Oppenheimer and Succession have been crowned the big winners at this year’s Golden Globes – with Barbie’s box office domination celebrated too.
In the film categories, Emma Stone’s Poor Things, The Holdovers, and the French thriller Anatomy Of A Fall were also successful, while comedy-dramas Beef and The Bear took home big prizes in the TV categories.
This year’s ceremony introduced the first award for cinematic achievement – and with Barbie grossing more than $1.4bn worldwide, there could only be one winner (despite tough competition from Taylor Swift).
But the night belonged to Oppenheimer – with five gongs including best dramatic film, best actor for Cillian Murphy and best director for Christopher Nolan – and the final, critically acclaimed season of Succession, which took home four, including best dramatic TV series and acting trophies for Keiran Culkin, Sarah Snook and Matthew Macfadyen.
Irish actor Murphy was red-nosed as he accepted his award for playing “father of the atomic bomb” J Robert Oppenheimer, arriving on stage and saying: “Oh boy, do I have lipstick all over my nose? I’m just going to leave it.”
He went on to say that working on a Nolan set was “different” and paid tribute to his co-stars and fellow nominees, which included Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan and All Of Us Strangers’ Andrew Scott, saying: “If you’re Irish or not, you’re all legends and I salute you.”
Oppenheimer’s Robert Downey Jr described the film as “a God damn masterpiece” as he was named best supporting actor, and the film also took home the prize for best original score. And for British filmmaker Nolan, the best director prize was his first win after six nominations.
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Succession stars Culkin and Macfadyen were among the early winners in the TV categories, with the former beating his co-stars Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong to be named best actor in a TV drama series for his portrayal of Roman Roy, the youngest son of Cox’s billionaire media boss Logan Roy.
“I was nominated for a Golden Globe like 20 years ago and when that moment passed, I sort of remember thinking I’m never going to be back in this room again,” Culkin said in his acceptance speech. “But thanks to Succession I’ve been in here a couple of times, I accepted I would never be on the stage so this is a nice moment.” He then joked to fellow nominee Pedro Pascal, star of The Last Of Us, saying of the prize: “Sorry, mine.”
Macfadyen was named best supporting actor for “playing the weird and wonderful human grease stain that is Tom Wambsgans”.
Royal drama The Crown also picked up an acting prize courtesy of Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki, who was honoured for her portrayal of Princess Diana in the sixth and final series. She thanked her “pretend children” who play Prince William and Prince Harry on the show.
There was also triumph for Beef stars Ali Wong and Steven Yeun, who were named best actor and best actress in a limited series, and The Bear stars Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, who took home the same gongs in the musical/ comedy series category.
Elsewhere, director Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things was named best musical or comedy film, while star Stone took home the prize for best actress in the musical/comedy category for her portrayal of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by a surgeon.
The category saw Margot Robbie nominated for her starring role in Barbie, Jennifer Lawrence for No Hard Feelings, Fantasia Barrino for The Colour Purple, Alma Poysti for Fallen Leaves, and Natalie Portman for May December.
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