Globe for best drama, and American Hustle1 won best musical or comedy on Sunday in a kickoff to the Hollywood awards season that foreshadows a wide scattering2 of honors for a year crowded with high-quality movies.
随着上周日好莱坞颁奖季揭开帷幕，电影《为奴十二年》获得梦寐以求的金球奖最佳剧情片，《美国骗局》获得最佳音乐/喜剧奖，颁奖季的来临意味着各种荣誉将广泛散落到那些优质电影头上。
Only two films
garnered3 more than one award at the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards, an important but not
entirely4 accurate
barometer5 for the industry's highest honors, the Academy Awards to be held on March 2.
American Hustle, a
romp6 through
corruption7 in the 1970s directed by David O. Russell, was the top winner with three Globes for its seven
nominations8, while the modest AIDS film Dallas Buyers Club starring Matthew McConaughey, took two
acting9 awards - for him and co-star Jared Leto.
British director Steve McQueen's
brutal10 depiction11 of pre-Civil War American slavery in 12 Years a Slave, based on a true story of a free black man, Solomon Northup, who was sold into slavery, only won one award out of its seven nominations. It was entirely shut out from the acting honors, for which it was the presumed favorite.
But best drama is the top award of the Golden Globes and McQueen thanked actor and producer Brad Pitt, who played a small part in the film but a big role in getting it made. "Without you this movie would never had gotten made, so thank you, wherever you may be," McQueen said.
Among the films passed by were two darlings of the critics: the Coen brothers'
paean12 to the 1960s folk scene Inside Llewyn Davis and Alexander Payne's
homage13 to the heartland, Nebraska.
The first big night of the Hollywood awards season is the journalistic
domain14 of 90 some members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who
wield15 outsized
clout16 in the awards race as buzz around the early honors influences members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in their voting for the Oscars.
Oscar nominations are to be announced on Thursday, and 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle are likely to be in the list of 10
nominees17 for best picture, going head-to-head unlike in the Globes, where they competed in two separate categories.
The Globes have a mixed record when it comes to predicting the Oscar best picture, though last year's best drama winner, Argo, did go on to win the Academy Award for best movie.
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