did win for portraying Cheney in <em>Vice</em>, the big film winner of the evening was <em>Green Book</em>, which took home Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali), and Best Picture — Comedy or Musical. </p>
<aside id="GyWnhM"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Green Book builds a feel-good comedy atop an artifact of shameful segregation. Yikes.","url":"https://www.vox.com/2018/11/16/18069756/green-book-review-racism-schomburg-segregation"}]}'></div></aside><p id="8usat0">The other big winner was <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/11/2/18048688/bohemian-rhapsody-review-freddie-mercury-rami-malek-bryan-singer"><em>Bohemian Rhapsody</em></a><em>,</em> which snagged the Golden Globe for Best Picture — Drama and saw Rami Malek take home the trophy for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama. <em>Bohemian Rhapsody</em>’s wins were something of a surprise, considering the <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bohemian_rhapsody">movie’s mixed reviews</a> and criticism about how it portrayed Queen frontman Freddie Mercury’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/16/18071460/bohemian-rhapsody-queerphobia-celluloid-closet-aids">queerness</a>. </p>
<p id="5mSaWb">Additionally, Alfonso Cuarón won Best Director for his acclaimed film <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18102734/roma-review-netflix-cuaron"><em>Roma</em></a>.</p>
<p id="ooLVsL">In the television categories, the evening’s most-nominated show, <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/1/16/16885734/american-crime-story-versace-season-2"><em>The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story</em></a>,<em> </em>won<em> </em>Best Limited Series, and star Darren Criss won for Best Actor in a Limited Series. Netflix’s freshman series <em>The Kominsky Method </em>won Best Comedy or Musical, and star Michael Douglas won Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical. And FX’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/6/18171349/the-americans-golden-globe-drama"><em>The Americans</em> won Best Drama for its sixth and final season</a>. </p>
<aside id="OvQKCU"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"The Americans finally wins a Golden Globe for best drama","url":"https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/6/18171349/the-americans-golden-globe-drama"}]}'></div></aside><p id="Xgifaj">Golden Globes co-host Sandra Oh <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/7/18171587/sandra-oh-golden-globes-2019-history-milestones">made history by winning Best Actress in a Drama</a> for her performance on BBC America’s <em>Killing Eve</em>. </p>
<p id="coOPuU">Here’s the full list of winners from the night.</p>
<h3 id="0QYPOK">Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy</h3>
<p id="0h2pyZ">Sacha Baron Cohen, <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/24/17775248/who-is-america-sacha-baron-cohen-full-season-review-showtime"><em>Who Is America</em></a></p>
<p id="aO2blF">Jim Carrey, <em>Kidding</em></p>
<p id="Op1fwi"><strong>Michael Douglas, </strong><em><strong>The Kominsky Method **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="zwPlUh">Donald Glover,<em> </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/5/11/17341322/atlanta-season-2-review-finale-recap-crabs-in-a-barrel"><em>Atlanta</em></a></p>
<p id="sbLLeU">Bill Hader, <em>Barry</em></p>
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<h3 id="GKA5Im">Best Motion Picture — Animated</h3>
<p id="bkluoq"><a href="https://www.vox.com/summer-movies/2018/6/11/17446668/incredibles-2-review-pixar-jack-jack"><em>Incredibles 2</em></a></p>
<p id="HUvQNp"><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/21/17143382/isle-of-dogs-review-wes-anderson-japan-bryan-cranston-kurosawa"><em>Isle of Dogs</em></a></p>
<p id="moybPG"><em>Mirai</em></p>
<p id="Gbg499"><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/11/21/18105402/ralph-breaks-the-internet-review-wreck-it-ralph-2-vanellope"><em>Ralph Breaks the Internet</em></a></p>
<p id="OX3HMh"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/28/18113552/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-review-miles-morales"><em><strong>Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse</strong></em></a><em><strong> **WINNER** </strong></em></p>
<p id="hiifll"></p>
<h3 id="L2KHOp">Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Drama</h3>
<p id="n2Y1eP">Jason Bateman, <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/31/17800832/ozark-season-2-review-recap-netflix-jason-bateman"><em>Ozark</em></a></p>
<p id="mLQjfS">Stephan James, <em>Homecoming</em></p>
<p id="Mb8SfZ"><strong>Richard Madden,</strong><em><strong> Bodyguard **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="4gWEaJ">Billy Porter, <em>Pose</em></p>
<p id="FylAAm">Matthew Rhys, <em>The Americans </em></p>
<p id="YPjI8W"></p>
<h3 id="2qRvGQ">Best Television Series — Drama</h3>
<p id="QMoQFl"><a href="https://www.vox.com/the-americans"><em><strong>The Americans</strong></em></a><strong> (FX) </strong><em><strong>**WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="ScdTpF"><em>Bodyguard</em> (Netflix)</p>
<p id="fKlSM2"><a href="https://www.vox.com/tv/2018/11/2/18046914/homecoming-amazon-julia-roberts-review"><em>Homecoming</em></a> (Amazon)</p>
<p id="RS8AoF"><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/4/8/17203866/bbc-america-killing-eve-review-sandra-oh"><em>Killing Eve</em></a><em> </em>(BBC America) </p>
<p id="GRWfRu"><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/6/1/17415634/pose-review-fx-ryan-murphy-paris-is-burning"><em>Pose</em></a> (FX)</p>
<p id="M2fB3X"></p>
<h3 id="iLsvey">Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television</h3>
<p id="SaWqq8">Alan Arkin, <em>The Kominsky Method</em></p>
<p id="Fn4jQA">Kieran Culkin, <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/5/17645354/succession-hbo-finale-interview-brian-cox-jeremy-strong"><em>Succession</em></a></p>
<p id="1x3yJO">Edgar Ramirez, <em>The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story</em></p>
<p id="XlKpiz"><strong>Ben Whishaw,</strong><em><strong> A Very English Scandal **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="ITdVqK">Henry Winkler, <em>Barry</em></p>
<p id="EM1BV8"></p>
<h3 id="kcnEY6">Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television</h3>
<p id="osYCPA">Amy Adams, <em>Sharp Objects</em></p>
<p id="PfR31H"><strong>Patricia Arquette, </strong><em><strong>Escape at Dannemora **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="28nFuk">Connie Britton, <em>Dirty John</em></p>
<p id="iAuJIN">Laura Dern, <em>The Tale</em></p>
<p id="HuN3Uw">Regina King, <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/3/6/17073458/seven-seconds-netflix-review"><em>Seven Seconds</em></a></p>
<p id="cLJJsc"></p>
<h3 id="qgypxp">Best Original Score — Motion Picture</h3>
<p id="052giZ">Marco Beltrami, <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/4/4/17189408/quiet-place-review-horror-emily-blunt-john-krasinski"><em>A Quiet Place</em></a></p>
<p id="E4gMIo">Alexandre Desplat,<em> Isle of Dogs</em></p>
<p id="Xfevm4">Ludwig Göransson, <em>Black Panther</em></p>
<p id="CiDoDO"><strong>Justin Hurwitz, </strong><em><strong>First Man **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="dObtPt">Marc Shaiman, <em>Mary Poppins Returns</em></p>
<h3 id="EMq1cW"></h3>
<h3 id="Madv1f">Best Original Song — Motion Picture</h3>
<p id="IvmRoW">“All the Stars,” <em>Black Panther</em></p>
<p id="rqEehK">“Girl in the Movies,” <em>Dumplin</em>’</p>
<p id="fV21s6">“Requiem for a Private War,” <em>A Private War</em></p>
<p id="BtZmCr">“Revelation,”<em> Boy Erased</em></p>
<p id="DoUREa"><strong>“Shallow,” </strong><em><strong>A Star Is Born **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="02Chm2"></p>
<h3 id="ye5pST">Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture</h3>
<p id="gE80yw">Amy Adams, <em>Vice</em></p>
<p id="M9EK2V">Claire Foy, <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/11/17846234/first-man-review-ryan-gosling-neil-armstrong"><em>First Man</em></a></p>
<p id="NGLccq"><strong>Regina King, </strong><em><strong>If Beale Street Could Talk **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="T4Dmrs">Emma Stone,<em> The Favourite</em></p>
<p id="49dWXw">Rachel Weisz, <em>The Favourite</em></p>
<h3 id="NumHB0"></h3>
<h3 id="QLRHgB"><em>Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series — Drama</em></h3>
<p id="7ivM2p">Caitriona Balfe, <em>Outlander</em></p>
<p id="izX38A">Elisabeth Moss, <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-handmaids-tale"><em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em></a></p>
<p id="YCoBUT"><strong>Sandra Oh, </strong><em><strong>Killing Eve **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="c58WUg">Julia Roberts, <em>Homecoming</em></p>
<p id="XyaUrc">Keri Russell, <em>The Americans </em></p>
<aside id="D4nc2H"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Sandra Oh made history 3 times at the Golden Globes","url":"https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/7/18171587/sandra-oh-golden-globes-2019-history-milestones"}]}'></div></aside><p id="5Yb5rM"></p>
