About last night
The Golden Globes — the first awards show of the season — aired live Sunday from Hollywood. There was no shortage of Jewish content up for awards, including the hit Netflix rabbi rom-com Nobody Wants This, the road trip Holocaust film A Real Pain and The Brutalist, about a Shoah survivor’s immigrant odyssey in America. Our culture reporter PJ Grisar was watching and spotted these Jewish moments... In her opening roast, host Nikki Glaser referred to Adrien Brody as a “two-time Holocaust survivor,” a nod to his performances in The Pianist and The Brutalist.
The Brutalist, an epic about a Hungarian survivor of Dachau building a community center in rural Pennsylvania, won best drama. The filmmaker behind it, Brady Corbet, won best director.
Israeli actress Gal Gadot presented the award for best male actor in a motion picture to Brody. In his speech, he called the film a “triumph and monument to humanity and the arts” and tearfully thanked his parents, particularly his mother who, like his character, came to America as a refugee from Hungary.
Kieran Culkin won best supporting actor for playing one of two Jewish cousins on a Holocaust tour through Poland in A Real Pain. In his speech, Culkin thanked his writer, director and costar, Jesse Eisenberg, and revealed he was working on his “mania” with a therapist. Culkin isn’t Jewish, but that’s a pretty Jewish confession — no wonder he pulled the part off.
Emilia Pérez won many awards — including best comedy or musical. It has a brief sequence in Israel.
When Seth Rogen presented the award for best female actor in a limited series, a trivia box popped up on the screen to inform viewers that an octopus at the aquarium in his local Vancouver is named after him — Ceph (like cephalopod) Rogen.
Thanks, PJ! This weekend I watched A Real Pain, which is now available to rent at home. I give it two thumbs up and highly recommend it.
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