Golden Globes: Dahmer‘s Evan Peters Wins Best Actor in a Limited Series
Evan Peters struck gold this year at the Golden Globes: The American Horror Story veteran won the Globe for best actor in a limited series for playing the title role in Netflix‘s Dahmer.
Peters thanked Netflix, executive producer Ryan Murphy, the cast and crew and his family and friends before adding: “Last and most importantly, I want to thank everyone out there who watched this show. It was a difficult one to make, a difficult one to watch, but I sincerely hope some good came out of it.” He topped fellow nominees Taron Egerton (Black Bird), Colin Firth (The Staircase), Andrew Garfield (Under the Banner of Heaven) and Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy) in the category.
Evan Peters wins the award for Best Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture for Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.#GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/qDceE65356
— NBC Entertainment (@nbc) January 11, 2023
Dahmer (full title: Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story) starred Peters as the infamous serial killer, who murdered and mutilated 17 men in Wisconsin between 1978 and 1991. (Dahmer was also nominated for a Globe this year for best limited series.) The series tried to shine a light on Dahmer’s victims as well as the law enforcement blunders that let him go on killing for so long.
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Niecy Nash co-starred as Dahmer’s neighbor Glenda Cleveland, with Richard Jenkins and Molly Ringwald as Dahmer’s father and stepmother. Murphy co-created the series as well as serving as an EP. The 10-episode series debuted on Netflix in September, topping the streaming charts while also drawing significant backlash from the families of Dahmer’s victims. Murphy pushed back on the criticism, saying: “What are the rules now? Should we never do a movie about a tyrant?”
This is Peters’ first win at the Golden Globes. He also won an Emmy in 2021 for his role opposite Kate Winslet in the HBO limited series Mare of Easttown.
“He topped fellow nominees Taron Egerton (Black Bird), Colin Firth (The Staircase), Andrew Garfield (Under the Banner of Heaven) and Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy) in the category.”
Oh. Now that’s a nice image….
In his speech did he thank the people who were murdered for making this possible…
WOW. Think about what you just typed. That was truly horrible .
No doubt there will be a lot of controversy over this win. If just based on Evans’ acting one could debate whether another nominee(s) was better or not as one would normally.But the approach of the movie as a whole & whether it exploited the RL Dahmer victims is a sensitive topic with many feeling nothing associated with it should be rewarded.
As a gay man, what Dahmer did was unspeakable and horrible! No question. That being said, Even Peters was EXCELLENT portraying him and the story needed to be told. This, in my opinion did not exploit the victims families. I learned a ton from this series and I was an adult when Dahmer did these things. It was very hard to watch, but I’m glad I learned the things i did.
I hate the true crime genre. It’s gone too far and it’s disrespectful to the victims and their families, especially when some of the crimes happened not so long ago. I refuse to watch this crap, there are a ton of good shows out there to watch. I think people shouldn’t be making money out of this.