<h3 id="erXXWL">Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture</h3>
<p id="GDuJta"><strong>Mahershala Ali, </strong><em><strong>Green Book **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="wNb1Ar">Timothée Chalamet, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/10/10/17953530/beautiful-boy-steve-carell-timothee-chalamet-david-nic-sheff"><em>Beautiful Boy</em></a></p>
<p id="oLneKc">Adam Driver, <em>BlacKkKlansman</em></p>
<p id="Yp1OmA"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/10/18/17981850/richard-e-grant-interview-can-you-ever-forgive-me-melissa-mccarthy">Richard E. Grant</a>, <em>Can You Ever Forgive Me?</em></p>
<p id="CrP4Zj">Sam Rockwell, <em>Vice</em></p>
<p id="ewr3jF"></p>
<h3 id="mdcnmh">Best Screenplay — Motion Picture</h3>
<p id="c283L3">Alfonso Cuarón, <em>Roma</em></p>
<p id="nhXDdX">Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, <em>The Favourite</em></p>
<p id="qAraei">Barry Jenkins,<em> If Beale Street Could Talk</em></p>
<p id="MqmLex">Adam McKay, <em>Vice</em></p>
<p id="ooWssn"><strong>Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, </strong><em><strong>Green Book **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<aside id="67eb94"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Green Book builds a feel-good comedy atop an artifact of shameful segregation. Yikes.","url":"https://www.vox.com/2018/11/16/18069756/green-book-review-racism-schomburg-segregation-golden-globes"}]}'></div></aside><p id="8QM8y2"></p>
<h3 id="L8WvmS">Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television</h3>
<p id="3fQcvj">Alex Borstein, <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</em></p>
<p id="BGqZGI"><strong>Patricia Clarkson, </strong><em><strong>Sharp Objects **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="hDv56u">Penelope Cruz, <em>The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story</em></p>
<p id="foIrJl">Thandie Newton, <a href="https://www.vox.com/westworld"><em>Westworld</em></a></p>
<p id="c4bbNE">Yvonne Strahovski, <em>The Handmaid’s Tale</em></p>
<p id="vutMHM"></p>
<h3 id="qgHL75">Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy</h3>
<p id="XkQNLL"><strong>Christian Bale, </strong><em><strong>Vice **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="Mo22aC">Lin Manuel Miranda, <em>Mary Poppins Returns</em></p>
<p id="0GMthf">Viggo Mortensen, <em>Green Book</em></p>
<p id="aOBmze">Robert Redford,<em> </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/25/17887624/old-man-gun-review-robert-redford-retire-david-lowery-sissy-spacek"><em>The Old Man & the Gun</em></a></p>
<p id="HqkZ3B"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/19/17761862/john-c-reilly-interview-sisters-brothers-joaquin-phoenix">John C. Reilly</a>, <em>Stan & Ollie</em></p>
<p id="kOdv45"></p>
<h3 id="kolIvb">Best Picture — Foreign Language</h3>
<p id="Ve6JSP"><em>Capernaum</em></p>
<p id="y2Vjh6"><em>Girl</em></p>
<p id="lwaBNl"><em>Never Look Away</em></p>
<p id="AvnmxC"><em><strong>Roma **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="A7nZzh"><em>Shoplifters</em></p>
<h3 id="IvpO1x"></h3>
<h3 id="3Iw5wa">Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television</h3>
<p id="wfhb06">Antonio Banderas, <em>Genius: Picasso</em></p>
<p id="ZFli4t">Daniel Bruhl, <em>The Alienist</em></p>
<p id="SLtaVY"><strong>Darren Criss, </strong><em><strong>The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="QtcZ3N">Benedict Cumberbatch, <em>Patrick Melrose</em></p>
<p id="MuQe2m">Hugh Grant, <em>A Very English Scandal</em></p>
<h3 id="gHL0p4"></h3>
<h3 id="aVcoYs"><em>Best Director — Motion Picture</em></h3>
<p id="NCtTx1">Bradley Cooper, <em>A Star Is Born</em></p>
<p id="0iubBk"><strong>Alfonso Cuarón, </strong><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18102734/roma-review-netflix-cuaron"><em><strong>Roma</strong></em></a><em><strong> **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="TT1HDg">Peter Farrelly, <em>Green Book</em></p>
<p id="nhBaCX">Spike Lee, <em>BlacKkKlansman</em> </p>
<p id="fORRJt">Adam McKay, <em>Vice</em></p>
<aside id="AqAToK"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Roma, from celebrated director Alfonso Cuarón, is one of the year’s best movies","url":"https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18102734/roma-review-netflix-cuaron"}]}'></div></aside><p id="i3aw1D"></p>
<h3 id="afKotp">Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy</h3>
<p id="vtOjWl">Kristen Bell, <em>The Good Place</em></p>
<p id="ZYS0p9">Candice Bergen, <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/27/17903826/murphy-brown-review-cbs-candice-bergen-explained"><em>Murphy Brown</em></a></p>
<p id="wNHZe5">Alison Brie, <em>Glow</em></p>
<p id="GirvOL"><strong>Rachel Brosnahan, </strong><em><strong>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="Wb7xbg">Debra Messing, <em>Will & Grace</em></p>
<p id="Vmrp6q"></p>
<h3 id="ZYjDyh">Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy</h3>
<p id="TN40se"><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/5/20/17366104/barry-hbo-finale-recap-chapter-eight-know-your-truth"><em>Barry</em></a> (HBO)</p>
<p id="w02AdN"><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/9/8/17826238/kidding-jim-carrey-showtime-review"><em>Kidding</em></a><em> </em>(Showtime)</p>
<p id="ABmfth"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18097567/the-good-place-nbc-best-tv-shows"><em>The Good Place</em></a><em> </em>(NBC)</p>
<p id="e8HvFc"><em><strong>The Kominsky Method </strong></em><strong>(Netflix) </strong><em><strong>**WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="YLUlGj"><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/5/18127535/marvelous-mrs-maisel-season-2-review-amazon-amy-sherman-palladino"><em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</em></a> (Amazon)</p>
<h3 id="5d8W5U"></h3>
<h3 id="9zGXr0">Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television</h3>
<p id="L5jrNC"><em>The Alienist</em>, TNT</p>
<p id="8okWYW"><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/1/16/16885734/american-crime-story-versace-season-2"><em><strong>The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story</strong></em></a><strong>, FX </strong><em><strong>**WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="9YlnWp"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18103762/escape-at-dannemora-showtime-best-tv-shows"><em>Escape at Dannemora</em></a>, Showtime</p>
<p id="5E6WwG"><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/7/24/17607696/sharp-objects-hbo-review-recap-episodes-miniseries"><em>Sharp Objects</em></a>, HBO</p>
<p id="eTDW5I"><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/7/7/17532644/very-english-scandal-hugh-grant-ben-whishaw-jeremy-thorpe-norman-scott"><em>A Very English Scandal</em></a>, Amazon</p>
<aside id="IsU3UF"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"American Crime Story’s Versace season is far more about the murderer than the murdered","url":"https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/1/16/16885734/american-crime-story-versace-season-2"}]}'></div></aside><p id="VHfPc8"></p>
<h3 id="CL5IWx">Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy</h3>
<p id="5k7gJw">Emily Blunt, <em>Mary Poppins Returns</em></p>
<p id="xaZ2Wu"><strong>Olivia Colman, </strong><em><strong>The Favourite **THE WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="Ni04oX">Elsie Fisher, <a href="https://www.vox.com/summer-movies/2018/7/13/17561970/eighth-grade-review-bo-burnham"><em>Eighth Grade</em></a></p>
<p id="0Hizeb">Charlize Theron, <a href="https://www.vox.com/summer-movies/2018/5/2/17308172/tully-review-charlize-theron-twist-mother-postpartum"><em>Tully</em></a></p>
<p id="mkxOdU">Constance Wu, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/8/27/17763742/crazy-rich-asians-michelle-yeoh-constance-wu"><em>Crazy Rich Asians</em></a></p>
<p id="xGVcws"></p>
<h3 id="LUWcGn">Best Picture — Comedy or Musical</h3>
<p id="La6TyQ"><a href="https://www.vox.com/summer-movies/2018/8/14/17688338/crazy-rich-asians-review-constance-wu-henry-golding-gemma-chan-romantic-comedy"><em>Crazy Rich Asians</em></a></p>
<p id="zM6SCJ"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/21/18069758/favourite-review-stone-colman-weisz"><em>The Favourite</em></a></p>
<p id="urH26H"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/16/18069756/green-book-review-racism-schomburg-segregation"><em><strong>Green Book</strong></em></a><em><strong> **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="SYHJyP"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/12/12/18136044/mary-poppins-returns-review-emily-blunt-lin-manuel-miranda"><em>Mary Poppins Returns</em> </a></p>
<p id="j5uklO"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/12/21/18144605/vice-review-dick-cheney-adam-mckay-christian-bale-sam-rockwell-bush-steve-carell-rumsfeld"><em>Vice</em></a> </p>
<p id="1ISZh2"></p>
<h3 id="PIq9pM">Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama </h3>
<p id="AIpyZt"><strong>Glenn Close, </strong><em><strong>The Wife **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="X7lchE">Lady Gaga,<em> A Star Is Born</em></p>
