Tadanobu Asano (‘Shogun’) leaves Javier Bardem without his second Golden Globe

Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano has risen thanks to his work in ‘Shogun’ with the award for best supporting actor in a television series at the 82nd edition of the Golden Globes, the awards presented each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).

The Spanish was also nominated in this category Javier Bardem for his work on ‘Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menéndez’. Ebon Moss-Bachrach (‘The Bear’), Jack Lowden (‘Slow Horses’), Harrison Ford (‘Filterless therapy’) and Diego Luna (‘The Machine’) were the other nominees, the award finally won by the Japanese actor who plays Kashigi Yabushige in the historical drama based on the novel by James Clavell that is available on Disney+.

This was the sixth time that Bardem was nominated for the Golden Globea prize that He won Best Supporting Actor in Film in 2008 for his work in the film No Country for Old Men.a film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel directed by the Coen brothers in which the Spanish actor gave life to the impassive psychopathic murderer Anton Chigurh. A role that also earned him his first and so far only Oscar.

Bardem was also previously nominated for the Golden Globes for Best Leading Actor in a Drama Motion Picture for ‘Before Night Falls’, ‘The Sea Inside’ and ‘Being the Ricardos’ and also for Best Motion Picture Actor in a Comedy or Musical for ‘Vicky Cristina’. Barcelona’ by Woody Allen. This one from ‘Monsters: The Story of Lyle and Erik Menendez’ It was his first candidacy for these awards in a television category.

In the Netflix series, created by Ryan Murphy and based on a real case, Bardem gives life to José Menéndez, a father who in 1989 was murdered, along with his wife, by his children who later accused him of physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Sentenced to life imprisonment, while the Prosecutor’s Office assured that the crime was due to economic reasons, the brothers Lyle and Erik Menéndez continue to allege that they committed the crime out of fear that their father would murder them and continue to fight judicially for their release.

The Golden Globes, awards given each year by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), hold their ceremony in their usual setting, the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, in a gala hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser and in which the third season of The Bear, with five nominations, and Only Murders in the Building and Shogun, with four nominations each, started as favorites in the television categories.