- The 81st Golden Globe Awards, the first international awards ceremony of the year, celebrated the best in film and television on Sunday night.
- Oppenheimer, a biographical drama about the life of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, swept the film categories, winning four awards, including Best Picture (Drama), Best Director, Best Actor (Drama) and Best Supporting Actor.
- Poor Things, a dark comedy based on the novel by Alasdair Gray, won two awards, including Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) and Best Actress (Musical or Comedy).
- Barbie, a live-action film starring Margot Robbie as the iconic doll, won Best Original Score and the first ever Cinematic and Box Office Achievement award, recognizing its global popularity and impact.
- On the television front, Succession, a drama series about a powerful media family, won four awards, including Best Series (Drama), Best Actor (Drama), Best Actress (Drama) and Best Supporting Actor.
- The Bear, a comedy series about a young woman who inherits a bear from her eccentric uncle, won two awards, including Best Series (Musical or Comedy) and Best Actress (Musical or Comedy).
- Beef, a limited series about a feud between two neighbors, won three awards, including Best Limited Series, Best Actor (Limited Series) and Best Actress (Limited Series).
New Delhi: The film awards were dominated by Oppenheimer, a biographical drama directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The film received critical acclaim for its portrayal of the moral dilemmas and personal struggles of the scientist who helped create the most destructive weapon in history. The film won four awards, including Best Picture (Drama), Best Director, Best Actor (Drama), and Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr., who played Albert Einstein.
The other big winner in the film categories was Poor Things, a dark comedy based on the novel by Alasdair Gray. The film, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone and Paul Giamatti, is a satirical reimagining of Frankenstein, set in Victorian Scotland. The film won two awards, including Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) and Best Actress (Musical or Comedy) for Stone, who played Bella Baxter, a resurrected corpse with the brain of a child.
Barbie, a live-action film starring Margot Robbie as the iconic doll, also made history by winning two awards, including Best Original Score for Ludwig Göransson and the first ever Cinematic and Box Office Achievement award. The award, which was introduced this year, recognizes a film that has achieved extraordinary success and influence in the global market. Barbie, which was co-produced by Robbie and directed by Greta Gerwig, was praised for its empowering and humorous take on the doll’s adventures and challenges in the modern world. The film also featured a hit song by Billie Eilish and Finneas, What Was I Made For?, which won Best Original Song.
The other film awards went to Lily Gladstone, who won Best Actress (Drama) for her role as Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman whose family is targeted by a murderous conspiracy, in Killers of the Flower Moon, a historical thriller directed by Martin Scorsese and based on the book by David Grann; Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who won Best Supporting Actress for her role as a struggling comedian who befriends a washed-up actor, played by Giamatti, in The Holdovers, a comedy-drama directed by Peter Hedges; Anatomy of a Fall, a French film directed by Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, which won Best Screenplay and Best Picture (Non-English Language) for its story of a journalist who investigates a mysterious death in a political family; and The Boy and the Heron, an animated film directed by Hayao Miyazaki, which won Best Motion Picture (Animated) for its tale of a friendship between a young boy and a magical heron.
The television awards
The television awards were dominated by Succession, a drama series created by Jesse Armstrong and produced by HBO. The series, which follows the power struggles and intrigues of the Roy family, who own a global media empire, won four awards, including Best Series (Drama), Best Actor (Drama) for Kieran Culkin, who plays the rebellious and scheming Roman Roy, Best Actress (Drama) for Sarah Snook, who plays the ambitious and conflicted Shiv Roy, and Best Supporting Actor for Matthew Macfadyen, who plays the loyal and hapless Tom Wambsgans, Shiv’s husband.
The other big winner in the television categories was The Bear, a comedy series created by Ayo Edebiri and produced by Netflix. The series, which stars Edebiri as a young woman who inherits a bear from her eccentric uncle, won two awards, including Best Series (Musical or Comedy) and Best Actress (Musical or Comedy) for Edebiri, who also voices the bear.
Beef, a limited series created by Lee Sung-jin and produced by Netflix, also won three awards, including Best Limited Series, and Best Actor (Limited Series) for Steven Yeun, who plays a Korean-American chef who gets into a feud with his neighbor, played by Ali Wong, who won Best Actress (Limited Series) for her role as a Chinese-American therapist who has a midlife crisis.
The other television awards went to Elizabeth Debicki, who won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Princess Diana in The Crown, a drama series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, produced by Netflix; Jeremy Allen White, who won Best Actor (Musical or Comedy) for his role as a struggling musician who joins a band with a bear, played by Edebiri, in The Bear; and The Underground Railroad, a limited series based on the novel by Colson Whitehead and directed by Barry Jenkins, which won the Carol Burnett Award for outstanding achievement in television.
| Category | Winner | Nominees |
|---|---|---|
| Best Motion Picture, Drama | Oppenheimer | Killers of the Flower Moon, The Power of the Dog, The Tragedy of Macbeth, West Side Story |
| Best Picture, Musical or Comedy | Poor Things | Barbie, The Holdovers, Licorice Pizza, Tick, Tick… Boom! |
| Best Director, Motion Picture | Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer | Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza, Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog, Greta Gerwig, Barbie, Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama | Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer | Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog, Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon, Denzel Washington, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Steven Yeun, Minari |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama | Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon | Jessica Chastain, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Olivia Colman, The Lost Daughter, Lady Gaga, House of Gucci, Jennifer Hudson, Respect |
| Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer | Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza, Idris Elba, The Harder They Fall, Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog, Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog |
| Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture | Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers | Ariana DeBose, West Side Story, Ann Dowd, Mass, Ruth Negga, Passing, Kristen Stewart, Spencer |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy | Emma Stone, Poor Things | Awkwafina, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Beanie Feldstein, The Humans, Margot Robbie, Barbie, Rachel Zegler, West Side Story |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy | Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers | Nicolas Cage, Pig, Cooper Hoffman, Licorice Pizza, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tick, Tick… Boom!, Will Smith, King Richard |
| Best Screenplay, Motion Picture | Anatomy of a Fall — Justine Triet, Arthur Harari | Don’t Look Up — Adam McKay, The Humans — Stephen Karam, Licorice Pizza — Paul Thomas Anderson, Oppenheimer — Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan |
| Best Original Score, Motion Picture | Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer | Jonny Greenwood, The Power of the Dog, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Dune, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste, Soul, Hans Zimmer, Dune |
| Best Picture, Non-English Language | Anatomy of a Fall, France | Another Round, Denmark, Drive My Car, Japan, The Hand of God, Italy, Titane, France |
| Best Original Song, Motion Picture | What Was I Made For? by Billie Eilish and Finneas, Barbie | Be Alive by Beyoncé, King Richard, Down to Joy by Van Morrison, Belfast, No Time to Die by Billie Eilish and Finneas, No Time to Die, Speak Now by Leslie Odom Jr., One Night in Miami |
| Best Motion Picture, Animated | The Boy and the Heron | Encanto, Luca, Raya and the Last Dragon, Soul |
| Cinematic and Box Office Achievement | Barbie |
