Hollywood North: Here's how B.C. fared at last night's Golden Globes

The B.C.-shot Hulu and FX historical drama Shōgun dominated the TV drama series category at the Golden Globes last night.

Shot primarily in Ucluelet and Port Moody, the first season of the period drama earned the best drama TV series award as well as a handful of top acting awards. Hiroyuki Sanada won the best lead actor in a drama series for his turn as Yoshii Toranaga and Anna Sawai won the Golden Globe for Best performance by a female actor in a TV drama for her portrayal as Lady Mariko.

Also collecting acting honours for Shōgun was Tadanobu Asano, winning the best male supporting actor award for his work as Kashigi Yabushige.

“Thank you Golden Globes for recognizing me. I’m so happy to be here with these great nominees,” said Sanada, who won an Emmy last fall for this same role.

“Thank you FX, Disney and all the cast members and crew of Shogun for sharing this amazing journey. I’d love to say thank you for everyone who has been in my life. All of you have brought me here. And I’d like to say to the young actors and creators in the world: Please be yourself. Believe in yourself and never give up. Good luck.”

A second season of Shōgun was confirmed last year and is expected to begin filming this year, but it will not returning to B.C.?

Other nominees with B.C. connections didn’t fare as well as Shōgun.

Ladysmith native Pamela Anderson and West Vancouver’s Gabriel LaBelle both lost out in film acting categories.

Anderson was nominated best actress in a drama for her turn as Shelly in That Last Showgirl.? Anderson lost out to Fernanda Torres for her role in the Brazilian drama I’m Still Here.

LaBelle earned a nomination for his portrayal of Lorne Michaels in the film Saturday Night but lost the best actor in a motion picture comedy or musical to Sebastian Stan in A Different Man.

With the Golden Globes out of the way, the next big award season announcement is for the Academy Awards nominations on Jan. 17. That is the same day that The Last Showgirl hits Canadian theatres.

The buzz in Hollywood is that Anderson has a good shot at being one of the best actress nominees when the Oscar nods are announced.

Ryan Reynolds’s decision not to attend the Golden Globes show was a good one as the Vancouver mega star’s blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine lost the cinematic and box office achievement award to Wicked.

The Ralph Fiennes-starring film Conclave took home the prize for best screenplay for screenwriter Peter Straughan. The film about the election of a Pope also co-stars Vancouver actor Carlos Diehz.

Canada got a big, albeit tongue-in-cheek, shoutout during the Golden Globes courtesy of Vancouver’s Seth Rogen and Toronto’s Catherine O’Hara who were on stage to present the best female actor in a limited series or TV movie prize.

The duo cracked wise about how they have won several non-existent Canadian acting awards.

“It’s stuff you guys haven’t heard of, but actually, Catherine won not one, but two Golden Antlers for her work as Mama Morissette in the Alanis Morissette Story,” said Rogen, as O’Hara countered, “What about you and your brave Golden Antler win for your turn as young Ryan Gosling, in the Ryan Gosling unauthorized biopic?”

Some of the work they pretended to have done in Canada wasn’t always PG.

“You see, in Canada, we don’t have America’s puritanical roots. So pornographic films are as lauded as much as non-pornographic films,” Rogen joked.

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