Winners of the 74th Annual Golden Globes

Though the Screen Actors Guild awards have already been handed out, the Golden Globes truly heralds the coming of the official awards season. Plus, with the alcohol freely flowing at the tables, it also holds the reputation of being the most fun and unpredictable of awards shows, never knowing what celebrity may get tipsy before their acceptance speech. It’s also great to see the stars of television and film, though an increasingly intermingling crowd, together in one room.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler held the hosting reins for three years before giving way to Ricky Gervais last year. Perhaps wanting to avoid controversy, NBC gave the hosting honour to Fey and Poehler’s SNL cast mate, and current Tonight Show host, Jimmy Fallon this broadcast. The choice proved to be a relatively safe one, despite quite a high density of election jokes in the first monologue (though he wasn’t the only one to get political).  The opening sequence was one of the most start studded in memory with Amy Adams, Nicole Kidman, the cast of Stranger Things (Spoiler Alert! Barb is alive!) and Justin Timberlake among others, in a medley of La La Land tunes.  Though, after the great opening, Fallon really had little to do in the rest of the broadcast.

The separation of films into Comedy/Musical and Drama allows for a more widely varied nomination field (Ryan Reynolds for playing Deadpool? Yes!) However, leading into the night, La La Land had the most nominations for a motion picture with seven, besting its likely Oscar competition Moonlight by one.  The winner of the night turned out to be Damien Chazelle’s musical  La La Land which won in every category in which it was nominated.  By contrast, Moonlight only won one – yet it was the biggest one that mattered and will continue to fuel the fight between Moonlight and La La Land for the upcoming Academy Awards.

In television, the FX series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story lead the way with five nominations, over AMC’s The Night Manager with four.  However, The Night Manager managed to best them with three wins to American Crime Stories‘ two, though the Simpson drama did take away best limited series honours.  Atlanta and The Crown also walked away with two awards each.

The full list of nominees and award winners can be found below (winner in bold):

Best Motion Picture — Drama

• Hacksaw Ridge
• Hell or High Water
• Lion
• Manchester by the Sea
• Moonlight

Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

• 20th Century Women
• Deadpool
• Florence Foster Jenkins
• La La Land
• Sing Street

Best Director — Motion Picture

• Damien Chazelle – La La Land
• Tom Ford – Nocturnal Animals
• Mel Gibson – Hacksaw Ridge
• Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
• Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester By the Sea 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama

• Amy Adams – Arrival
• Jessica Chastain – Miss Sloane
• Isabelle Huppert – Elle
• Ruth Negga – Loving
• Natalie Portman – Jackie

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama

• Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea
• Joel Edgerton – Loving
• Andrew Garfield – Hacksaw Ridge
• Viggo Mortensen – Captain Fantastic
• Denzel Washington – Fences

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Comedy or Musical

• Colin Farrell –The Lobster
• Ryan Gosling – La La Land
• Hugh Grant – Florence Foster Jenkins
• Jonah Hill – War Dogs
• Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Comedy or Musical

• Annette Bening – 20th Century Women
• Lily Collins – Rules Don’t Apply
• Hailee Steinfeld – The Edge of Seventeen
• Emma Stone – La La Land
• Meryl Streep – Florence Foster Jenkins

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

• Mahershala Ali – Moonlight
• Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water
• Simon Helberg – Florence Foster Jenkins
• Dev Patel – Lion
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson – Nocturnal Animals

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

• Viola Davis – Fences
• Naomie Harris – Moonlight
• Nicole Kidman – Lion
• Octavia Spencer – Hidden Figures
• Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea

Best Motion Picture — Animated

• Kubo and the Two Strings
• Moana
• My Life as a Zucchini
• Sing
• Zootopia

Best Foreign Language Film

• Divines – France
• Elle – France
• Neruda – Chile
• The Salesman – Iran, France
• Toni Erdmann – Germany

Best Screenplay — Motion Picture

• Damien Chazelle – La La Land
• Tom Ford – Nocturnal Animals
• Barry Jenkins – Moonlight
• Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester By the Sea
• Taylor Sheridan – Hell or High Water

Best Original Score — Motion Picture

• Nicholas Britell – Moonlight
• Justin Hurwitz – La La Land
• Jóhann Jóhannsson – Arrival
• Volker Bertelmann and Dustin O’Halloran – Lion
• Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams, and Hans Zimmer – Hidden Figures

Best Original Song – Motion Picture

• “Can’t Stop the Feeling,” – Trolls
• “City of Stars,” –  La La Land
• “Faith,” – Sing
• “Gold,” – Gold
• “How Far I’ll Go,” – Moana

Best Television Series — Drama

• The Crown – Netflix
• Game of Thrones – HBO
• Stranger Things – Netflix
• This Is Us – NBC
• Westworld – HBO

Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy

• Atlanta – FX
• Black-ish – ABC
• Mozart in the Jungle – Amazon
• Transparent – Amazon
• Veep – HBO

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• American Crime – ABC
• The Dresser – Starz
• The Night Manager – AMC
• The Night Of – HBO
• The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story – FX

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series — Drama

• Caitriona Balfe – Outlander
• Claire Foy – The Crown
• Keri Russell – The Americans
• Winona Ryder – Stranger Things
• Evan Rachel Wood – Westworld

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Drama

• Rami Malek – Mr. Robot
• Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul
• Matthew Rhys – The Americans
• Liev Schreiber – Ray Donovan
• Billy Bob Thornton – Goliath

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy

• Anthony Anderson – Black-ish
• Gael García Bernal – Mozart in the Jungle
• Donald Glover – Atlanta
• Nick Nolte – Graves
• Jeffrey Tambor – Transparent

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy

• Rachel Bloom – Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Veep
• Sarah Jessica Parker – Divorce
• Issa Rae – Insecure
• Gina Rodriguez – Jane the Virgin
• Tracee Ellis Ross – Black-ish

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

• Riz Ahmed – The Night Of
• Bryan Cranston – All the Way
• Tom Hiddleston – The Night Manager
• John Turturro – The Night Of
• Courtney B. Vance – The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• Felicity Huffman – American Crime
• Riley Keough – The Girlfriend Experience
• Sarah Paulson – The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
• Charlotte Rampling – London Spy
• Kerry Washington – Confirmation

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television

• Sterling K. Brown – The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
• Hugh Laurie – The Night Manager
• John Lithgow – The Crown
• Christian Slater – Mr. Robot
• John Travolta – The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television

• Olivia Colman – The Night Manager
• Lena Headey – Game of Thrones
• Chrissy Metz – This Is Us
• Mandy Moore – This Is Us
• Thandie Newton – Westworld

Photo credit for heading picture: EW