Summary
- Poor Things beat out other nominees, including Barbie, to win the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
- Critics have praised Poor Things to the tune of 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, with Emma Stone also winning a Best Actor Golden Globe for her performance in the film.
- Poor Things continues to perform well in limited theatrical release.
Barbie will have to go and party somewhere else because Greta Gerwig’s bright-pink blockbuster was bested by Poor Things. Yes, director Yorgos Lanthimos’ Frankenstein-esque tale won the 2024 Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Last year, at the 2023 ceremony, its was another dark comedic tale that took home the highly coveted hardware: The Banshees of Inisherin.
List of the other 2024 nominees:
Barbie
American Fiction
The Holdovers
May December
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Critics have been doting on Poor Things to the tune of 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, at the time of this writing. So, it doesn’t come as much of a shock that the Emma Stone-led film took home the hardware. And Stone herself nabbed a Golden Globe (Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy) earlier in the evening for her work in Poor Things. And check out the cast and crew accepting their award below:
Poor Things Wins the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Poor Things
- Release Date
- December 8, 2023
- Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 2hr 21min
Poor Things is not a movie for everyone, and the somewhat controversial subject matter has certainly caused many debates online. Despite that Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe have received nothing but praise for their performances in the strange and often disturbing tale of a young woman, Bella Baxter, brought back to life by the scientist, Dr. Godwin Baxter.
Playing Bella Baxter has given Emma Stone another shot at Oscar glory, and her central performance is one that has created a stir. Stone’s character undergoes a sexual awakening in the movie that required some graphic and uncomfortable sex scenes to be played out. However, the character’s unashamed journey of self-discovery is one that Stone was thrilled to be a part of.
Poor Things arrived in U.S. cinemas in December to both critical and audience acclaim, and the movie has gained a lot of momentum ahead of its U.K. release on January 12, 2024. Despite all the recognition, the movie will soon discover just how many Oscars it could be adding to that total when the nominations are announced on January 23.