<p id="VFQAJj">Nicole Kidman, <em>Destroyer</em></p>
<p id="oQQ3B0">Melissa McCarthy, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/10/19/17979560/can-you-ever-forgive-me-true-story-lee-israel-melissa-mccarthy"><em>Can You Ever Forgive Me?</em></a><em> </em></p>
<p id="eAcVvu">Rosamund Pike, <em>A Private War</em></p>
<p id="yvhPRt"></p>
<h3 id="WJmJVG">Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama</h3>
<p id="lPyhG1">Bradley Cooper, <em>A Star Is Born</em></p>
<p id="grsc6L"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/14/17982092/willem-dafoe-van-gogh-interview-at-eternitys-gate">Willem Dafoe</a>, <em>At Eternity’s Gate</em></p>
<p id="s9ZXlP">Lucas Hedges, <em>Boy Erased</em></p>
<p id="ZSdtxo"><strong>Rami Malek,</strong><em><strong> </strong></em><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/16/18071460/bohemian-rhapsody-queerphobia-celluloid-closet-aids"><em><strong>Bohemian Rhapsody</strong></em></a><em><strong> **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="KszKRA">John David Washington, <em>BlacKkKlansman</em></p>
<h3 id="Llf6sJ"></h3>
<h3 id="sqmcon">Best Picture — Drama</h3>
<p id="2MB8H8"><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/2/15/17008196/black-panther-review"><em>Black Panther</em></a></p>
<p id="fIR7xN"><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/5/15/17355432/blackkklansman-review-spike-lee-david-duke-charlottesville"><em>BlacKkKlansman</em></a></p>
<p id="OInkal"><a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/11/2/18048688/bohemian-rhapsody-review-freddie-mercury-rami-malek-bryan-singer"><em><strong>Bohemian Rhapsody</strong></em></a><em><strong> **WINNER**</strong></em></p>
<p id="X5Cgnj"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/18/17853434/if-beale-street-could-talk-review-barry-jenkins-james-baldwin"><em>If Beale Street Could Talk</em></a></p>
<p id="rIQEGS"><a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/14/17835796/star-is-born-review-lady-gaga-bradley-cooper"><em>A Star Is Born</em></a></p>
<aside id="aXO3H8"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Bohemian Rhapsody loves Freddie Mercury’s voice. It fears his queerness.","url":"https://www.vox.com/2018/11/16/18071460/bohemian-rhapsody-queerphobia-celluloid-closet-aids"}]}'></div></aside><h3 id="MlRFdV"></h3>
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https://www.vox.com/2019/1/6/18171130/golden-globes-2019-winners-listAlex Abad-Santos2019-01-07T02:13:47-05:002019-01-07T02:13:47-05:007 winners and 2 losers from this year’s weird Golden Globes
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<img alt="Lady Gaga kissing her Golden Globe statuette." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/zOCO5GOSdnbEjbeIGn8glYtVKXU=/0x0:2252x1689/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/62797370/1078404768.jpg.0.jpg" />
<figcaption>Lady Gaga took home a Golden Globe for the song “Shallow” from <em>A Star Is Born</em>, but the film missed out on the night’s big prizes. | Kevin Winter/Getty Images</figcaption>
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<p>Winners: Sandra Oh and <em>Green Book. </em>Losers: <em>A Star Is Born </em>and the HFPA’s claim to edginess.</p> <p id="jTHf83">Even by the standards of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/5/18125969/golden-globe-awards-2019-news-updates">Golden Globes</a>, the 2019 awards were <em>weird</em>. </p>
<p id="Ua46vG">One of the night’s Best Picture winners has been received horribly by critics, while the other has spurred constant streams of controversy over what it does and doesn’t include in its portrayal of the pre-civil rights South (to say nothing of black people of that era). </p>
<p id="WJh7gb">And if that wasn’t enough, the TV awards were spread across a whole host of programs, with just two shows winning more than a single award (they each won two). </p>
<aside id="4wOSuU"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Golden Globes 2019: the complete list of winners","url":"https://www.vox.com/2019/1/6/18171130/golden-globes-2019-winners-list"}]}'></div></aside><p id="UkOD9Q">The 2019 Golden Globes, then, reflected a year in entertainment without clear front-runners, without a sense of one or two projects rising to the top to dominate the conversation. And while that lack of consensus should ultimately make for a fun awards season, it yielded a Golden Globes ceremony that sometimes seemed to wildly careen from odd to bizarre, with occasional stops to reward some truly deserving winners along the way. (Shoutout to <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/6/18171349/the-americans-golden-globe-drama"><em>The Americans</em></a>!)</p>
<p id="nCjyvG">Here are seven winners and two losers from the 2019 Golden Globe awards.</p>
<h3 id="7f3Ina">Winner: Sandra Oh</h3>
<p id="MMlGE7">Sandra Oh isn’t known as a comedian, but she makes a great comedic partner for Andy Samberg, and after handling their opening monologue with aplomb, the pair mostly stepped out of the way.</p>
<p id="wdDoDa">But in just being on the stage, <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/7/18171587/sandra-oh-golden-globes-2019-history-milestones?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter">she was making Golden Globes history</a>. Oh was the first woman of Asian descent (she is Korean-Canadian) to host a major entertainment awards show in the US. </p>
<aside id="77cH1M"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg’s Golden Globes roast ended with a heartfelt speech","url":"https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/6/18171316/golden-globes-sandra-oh-monologue-diversity-andy-samberg"}]}'></div></aside><p id="CfqRM1">She also won a Globe for her performance on BBC America’s <em>Killing Eve</em>, in which she plays the title character, a detective looking for a mysterious killer. It was her second Golden Globes win (after a supporting actress win in 2006 for <em>Grey’s Anatomy</em>), which made her the first woman of Asian descent to win multiple Golden Globes, and the first in 39 years to win the Globe for best actress in a TV drama.</p>
<p id="OZBBeS">With this year’s Golden Globes — which included a <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/6/18171316/golden-globes-sandra-oh-monologue-diversity-andy-samberg">heartfelt tribute to the diverse faces in the crowd</a> — she was a true winner in more than one way. <em>—Alissa Wilkinson</em></p>
<h3 id="lfpx0V">Winner: (Just about) every major TV awards player</h3>
<p id="YMwUTn">Until the final two TV awards of the evening, no single program had won more than a single Golden Globe. And very few <em>networks</em> had won more than a single Golden Globe. Indeed, the night’s big TV winners were Netflix’s <em>The Kominsky Method</em> and FX’s <em>The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story</em>. Both programs won just two awards.</p>
<p id="77yb2u">Along the way, HBO (<em>Sharp Objects</em>), Showtime (<em>Escape at Dannemora</em>), BBC America (<em>Killing Eve</em>), and Amazon (<em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</em> and <em>A Very English Scandal</em>) all took home trophies, while Netflix and FX each tacked on another award for <em>Bodyguard</em> and <em>The Americans</em>, respectively. </p>
<p id="aYVxOJ">Sure, there are major TV awards players not represented there, like Hulu and AMC, but the Globes really, really, really tried to spread the wealth.</p>
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<figcaption>Rachel Brosnahan took home her second Golden Globe for her performance in Amazon’s <em>The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel</em> on Sunday.</figcaption>
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<p id="Xk0XPk">Perhaps that reflects <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/17/18138668/best-tv-2018-netflix-streaming-how-to-watch">a year in TV that was widely seen as just okay</a>. It also might reflect the Globes’ ongoing fascination with British people (as they handed awards to <em>A</em> <em>Very</em> <em>British Scandal</em>’s Ben Whishaw and <em>Bodyguard</em>’s Richard Madden) and megacelebrities (like <em>The Kominsky Method</em>’s Michael Douglas). It could just as likely reflect the way the Globes give out just a handful of TV awards, which means it’s hard for any one show to win more than a couple. </p>
<p id="vkjoDL">But it’s just as likely that it reflects how no one single program has steamrolled everything around it of late. There were a lot of good TV shows on the air in 2018 — if not a lot of great ones — and the Globes were more than happy to spread the wealth to reflect that fact. —<em>Todd VanDerWerff</em></p>
<h3 id="nIYjGG">Winner: Netflix</h3>
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<p id="anOgtY">Netflix wasn’t the movie studio or TV network with the most wins this year. It fell behind Universal (the distributor of <em>Green Book</em>) three wins to two on the film side, and only tied FX on the TV side (both Netflix and FX won three prizes). But if you consider how Netflix won five awards <em>total</em>, it blows everybody else away. What’s more, those awards included some major prizes, including the Best Director prize for <em>Roma</em>’s Alfonso Cuarón and the Best TV Comedy Series award for <em>The Kominsky Method</em>.</p>
