Overview
- Apatow told the audience he had been quietly boycotting the ceremony for about a decade, a jab delivered as he presented at the 83rd Golden Globes.
- He traced his grievance to Trainwreck losing Best Picture — Musical or Comedy to Ridley Scott’s The Martian, joking about Scott as a “comedy” director.
- During his bit he quipped, “I believe we’re a dictatorship now,” before saying he would “squash that beef and start the healing.”
- He then announced Best Director and handed the trophy to Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another.
- Coverage linked the moment to the long-running comedy-versus-drama debate and the 2017 “Martian Rule” advising that dramas with comedic overtones be entered as dramas.