James Franco wins Best Actor

James Franco won 2018’s Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for his portrayal of independent filmmaker and actor Tommy Wiseau in The Disaster Artist. The film is a semi-fictional retelling of the production of Wiseau’s 2003 film The Room. The 39-year-old actor accepted the award alongside Wiseau, while noticeably blocking him away from taking the microphone onstage. Franco opened his rambling speech by quoting Wiseau’s reference to the Golden Globes two decades ago, and his lack of an invite to the show as a motivation to make The Room. “‘Golden Globes, so what? I’m not invited. I know they don’t want me, guy with accent, long hair. So, I show them. I don’t wait for Hollywood, I make my own movie,’” Franco said. 

Many on social media felt for Wiseau and criticised Franco’s mic block gesture. —PTI