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Here are the winners in key categories for the 78th Golden Globe Awards, which were handed out on Sunday.
"Nomadland" boosted its Oscars momentum by taking home the prizes for best drama film and best director for Chloe Zhao.
<p>On the comedy side, "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" was named best musical or comedy film, and Sacha Baron Cohen was named best comedy actor.</p><p>"The Crown" dominated in the television drama categories.</p><p>Comedians Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were back to host the event -- the first major awards show of a pandemic-era season that culminates with the Oscars on April 25 -- though they were on opposite coasts due to the coronavirus crisis.</p><h1>FILM</h1><p>Best film, drama: "Nomadland"</p><p>Best film, musical or comedy: "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm"</p><p>Best director: Chloe Zhao, "Nomadland"</p><p>Best actor, drama: Chadwick Boseman, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom"</p><p>Best actress, drama: Andra Day, "The United States vs Billie Holiday"</p><p>Best actor, musical or comedy: Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm"</p><p>Best actress, musical or comedy: Rosamund Pike, "I Care A Lot"</p><p>Best supporting actor: Daniel Kaluuya, "Judas and the Black Messiah" </p><p>Best supporting actress: Jodie Foster, "The Mauritanian"</p><p>Best foreign language film: "Minari"</p><p>Best animated feature: "Soul"</p><h1>TELEVISION</h1><p>Best drama series: "The Crown"</p><p>Best drama actor: Josh O'Connor, "The Crown"</p><p>Best drama actress: Emma Corrin, "The Crown"</p><p>Best musical or comedy series: "Schitt's Creek"</p><p>Best musical or comedy actor: Jason Sudeikis, "Ted Lasso"</p><p>Best musical or comedy actress: Catherine O'Hara, "Schitt's Creek"</p><p>Best supporting actor: John Boyega, "Small Axe"</p><p>Best supporting actress: Gillian Anderson, "The Crown"</p><p>Best limited series or TV movie: "The Queen's Gambit"</p><p>Best limited series or TV movie actor: Mark Ruffalo, "I Know This Much Is True"</p><p>Best limited series or TV movie actress: Anya Taylor-Joy, "The Queen's Gambit"</p>
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Barber Mike Brown carefully guides his trimmer as he fights misconceptions about Covid-19 among his African-American customers, who face an outsize risk from the virus but are less likely to get vaccinated.
Kerdell Porter is a 60-year-old mailman who said he has shared his doubts about the vaccine with his barber, including the claim that the shots are a ploy to kill Black people.
<p>"I don't trust it. The first person I know who got it, she fainted," said Akeem Momoh, a Black teenager who sweeps the floor of The Shop hair spa in Hyattsville, Maryland, a suburb of Washington. </p><p>Brown isn't shocked by this skepticism about vaccines, even though studies show they save lives. </p><p>Like him, all his clients have heard of the Tuskegee study, in which US government scientists monitored Black men with syphilis for 40 years, but didn't give them treatment in order to observe the infection take its course.</p><p>"Folks are thinking in terms of the historical issues that we've faced before. There's caution, a high level of caution, which is understandable," said Brian Ayers, a 49-year-old Black man, while having his beard trimmed. </p><p>For Brown, discrimination against African Americans is the reason for their mistrust of the health system in general and immunization in particular. </p><h1>'Correct info to our community'</h1><p>"They won't really go to a doctor or see a doctor until their arm is about to fall off," added the fortysomething with orange sneakers, who says he cuts the hair of everyone "from judges to trashmen, thieves".</p><p>African Americans, who make up just under half of Washington's population, account for some 75 percent of its deaths from Covid-19. </p><p>Polls show high levels of Covid vaccine skepticism among Black people in the United States, but serious questions have also been raised about whether the initial roll-out of the shots has been equitable.</p><p>Brown has tried to make his clients' trust in him work to keep them safe from the virus.</p><p>After his father's death from a long illness, he joined forces with a doctor to help prevent colon cancer and heart disease. </p><p>Already something of a marriage counselor and fashion advisor for the customers in his chair, the pandemic has also made him a promoter of the vaccine and virus curbs.</p><p>Brown has statistics, data and quotes from experts ready to debunk the conspiracy theories his clients have picked up from sources like social media.</p><p>Posters promoting Covid prevention are displayed on the four red walls of the shop alongside press clippings and a clock bearing the image of Barack Obama, America's first Black president. </p><p>"I take pride in relaying correct information to our community," Brown said. </p><p>His efforts have not been in vain: three of his vaccine-skeptical clients have since gone to receive their shots.</p><p>With a bit of fact-based persuasion and his wife's urging, even Porter has decided he will roll up his sleeve for the vaccine when his turn comes.</p><p>"If they call me tomorrow I'm going to be there!," he said.</p>
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From a tracksuited rapper to a bumbling Kazakh TV reporter in a green mankini, Sacha Baron Cohen has made his name with outrageous characters who expose real people's prejudices and hypocrisy.
