Last night’s Golden Globes generated around 1,400,616 tweets, according to Amobee Brand Intelligence. And while they were pretty uneventful, sentiment was split right down the middle. Forty-five percent positive reactions, 46 neutral reactions, and 9 percent negative. A “meh” isn’t exactly a bad thing, but it’s not great either.
The most tweeted celeb was Lady Gaga, with 141,147 tweets about her during the show. Leonardo DiCaprio generated 74,439 tweets during the same time period. That might be because of their wins, but also because of a meme-worthy moment when Gaga bumps into the actor on her way to the stage:
The other top celebs:
Most Tweeted Celebrities Around Golden Globes
Volume of Tweets around participants in the Golden Globes between 8 p.m. – Midnight Eastern Time on Jan. 10, 2016.
- Lady Gaga (141,147 tweets)
- Leonardo DiCaprio(74,439 tweets)
- Jennifer Lawrence (66,906 tweets)
- Ricky Gervais(43,785 tweets)
- Matt Damon(38,475 tweets)
- Kate Winslet(38,007 tweets)
- Denzel Washington(34,803 tweets)
- Oscar Isaac(33,939 tweets)
- Sylvester Stallone(32,031 tweets)
- Mel Gibson(24,138 tweets)
Ricky Gervais did not win over the crowd with his jokes. Of the 43,785 tweets around the host, 8,105 of them were reacting to his Mel Gibson joke. His joke about Ben Affleck cheating generated 1,822 and his Sean Penn El Chapo interview joke drove 1,505 tweets.
While the Reveneant, which won for Best Picture was mentioned in 68,184 tweets the Martian’s classification as a comedy was what had people talking:
The Martian is much deserved as best comedy. When he ran out of oxygen I was on the floor.
— Albert Brooks (@AlbertBrooks) January 11, 2016
OMG THE MARTIAN WAS SO FUNNY/MUSICAL
— Andy Richter (@AndyRichter) January 11, 2016
All in all, it was a good kickoff to winter awards season.