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Golden Globe Awards 2024

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  • "Oppenheimer's" night: Christopher Nolan's three-hour biography about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist behind the Manhattan Project, cleaned up the major movie awards at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, including wins for best movie, best director and two of the acting awards.
  • Sweep for "Succession": The HBO series won the Globe for top TV drama, while stars Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin and Matthew Macfadyen won for their performances in the final season of the show.
  • A first: "Barbie" won the inaugural cinematic and box office achievement Golden Globe. The category recognizes films that combine box-office success with cinematic achievement.
  • Historic moments: Lily Gladstone became the first indigenous person to win the award for best performance by a female actor in “Killers of the Flower Moon," while Ali Wong and Steven Yeun became the first and second actors, respectively, of Asian descent to win in their categories for "Beef."
  • Check out the best looks from the Red Carpet here.
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12:37 a.m. ET, January 8, 2024

Big takeaways from the 2024 Golden Globe Awards

Steven Yeun accepts his Golden Globe award. Sonja Flemming/CBS

Leading up to the Golden Globes, the show's organizers essentially hung a "Under new management" sign from its front door. Whether the average viewer – and some of the night's winners – were aware or not is another story.

In his analysis of the night, CNN's Brian Lowry breaks down the old and new aspects of the revamped Globes. He writes:

Beyond the practical aspect of the Golden Globes, which advanced “Oppenheimer” (especially) and “Poor Things” in their Oscar campaigns and began the “Succession” farewell tour, Sunday’s televised ceremony reinforced the notion that Hollywood has a hard time quitting those who lavish honors upon it.
Although this marked the 81st edition of the Globes, comparisons to previous ceremonies should come with an asterisk. That’s because of sweeping changes the Globes have undergone as an organization, phasing out the scandal-plagued Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. (HFPA) and establishing a revised and expanded voting group under new management, Dick Clark Productions.
Granted, not everyone got the memo, with three of the winners thanking the HFPA, while Robert Downey Jr. made the most overt reference to the scandal from the recipients, thanking the Globes for cleaning up its act.
That said, after staying away from the ceremony, which briefly left TV and shifted this year from NBC to CBS, Hollywood again turned out in force, with top talent filling the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The tone, however, felt somewhat subdued, despite a clear desire to buttress the Globes’ reputation as more of a party than stuffier, higher-stakes Academy Awards, with the voiceover announcer joking, “Censors will be standing by.”
Read more of his takeaways here.
12:11 a.m. ET, January 8, 2024

Photos from behind the scenes at the Golden Globes

Take a look behind the scenes of the Golden Globe Awards that were held Sunday night in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.

Bradley Cooper laughs with John Krasinski and Emily Blunt. Todd Williamson/CBS
Ebon Moss-Bachrach makes a funny face for photographers. Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
“Succession” cast members show off their Golden Globe award. Todd Williamson/CBS
Selena Gomez and Martin Short embrace. Francis Specker/CBS
Kevin Costner and Harrison Ford chat in the crowd. Francis Specker/CBS

12:56 a.m. ET, January 8, 2024

Here are the big winners at tonight's Golden Globes

Lily Gladstone, Cillian Murphy, Ayo Edebiri and Steven Yeun. Sonja Flemming/CBS
The 81st Golden Globe Awards were a good night for “Barbenheimer.”

Christopher Nolan’s three-hour biography about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist behind the Manhattan Project, picked up a number of big awards, including best motion picture drama, best director (Christopher Nolan) and best drama actor (Cillian Murphy). Composer Ludwig Göransson also picked up an award for best original score.

“Oppenheimer” was a favorite heading into the night, as was “Barbie,” the toy-powered tale from Greta Gerwig.

"Barbie" was the most nominated film ahead of Sunday’s ceremony, but in the end, picked up just two awards, including the inaugural award for cinematic achievement.

In television, "Succession,” "The Bear" and "Beef" ruled the categories.

