This picture launched by CBS exhibits Emma Stone accepting the award for greatest feminine actor in a movement image for her position in “Poor Issues” throughout the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024.
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This picture launched by CBS exhibits Emma Stone accepting the award for greatest feminine actor in a movement image for her position in “Poor Issues” throughout the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024.
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Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer dominated the 81st Golden Globes, successful 5 awards together with greatest drama, whereas Yorgos Lanthimos’ Frankenstein riff Poor Issues pulled off an upset victor over Barbie to triumph in the most effective comedy or musical class.
If awards season has been constructing towards a second match-up of Barbenheimer, this spherical went to Oppenheimer. The movie additionally received greatest director for Nolan, greatest drama actor for Cillian Murphy, greatest supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr. and for Ludwig Göransson’s rating.
“I do not suppose it was a no brainer by any stretch of the creativeness to make a three-hour talky film — R-rated by the way in which — about one of many darkest developments in our historical past,” stated producer Emma Thomas accepting the evening’s remaining award and thanking Common chief Donna Langley.
Together with greatest comedy or musical, Poor Issues additionally received for Emma Stone’s efficiency as Bella, a Victorian girl experiencing a surreal life and sexual awakening.
“I see this as a rom-com,” stated Stone. “However within the sense that Bella falls in love with life itself, quite than an individual. She accepts the nice and the dangerous in equal measure, and that basically made me have a look at life in another way.”
Lily Gladstone received greatest actress in a dramatic movie for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Gladstone, who started her speech talking the language of her native tribe, Blackfeet Nation, is the primary Indigenous winner within the class.
“It is a historic win,” stated Gladstone. “It does not simply belong to me.”
The Globes had been of their 81st yr however going through a brand new and unsure chapter. After a tumultuous few years and heaps of scandals, the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation was dissolved, leaving a brand new Globes, on a brand new community (CBS), to attempt to regain its perch because the third greatest award present of the yr, after the Oscars and Grammys. Even the menu (sushi from Nobu) was flipped.
“Golden Globes journalists, thanks for altering your sport, due to this fact altering your title,” stated Downey in his acceptance speech.
It acquired off to a rocky begin. Host Jo Koy took the stage on the Beverly Hilton Worldwide Ballroom in Beverly Hills, California . The Filipino American stand-up hit on some anticipated matters: Ozempic, Meryl Streep’s knack for successful awards and the long-running Oppenheimer. (“I wanted one other hour.”)
After one joke flubbed, Koy, who was named host after some larger names reportedly handed, additionally famous how briskly he was thrust into the job.
“Yo, I acquired the gig 10 days in the past. You need an ideal monologue?” stated Koy. “I wrote a few of these and so they’re those you are laughing at.”
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Hello, Barbie
Downey’s win, his third Globe, denied one to Kenergy. Ryan Gosling had been seen as his stiffest competitors, simply one of many many head-to-head contests between Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. The filmmakers confronted one another in the most effective director class, the place Nolan triumphed.
It was two hours earlier than Barbie, the yr’s greatest hit with greater than $1.4 billion in ticket gross sales, received an award. Billie Eilish’s What Was I Made For? took greatest track, and swiftly after, Barbie took the Globes’ new honor for “cinematic and field workplace achievement.” Some thought that award would possibly go to Taylor Swift, whose Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour additionally set box-office data.
Margot Robbie, star and producer of Barbie, accepted the award in a pink robe modeled after 1977’s Famous person Barbie.
“We might prefer to dedicate this to each single particular person on the planet who dressed up and went to the best place on Earth: the film theaters,” stated Robbie.
Barbie and Oppenheimer, two blockbusters introduced collectively by a typical launch date, additionally confronted off in the most effective screenplay class. However in an upset, Justine Triet and Arthur Harari received for the script to the French courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall. Later, Triet’s movie picked up greatest worldwide movie, too.
Although the Globes don’t have any direct correlation with the Academy Awards, they’ll enhance campaigns at an important juncture. Oscar nomination voting begins Thursday, and the dual sensations of Barbenheimer stay frontrunners.
Different contenders loom, although, like Poor Issues and The Holdovers.
Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Pleasure Randolph each received for Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers. Giamatti, reuniting with Payne twenty years after Sideways, received greatest actor and Randolph received for her supporting efficiency as a grieving girl within the Seventies-set boarding college drama.
“Oh, Mary you have got modified my life,” Randolph stated of her character. “You may have made me really feel seen in so many ways in which I’ve by no means imagined.”
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron received greatest animated movie, an upset over Spider-Man: Throughout the Spider-Verse.
“Succession” and “The Bear” lead TV winners
The ultimate season of Succession cleaned up on the tv aspect. It received greatest drama collection for the third time, a mark that ties a document set by Mad Males and The X-Information. Three stars from the HBO collection additionally received: Matt Macfadyen, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin.
“It’s bittersweet, however issues like this make it quite sweeter,” stated Succession creator Jesse Armstrong.
Hulu’s The Bear additionally got here away with a trio of awards, together with greatest comedy collection. Jeremy Allen White received for the second time, however this time he had firm. Ayo Edebiri received her first Globe for her main efficiency within the Hulu present’s second season. She thanked the assistants of her brokers and managers.
“To the individuals who reply my emails, you are the true ones,” stated Edebiri.
Ayo Edebiri poses within the press room with the award for greatest efficiency by an actress in a tv collection, musical or comedy for “The Bear” on the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, on the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Ayo Edebiri poses within the press room with the award for greatest efficiency by an actress in a tv collection, musical or comedy for “The Bear” on the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, on the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Beef received three awards: greatest restricted collection in addition to performing awards for Ali Wong and Steven Yeun.
The Globes additionally added a brand new stand-up particular award. That went, surprisingly, to Ricky Gervais, who did not attend the present he so typically hosted. Some anticipated Chris Rock to win for Selective Outrage, his stand-up response to the Will Smith slap.
The Globes comeback
A number of years in the past, the Golden Globes had been on the cusp of collapse. After The Los Angeles Occasions reported that the HFPA had no Black members, Hollywood boycotted the group. The 2022 Globes had been all however canceled and brought off TV. After reforms, the Globes returned to NBC final yr in a one-year deal, however the present was booted to Tuesday night. With Jerrod Carmichael internet hosting, the telecast attracted 6.3 million viewers, a brand new low on NBC and a far cry from the 20 million that when tuned in.
The Golden Globes had been acquired by Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions, which Penske Media owns, and become a for-profit enterprise. The HFPA (which generally numbered round 90 voters) was dissolved and a brand new group of some 300 leisure journalists from world wide now vote for the awards.
Questions nonetheless stay in regards to the Globes’ long-term future, however their worth to Hollywood studios stays offering a advertising and marketing enhance to awards contenders. (The Oscars will not be held till March 10.) This yr, due to the actors and writers strikes, the Globes are airing forward of the Emmys, which had been postponed to Jan. 15.
With film ticket gross sales nonetheless 20% off the pre-pandemic tempo and the business going through a probably perilous 2024 on the field workplace, Hollywood wanted the Golden Globes as a lot because it ever has.