<p id="AZsv4W">Netflix’s massive awards campaigns have blanketed Los Angeles in For Your Consideration billboards and ad after ad. (I can see several from my office window!) That has yet to help the streaming titan win an Emmy for best drama or comedy series, or garner an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. </p>
<p id="hqB7UH">But the Golden Globes were at least hesitant about Netflix for a while too. (Weirdly, they used to be way more interested in Amazon.) Now, the results of the 2019 awards suggest that Netflix has won over the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) as surely as its millions upon millions of subscribers. </p>
<p id="kY2AKx">Next stop: the Oscars. <em>—TV</em></p>
<h3 id="egt0hL">Winner: Film acting speeches</h3>
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<p id="mbzPE8">An underrated part of the Oscar campaign calendar is the speech given at another awards show that’s clearly meant to serve as a stealth campaign for winning a similar prize at the Oscars. And when it came to the 2019 Golden Globes, every single movie acting winner gave a speech that made Oscar voters watching at home think, “Oh, yeah, they seem charming and fun.”</p>
<p id="qPCvTQ">Take supporting actor winner Mahershala Ali: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZYe8Osrjyg">His speech</a> for the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/16/18069756/green-book-review-racism-schomburg-segregation-golden-globes">somewhat controversial <em>Green Book</em></a> took the classic tack of addressing the controversy head on (for those who know about it), while not seeming weighed down by said controversy to those who have no idea. By acknowledging the real man he plays in <em>Green Book</em> — whose family has argued the movie <a href="https://shadowandact.com/green-book-is-full-of-lies-dr-don-shirleys-family-speaks-out">badly represents him</a> — and praising that man’s work, Ali deftly skewed away from overt awards season politicking in a fashion that was, nonetheless, a pretty expert bit of covert awards season politicking.</p>
<p id="PqmKTo">Other winners took different approaches, from Glenn Close calling for women to step into the limelight and live their best lives after winning Best Drama Actress for <em>The Wife</em>, to Christian Bale seeming folksy and funny after winning Best Comedy Actor for <em>Vice</em>, to Olivia Colman marveling at the fun journey she’s had on the awards circuit as a less-well-known British actress after winning Best Comedy Actress for <em>The Favourite</em>.</p>
<p id="cSLPrQ">Obviously, these good speeches don’t guarantee that any of these people will win at the Oscars — in the lead categories, after all, Colman and Close will compete against one another, while Bale will be pitted against <em>Bohemian Rhapsody</em>’s Rami Malek, who won Best Drama Actor at the Globes. And there are plenty of great contenders waiting in the wings, like <em>A Star Is Born</em>’s lead duo of Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.</p>
<p id="ATkhSF">But, also, nobody made any overt screwups at the Globes when it came to their acceptance speeches. If you’re an awards season consultant working with one of these folks, you have a nice head of steam heading into the next phase of awards campaigning.<em> —TV</em></p>
<h3 id="LAMSSo">Loser: <em>A Star Is Born</em>
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<p id="xP0htE">Between its huge success at the box office ($400 million worldwide, with $200 million of it coming from the US and Canada alone), its Oscar-beloved director and star (three-time nominee Bradley Cooper), its critical acclaim, and its lineage as the fifth telling of <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/10/4/17902424/star-is-born-versions-what-price-hollywood-streisand-cukor-garland-cooper-gaga">an almost elemental Hollywood myth</a>, <em>A Star Is Born</em> initially felt like the movie to beat on this year’s awards circuit.</p>
<p id="GXsJJ3">Except ... it ... hasn’t been. Yes, <em>A Star Is Born</em> has earned the nominations it needs at various precursor awards to make a comfortable number of Oscar nominations seem likely. But when it comes time to actually <em>win </em>something, <em>A Star Is Born</em> keeps getting knocked around by other movies, be they more forthrightly artsy ones (<em>Roma</em>, the critical darling of the year) or more brazenly populist ones (like Golden Globes champ <em>Bohemian Rhapsody</em>). Yeah, it did win one Golden Globe, but that was for Best Original Song — hardly a harbinger of Oscar glory to come.</p>
<p id="5JqyMa">What’s rather wild about this is that <em>A Star Is Born</em> shares its awards season struggles with the only other two movies that have joined it on every single major nominations list — <em>Black Panther</em> and <em>BlacKkKlansman</em>. </p>
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<figcaption>Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga went home from the Golden Globes without awards for acting or the film, though the song “Shallow” from <em>A Star Is Born</em> won Best Original Song.</figcaption>
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<p id="ru27cM">As awards expert Erik Anderson <a href="https://twitter.com/awards_watch/status/1081268711783260160">points out here</a>, these three movies have hit every major benchmark of the season so far, unlike other films (<em>Green Book</em>, <em>Bohemian Rhapsody</em>, etc.), which have missed one or even two benchmarks. But none of the three ostensible frontrunners have converted their success with nominations into major wins, which is rather unprecedented.</p>
<p id="7FdozW">The season is still young. I’d still bet on <em>A Star Is Born</em> winning Best Picture at the Oscars. But the Golden Globes have given me considerable pause. The movie needs to take off at some point — and it hasn’t yet.<em> —TV</em></p>
<h3 id="exG2yi">Winner: <em>Roma</em>
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<p id="2AJhcd">Alfonso Cuarón’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/20/18102734/roma-review-netflix-cuaron"><em>Roma</em></a><em> —</em> Netflix’s big play for a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars — wasn’t eligible for Best Drama at the Golden Globes because the rules for the Globes specify that Best Picture nominees must be in English, and a foreign language feature is only eligible in the foreign language category.</p>
<p id="XfvyT8">But <em>Roma</em> won that foreign language category, and Cuarón won Best Director, too, becoming the second Mexican director in a row to earn the honor (following Guillermo del Toro in 2018 for eventual Oscar Best Picture winner <em>The Shape of Water</em>). </p>
<aside id="h4keKu"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Roma’s Yalitza Aparicio had never acted before. Now she’s in one of the year’s buzziest films.","url":"https://www.vox.com/2018/11/21/18103486/yalitza-aparicio-interview-roma-cuaron"}]}'></div></aside><p id="50NAmQ">That’s no small feat for a film like <em>Roma. </em>Yes, it earned almost universal plaudits during its fall festival run, earning the Golden Lion at its Venice Premiere in addition to picking up the top award from many major critics’ groups, including New York, Los Angeles, and Toronto. But it’s in Spanish, it received only a limited theatrical run, and most of its viewers will ultimately see the slow, expansive, visually rich black-and-white film on Netflix.</p>
<aside id="PRFlG0"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Roma is now on Netflix. You should still see it in a theater.","url":"https://www.vox.com/2018/12/11/18135050/roma-netflix-theater-netflix-streaming-better"}]}'></div></aside><p id="DrYNcu"><em>Roma</em>’s wins at the 2019 Golden Globes don’t indicate much about its chances at the Oscars. But Netflix has been pouring money into its awards campaign for the movie, and it’s a genuinely excellent film. So its two wins feel well-deserved, and may raise its visibility with potential audience members as well as with Academy voters — both in the foreign language feature category and the overall race for Best Picture. <em>—AW</em></p>
<h3 id="OLvU6g">Winner: <em>Green Book</em>
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<p id="09dOHG"><em>Green Book</em> may be the year’s most controversial awards frontrunner. It earned the coveted <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/9/5/16184614/tiff-toronto-international-film-festival-explainer-matters-oscars">Grolsch People’s Choice Award during its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival</a> in September, which has often proven to be an indicator of a film’s Best Picture chances. And it’s an audience pleaser, a comedy about an unlikely friendship between an Italian driver from the Bronx and a black concert pianist on a tour through the segregated Deep South.</p>