Here are some of the winners:
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
  • Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear” 
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
  • Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear”
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Drama
  • Kieran Culkin, “Succession” 
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama
  • Sarah Snook, “Succession” 
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
  • Steven Yeun, “Beef”
Best Performance by an Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
  • Ali Wong, “Beef” 
Best Television Series Drama
  • “Succession” 
Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
  • “Beef” 
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role - Television
  • Matthew Macfadyen, “Succession” 
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role - Television
  • Elizabeth Debicki, “The Crown” 
Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
  • “The Bear” 
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
  • “Poor Things” 
Best Motion Picture – Drama
  • “Oppenheimer” 
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
  • “Anatomy of a Fall” 
Best Original Song – Motion Picture
  • “What Was I Made For?” Billie Eilish & Finneas, “Barbie” 
Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
  • Robert Downey Jr., “Oppenheimer” 
Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
  • Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers” 
Best Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
  • Paul Giamatti, “The Holdovers” 
Best Motion Picture – Animated
  • “The Boy and the Heron” 
Best Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
  • Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer” 
Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
  • Lily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon” 
Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
  • Emma Stone, “Poor Things” 
Best Director – Motion Picture

Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer” 

Best Original Score
  • Ludwig Göransson, “Oppenheimer” 
Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
  • “Barbie” 
View the full list of winners.
12:05 a.m. ET, January 8, 2024

Comedian Jo Koy pokes fun at nominees, including Taylor Swift

Jo Koy hosts the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday. Sonja Flemming/CBS

Host Jo Koy opened up the Golden Globe Award ceremony poking fun at some of the night's nominees.

He said that upon agreeing to the gig of hosting, he began to watch some of the nominated films and TV shows for the first time.

"I loved 'Oppenheimer,'" the comedian said of the three-hour movie that subsequently swept some of the major awards. "I've just got one complaint. It needed another hour. I felt like it needed some more backstory."

He then went on to say that while watching the "Barbie" movie "it was kind of weird being attracted to a plastic doll."

"It's just something about your eyes, Ryan," he said of Ryan Gosling, who played Barbie’s lovesick sidekick, Ken, in the movie.

The comedian also took a shot at singer and Globe nominee Taylor Swift.

“As you know, we came on after a football double header. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL? On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift, I swear," he said, referencing Swift's relationship with Kansas City Chiefs football player Travis Kelce.

The TV camera quickly panned to Swift, who was seen stoically sipping her drink.

Koy also commented on the room's lack of diversity.

He said that after watching "Killers of the Flower Moon," he learned that "White people stole everything."

"You guys stole everything. Not like 97%. You guys stole 100% of everything. You took the land. You took the oil. You took the premise of the movie," he said before noting that "the room is really White."
The joke comes as the Golden Globes still work to overcome a scandal that surfaced in 2021, when the Los Angeles Times documented the lack of Black members within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which presented the awards, and potential ethical transgressions related to the oversized influence of its then-roster of 87 international journalists.
11:32 p.m. ET, January 7, 2024

"Oppenheimer" wins Golden Globe for best drama film

The cast and crew of “Oppenheimer” accept the award for best motion picture drama. Sonja Flemming/CBS

Christopher Nolan's three-hour biography about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist behind the Manhattan Project, has won the award for best motion picture drama at the 2024 Golden Globes."

"Oppenheimer" was a favorite heading into the night and one of the most nominated films, earning eight nominations.

Cillian Murphy in “Oppenheimer.” Universal Pictures

The film, starring Cillian Murphy in the title role, was a box office hit, bringing in more than $950 million worldwide.

During its theatrical run, the movie likely benefitted from the phenomenon known as "Barbenheimer," born from the summer release date it shared with Greta Gerwig's "Barbie," that encouraged moviegoers to take in double features of the drastically different films.

11:39 p.m. ET, January 7, 2024

Lily Gladstone speaks Blackfeet as she makes history as first indigenous person to win in her category

Lily Gladstone accepts her Golden Globe award. Rich Polk/Golden Globes 2024/Getty Images

Lily Gladstone has won the Golden Globe for her role in “Killers of the Flower Moon" and is the first person who identifies as indigenous to win in the category. 

