Oscars And Golden Globes For Sale; James Corden In ‘The Whale’? – Deadline

A column chronicling conversations and occasions on the awards circuit.

Within the waning days of 2022 we’re taking one final deep breath earlier than the madness begins and the meting out of precise awards shifts into excessive gear. Proper off the bat on January 5, the Palm Springs Movie Competition Awards Gala returns for the primary time in three years to happen in that huge Palm Springs Conference Heart, with all these bejeweled and tuxedoed desert rats in attendance to get a glimpse of Cate Blanchett or Brendan Fraser or Viola Davis making an attempt to handle to carry on to that huge trophy PSIFF fingers out, all whereas giving a thank-you speech which may function an audition tape for the multitude of ceremonies to comply with.

A DIZZYING ARRAY OF AWARDS GALAS

After PSIFF, in quick succession we get the return of the Golden Globes on January 10, a Tuesday (say what?), because the beleaguered Hollywood International Press Affiliation, hoping for a contemporary restart, celebrates its eightieth annual awards fest on what could — or could not — be their final go-round with NBC. The community agreed to host the 2023 broadcast after canceling it final 12 months, however is watching rankings and star turnout intently to find out whether or not the choice will likely be picked up past this 12 months. The Globes will likely be adopted in shut succession by the AFI Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, January 13 and the twenty eighth annual Critics Selection Awards on Sunday, January 15 (although the Critics Selection Affiliation has been warming up with fancy separate awards “celebrations” honoring Black, Latino and Asian Pacific cinema and tv, in addition to a NYC gala spotlighting the 12 months’s finest documentaries). Together with all this, the NYFCC fingers out their awards on January 4 and the Nationwide Board of Assessment on January 8 (winners for each had been beforehand introduced).

ELVIS TURNS 88

In the meantime, the marketing campaign occasions all aimed toward Oscar reheat with Warner Bros and Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy celebrating Elvis Presley’s 88th birthday on Sunday, January 8 (he could be the identical age as Maggie Smith, who turned 88 on Wednesday) with Baz Luhrmann and Austin Butler saluting the King. At the very same time, Netflix will likely be providing a “Celebration Toast” to its varied awards nominees at a luxurious L.A. evening spot. Little doubt there will likely be extra to come back earlier than Oscar voters begin marking their nomination ballots January 12; PGA Awards nominations are introduced that day too, preceded the day earlier than by DGA and SAG nominations. Whew. So little time.

WHERE HAVE ALL THE GLOBES PARTIES GONE?

Nevertheless, these not partying a lot would be the city instantly following the Globes on the Beverly Hilton on that Tuesday. The present is at all times touted as “Hollywood’s Celebration of the 12 months,” and it could nonetheless be that, however this time round it gained’t be Hollywood’s after-parties of the 12 months, or so it appears.

First off, this 12 months the present will not be on a Sunday — for many years, the Globes motion has at all times been on a weekend, so which may be a consideration — but in addition possibly there may be some skittishness on behalf of studios, who in pre-pandemic, pre-scandal occasions took over the entire lodge for varied post-Globes soirees. You can at all times depend on the likes of Common, HBO, Warner Bros-In Model, Netflix, Disney, Sony, Paramount and in a galaxy far distant The Weinstein Co and Fox to order areas on the Hilton for hoped-for victory celebrations.

Apparently not this 12 months, no less than as I write this. We aren’t listening to about any of the above ponying up the bucks up to now, besides presumably NBC and the Globes themselves, and an surprising beginner to the post-GG occasion scene, Billboard Magazine, which I used to be advised has a maintain (possibly they’re confused and assume that is the Grammys, however the publication is immediately related to Globes CEO Todd Boehly, who additionally acquired a stake within the Beverly Hilton and adjoining Waldorf in 2018). Keep tuned.

The excellent news for the Globes are all these For Your Consideration adverts once more prominently touting Globes nominations, in addition to large billboards round city doing the identical. I simply handed one on Santa Monica Blvd final evening for Babylon, lit up with information of its 5 Globe nominations. The celebrities may additionally be aligning for the GGs as studio reps with whom now we have talked are busy making journey plans for a number of of their nominees to attend, the important thing factor NBC is hoping to see convey the glamour again. It’s understandably exhausting to withstand the chance to be handed gold statuettes on a nationally televised present. The wattage could also be excessive, and prone to carry over to AFI and Critics Selection just some days later.

OSCARS VS GLOBES: WHAT IS THE CASH VALUE?

Talking of the Globes and the Oscars, have you ever ever questioned what the precise money worth of a type of statuettes versus the opposite is price on the open market? We obtained a great indication of that distinction simply earlier than Christmas, when a Dallas-based public sale home put the hammer down on each of Edmund Gwenn’s Oscar and Golden Globe awards. In case you might be questioning, Gwenn, who died at age 81 in 1959, was a a lot in-demand character actor who to this present day continues to be the one star ever to win an Academy Award by enjoying Santa Claus.

Gwenn famously took on the position of Kris Kringle within the beloved 1947 Christmas traditional Miracle on thirty fourth Avenue and gained the hearts of Oscar and Globe voters. His property or somebody with connections to him and /or his memorabilia put each up within the public sale together with another objects together with one other Globe for 1950’s Mister 880, in addition to the Santa Claus swimsuit he wore, the latter going for $42,500.

