Golden Globes Snubs and Surprises: A Bad Night for ‘Barbie’ and Taylor Swift

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Golden Globes, broadcast on CBS for the first time, the news of the night was that, save for one or two genuine shocks, everything unfolded pretty much as had been widely predicted.

First-time host Jo Koy presided over the telecast, which took place, as always, at the Beverly Hilton. During his largely jokeless monologue, he did a bit about how Barry Keoghan’s penis in “Saltburn” somehow ended up as Bradley Cooper’s nose in “Maestro,” and made an Ozempic joke that involved “The Color Purple.” So one could say that the biggest snub of the night was the one Koy created for his own career.

There were, however, some key categories that held surprises — especially in that Globes voters seemed so allergic to “Barbie” that we could almost hear them say, “Bye, Barbie!” The Musical/Comedy category at the Globes is so often subject to category fraud — recent winners here include gut-busters “The Banshees of Inisherin” and “The Martian” — that this year it was a relief to know that “Barbie,” a genuinely funny movie primarily designed to make people laugh, was a total shoo-in to win.

And then it didn’t win! Instead, “Poor Things”landedthe biggest upset of the night on a show with very few of them. The film follows Bella Baxter (Emma Stone, who won female actor in a Musical/Comedy earlier in the night), a woman whose brain has been transplanted with an infant’s, as she develops her own peculiar outlook on herself, her sexuality, and the world.