5 Times the Golden Globes Got It Right (and the Oscars Didn't)
We’ve got proof the Golden Globes are more than just the Oscars’ kooky cousins. Throughout the history of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s show, there have been the occasional instance where their more global tastes have reflected a more sensible, less insular conclusion than the more prestigious Academy Awards.
For example, in 2006, they awarded Brokeback Mountain the title of Best Picture, while the Oscars infamously chose the rather milquetoast Crash. Even Crash scribe Paul Haggis has said he wouldn’t have voted for it that year, against movies like the groundbreaking gay drama.
In 1999, the Globes chose Saving Private Ryan, while the Oscars went with Shakespeare in Love. Looking back at it with a decade and a half of hindsight, Saving Private Ryan changed how media visualized warfare, while few remember much about Shakespeare in Love besides the fact that it it shows up in “times the Oscars got it wrong” slideshows or listicles like this one.
But the phenomenon goes back a half-century. Take a watch above, and tell us in the comments if there’s ever been a particular Oscar upset you didn’t expect.