She opened her emotional speech speaking in Blackfeet language.

"I'm so grateful that I can speak even a little bit of my language, which I'm not fluent in, up here," Gladstone said while accepting her award Sunday night.

She called the win "a historic one" and dedicated it to "every little res[ervation] kid, every little urban kid, every little Native kid out there who has a dream, who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves in our own words."

It's Gladstone's first Golden Globe nomination and first win, according to the Globes' website. While walking off the stage, costar Leonardo DiCaprio could be seen applauding her in a standing ovation.

In “Killer of the Flower Moon,” she plays Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman who is wife to DiCaprio’s Ernest Burkhart. The film was directed by Martin Scorsese. 

Gladstone grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation in northwestern Montana, according to The Guardian, telling the publication in 2017 that she lived on reservation land until the age of 11. She has tribal affiliations that include Kainai, Amskapi Piikani and Nimi’ipuu First Nations. 
The headline and post were updated with details on the award and Gladstone's speech.
11:21 p.m. ET, January 7, 2024

"Poor Things" wins Golden Globe for best musical or comedy motion picture

Yorgos Lanthimos accepts the Golden Globe for best musical or comedy motion picture, along with the cast of “Poor Things.” Sonja Flemming/CBS

"Poor Things" wins Golden Globe for best musical or comedy motion picture.

In Yorgos Lanthimos’ bizarre Frankenstein-like epic Bella Baxter, portrayed by Emma Stone, is a woman who is brought back to life with the brain of her unborn baby implanted in her own head. The visceral, if polarizing film, is anchored by Stone, who won earlier for her role as Bella.

Lanthimos began his speech by stating that he just wanted to speak to Bruce Springsteen "the whole night," and said that he's always been a fan.

He then went on to thank the cast and crew.

The post has been updated with more details on the movie.
Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in “Poor Things.” Atsushi Nishijima/Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures

11:05 p.m. ET, January 7, 2024

Paul Giamatti calls for respecting teachers as he wins Golden Globe for his role in "The Holdovers"

Paul Giamatti accepts his Golden Globe award. Rich Polk/Golden Globes 2024/Getty Images

Paul Giamatti wins the Golden Globe for best performance for his role in the movie "The Holdovers."

It was a tad bit rough, he said, after climbing the stairs to get on stage to accept.

"So many stairs. Too many stairs. My knees are shot," Giamatti said. "I’m never going to be in 'John Wick 5' at this point.”

He also joked about winning.

"Surely this is the first time this award has been given to an actor who has played a man who smells like fish," he said. "Thank you, Golden Globes."

After congratulating his son Samuel on recently graduating from college, Giamatti noted that he played a teacher in the film.

"My whole family, they're teachers. All of them, going back generations," Giamatti said. "Teachers are good people. Gotta respect them. They do a good thing. It's a tough job so this is for teachers as well."

Paul Giamatti stars in “The Holdovers.” Courtesy of Focus Features
The post was updated with Giamatti's remarks.
11:03 p.m. ET, January 7, 2024

"Succession" wins award for best drama television series

“Succession” creator Jesse Armstrong gives an acceptance speech with the cast of the show. Sonja Flemming/CBS

The Roy family ended their television run rich in praise from the Golden Globes.

"Succession" took home the award for best drama television series, earning its third statue in that category for its final season.

"Succession" previously picked up Globes in that category in 2020 and 2022.

Actors Brian Cox, Jeremy Strong and Sarah Snook have also won Globes for their performances during the show's run. The final episode aired in May.

While accepting the award Sunday, show creator Jesse Armstrong said that deciding to conclude the series was “bittersweet.”

“It is bittersweet but things like this make it rather sweeter,” he said referencing the Golden Globe. 

The series, about an f-bomb-dropping affluent family in the media industry, ran for four seasons on Max, the streaming service owned by Warner Bros Discovery, which also owns CNN.

The post was updated with details from Armstrong's remarks.
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