The 79th annual Golden Globe Awards took place last night in the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
Although this year’s ceremony wasn’t all the glitz and glamour you’d expect, due to Covid-19 the awards ceremony took place behind closed doors with no audience, nominees or media in attendance.
The ceremony was not televised, but we do have the results and we have an Irish winner among them which is very exciting.
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast took home the prize for Best Screenplay.
The film and its cast and crew were nominated for seven awards in total on the night, although they missed out on the other awards on the night.
Set in the 1960’s, the film follows a young boy and his family in Belfast navigating the turmoil that has taken over the city and deciding whether to wait it out or look for a fresh start.
Kenneth told Vanity Fair that he remembers the troubles in Northern Ireland growing up, “It’s something I’ve been trying to understand, as I grow older, that it was a moment when the world tried to insist that you put away childish things, and demanded that you are dragged into this perilous adulthood.”
Speaking to film students at the QFT last year during the Belfast Media Festival Branagh said, “It’s a very personal film, set partly in Belfast and partly elsewhere, partly set in the past and partly set in the present.
“I hope that there is humour and I hope that it’s emotional. It’s a look at a people and a place in tumult through the eyes of a nine-year old movie-mad kid.
“My experience of Belfast when I was growing up was to be part of a larger extended family, one that lived nearby each other, in a world in terms of television that had three channels in black and white. We listened to radio extensively, listened to records extensively and we went to see films extensively and when we weren’t doing that, we visited each other.”