‘Paddington 2’ Fans Are Having A Field Day With Ben Wishaw’s Golden Globe Win For ‘A Very English Scandal’

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Ben Whishaw won a Golden Globe for his supporting turn in the BBC miniseries A Very English Scandal, and that’s wonderful and deserved. Still, the actor’s win highlighted one particularly heinous omission: Paddington 2, in which Whishaw returned as the voice of cinema’s cuddliest talking bear, was rudely nominated for absolutely nothin’.

Well, you can always count on the internet to rewrite history: A chunk of Twitter very quickly celebrated Whishaw’s win as a win for good old marmalade-loving, wrongfully imprisoned inmate Paddington.

— Brian Tallerico (@Brian_Tallerico) January 7, 2019

In A Very English Scandal, Whishaw plays a young man who spent years as the secret lover of a dastardly member of parliament, played with delicious disrepute by Hugh Grant. Whishaw played him as endearingly dim, quietly tragic — a saintly innocent ground up by the powerful and evil. It’s the kind of performance that wins accolades, and rightly so.

But let’s not take for granted Paddinton 2, one of the very few movies from 2018 with a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Whishaw reprised his duties as the gentle voice of a gentle bear, who both unwittingly wreaks havoc and instills decency upon everyone — everyone except for a villainous actor played by, as it were, Hugh Grant.

Let’s bask in the Paddinton 2 love, shall we

— Tyler Coates (@tylercoates) January 7, 2019

Ben Whishaw better thank Paddington.

— The Ultimate Worrier (@maggieserota) January 7, 2019

Paddington 2 saying the words "true queer hero" is everything.

— Letterboxd (@letterboxd) January 7, 2019

Yaay!!! Congrats to Paddington. #GlodenGlobes pic.twitter.com/BoeXSE17rg

— Nathan Wallace (@Trustthepod) January 7, 2019

Paddington won an award… kind of!#GlodenGlobes pic.twitter.com/iJcuNcZiFK

— Liam De Brùn (@liamjoeireland) January 7, 2019

https://twitter.com/laurgarc/status/1082089603765551104

— Natalie Walker (@nwalks) January 7, 2019

he’s

P A D D I N G T O N

T O O#goldenglobes

— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) January 7, 2019

PADDINGTON WON A GOLDEN GLOBE AFTER ALL pic.twitter.com/MOykxx1wy9

— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) January 7, 2019

Closing my eyes and picturing paddington accepting this award #GoldenGlobes

— Bethany (@Bethany2357) January 7, 2019

Ben Whishaw won and for a minute I thought he won for Paddington 2 #GoldenGIobes

— Nicole Alvarado (@Ch_eekyGirl) January 7, 2019