A roundup of Golden Globes moments you didn’t see on TV

In his acceptance speech, Inarritu nodded to the widely reported challenges the film’s cast and crew faced in making the movie, even as he dismissed their ultimate importance. “And Mel blames… Well, we know who Mel blames”. Fortunately we have Twitter, where those who were there told us what he said.

Only four out of the last 15 winners of best picture drama went on to win the Oscar (“12 Years a Slave”, “Argo”, “Slumdog Millionaire”, “Gladiator”) and only two of the last 15 have won it after scoring best picture comedy or musical (“The Artist” and “Chicago”).

The Danish Girl also missed out on each of the three prizes it was nominated for, including acting shots for Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, while Lily Tomlin couldn’t make good on her best comedy actress nomination for Grandma. Neither of our first two presenters have one though.

Taking the podium, Scott wondered “Comedy?” and answered with a skeptical wave of his hand.

This story is based on the lovely book from Emma Donoghue, who also wrote the screenplay for the movie.

Sunday night’s Golden Globes did its part in painting a decent picture of where the Oscar race now stands, even if we can’t always rely on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as end-all-be-all forecasters.

Matt Damon, a Globe victor for actor in a comedy or musical, defended Penn’s adventure, saying it was nothing new for the actor-turned-activist.

In other races, the Globes spread the awards love around to both newcomers and industry stalwarts.

And so no one really thinks too hard about the endless declarations of genius by The Revenant’s Alejandro G. Inarritu, who is now so committed to his cockeyed idea of “realism” that he will probably get someone killed on his next film, or the weirdness of best actor (drama) victor Leonardo DiCaprio thanking the dozens of people who allowed him to court exposure and food poisoning in pursuit of Inarritu’s ecstatic truth.

Michael B. Jordan cheers on his Creed costar Sylvester Stallone. I want to do this monologue and go into hiding. “It was a long time ago and a different situation”.

Meanwhile, over in best actress, it’s conceivable that Brie Larson (Room) could lose, but it’s not likely. Instead, it was The Revenant – made with the same seamless cinematography of Birdman that emerged triumphant – on the same weekend it almost toppled the box-office juggernaut Star Wars: The Force Awakens with a $37 million opening. “What a terrific year in film”.