>>499 I never brought his speech or his humanitarian work into my argument about his win. I'm not even touching that so please don't lump what I'm saying in with that. They are two different arguments. My argument is strictly limited to his performance in TNM and how it wasn't worthy of an award when compared to the other contenders. Riz Ahmed was not a "politically correct" choice, he gave a fantastic performance just like Courtney B. Vance did and if you'd seen The Night Of, you'd realize just because Ben played the role of a man accused of a murder he didn't remember committing doesn't make it the same role. You keep bringing that up as if you're trying to say well it wasn't an original role like Pine was and therefore didn't deserve the award. It's been 12 years. That's not Ben recently winning. Again, that's like saying Tom shouldn't get accolades for playing Henry V and Coriolanus because well other actors have done those roles before him and gotten awards for it.
Golden Globes snubbed a lot of better performances last night for some mediocre ones and Tom's win was one of those. I don't think his win was well deserved and that's regardless of Golden Globes trend of awarding it to more glossier stars. Tom doesn't even fall into the category of being a glossy star in 2016, he was a big joke towards the end half of 2016. AMC simply locked down the votes for TNM and ensured their show picked up as many awards as it could muster. And yes, that does happen.