GOLDEN GLOBES: Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood Wins Three Awards

Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood was the big winner at Sunday night’s Golden Globes. The movie, about an aging actor and his stuntman buddy in 1960s Hollywood, won three awards — including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Brad Pitt was named Best Supporting Actor and director Quentin Tarantino took home Best Screenplay.

Best Motion Picture – Drama went to the World War I flick 1917 andSam Mendes was named Best Director.

Taron Egerton was named Best Actor – Musical or Comedy for the Elton John bio-pic Rocketman. It’s the second year in a row that an actor playing a classic rock icon was so honored. Last year Rami Malek won Best Actor – Drama for playing Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. Rocketman also took the Best Original Song category for “I’m Gonna Love Me Again.” Elton said it was the first award he’s ever won with songwriting partner Bernie Taupin.

Joaquin Phoenix wasnamedBest Actor – Drama for Joker. The actor dropped plenty of swear words during his mostly bleeped acceptance speech, which the actor used to implore Hollywood “to do more” for the planet.

Renee Zellweger nabbedBest Actor – Drama for playing Judy Garland in Judy. It was her fourth Golden Globe win and first in 16 years.

The Farewell starAwkwafina made history as the first Asian woman to winBest Actor – Musical or Comedy. 

In the TV categories, Fleabag, Succession and Chernobyl each walked away with two trophies. 

Succession was named Best Television – Drama, while Fleabag won in the comedy category and Chernobyl took the miniseries or TV movie category.

TV acting awards went to Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Comedy – Fleabag), Ramy Yousef (Comedy – Ramy), Brian Cox (Drama – Succession), Olivia Colman (Drama – The Crown), Russell Crowe (Miniseries or Televised Film – The Loudest Voice), Michelle Williams (Miniseries or Televised Film – Fosse/Verdon), Stellan Skarsgård (Miniseries or Televised Film – Chernobyl) and Patricia Arquette (Miniseries or Televised Film – The Act).

During her acceptance speech, Phoebe Waller-Bridge thanked Barack Obama “for putting us on his list, and as some of you may know, he’s always been on mine.” She was referring to the first episode of her Amazon series, which features her character lusting over the former president.

Russell Crowe skipped the ceremony, remaining in Australia because of the wildfire crisis there, but presenter Jennifer Aniston read his message about his concern over climate change.

Best Animated Feature went to the box-office bomb Missing Link, featuring the voice of Hugh Jackman, and Best Foreign Language Film was the South Korean thriller Parasite.

Special honors went to Tom Hanks (the Cecil B. DeMille Award)and Ellen DeGeneres (the Carol Burnett Award).

Going into the ceremony, the Netflix drama Marriage Story led with six nominations, but walked away empty-handed.

THE MONOLOGUE: 

As expected host Ricky Gervais pulled no punches during his monologue. He called out Hollywood’s hypocrisy, joking, “You say you’re ‘woke’, but the companies you work for, Apple, Amazon, Disney… If ISIS had a streaming service you would be calling your agents.”

Here are some of his other quips:

“Kevin Hart was fired from the Oscars because of some offensive tweets. Luckily, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association can hardly speak English and they have no idea what Twitter is. Remember, they’re just jokes. We’re all going to die soon, and there’s no sequel.”

“In this room are some of the most important TV and film executives in the world, and they all have one thing in common: They’re all terrified of Ronan Farrow.”

He ended by telling the eventual winners to shut up about politics: “If you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a political platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything, you know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So, if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent and your God and [bleep] off. OK?”

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WINNERS FOR THE 77th ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBES:

• BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA: 1917
• BEST MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY: Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
• BEST DIRECTOR: Sam Mendes, 1917
• BEST ACTOR – DRAMA: Joaquin Phoenix, Joker
• BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA: Renee Zellweger, Judy
• BEST ACTOR – MUSICAL OR COMEDY: Taron Egerton (Rocketman)
• BEST ACTRESS – MUSICAL OR COMEDY: Awkwafina, The Farewell
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Laura Dern, Marriage Story
• BEST SCREENPLAY: Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood
• BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Joker
• BEST ORIGINAL SONG: “I’m Gonna Love Me Again” – Rocketman
• BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Missing Link
• BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Parasite
• BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA: Succession
• BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY: Fleabag
• MINISERIES OR TELEVISION FILM: Chernobyl
• BEST ACTOR TV SERIES – DRAMA: Brian Cox, Succession
• BEST ACTRESS TV SERIES – DRAMA: Olivia Colman, The Crown
• BEST ACTOR TV SERIES – COMEDY: Ramy Yousef, Ramy
• BEST ACTRESS TV SERIES – COMEDY: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag
• BEST ACTOR – MINISERIES OR TELEVISION FILM: Russell Crowe, The Loudest Voice
• BEST ACTRESS – MINISERIES OR TELEVISION FILM: Michelle Williams, Fosse/Verdon
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – SERIES, MINISERIES OR TELEVISION FILM: Stellan Skarsgård, Chernobyl
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – SERIES, MINISERIES OR TELEVISION FILM: Patricia Arquette, The Act