On Sunday, Baron Cohen's wild portrayal of the journalist Borat earned two more Golden Globes -- for best comedy film and best comedy film actor.
<p>He also was nominated for another statuette for his work in a more serious role, as US political activist Abbie Hoffman in "The Trial of the Chicago 7".</p><p>The characters created by the versatile 49-year-old British comedian are a world away from his upbringing in London as the son of an accountant who ran a family business of clothing stores.</p><p>After attending private schools, he studied history at the University of Cambridge, where his cousin, Simon, is a professor and prominent researcher into autism.</p><p>During his time at university, Baron Cohen joined the Footlights theatre group that launched stars such as Hugh Laurie and members of Monty Python.</p><p>His big break came performing sketches on the Paramount Comedy Channel, where he developed the character Ali G -- a wannabe gangsta rapper from a nondescript town west of London.</p><p>"Da Ali G Show", which followed on Britain's Channel Four in 2000, saw him ask increasingly shocking questions of unsuspecting politicians and other establishment figures.</p><p>The show also featured Borat, a naive Kazakh visitor to Britain who displays unthinking homophobia, anti-Semitism and sexism, and Bruno, a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashionista.</p><p>The show made Baron Cohen a household name. Later series were aired on HBO in the United States.</p><p>Prince William even revealed that he and brother Harry taught their great-grandmother, the Queen Mum, to imitate Ali G by clicking her fingers and saying his classic "Respec'".</p><p>One interviewee was Donald Trump, who said last year of Baron Cohen: "That's a phony guy. And I don't find him funny."</p><p>- Cannes mankini -</p><p>Ali G got his own film -- "Ali G Indahouse" (2002) -- as did Borat (2006), and later Bruno (2009).</p><p>To promote "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan", he posed on the beach at the Cannes film festival in a green mankini that left little to the imagination.</p><p>Along with an infamous nude fight scene, it showed Borat in cringe-making encounters with ordinary Americans.</p><p>At a rodeo, he called for then-president George W. Bush to "drink the blood of every single man, woman and child of Iraq", to cheers from the crowd.</p><p>The New York Times said the film's comedy was "as pitiless as its social satire, and as brainy". It topped box offices in Britain and the United States.</p><p>Baron Cohen, who is Jewish and uses Hebrew for Borat, won a Golden Globe for best actor, and the film grossed more than $260 million worldwide.</p><p>But the depiction of Kazakhstan as backward infuriated the Central Asian state, which banned the film's release.</p><p>Baron Cohen told Rolling Stone magazine the joke was "on people who can believe that the Kazakhstan that I describe can exist".</p><p>Kazakhstan relented and last year even used Borat's "Very nice!" catchphrase in a tourism campaign.</p><p>'Never again' -</p><p>The follow-up, "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm", unfurls against the tense backdrop of Trump's re-election campaign and the coronavirus pandemic.</p><p>In one scene at a gun rights rally, Baron Cohen -- disguised as a bluegrass singer -- encouraged people to sing along to lyrics about injecting former president Barack Obama and others with the "Wuhan flu".</p><p>He ended up fleeing when his cover was blown.</p><p>"We were surrounded by a bunch of people, an angry mob with guns," he told NPR, and vowed not to work undercover again.</p><p>"I can't do this again... at some point, your luck runs out."</p><p>The film also shows Trump's lawyer and ex-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani apparently reaching into his trousers in a hotel room, after being interviewed by Borat's daughter (Maria Bakalova).</p><p>Giuliani, oblivious to the hidden cameras, insisted he was tucking in his shirt.</p><p>On Sunday night at the Globes, Baron Cohen launched a few zingers about Giuliani, saying: "I mean, who can get more laughs out of one unzipping?"</p><p>He told NPR he revived Borat in a bid to somehow influence the 2020 presidential election -- against Trump.</p><p>"We felt we had to do something, we felt democracy was in real danger," he said.</p><p>The film was released on Amazon Prime Video last year. In addition to the two awards it won, Bakalova was also nominated.</p><p>- 'Weapons-grade offensiveness' -</p><p>In 2018, he was nominated for a Golden Globe as best actor for his US satirical series "Who is America?"</p><p>Baron Cohen, whose 2012 film "The Dictator" was described as offering "weapons-grade offensiveness", has also acted in non-comedy films including "Les Miserables".</p><p>In 2019 he was nominated for best actor at the Golden Globes for playing a top Mossad agent in the Netflix series "The Spy."</p><p>Baron Cohen rarely gives interviews out of character and is reticent about his personal life.</p><p>"Some people love being recognized and getting the attention. I don't love it," he told NPR.</p><p>He is married to actress Isla Fisher. The couple have said they bonded over studying at clown school. They have three children.</p><p>In 2015, the couple donated $1 million to help Syrian refugees.</p><p>© 2021 AFP</p>
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