--- title: Golden Globes 2016: What the Awards Mean for the Oscar Race description: The Golden Globes push certain performances and pictures into the spotlight—even if those pictures don’t include Spotlight. canonical: https://time.com/4174801/golden-globes-2016-leonardo-dicaprio-the-revenant-oscars/ author: Stephanie Zacharek article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-11T14:37:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:56:33.563Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Will Leo's Eating of Buffalo Liver Sway Oscar Voters? og:description: The Golden Globes push certain performances and pictures into the spotlight og:url: https://time.com/4174801/golden-globes-2016-leonardo-dicaprio-the-revenant-oscars/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cb3f8cd4fa0139a/6988786b5f570f6bfab1f1fd/leonardo-di-caprio-golden-globes-win.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards - Press Room og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Will Leo's Eating of Buffalo Liver Sway Oscar Voters? twitter:description: The Golden Globes push certain performances and pictures into the spotlight twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4cb3f8cd4fa0139a/6988786b5f570f6bfab1f1fd/leonardo-di-caprio-golden-globes-win.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Will Leonardo DiCaprio's Eating of Buffalo Liver Sway Oscar Voters? > Sponsored content. 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From left: Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Leonardo DiCaprio during the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 10, 2016 in Beverly Hills.Kevin Winter—Getty Images  by [Stephanie Zacharek](https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/)  ## Stephanie Zacharek Film Critic Jan 11, 2016 2:37 PM UTC Most critics I know hate predicting Oscar winners, if only because it seems futile to try to read the minds of a bunch of people who are not us. It may be yet another exercise in futility to try to guess whether Oscar voters will be influenced at all by the awards the [Hollywood Foreign Press Association](http://time.com/4174674/golden-globes-recap-ricky-gervais/) handed out at Sunday’s [Golden Globes](http://time.com/4171495/golden-globes-2016-winners/) ceremony. After all, we’re talking about two distinct covens, one a mysterious set of Hollywood journalists who report on entertainment for media outlets outside the United States, the other a mysterious set of professionals who work in the movie industry. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has about 90 members; the number of voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is generally said to be around 6,000—which means a more varied and disparate set of likes and dislikes can always come into play. But the Golden Globes push certain performances and pictures into the spotlight—even if those pictures don’t include [_Spotlight_](http://time.com/4094990/movie-review-spotlight-rachel-mcadams-mark-ruffalo/)—and that at least gives the appearance of opening up the awards field. The surprises on Sunday night included an award for Kate Winslet, for her supporting role in Danny Boyle’s biopic _Steve Jobs_. Winslet’s name hasn’t simmered to the surface in any of the major year-end critics’ awards, which means nothing at all—though you could read it as a mild indicator that, in the crowded field of fine performances given by women in 2015, she was possibly overlooked because no one seemed to care for the movie all that much. But so what? The HFPA let its freak flag fly in choosing her, so good for them. Similarly, _Steve Jobs_ screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s Golden Globe win suggests that someone has been paying attention to a movie that seems to have been conveniently forgotten by almost everyone else. Or maybe, in his case, it’s just an award for the most words. The HFPA seems to have shoehorned _The Martian_ into the Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy category solely to create extra winning slots for Matt Damon and Ridley Scott, who might not have had a chance among the Best Motion Picture, Drama contenders. Predictably, they won. Less predictable was Brie Larson’s Best Actress, Drama award for Room—not because it isn’t a fine performance, but because the buzz around it has been quieter than that around some of the other nominees, chiefly perennial Oscar nominee Cate Blanchett (for _Carol_) and Saoirse Ronan for her role in _Brooklyn_, a performance that just about everybody seems to like. Larson’s prize puts a shiny glow around her, which could seep into the brains of Oscar voters. Perhaps most surprising is that Tom McCarthy’s _Spotlight,_ seen by many Oscar prognosticators as a Best Picture frontrunner, took not a single award on Sunday. But [_The Revenant_](http://time.com/4157304/the-revenant-movie-review/)_,_ in which [Leonardo DiCaprio](http://time.com/4174724/golden-globes-leonardo-dicaprio-revenant/) plays a trappers’ guide left for dead in the bitter-cold wilderness of 1820s Wyoming, won three prizes: Best Motion Picture, Drama, Best Director (Alejandro González Iñárritu), and, for DiCaprio, Best Actor, Drama. _The Revenant_’s success at the Golden Globes could either help the film gain momentum with Oscar voters, or push them more definitively toward _Spotlight,_ lest it be left behind in the sad no-awards orphanage. Meanwhile, DiCaprio may end up winning his first Oscar, thanks to all that persuasively realistic facial hair and convincing consumption of buffalo liver. Then again, it’s worth noting that DiCaprio also won a Best Actor Golden Globe (in the Comedy or Musical subcategory) for _The Wolf of Wall Street_ in 2014, while Oscar voters that year were less impressed. No one at the Golden Globes ceremony seemed surprised when Sylvester Stallone won Best Supporting Actor for reprising his Rocky Balboa role in Ryan Coogler’s superb surprise hit [_Creed_](http://time.com/4126647/creed-movie-review-rocky/). He received a standing ovation; the room seemed to be filled with happy faces. It probably just feels good to give an award to an actor who’s made such a pleasing comeback. Maybe the Academy will feel that way too. And when Quentin Tarantino accepted the Best Original Score award for Ennio Morricone, who composed the genuinely stellar music for [_The Hateful Eight_](http://time.com/4148091/hateful-eight-movie-review-quentin-tarantino/)_,_ he noted that Morricone has never won an award in the States for his work on any single film. (He has been nominated for an Oscar five times, and he received an honorary Oscar in 2007 for his body of work.) Among all of the people who _ought_ to have won an Academy Award by now and haven’t, Morricone must be somewhere near the top. Maybe, come Feb. 28, he’ll no longer be hiding in plain sight. 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