<p id="5gr6WN">But it’s also been criticized by historians, critics, and the family of one of its subjects, Dr. Don Shirley, for <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/12/truth-about-green-book-viggo-mortensen-mahershala-ali">putting a gloss on Shirley’s life</a>, conforming to <a href="https://shadowandact.com/the-real-donald-shirley-green-book-hollywood-swallowed-whole">tired “white savior” tropes</a>, and, perhaps most poignantly, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/11/16/18069756/green-book-review-racism-schomburg-segregation">practically ignoring (and sometimes eliding the history) of the “Green Books” for which it’s titled</a>. Mahershala Ali, who won Best Supporting Actor at the Globes for playing Shirley, reportedly <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/mahershala-ali-green-book-dr-don-shirley-family-apology.html">called Shirley’s family and apologized earlier this year</a>.</p>
<aside id="yCe9eI"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Green Book builds a feel-good comedy atop an artifact of shameful segregation. Yikes.","url":"https://www.vox.com/2018/11/16/18069756/green-book-review-racism-schomburg-segregation-golden-globes"}]}'></div></aside><p id="lJjEov">Controversy, though, is rarely a deterrent for the Globes. (Last year’s best drama winner was <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/1/19/16878018/three-billboards-controversy-racist-sam-rockwell-redemption-flannery-oconnor"><em>Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri</em></a>, which sparked its own controversy for its portrayal of the South and of its black characters.) <em>Green Book</em> took home the most awards of any film at the Golden Globes this year: one for Ali; one for Best Screenplay; and one for Best Comedy. </p>
<p id="3l56ed">So it seems to be cruising toward at least a few nominations when the Oscar nods are announced on January 22. And it’s easy to imagine <em>Green Book</em> — a comedy that seems to have its heart in the right place, and one that suggests we could fix racism if we’d all just talk to each other and maybe listen to some good music — winning Best Picture in an earlier era.</p>
<p id="Pwi33n">But the Academy, which is made up of thousands of actual working professionals in Hollywood rather than the <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/12/11/16762660/golden-globes-voting-explained-hfpa">100 or so shadowy members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association</a> that oversees the Golden Globes, seems to have changed its taste a bit in recent years, rewarding films like <em>Spotlight</em>, <em>Moonlight</em>, and <em>The Shape of Water</em>, which was about a romance between a woman and a fish-man. </p>
<p id="oSCbOF"><em>Green Book</em> feels out of date compared to those recent Best Picture winners — and it will be worth watching to see if it’s the sort of film the Academy wants to choose to represent the film industry in 2019. <em>—AW</em></p>
<h3 id="XjxBg4">Winners: <em>Bohemian Rhapsody</em>
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<p id="LP3HyR">I don’t know how to sugarcoat this, so I’ll just say it: The Freddie Mercury biopic <em>Bohemian Rhapsody</em> is easily <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/11/2/18048688/bohemian-rhapsody-review-freddie-mercury-rami-malek-bryan-singer">one of the worst films I saw in 2018</a>, and certainly the worst “prestige” film. And while I completely understand its ongoing popularity with audiences — fans will of course love a film about a beloved rocker, particularly one with lots of music, even if it drags in places and gets real fuzzy on the specifics — its ongoing existence in the awards conversation as a piece of filmmaking is, frankly, baffling.</p>
<p id="f7Ili6">Still, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association liked it enough to give it two Golden Globes: one for Rami Malek, who plays Mercury, and one for Best Drama. (Yes, the film was nominated as a drama, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/12/6/18128744/golden-globes-musical-comedy-drama-star-is-born-bohemian-rhapsody-oscars">not a comedy or musical</a>.)</p>
<aside id="babdEG"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Bohemian Rhapsody reduces Freddie Mercury’s vibrant life to a perfunctory slog","url":"https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/11/2/18048688/bohemian-rhapsody-review-freddie-mercury-rami-malek-bryan-singer"}]}'></div></aside><p id="fCJhwk">The movie was already notorious long before release, after director Bryan Singer <a href="https://variety.com/2017/film/news/bryan-singer-fired-bohemian-rhapsody-1202630247/">was fired from the project</a> after multiple on-set incidents of harassment and abuse and, apparently, just failing to show up for work. The team behind the film as well as its star Malek pointedly refused to mention Singer both during acceptance speeches <a href="https://twitter.com/brynsandberg/status/1082141206392451072">and off stage</a>, which helps underline the point.</p>
<p id="JlSHk1">Do the movie’s wins mean anything for its Oscar future? Hard to say. <em>Bohemian Rhapsody </em>was a hit with audiences, finishing 2018 just behind <em>A Star Is Born</em> with more than $193 million domestically, even if it <a href="https://www.metacritic.com/movie/bohemian-rhapsody">struggled with critics</a> and came under fire for multiple issues, including its handling <a href="https://t.co/PBuGMsjA3k">of Mercury’s sexuality</a>. </p>
<p id="YWgxtP">But both Malek and the film are likely Oscar nominees. And Malek <a href="https://variety.com/2018/film/news/2019-sag-award-nominations-list-nominees-1203087472/">is nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award</a>, where he faces stiff competition. Whether he wins that award will likely indicate his Oscar chances. <em>—AW</em></p>
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<h3 id="OuuvBY">Loser: The HFPA’s reputation as an edgier organization than either the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences or Academy of Television Arts and Sciences</h3>
<p id="4xW177">The HFPA’s reputation as “edgy” has always been a little bit bullshit, hugely bolstered by its willingness to let its major awards show become a showcase for drunken revelry. (There was <em>so much bleeping</em> during this year’s Golden Globes.) Its winners tend to be rather staid and conventional — exactly what you’d expect from an organization that even at its best often seems to exist solely to take a ridiculously early (<a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/1/9/14207138/golden-globes-predict-oscars-academy-awards">and often incorrect</a>) stab at predicting the Oscars.</p>
<p id="cOFcY1">If any bit of that reputation for edginess still existed, though, the 2019 Globes pretty much burned it to the ground. Yes, there were some good jokes, and yes, Bill Murray held up a massive golden goblet that had perhaps once been filled with booze when presenting the comedy movie category. But the two biggest movie winners — <em>Green Book</em> and <em>Bohemian Rhapsody</em> — were the very definition of very safe awards-bait movies. Even people who <em>like</em> those movies will admit they’re pretty safe, always conventional, and not particularly daring.</p>
<p id="cB9qhH">Now, to some degree, this safeness is an offshoot of an awards season when there’s no clear frontrunner, when one of the big nominees looks to be a superhero movie, and when most of the assumed major Oscar players fizzled either at the box office (<em>Widows</em>) or with critics (<em>Vice</em>), leaving awards bodies to cast about for other, wilder options. And in the case of the HFPA, that meant gravitating toward a couple of movies that felt a little like the biggest Oscar contenders of 1994. </p>
<p id="plLJCj">There is nothing inherently wrong with this. But it does rather torpedo the HFPA’s status as a group of iconoclasts when the group gravitates toward the safest choices in the room, especially when films like <em>BlacKkKlansman</em> and <em>The Favourite</em> are sitting right there.</p>
<p id="0xNC7o">So begins the next phase of awards season. It’ll only last seven weeks, but we guarantee it will feel like seven months. <em>—TV</em></p>
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/7/18171311/golden-globes-2019-winners-losers-netflix-star-roma-green-book-bohemian-rhapsodyAlissa WilkinsonEmily St. James2019-01-07T00:09:06-05:002019-01-07T00:09:06-05:00Sandra Oh made history 3 times at the Golden Globes
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<p>Sandra Oh is the first actress of Asian descent in 39 years to win the Globe for best leading TV actress.</p> <p id="Jbe8vU">As co-host of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/5/18125969/golden-globe-awards-2019-news-updates">2019 Golden Globes</a>, Sandra Oh achieved the enormous milestone of being <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/6/18171316/golden-globes-sandra-oh-monologue-diversity-andy-samberg">the only host ever to make me cry with their opening monologue</a>. But Oh also made a more significant kind of history. To be exact, she made history three different times, with three different major milestones.</p>