As a result of this Oscar was gained earlier than 1950 when AMPAS modified the principles and made winners signal papers that may assure the Academy the primary choice to pay $1 for his or her Oscar ought to they (or their heirs) ever resolve to half with it, it’s nonetheless sort of a free marketplace for statuettes gained within the 21 years earlier than then. Michael Jackson famously paid $1.5 million for a Gone With the Wind Greatest Image Oscar in 1999, whereas a Citizen Kane Screenplay Oscar of Orson Welles bought for $861,542 in 2011.

The Edmund Gwenn Supporting Oscar (although on the engraving it doesn’t stipulate lead or assist) bought properly previous its $60,000 beginning bid for a whopping $162,500, far more than his Golden Globe for Miracle on thirty fourth Avenue which went for $20,000 — nonetheless significantly greater than its beginning bid of $8000 (the Mister 880 Globe went for less than $9,375). The timing of the Christmas season could have performed an element within the attraction, however the Oscar took an enormous $142,000 greater than the Globe. Sounds about proper.

By the way, an instance of a singular Bronze Oscar used throughout World Battle II to avoid wasting on supplies (however not one given to a winner) went for $25,000 in the identical public sale, as did one other Globe given to Zsa Zsa Gabor for being the “Most Glamorous Star of 1959, 1960, 1961, and 1962” bought for $8,750 and already again up for direct sale by its new proprietor for $13,125. If in case you have that money, it may very well be yours. Now it’s a must to surprise what Tom Cruise may have fetched for these three Golden Globes he packed up and mailed again to the HFPA?

HELLO DOLLY!

Again to the race this 12 months, the place new hopefuls are hoping to get their fingers on an Oscar they don’t need to get into an public sale to win. Certainly one of them is the pleasant Philippines native Dolly De Leon, who manages to steal Ruben Östlund’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Triangle of Unhappiness from a killer solid, no simple process. She performs an elaborate yacht’s “rest room supervisor” who by means of circumstance and a shipwreck manages to land on a abandoned island and turns the tables on the a lot wealthier survivors who’re in the identical boat, because it had been. For her efficiency within the wild comedy I’ve in my High 5 of the 12 months, she has already gained the Los Angeles Movie Critics Affiliation’s Supporting Efficiency award, is up for a London Movie Critics award and Golden Globe as properly, and if there may be any justice will likely be nominated for SAG and Oscars Supporting Actress.

She is that good, although as she advised me lately she by no means had an thought she would get a chance like this. However as soon as the movie premiered in Cannes in Might she was an instantaneous movie star on the Croisette, which she thought was odd. “I believe that what’s occurred was so surreal. It was unbelievable the way it was obtained there. I didn’t even have an agent earlier than it. I had an agent as soon as however simply three years in the past, it was very quick. I went to the audition simply with a really transient abstract of the movie and the perimeters of the movie, three scenes, after which I went there and auditioned with the casting director, as a result of Ruben didn’t go to the Philippines. I simply loved the second and was fortunate sufficient to be chosen,” she modestly says, and now I believe she could also be “fortunate sufficient” to go all the way in which to the Dolby Theatre on March 12.

You should definitely try my interview with Triangle of Unhappiness director-writer Östlund, who’s the visitor on this week’s version of my Deadline video sequence Behind the Lens.

JAMES CORDEN IN ‘THE WHALE’

Lastly, Brendan Fraser, like Dolly De Leon, is one other actor searching for their first dance with Oscar. In Brendan’s case it has been a for much longer time coming, however each bit as properly deserved. He has up to now been nominated for almost any award you’ll be able to consider for his efficiency in The Whale, Darren Aronofsky’s transferring story of a 600-pound man desperately making an attempt to reconnect along with his teenage daughter earlier than it’s too late. Aronofsky did a large casting search over the ten years since he had optioned the play on which the film relies, and attending to the purpose the place Fraser is about to satisfy his Oscar second had loads of twists and turns, together with one fascinating little nugget James Corden occurred to say to me as we had been ready to start out a current Q&A for his Amazon sequence Mammals.

Corden requested what I had seen currently that I preferred and I occurred to say The Whale. He had not seen it at that time however had a connection. “I used to be going to play that half, and Tom Ford was going to direct,” he stated, including that it finally didn’t occur as a result of Ford needed extra full management of the challenge. Corden additionally thinks he could have been too younger to do it justice. He then advised me George Clooney additionally obtained concerned with it at one level however solely needed to make the movie if an precise 600-pound unknown may very well be discovered to play the lead position. The issues of that had been an excessive amount of, as you may think, and Clooney by no means grew to become concerned past that transient flirtation with the property.

After I talked with Aronofsky lately I casually requested him about what Corden advised me and he confirmed all of it. James Corden in The Whale? Who is aware of what that may have been like? He definitely has a connection to mammals, because the title of his present sequence signifies. Nevertheless, after seeing the film that has lastly made it to the display screen, you actually can’t think about anybody getting close to what Fraser achieves within the position of his life.

Have an awesome New 12 months’s, and see you again right here once more in 2023!