This year’s Golden Globes didn’t feature all that many surprising upsets, and host Jo Koy lost the audience on more than one occasion, but the awards event was marked by a number of heartfelt acceptance speeches and memorable moments that made it feel like Hollywood’s ready to get back to work.
Setting aside the messiness of Koy throwing the Golden Globes writers under the bus as his terrible jokes bombed, the evening was sprinkled with a handful of genuinely funny moments as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association gave out its latest batch of golden statues. Though director Greta Gerwig’s Barbie looked to be the odds-on favorite in multiple categories with its 10 nominations, the film ultimately only came away with two wins: Best Original Song for Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” and the newly created Cinematic and Box Office Achievement award.
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer nabbed five awards, including Best Director, Best Drama, and Best Actor for Cillian Murphy in the title part. Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things emerged as a surprisingly strong contender as the film won Best Motion Picture Comedy / Musical over Barbie, and Emma Stone won Best Actress in a comedy / musical. Killers of the Flower Moon’s Lily Gladstone made history, becoming the first Indigenous actor to be nominated for and win Best Actress in a play, and Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron understandably took home a Best Animated Feature award.
The Bear also cleaned up with two Best Musical / Comedy wins for Ayo Edebiri and Jeremy Allen White. And while Succession’s multiple wins for Best TV Drama, Best TV Actor, Best TV Actress, and Best Supporting TV Actor came as no surprise, Ricky Gervais’ award for Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television certainly did.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: Poor Things
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: Emma Stone, Poor Things
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Best Motion Picture, Animated: The Boy and the Heron
Best Motion Picture, Non-English Language: Anatomy of a Fall (France)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture: Robert Downey Jr, Oppenheimer
Best Director, Motion Picture: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Best Screenplay, Motion Picture: Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall
Best Original Score, Motion Picture: Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer
Best Original Song, Motion Picture: “What Was I Made For?” Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell (Barbie)
Best Television Series, Drama: Succession
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Drama: Sarah Snook, Succession
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama: Kieran Culkin, Succession
Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy: The Bear
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy: Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy: Jeremy Allen White, The Bear
Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Beef
Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television: Ali Wong, Beef
Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television: Steven Yeun, Beef
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Matthew Macfadyen, Succession
Cinematic and Box Office Achievement: Barbie