Last night Hollywood royalty came out to see who the Hollywood Foreign Press has dubbed as the best of movies and television in the past year. One film stood out: La La Land. Perhaps the writing was on the wall at the beginning of the show when host Jimmy Fallon parodied several musical sequences from the film with participation from a variety of nominated actors. Quick shout out to the kids from Stranger Things. Damn, Eleven can rap!
La La Land reined supreme, winning in every category where it scored a nomination including Best Picture, Musical or Comedy, Best Director (Damien Chazelle), Best Actress, Musical or Comedy (Emma Stone), and Best Actor, Musical or Comedy (Ryan Gosling). Ultimately, the film won seven globes, more than any other film in the award show’s history. This honor was previously held by 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and 1978’s Midnight Express, both of which won six Globes.
The other major winner of the night was Moonlight. The coming of age story won Best Picture, Drama. While the film was nominated for a total of six globes, this was its only win of the night. Moonlight beat out Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Lion, and front-runner Manchester by the Sea.
Manchester by the Sea did not go home without getting some validation. Casey Affleck, sporting a serious hermit beard, won the award for Best Actor, Drama. Affleck has won several critics awards for his role, however, this is the first major award Affleck has won. Affleck has all but guaranteed himself a second Oscar nomination.
After five nominations in the last eight years, Viola Davis finally took home gold. Davis won Best Supporting Actress for her role as the long suffering wife, Rose, in Fences. Davis and fellow nominee Denzel Washington both took home Tonys for their roles in the stage version of the film. My Spidey Senses tell me that Davis may be the front-runner for the Supporting Actress Oscar this year. Fingers crossed!
The surprise winners of the night were Isabelle Huppert and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Huppert won Best Actress, Drama for her role as a revenge driven rape victim in Elle, which also took home the award for Best Foreign Language Film. Taylor-Johnson won Best Supporting Actor for his role as the leader of a violent group of men terrorizing a young couple in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals.
The television category was full of surprises as well. Freshman series The Crown and Atlanta took home awards for Best Television Series, Drama and Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy, respectively. The leads from both of these shows also won in the acting categories with Claire Foy winning Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama for The Crown and Donald Glover winning Best Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy.
While it was no surprise The People vs. OJ Simpson won for Best Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television and Best Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television (Sarah Paulson), both Courtney B. Vance and Sterling K. Brown did not win for their portrayals of attorneys Johnnie Cochran and Christopher Darden, respectively. Both lost to actors from the AMC mini-series The Night Manager. The Night Manager actually won awards for Best Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television (Tom Hiddleston), Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television (Hugh Laurie), and Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television (Olivia Colman).
However, the most talked about moment from the Golden Globes comes from the grand dame of acting, Meryl Streep. While Streep did not win a competitive Globe last night (she lost to Emma Stone), she was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award, which was presented to her by Viola Davis. Streep gave a stirring speech that both honored her peers and stayed true to herself. Streep called out President-Elect Donald Trump for his cruel mockery of disabled New York Times reported Serge Kovaleski, saying that it “broke my heart”. She continued by saying, “This instinct to humiliate when it’s modeled by someone in a public platform, it filters down into everybody’s life because it gives permission for other people to do the same. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence, and when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.” An eloquent statement from an eloquent actress.
-Ariadne Ansbro
The full list of winners is below:
Best Motion Picture, Drama
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
WINNER Moonlight
Best Motion Picture, Musical, or Comedy
20th Century Women
Deadpool
Florence Foster Jenkins
WINNER La La Land
Sing Street
Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Amy Adams, Arrival
Jessica Chastain, Miss Sloane
WINNER Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Ruth Negga, Loving
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
Lily Collins, Rules Don’t Apply
Hailee Steinfeld, The Edge of Seventeen
WINNER Emma Stone, La La Land
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
WINNER 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 Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Simon Helberg, Florence Foster Jenkins
Dev Patel, Lion
WINNER Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals
Best Performance by Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
WINNER Viola Davis, Fences
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
Best Director, Motion Picture
WINNER 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 Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical, or Comedy
Colin Farrell, The Lobster
WINNER Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Hugh Grant, Florence Foster Jenkins
Jonah Hill, War Dogs
Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool
Best Screenplay, Motion Picture
WINNER La La Land
Nocturnal Animals
Moonlight
Manchester by the Sea
Hell or High Water
Original Score, Motion Picture
Moonlight
WINNER La La Land
Arrival
Lion
Hidden Figures
Best Motion Picture, Animated
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Zucchini
Sing
WINNER Zootopia
Best Original Song, Motion Picture
“Can’t Stop the Feeling,” Trolls
WINNER “City of Stars,” La La Land
“Faith,” Sing
“Gold,” Gold
“How Far I’ll Go,” Moana
Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language
Divines
WINNER Elle
Neruda
The Salesman
Toni Erdmann
Best Television Series, Drama
WINNER The Crown
Game of Thrones
Stranger Things
This Is Us
Westworld
Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy
WINNER Atlanta
Blackish
Mozart in the Jungle
Transparent
Veep
Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
American Crime
The Dresser
The Night Manager
The Night Of
WINNER The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
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
WINNER Billy Bob Thornton, Goliath
Best Performance By an Actor in a Television Series, Musical, or Comedy
Anthony Anderson, Blackish
Gael Garcia Bernal, Mozart in the Jungle
WINNER Donald Glover, Atlanta
Nick Nolte, Graves
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television
Riz Ahmed, The Night Of
Bryan Cranston, All the Way
WINNER Tom Hiddleston, The Night Manager
Courtney B. Vance, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
John Turturro, The Night Of
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
WINNER 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 TV Series, Drama
Caitriona Balfe, Outlander
WINNER Claire Foy, The Crown
Keri Russell, The Americans
Winona Ryder, Stranger Things
Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld
Best Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television
WINNER Olivia Colman, The Night Manager
Lena Headey, Game of Thrones
Chrissy Metz, This Is Us
Mandy Moore, This Is Us
Thandie Newton, Westworld
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Felicity Huffman, American Crime
Riley Keough, The Girlfriend Experience
WINNER Sarah Paulson, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Charlotte Rampling, London Spy
Kerry Washington, Confirmation
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
WINNER Tracee Ellis Ross, Blackish
Cecil B. DeMille Award: Meryl Streep
