And here we go…

11:14 pm: Emilia Perez (which I was okay with) has won the Best Musical or Comedy award…well, at least Wicked (which I was okay with) didn’t win. Why did I just say that? I don’t know. Let me mull this over. I don’t have a problem with either film but I just hate that my favorite, Anora, was completely blown off. Who are these GG voters? Mostly international types, right? Were they bought off or contact-highed or schmoozed off by Netflix? What happened?

11:04 pm: The damn Brutalist is going to win best Motion Picture Drama…dear howling, vomiting God. Yes, it has. Please punch me in the face, and then kick me in the ribs three or four times. If only The Brutalist budget had been significantly higher, this wouldn’t be happening. You did it so cheaply, o beautiful frugal Brady! “This movie is fairly punishing…monstrously bad filmmaking.” — Dale Launer.

10:55 pm: Best Male Actor in a Motion Picture Drama has to go to Timothee Chalamet…no? No — it goes to The Brutalist‘s Adrien Brody!! Did somebody put his or her thumb on the scale? Aaaaaggghhhh! Spit choke arrrggghhh! This is awful…I’m literally slapping myself. Angels are screaming…falling from heaven. This is awful!

10:51 pm: Best Female Actress in a Motion Picture Drama goes to Fernanda Torres in I’m Stll Here? Nobody’s seen it! Well, some have, obviously, but where’s it playing or streaming? Hearty congrats to Torres but this isn’t resonating. People are going “okay but huh?”

10:40 pm: Another Shogun award, this time for whatsername? And a fourth one for Best TV Series Drama? Repeat after me: “Shogun Shogun Shogun Shogun!!!”

10:29 pm: Hacks wins for Best TV Comedy….fine, whatever.

10:25 pm: The sickening, all-but-unwatchable Baby Reindeer wins a GG for Best Limited Series or Motion picture made for TV or Anthology? This show is becoming really awful. My internal organs are churning. “I can’t stand it” — Eric Clapton.

10:07 pm: Congrats to the Challengers music guys, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. I don’t care about the Emilia Perez song that won. I don’t care about the GG box-office award. All I want to do is throw up over the Corbet win. Memo to Academy: Don’t let Jon M. Chu give any Oscar acceptance speeches. Please. The man won’t shut up.

9:54 pm: Best Director GG goes to The Brutalist‘s Brady Corbet? Get the fucking hell out of here, man! This is ridiculous. It’s a leaden, pretentious, all-but-impossible-to-sit-through slogathon. Pain in the brain. I’m kicking the furniture. I’m about to go into the kitchen and punch the refrigerator. Two absurd awards so far…Moore for The Substance, Corbet for directing that splitting headache of a period film.

9:47: Flow wins best Animated….great. I don’t care.

9:39 pm: I don’t care what anyone says…Sebastian Stan has won for his Donald Trump Apprentice performance as well as for his performance in A Different Man, which everyone respects and approves of but no one wants to sit through…please, no.

9:33 pm: Best Female Actor in a Drama GG goes to…Demi Moore?? For playing a wrapped-tight victim in a gaudy body-horror filM? HE respectfully disagrees. This is actually bullshit….I’m sorry but it is. Good, moving thank-you speech,. At least Karla Sofia Gascon didn’t win…whew.

9:19 pm: Best Female Actor in a limited series and whatever else — Jodie Foster for her excellent acting in the miserable-to-sit through Night Country.

9:16 pm: Colin Farrell wins for his Penguin makeup as well as his exceptional acting. Good man, great channeling. Wonderful shout-out for crafts services!

9:08 pm: Emilia Perez wins Best Int’l feature instead of All We Imagine As Light? C’mon! Is this a compensation award for Perez not winning Best Comedy or Musical?

9:01 pm: Ali Wong wins Best Standup Performqnce. Terrific…congrats!

8:57: Conclave‘s Peter Straughan wins for Best Screenplay! Approved! Doeds this indicate a general liking fo5 and perhaps even a preference for Conclave in certain other categories? I predicted Straughan’s win on my GG Gatecrashers ballot.

8:55 pm: The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White wins again? People are sick of Bear stuff always winning…enough!

8:50something pm: 8:41 pm: Baby Reindeer‘s Jessica Gunning wins a GG for her performance. Bates is living proof that Jessica can change whatever if she wants to go for it, but only if she wants to! Because she’s perfect as is!

8:44 pm: Tadanobu Asano wins supporting something-or-other GG for Shogun. Zero comment. Congrats.

8:38 pm: Kathy “Ozempic” Bates and whatsisname from In The Heights and Twister…right?

8:28 pm: Demi Moore‘s “what are you doing here?” repartee with Margaret Qualley is groan-worthy. The Shogun guy, Hiroyuki whatever, wins for acting. I’ll never, ever see Shogun….not a chance. Not with a samurai sword poking my throat.

8:25 pm: Best Supporting Actor award goes to…no surprise…Kieran Culkin for his Real Pain performance. No jacket, brightly colored tats on his right forearm. Obviously a guy with hyper hyper homina homina homina issues.

8:20 pm: I have no particular feelings, yea or nay, for Jean Smart or her GG Hacks in. Okay, congrats.

8:17 pm: Emilia Perez‘s Zoe Saldana wins for Best Supporting Actress. A good performance, but stop weeping. This had better not mean what I’m afraid it might signify in terms of other potential nominations. Way too much weeping! You’re being played off, man…for heaven’s sake! Note to Academy: Give your Best Supporting Actress Oscar to someone else….anyone else.

8:03 pm: Nikki Glazer: “Zendaya, you were so good in Dune….I woke up for all your scenes.” The Timothee Chalamet moustache joke…missed it. “My boyfriend’s boyfriend really loves Wicked.” “I give Babygirl two fingers up….so good.”