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Joaquin Phoenix Wins Best Actor Golden Globe Over Adam Driver as Oscar Battle Heats Up
IndieWire ^ | January 5th, 2020 | Zack Sharf

Posted on 01/05/2020 8:33:01 PM PST by Mariner

Joaquin Phoenix has now won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama thanks to his critically acclaimed performance in Todd Phillips’ revisionist comic book movie “Joker.” Believe it or not, the Golden Globe victory is Phoenix’s first major Best Actor win of the 2019-20 awards season outside of smaller critics’ groups. The majority of precursor Best Actor prizes this season have been awarded to Adam Driver of “Marriage Story” or Adam Sandler of “Uncut Gems.” Phoenix was nominated for the Golden Globe awards opposite Driver in “Marriage Story,” Christian Bale in “Ford v. Ferrari,” Jonathan Pryce in “The Two Popes,” and Antonio Banderas in “Pain and Glory.”

Phoenix’s victory for “Joker” gives the actor his second Golden Globe award after taking home the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical in 2006 for “Walk the Line,” in which he played Johnny Cash. Phoenix has received additional Golden Globe nominations for his performances in “Gladiator,” “The Master,” “Her,” and “Inherent Vice.”

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: adamdriver; boring; comicbookmovie; goldenglobes; joaquinphoenix; joker; specialolympics; tabloid; thunberg; toddphillips
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To: Mariner

When are we ever going to get away from these guys from the comic books, capes, acrobatic stunts, etc. So boring and so ridiculous.

This is why I like Woody Allen’s movies. They are about people and real life problems.


21 posted on 01/05/2020 8:55:03 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Mariner

22 posted on 01/05/2020 8:55:40 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Beowulf9

“When are we ever going to get away from these guys from the comic books, capes, acrobatic stunts, etc. So boring and so ridiculous.”

You have not seen the movie.

It’s got nothing to do with comic books, stunts, special effects or capes.


23 posted on 01/05/2020 8:57:14 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Phoenix put the entire auditorium on blast when he said (paraphrasing) “social activism, words words words, but we can all do better. Do we all need to fly private jets here and back for this award ceremony tonight?” Mic drop, walks off stage.
F***ing awesome.


24 posted on 01/05/2020 8:59:08 PM PST by JohnC2004
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To: Mariner

The murder scene in his apartment is the most intense thing I’ve ever seen on film.

“””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””

I honestly barely remember it. I do remeber constantly thinking that the movie was a cheap hybrid of two excellent movies, ‘Taxi Driver’ and ‘King of Comedy’. Both made when DeNiro was not a caricature of himself.


25 posted on 01/05/2020 8:59:44 PM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: blueplum

He grew up in a sex cult as a kid (Children of God). He’s a wreck as was his brother and Rose McGowen.


26 posted on 01/05/2020 9:01:39 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: PROCON

It was bad enough Flash Gordon defeated Ming the Merciless. Does he have to humiliate him, too?


27 posted on 01/05/2020 9:01:57 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Mariner

and won’t bother.


28 posted on 01/05/2020 9:03:40 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

I’m told by some that Joker is about an anti-hero.

Nope. It’s about a psycho, from what I’ve heard.

Batman and Dirty Harry are anti-heroes.

Joker is a psychopathic murderer who commits crimes.

It’s a ripoff of Taxi Driver from what I hear. So what’s to love?


29 posted on 01/05/2020 9:03:59 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: Mariner

“The man’s a genius actor. And his performance in Joker is his best ever.”

Agreed, his performance was disturbing and amazing. Haunting.


30 posted on 01/05/2020 9:04:14 PM PST by romanesq (8Chan and its child porn, violence and murders are kaput. So is the QAnon grift with it.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

And to clarify, i mean this towards the actors, not the OP.


31 posted on 01/05/2020 9:05:43 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: CaptainK

I did not.

He always comes across incredibly awkward in public, he does this on purpose.


32 posted on 01/05/2020 9:06:37 PM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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Insert “anime is better” right here.


33 posted on 01/05/2020 9:11:53 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Mariner

What really struck me was how his unusual laughter choked him.

He really did become someone else.


34 posted on 01/05/2020 9:13:43 PM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: Mariner

Gervais hosting is always a treat. He just says stuff that in 2020 I cannot believe he gets away with. Said something about Judy Dench that may be the crudest thing I’ve ever heard on tv. Not for the faint of heart, or religious, or anyone with a modicum of decency. Could not believe he said it. Vile... in a word.
But really tuned in just to see if Phoenix would win. His psychosis crawls off the screen. Cannot disagree with the comparisons to taxi driver. But it’s different, in that I see Deniro when I see taxi driver. When I see Joker, I see a legit sociopath.


35 posted on 01/05/2020 9:19:22 PM PST by JohnC2004
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To: bramps

Because the point wasn’t any individual scene or dialogue.

The point of this movie was the arc of a character, and how Joe Below Average became one of the most terrifying arch villains of all time.

Where does the character begin, and where does the character end? That’s what’s memorable about this movie structurally. Artistically, Phoenix’s performance is his masterpiece.


36 posted on 01/05/2020 9:20:10 PM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: Beowulf9
For me it's the opposite -- why would I care about a fictional person's "real-life" problems when I have a real life of my own, and friends and family who do as well? If it's real life...I'd prefer my own, and the lives of those who actually matter to me.
37 posted on 01/05/2020 9:20:49 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: a fool in paradise

Good question. Phoenix was really remarkable, but it’s a movie I’d never want to watch twice because it was disturbing. Closest thing I can compare it to is reading something like Crime and Punishment.


38 posted on 01/05/2020 9:22:30 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: chris37

“He really did become someone else.”

He’ll likely be Joker until he starts training for his next role. Then he will be that.

He is likely nobody himself. An empty vessel.


39 posted on 01/05/2020 9:26:31 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

He’s not.

He’s a recovering alcoholic.

He’s a liberal now, but he gets a pass from me, because he’s a master.


40 posted on 01/05/2020 9:29:49 PM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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