The movie lands five honors, including best movie drama prize and acting awards for stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. Director Christopher Nolan wins his first Golden Globe award for Best Director.
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Historical drama “Oppenheimer” dominated the Golden Globe awards on Sunday, and gothic comedy “Poor Things” upset summer blockbuster “Barbie,” as Hollywood threw its biggest party since labour disputes shut down much of show business last year.“Oppenheimer,” about the
making of the atomic bomb, landed five honours, including the coveted best
movie drama prize and acting awards for stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey
Jr.
Christopher Nolan won his
first Golden Globe award for best director for the film, which was distributed
by Comcast’s Universal Pictures.
“I am so pleased that Chris
has been acknowledged because I just think that what he does is unlike anything
anyone else is doing,” “Oppenheimer” producer Emma Thomas said on stage.
She said Nolan, who is her
husband, “brings the best out in people by being the very best himself.”
“Poor Things,” starring Emma
Stone as a deceased woman revived by scientists, won best movie musical or
comedy.
Awards watchers had widely
expected that honour to go to “Barbie,” the female empowerment story inspired
by the iconic doll that topped 2023 box office charts and went into the night with a leading nine nominations.
Stone also was named best actress in a movie comedy or musical.
“Barbie” went home with just
two awards, for Billie Eilish’s song “What Was I Made For” and for a new
category called cinematic and box office achievement, created for widely seen
films.
The winners were chosen by
roughly 300 entertainment journalists who voted on the honours
as a part of a new organization created after an ethics and diversity scandal
among Globe voters.
Lily Gladstone, best actress
winner for her role in “Killers of the Flower Moon” began her acceptance speech
by introducing herself in the Native American language she learned in school.
“This is a historic win,”
Gladstone continued in English. “It doesn’t belong to just me. I am holding it
right now with all my beautiful sisters.”
She thanked director Martin
Scorsese as well as Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, her co-stars in the
story about the murders of members of the Osage Nation in the 1920s.
“You are all changing
things,” Gladstone said.
Other acting winners included
Paul Giamatti and Da'Vine Joy Randolph for “The Holdovers,” a comedy set at a
boys boarding school.
In television categories,
“Succession” was named best drama and led all series with four wins, including
a lead acting honour for Kieran Culkin. “Suck it, Pedro!” Culkin joked to
competitor Pedro Pascal from “The Last of Us.”
“The Bear,” about the
struggles of owning a restaurant, won best TV comedy and acting trophies for
stars Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri.
Road-rage story “Beef” landed
the Globe for limited series.
The glitzy ceremony at the
Beverly Hilton kicked off Hollywood’s annual awards season, which culminates
with the Oscars on March 10, and
brought top stars together for the first time after six months of strikes by
actors and writers in 2023.
The event gave performers the
chance to mingle and to publicize their movies and TV shows after months when
red carpets and other promotion was prohibited.
Jo Koy, a comedian hosting
his first major awards show, opened the ceremony, broadcast live on CBS, with
jabs at some of the A-list stars and their projects.
“Oppenheimer,” a historical
drama running three hours long, “needed another hour,” Koy joked. “I felt like
it needed some more backstory.”
Known as a boozy celebration
more relaxed than the Academy Awards, the Globes nearly disappeared. A 2021 Los Angeles Times report revealed ethical lapses
and a lack of diversity among the roughly 80 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press
Association, the group that previously voted on the Globes. The 2022 ceremony was scrapped while the organization made
reforms.
Sunday’s turnout showed
Hollywood had re-embraced the Globes as a key stop on the awards campaign
trail. In the crowd were several Hollywood legends from Meryl Streep to Robert
De Niro and Jodie Foster, all Globe nominees vying for Oscars this year.
Pop superstar Taylor Swift
joined the crowd as a nominee for her recent concert film. Oprah Winfrey
presented the night’s top prize to “Oppenheimer.”
Several winners commented
that the talent in the room made the crowd “intimidating.”
“I can’t believe I’m in this
room with all these people I have loved so much, admired so much, for so long,”
“The Bear” star White said as he accepted his award. “It’s unreal.”
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