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Paul Drinkwater—NBC by [Richard Corliss](https://time.com/author/richard-corliss/) ## Richard Corliss Jan 12, 2015 4:05 PM UTC In the early 1980s young Richard Linklater moved from Houston, his home town, to the state capital, where he founded the Austin Film Society as a hub for classic movies. One day a student from UT Austin, also a Houston native, walked into the Society’s theater and asked how he could help. “Grab a broom,” Linklater said. And that’s how he helped launch Wes Anderson’s career in movie love. More than 30 years later, the two cinephiles swept the 72nd Golden Globe awards. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association chose Linklater’s _Boyhood_ as Best Motion Picture Drama and Anderson’s _The Grand Budapest Hotel_ as Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. The first prize was widely expected; _Boyhood_ has won more than half of all [the year-end critics groups’ citations for Best Film](http://time.com/3662756/critics-oscars-2015-boyhood/). But the second was a lovely upset over that category’s favorite, _Birdman_, which settled for two other awards: Best Comedy and Musical Actor for Michael Keaton and Best Screenplay for the quartet of writers headed by director Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Amy Adams was named Best Comedy or Musical Actress as the subjugated painter Margaret Keane in _Big Eyes_, and Julianne Moore Best Dramatic Actress as a professor suffering from early-onset-Alzheimer’s disease in _Still Alice_. Eddie Redmayne, who played Stephen Hawking in _The Theory of Everything_, took Best Dramatic Actor. _Boyhood_‘s Patricia Arquette and J.K. Simmons of _Whiplash_ won their utterly expected Supporting Globes, while Linklater shocked no one by being chosen Best Director. (All the winners are [here](http://time.com/3663086/golden-globes-2015-winners-list/).) The Academy Awards, which air on Feb, 22, don’t have separate prizes for comedies and dramas — no matter how far the definition of comedy has to be stretched to include movies about a suicidal actor (_Birdman_), an abused artist (_Big Eyes_) and a hotel overrun in turn by Nazis and Stalinists (_Budapest_). All the Globe laureates in the acting and Picture categories will have six weeks to slug it out for single statuettes. Winner take all, losers be damned. But last night, the movie globe revolved on a Houston-Austin axis that encompassed two very different and splendid achievements (and this critics’ top two movies of the past year). _Boyhood_: a romantic-realistic movie, shot in 12 consecutive summers, that traced a boy’s life from first grade to college freshman. _Budapest_: a lush, crackpot reimagining of European history made by a filmmaker whose taste is so fanciful that, as the show’s co-host Amy Poehler said of Anderson, he came to the Globe ceremony “on a bicycle made of antique tuba parts.” Aside from Anderson’s triumph, viewers had to dig for [real surprises](http://time.com/3663373/golden-globes-5-most-surprising-winners/) — unless they had looked at the Goldenglobes.com web site Fri. and seen a brief posting that announced [_Selma_ and _Into the Woods_ as the Drama and Comedy-Musical winners](http://deadline.com/2015/01/golden-globes-website-error-selma-into-the-woods-1201345833/). (Just a little Obamacare-style glitch, folks.) _How to Train Your Dragon 2_ upset _The LEGO Movie_ as Best Animated Feature — ouch, says [one abashed prognosticator](http://time.com/3660181/golden-globes-2015-movie-predictions/) — and the Russian drama _Leviathan_ caused a mild jolt in its Best Foreign Film win over the Polish Holocaust film _Ida_. More seismic shifts occurred in the TV awards, where _The Affair_ trumped _Orange Is the New Black_, and _Fargo_ took the Miniseries award over _True Detective_ and [_Olive Kitteridge_](http://time.com/3266631/olive-kitteridge-hbo-miniseries-venice/). But that’s James Poniewozik territory — and besides, do movie people care about television? The HFPA placed the TV people so far in the rear of the Beverly Hilton ballroom that the winners seemed to have been bussed in from Santa Monica. The big suspense was whether they’d be too exhausted by their 10k jog to the stage to give their acceptance speeches. In a three-hour ceremony amiably presided over by Poehler and Tina Fey, the glamour center was George Clooney (wearing his wedding tuxedo) as he graciously accepted the Cecil B. De Mille award and gave voice to the evening’s abiding non-entertainment concern with world [threats to journalists and hacked film companies](http://time.com/3663360/golden-globes-2015-michael-keaton-politics-show/). Whatever jokes can be made about the qualifications of the HFPA members as film arbiters, and [we’ve made a lot of them](http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1954553,00.html), you have to admit these foreign journalists have a memory. Big year-end awards typically go to films released in the last quarter of the calendar year: _12 Years a Slave_ and _American Hustle_ were the Globe winners in 2014, _Argo_ and _Les Misérables_ in 2013\. But _Boyhood_ received its world premiere at Sundance last Jan. 17, and _The Grand Budapest Hotel_ at the Berlin Film Festival on Feb. 6. These movies have been around for a while. They stuck in movie watchers’ minds and couldn’t be dislodged by late arrivals of the inspirational biopic genre: _The Imitation Game_, _The Theory of Everything_ and _Selma_. Linklater and Anderson — Iñárritu too — followed the oldest, most creative movie tradition: they made up stories and made people believe in them. 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