Three literary adaptations took home prizes at the Golden Globes, the film and television awards bestowed annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio won the award for best animated motion picture. The film, written by del Toro and Patrick McHale and directed by del Toro, is based on Carlo Collodi’s classic children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.
The film was a huge hit with critics — Mark Kermode of the Guardian wrote, “It’s the film’s sheer strangeness that makes this sing and fly,” while Oli Welsh of Polygon called it “one of the great works of stop motion.”
House of the Dragon, the HBO Game of Thrones prequel based on George R.R. Martin’s 2018 novel Fire & Blood, took home the best drama series award, surprising some observers who had expected Severance or Better Call Saul to win.
Among those surprised was Martin, who wrote on his blog, “It was, of course, an honor just to be nominated, but I never expected that we would win.…We faced some very formidable competition.”
Paul Walter Hauser won the prize for best supporting actor in a limited series, anthology series, or television movie for Black Bird, the miniseries based on In With the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption by James Keene with Hillel Levin.
“Holy cow,” Hauser said in his acceptance speech. “I don’t think I’m going to get the time that like, Spielberg and the other guys got, so I’m just going to say a bunch of names.” He then proceeded to thank his family and those involved with the movie.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