<h3 id="d00ICY">1) Sandra Oh was the first person of Asian descent to host the Golden Globes</h3>
<p id="REr0ox">The Golden Globes hosting gig has a tendency to go to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Golden_Globe_Awards_ceremonies">someone white and male</a> (there are exceptions, most notably when Tina Fey and Amy Poehler co-hosted the awards three consecutive times from 2013 to 2015). </p>
<p id="OTK8nz">While that demographic was ably represented in 2019 by Andy Samberg, Oh’s presence represented the first time a person of Asian descent hosted the awards. <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/6/18171316/golden-globes-sandra-oh-monologue-diversity-andy-samberg">Oh nodded to that history during the pair’s opening monologue</a>, saying, “I said yes to the fear of being on this stage tonight because I wanted to be here to look out into this audience and witness this moment of change.” </p>
<p id="gqriHl">She would witness that moment of change again later that night, when she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Drama for BBC America’s <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/4/8/17203866/bbc-america-killing-eve-review-sandra-oh"><em>Killing Eve</em></a>. </p>
<h3 id="kjljWI">2) Sandra Oh is the first woman of Asian descent to win multiple Golden Globes</h3>
<p id="ylxmhe">Oh won her first Golden Globe in 2006 for her role as Cristina Yang on <em>Grey’s Anatomy</em>. By winning this year for <em>Killing Eve</em>, she became the first woman of Asian descent to rack up more than one Golden Globe trophy. And because she was winning in a new category (her previous award was for a supporting role), she found herself positioned to pull off her third milestone. </p>
<h3 id="Dw8s0Y">3) Sandra Oh is the first woman of Asian descent in 39 years to win a Golden Globe for best actress in a TV drama</h3>
<p id="KO1Z0W">The last actress of Asian descent to win in that category was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Shimada">Yoko Shimada</a> for <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080274/"><em>Shogun</em></a> in 1980. </p>
<p id="f3rdPM">Oh will follow up her history-making accomplishments at the 2019 Golden Globes by returning to season two of <em>Killing Eve</em>, premiering on BBC America on April 7.</p>
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/7/18171587/sandra-oh-golden-globes-2019-history-milestonesConstance Grady2019-01-06T23:49:40-05:002019-01-06T23:49:40-05:00Green Book builds a feel-good comedy atop an artifact of shameful segregation. Yikes.
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<figcaption>Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in <em>Green Book.</em> | Patti Perret / Universal Studios</figcaption>
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<p>The movie is named after guides published for black travelers in segregated America. But its spin is all Hollywood.</p> <p id="Rc21jO"><em>Green Book</em> took home three <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/5/18125969/golden-globe-awards-2019-news-updates">Golden Globe Awards</a> on Sunday for Best Comedy, Best Screenplay, and supporting actor Mahershala Ali — and that’s hardly a surprise. A period piece that’s also a road trip movie and a buddy dramedy? Based on a true story? With two strong performances and a heartwarming message about overcoming prejudice? That ends at a Christmas celebration? Sign America up (or at least the Hollywood Foreign Press Association).</p>
<p id="p0GRui">The film, directed by comedy veteran <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0268380/">Peter Farrelly</a>, stars Viggo Mortensen and Ali. It’s “inspired” by the true friendship of Tony Vallelonga, an Italian-American chauffeur/bodyguard from the Bronx, and Don Shirley, the black pianist Vallelonga is hired to drive and protect on a concert tour through the deep South in 1962. It’s often funny, with some poignant moments and a heart that feels like it’s in the right place.</p>
<p id="5g6Xml">Yet curiously, the Green Book itself doesn’t play much of a role in the film. Mortensen’s character, Tony, takes it on the trip and leafs through it several times. Early on, he briefly explains its purpose to his wife Delores (Linda Cardellini): to provide black travelers with information about “safe” places to stay and to eat while they travel. He’ll need to refer to it to do his job, getting Shirley from gig to gig safely throughout the musician’s eight-week tour.</p>
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<figcaption>Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in <em>Green Book.</em>
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<p id="eXPbMi">But after that, the book is not mentioned by name, even as the pair encounter the full gamut of racism during the trip — ranging from casual remarks to “genteel” discrimination to violent hostility from civilians, bar patrons, and police. Indeed, we typically see it only when Tony quietly picks it up to find motels in which Shirley can safely stay. </p>
<p id="6HvWHr">When Farrelly took the stage to accept the Golden Globe for Best Comedy or Musical, he used the opportunity to reiterate the film’s themes (and demand that the orchestra not play him off):</p>
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<p id="GdopmN"><em>Green Book</em> is a story of a trip that — [<em>to the orchestra</em>] please, no, turn that off. No, go away. Off. </p>
<p id="cockbd">Okay. This is a story of the trip that Don Shirley took in the pre-Civil Rights era of the 1960s. Don Shirley was a great man and underappreciated genius who couldn’t play the music he wanted to play, simply because of the color of his skin. Yet he went on to create his own music that still resonates to this day. </p>
<p id="vTbYju">... This story, when I heard it, gave me hope, and I wanted to share this hope with you. Because we are still living in divided times, and that’s what this movie is for: It’s for everybody. If they can find common ground here, we all can.<strong> </strong></p>
<p id="zgDXiY">All we have to do is talk and to not judge people by their differences, but look for what we have in common. And we have a lot in common. We all want the same thing: We want love and happiness and want to be treated equally. And that’s not a bad thing. </p>
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<p id="tJuF12">Farrelly’s speech is of a piece with the film’s approach to racism, common to Hollywood films, which is to suggest that relationships between individuals will heal centuries of racism. And indeed,<strong> </strong><em>Green Book</em>’s treatment of racism is uneven at best. In an early scene, for instance, Tony throws away two drinking glasses that black construction workers used in his kitchen, suggesting he draws a hard line about even coming into contact with black people. But a movie like this needs a “likable” hero, and after that moment, he doesn’t engage in such blatantly offensive behavior for the rest of the film. As an Italian American, Tony would have experienced plenty of discrimination himself, but the film only hints at it. </p>
<p id="4u8bjL">But even setting aside the characters’ development, for a movie named <em>Green Book</em>, it’s light on details about the actual, well, Green Book. It also seems to imply that such a guide was only really necessary in the Deep South, which rang false to me. Watching it, I worried that the screenplay — written by Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie, and the real-life Tony’s son, Nick Vallelonga, who clearly drew on his father’s remembrance of the trip — might have glossed over the reality experienced by black Americans like Shirley. </p>
<p id="SsZ8X7">But before seeing the movie, I didn’t know much about the Green Book itself, so I dug into its history to learn more. What I learned helped me see the ways in which <em>Green Book</em> doesn’t go nearly far enough in confronting its subject, and winds up trivializing serious matters as a result. </p>
<p id="UAmEHn">Here are four things I learned about the Green Book, and what it says about <em>Green Book</em>.</p>
<h3 id="uJzvXn">If you were a black American in the middle of the 20th century, you almost certainly knew about the Green Book</h3>
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<p id="czCMup">For middle-class Americans in the 1930s, the newfound availability of safe, affordable automobiles was not just a matter of convenience. It meant new possibilities, the ability to travel around the country at their leisure, without relying on anyone else. That was also true for African Americans, even in a country that was legally segregated in some places and functionally segregated virtually everywhere else.</p>
<p id="UTrHNC">But while white travelers could move with relative freedom, stopping into restaurants, bars, entertainment establishments, and places of lodging as they pleased, road travel was more fraught for African Americans. Staying in the wrong hotel, or trying to eat at the wrong establishment, could get you kicked out or much worse.</p>
<p id="wdJcob">The Negro Motorist Green Book wasn’t the only travel book aimed at black motorists in America, but it was the most popular. It was created by Victor Hugo Green, an African-American mail carrier who lived in Harlem and worked in nearby Hackensack, New Jersey. Green worked on the project for three decades, from 1936 to 1966, shortly after the Civil Rights Act was signed into law, with a break during World War II for about four years. The Green Book swiftly became the most vital document for black travelers in America, detailing places where they could eat, drink, and spend the night without being harassed or worse.</p>
<p id="j4Aob6">Twenty-two editions of the Green Book (and one supplement), published from 1937 to 1966, have since <a href="https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/the-green-book#/?tab=about&scroll=6">been collected and digitized</a> by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library. “From what I can tell, [Green] had a car, he was very interested in cars, and he decided to create a travel guide that helped black travelers, or black motorists, be able to take advantage of the newfound freedom of having a car,” Maira Liriano, the chief librarian and curator of the center’s Green Book collection, told me. </p>
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<figcaption>Cover of <em>The Negro Motorist Green Book</em> (1940 edition) </figcaption>
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<p id="nzN8MV">The Green Books were mostly devoted to options for lodging and dining, but they contained other information too. “There were listings for rest stops, restaurants, barber shops, beauty shops,” Liriano says. And in some towns, especially smaller ones, <em>no</em> hotel would offer lodging to black people. For many of those, the Green Book listed “tourist homes,” which Liriano describes as “sort of like a precursor to Airbnb.” Black homeowners, mostly in the South, would rent a room in their home to black travelers looking for somewhere to spend the night. </p>
<p id="jrHQef">That was especially important in so-called “sundown towns,” which passed laws designed to drive black people out of town that prohibited them from being on the road at night. One such town is depicted in <em>Green Book</em>.</p>
<p id="lNKh9H">Sundown towns weren’t specifically mentioned in the Green Book. But there were about 10,000 sundown towns in the US as late as the 1960s, and <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-green-book-the-first_b_4549962">not just in the South</a>: Levittown, New York; Glendale, California; and most Illinois municipalities were among their number. And while it could be dangerous to be on the road at night, it could be equally dangerous to check into the wrong hotel. In an age where you couldn’t just whip out your phone and look up Yelp reviews — and in which you could literally risk your life by being in the wrong part of town with the wrong skin color — you needed a guide.</p>
<p id="LZkVqs">So if you were traveling while black, you knew about the Green Book, because you had to, for your own safety. In his 2000 memoir <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Colored-Journey-Through-Century-Segregated/dp/1881032175"><em>A Colored Man’s Journey through 20th Century Segregated America</em></a>, Earl Hutchinson Sr. (believed to be the oldest black American to publish a memoir, at age 96), wrote that “the Green Book was the bible of every Negro highway traveler in the 1950s and the early 1960s. You literally didn’t dare leave home without it.” </p>
<p id="gNZwtl">In the film, Shirley never mentions or even looks at the Green Book — only Tony interacts with it. In fact, the Shirley character in the film seems to have consciously distanced himself from many elements of black culture, while remaining richly aware of the discrimination he will encounter on the trip. But in real life, Shirley had previously traveled throughout the country before embarking on his tour with Tony, and would almost certainly have known all about the Green Book. It simply wouldn’t have been safe not to. </p>
<h3 id="grUPov">The Green Book was necessary no matter which part of the country you were traveling through</h3>
<p id="HFrvzY"><em>Green Book</em> depicts a range of ways in which the racist attitudes that were dominant in American life in the early and mid-20th century manifested themselves, from snide comments and racial epithets to outright hostility. But it strongly suggests that a guide like the Green Book was only really necessary in the Deep South, where under Jim Crow laws, segregation was not just encouraged, but legally enforced. </p>
<p id="wzAKeU">The first time Tony consults the Green Book comes after several stops on Shirley’s concert tour, in Ohio and Indiana. Once they cross into Kentucky, the Green Book becomes his guide, and we see it in his hands and on the car seat beside him several times. And a key scene near the end of <em>Green Book</em> suggests that while Shirley was harassed and worse by police in the South, once they returned north of the Mason-Dixon line, he was safe from that experience.</p>
<p id="XbgBdJ">But the reality was different.</p>
<p id="ww1bZh">Victor Green himself lived in Harlem, a predominantly black neighborhood in New York City, and his first Green Book covered mostly the New York metropolitan area. “It was very much a local guide that listed auto repair shops, but also places in the suburbs, like nightclubs and restaurants,” Liriano told me. “It was highlighting businesses that were friendly and open, and that would be of interest, to the African American motorist.” </p>
<p id="Zfg8i5">But interest in the book was high, and subsequent editions expanded very rapidly. “In two years, they included pretty much the whole country,” Liriano said.</p>
<p id="C0UuLD">That meant the Green Book didn’t restrict its listings to places like Georgia and Alabama, or other states with explicit Jim Crow laws — it was a lifeline for travelers virtually anywhere in the country. </p>
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<cite>(Negro Motorist’s Green Book 1947 via <a class="ql-link" href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/666fe280-82ee-0132-31f3-58d385a7bbd0#/?uuid=671bb160-82ee-0132-cf4a-58d385a7bbd0" target="_blank">New York Public Library</a>)</cite>
<figcaption>Esso was one company that used the Green Book to openly court black customers.</figcaption>
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<p id="Pj9gEJ">In <a href="https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/786175a0-942e-0132-97b0-58d385a7bbd0">the 1962 edition of the Green Book</a>, published the year in which <em>Green Book</em> is set, you can find listings for restaurants in Wilmington, Delaware; hotels in Billings, Montana; entertainment establishments in Seattle, Washington; and antique stores in New York City, all of which were friendly to black clientele. In many editions, listings spilled over US borders into Mexico and Canada, going as far north as Alaska. And in every city where establishments were listed as friendly to black travelers, there were almost certainly establishments that were unfriendly.</p>
<p id="ujG95m">“In states that didn’t necessarily have laws on the books, there was definitely a custom to discriminate,” Liriano said. “The country was pretty much very racist, everywhere you went.”</p>
<p id="j5slBN">Certainly, black travelers experienced different conditions in places where segregation was legal and where it wasn’t, and conditions varied across the north as well. In his 1998 memoir <em>Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement</em>, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), a Civil Rights pioneer, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=mm58BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39#v=onepage&q&f=false">writes about a 17-hour road trip</a> he took with his Uncle Otis in 1951, packing their lunches and carefully plotting which bathrooms were safe to use along the way from Alabama to upstate New York. “It wasn’t until we got to Ohio that I could feel Uncle Otis relax, and so I relaxed, too,” he writes, later recounting his amazement that his relatives in Buffalo had “white people living next door to them. On <em>both</em> sides.”</p>
<p id="GzkClr">But there was no magical line that a black traveler could cross to find safety on the other side. “I think that’s the part that maybe people don’t think about as much,” Liriano told me. “You can blame the South for their laws; but the North was very much also a very segregated place with spaces that were white and spaces that were black, even though it wasn’t by law.”</p>
<h3 id="3ABQls">What the Green Books omitted is as significant as what they contained</h3>
<p id="I1XPq9"><em>Green Book</em> does well in illustrating how Shirley adapts his behavior to be more acceptable to the mostly white crowds who gather to hear him play, even though, as he knows, once he leaves the stage he’s back to being just another “Negro” in their eyes. </p>
<p id="tLna8p">His strained, pained smile at the end of every stage set is the dead giveaway. It’s a stark reminder of the long American tradition of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respectability_politics">respectability politics</a>. And the film is at its best when Tony and Shirley are discovering the limits of those politics, and learning how to challenge the white-defined status quo.</p>
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<figcaption>When the pair’s car breaks down across from a field of poor black sharecroppers, the meaning is clear.</figcaption>
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<p id="JzS1S3">Some of the need to watch one’s step was reflected in the Green Books, which were intended for black readers but required broader support to remain in production. “Green had to collaborate with a lot of people, including the federal government’s travel bureau,” Liriano says. In interacting with the “Negro Affairs” office in that bureau, as well as other collaborators like gas and oil companies, Green often wound up working with other African-Americans. </p>
<p id="UCkjnO">But knowing that he needed the support of the government and various companies to keep producing this vital lifeline, Green tended to not rock the boat too much. “He’s not going to criticize or blatantly state things,” Liriano said. “You sort of have to read between the lines in a lot of what he writes in the Green Books.”</p>
<p id="WD7Wxi">That meant not outright criticizing the very laws, customs, and racist attitudes that made 30 years of Green Books necessary. It also appears to have meant not identifying sundown towns. </p>
<p id="gVHXXr">Still, the sadness inherent in the very existence of the Green Books came through. The end of the introduction to the 1949 edition made this clear. After thanking the United States Travel Bureau’s “Negro Affairs” office for their support, and asking readers to send their feedback and mention the book to establishments that might want to be listed, Green concludes:</p>
<blockquote><p id="KOCzez">There will be a day sometime in the near future when this guide will not have to be published. That is when we as a race will have equal opportunities and privileges in the United States. It will be a great day for us to suspend this publication for then we can go wherever we please, and without embarrassment. </p></blockquote>
<p id="8YpA5c">“But until that time comes we shall continue to publish this information for your convenience each year,” he writes.</p>
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<cite>(Negro Travelers’ Green Book via New York Public Library)</cite>
<figcaption>The 1956 edition of the Negro Travelers’ Green Book.</figcaption>
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<h3 id="MDnyDn">It’s inherently disingenuous to cite the Green Books in the title of a feel-good film</h3>
<p id="KQkNfj">The Green Books were Green’s effort to make the best of a terrible situation, and to offer some kind of freedom to a wide swath of the American population who were considered inferior to white people, not worthy of being treated as equals. In America, barely more than a half century ago, it was legal in some places to be hounded off the road because of your skin color, or to be turned away by a “No Negroes Allowed” sign in a hotel lobby.</p>
<p id="fMNo7U">In 2010, Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/books/23green.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">told the New York Times</a> that the Green Book “allowed families to protect their children, to help them ward off those horrible points at which they might be thrown out or not permitted to sit somewhere. It was both a defensive and a proactive mechanism.”</p>
<p id="F88nxP">So as much as they’re a triumph of ingenuity and hard work, the Green Books represent something else: decades of great pain, and a history which ought to be regarded with shame.</p>
<p id="Wd5QrG">That’s ultimately why <em>Green Book</em> feels wrongheaded to me, no matter how well-intentioned: The movie clearly exhibits Hollywood’s unfortunate tendency to elide reality when making movies about historical racism. It takes the name of an important artifact of history, one whose very existence was a result of prejudice and entrenched white supremacy, and makes it the basis for a broad comedy. It centers its story on a goofy, lovable white man who learns to be less racist after spending time with a black man who, though he’s aloof and unlikeable at first, becomes more “sympathetic” after he’s beaten up a few times. </p>
<p id="TgJCmt">And curiously, the two never talk about the Green Book itself — its history, its necessity, its very existence. <em>Green Book</em>’s end credits show pictures of the two men and briefly explain what happened to Tony and Shirley after the tour, but never show or even mention the actual Green Books. That’s a bafflingly missed opportunity, given the very name of the film. </p>
<p id="2AO5VQ">It also leans into the always-present danger that comes with movies about racism set in the past. They give audiences — particularly white ones that are eager to consider our era “post-racial” or “color-blind,” or who think black people keep pulling out the “race card” — the ability to leave the theater saying, <em>Whew, the 1960s were a crazy time. Glad we fixed racism! </em></p>
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<p id="rmgY2U">To be sure, there are a few scenes in which the movie overcomes this setup, to say something real about how expectations based on race, class, and identity can wreak havoc on a person’s soul. And at its best, <em>Green Book </em>may raise interest in the actual Green Books among viewers, particularly white audiences who’ve never heard of them before.</p>
<p id="o0tnfi">But borrowing the name of such a fraught piece of history and making a feel-good comedy about it, then failing to do that piece of history justice, is at best a misstep. At worst, it’s yet another example of Hollywood’s obliviousness and its willingness to feed into its audience’s self-satisfaction. As a piece of conventional Hollywood cinema, <em>Green Book</em> has plenty to recommend it. But as a film named for Victor Green’s books, it’s got a lot to answer for.</p>
<p id="pyXkQy">Green Book <em>opens in limited theaters on November 16 and wide on November 21.</em></p>
https://www.vox.com/2018/11/16/18069756/green-book-review-racism-schomburg-segregation-golden-globesAlissa Wilkinson2019-01-06T23:01:50-05:002019-01-06T23:01:50-05:00Game of Thrones season 8: new footage reveals Sansa and Dany’s first meeting
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<p>An alliance between Sansa and Daenerys is here. </p> <p id="lzRhI9">During the <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/12/5/18125969/golden-globe-awards-2019-news-updates">2019 Golden Globes</a>, meant to honor the best TV and movies of the past year, a tiny snippet of <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/8/28/16216092/game-of-thrones-season-8-spoilers-news-review-episode-recaps"><em>Game of Thrones</em></a>’ final season stole the show. HBO released a short commercial (that aired during a break) for its upcoming shows on Sunday night, including <em>Game of Thrones</em>:</p>
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<p id="71zWtS">“Winterfell is yours, your grace,” Sansa Stark tells Daenerys Targaryen in the seconds-long clip, signaling an allegiance between the two. </p>
<p id="zf6NWm">Because <em>Game of Thrones</em>’ upcoming eighth season is its last, and because there are relatively few details available about said season, seeing the meeting between the two is a big deal. Storywise, Dany and Sansa need to work together to defeat the oncoming White Walker invasion that arrived at the Wall last season. And the lack of urgency in the clip — the meeting seems to be cordial and polite — may indicate that the characters don’t yet know about the ice dragon attacking the Wall. You’d think there’d be more desperation or frantic energy if they knew exactly what they were dealing with. </p>
<aside id="6oqbbQ"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Game of Thrones’ final season will premiere in April 2019","url":"https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/11/13/18091558/game-of-thrones-season-8-premiere-april-2019"}]}'></div></aside><p id="xlOYrU">In addition to <em>Game of Thrones</em>, the clip also provided small glimpses of the second season of <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/4/2/15123422/big-little-lies-season-finale-recap-you-get-what-you-need-kidman"><em>Big Little Lies</em></a>, the final season of <em>Veep</em>, the <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/2/18159472/true-detective-season-3-review-mahershala-ali">long-awaited third season of <em>True Detective</em></a>, and the second season of <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/5/20/17366104/barry-hbo-finale-recap-chapter-eight-know-your-truth"><em>Barry</em></a>, as well as the first look at Damon Lindelof’s <em>Watchmen</em>. And while those are all exciting projects in their own rights, it’s tough to steal the spotlight away from <em>Game of Thrones. </em>Just ask the Golden Globes. </p>
https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/1/6/18171487/game-of-thrones-season-8-new-footage-sansa-danyAlex Abad-Santos