This picture launched by CBS reveals Emma Stone accepting the award for finest feminine actor in a movement image for her position in “Poor Things” throughout the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024.

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This picture launched by CBS reveals Emma Stone accepting the award for finest feminine actor in a movement image for her position in “Poor Things” throughout the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024.

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Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer dominated the 81st Golden Globes, successful 5 awards together with finest drama, whereas Yorgos Lanthimos’ Frankenstein riff Poor Things pulled off an upset victor over Barbie to triumph in one of the best comedy or musical class.

If awards season has been constructing towards a second match-up of Barbenheimer, this spherical went to Oppenheimer. The movie additionally received finest director for Nolan, finest drama actor for Cillian Murphy, finest supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr. and for Ludwig Göransson’s rating.

“I don’t think it was a no-brainer by any stretch of the imagination to make a three-hour talky movie — R-rated by the way — about one of the darkest developments in our history,” stated producer Emma Thomas accepting the evening’s ultimate award and thanking Universal chief Donna Langley.

Along with finest comedy or musical, Poor Things additionally received for Emma Stone’s efficiency as Bella, a Victorian lady experiencing a surreal life and sexual awakening.

“I see this as a rom-com,” stated Stone. “But in the sense that Bella falls in love with life itself, rather than a person. She accepts the good and the bad in equal measure, and that really made me look at life differently.”

Lily Gladstone received finest actress in a dramatic movie for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. Gladstone, who started her speech talking the language of her native tribe, Blackfeet Nation, is the primary Indigenous winner within the class.

“This is a historic win,” stated Gladstone. “It doesn’t just belong to me.”

The Globes had been of their 81st 12 months however dealing with a brand new and unsure chapter. After a tumultuous few years and heaps of scandals, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was dissolved, leaving a brand new Globes, on a brand new community (CBS), to attempt to regain its perch because the third greatest award present of the 12 months, after the Oscars and Grammys. Even the menu (sushi from Nobu) was flipped.

“Golden Globes journalists, thank you for changing your game, therefore changing your name,” stated Downey in his acceptance speech.

It received off to a rocky begin. Host Jo Koy took the stage on the Beverly Hilton International Ballroom in Beverly Hills, California . The Filipino American stand-up hit on some anticipated matters: Ozempic, Meryl Streep’s knack for successful awards and the long-running Oppenheimer. (“I needed another hour.”)

After one joke flubbed, Koy, who was named host after some larger names reportedly handed, additionally famous how briskly he was thrust into the job.

“Yo, I got the gig 10 days ago. You want a perfect monologue?” stated Koy. “I wrote some of these and they’re the ones you’re laughing at.”

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Hi, Barbie

Downey’s win, his third Globe, denied one to Kenergy. Ryan Gosling had been seen as his stiffest competitors, simply one of many many head-to-head contests between Oppenheimer and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. The filmmakers confronted one another in one of the best director class, the place Nolan triumphed.

It was two hours earlier than Barbie, the 12 months’s greatest hit with greater than $1.4 billion in ticket gross sales, received an award. Billie Eilish’s What Was I Made For? took finest tune, and swiftly after, Barbie took the Globes’ new honor for “cinematic and box office achievement.” Some thought that award would possibly go to Taylor Swift, whose Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour additionally set box-office information.

Margot Robbie, star and producer of Barbie, accepted the award in a pink robe modeled after 1977’s Superstar Barbie.

“We’d like to dedicate this to every single person on the planet who dressed up and went to the greatest place on Earth: the movie theaters,” stated Robbie.

Barbie and Oppenheimer, two blockbusters introduced collectively by a typical launch date, additionally confronted off in one of the best screenplay class. But in an upset, Justine Triet and Arthur Harari received for the script to the French courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall. Later, Triet’s movie picked up finest worldwide movie, too.

Though the Globes don’t have any direct correlation with the Academy Awards, they will enhance campaigns at a vital juncture. Oscar nomination voting begins Thursday, and the dual sensations of Barbenheimer stay frontrunners.

Other contenders loom, although, like Poor Things and The Holdovers.

Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph each received for Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers. Giamatti, reuniting with Payne 20 years after Sideways, received finest actor and Randolph received for her supporting efficiency as a grieving lady within the Nineteen Seventies-set boarding faculty drama.

“Oh, Mary you have changed my life,” Randolph stated of her character. “You have made me feel seen in so many ways that I have never imagined.”

Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron received finest animated movie, an upset over Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

“Succession” and “The Bear” lead TV winners

The ultimate season of Succession cleaned up on the tv facet. It received finest drama sequence for the third time, a mark that ties a document set by Mad Men and The X-Files. Three stars from the HBO sequence additionally received: Matt Macfadyen, Sarah Snook and Kieran Culkin.

“It is bittersweet, but things like this make it rather sweeter,” stated Succession creator Jesse Armstrong.

Hulu’s The Bear additionally got here away with a trio of awards, together with finest comedy sequence. Jeremy Allen White received for the second time, however this time he had firm. Ayo Edebiri received her first Globe for her main efficiency within the Hulu present’s second season. She thanked the assistants of her brokers and managers.

“To the people who answer my emails, you’re the real ones,” stated Edebiri.

Ayo Edebiri poses within the press room with the award for finest efficiency by an actress in a tv sequence, musical or comedy for “The Bear” on the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, on the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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Ayo Edebiri poses within the press room with the award for finest efficiency by an actress in a tv sequence, musical or comedy for “The Bear” on the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, on the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif.

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Beef received three awards: finest restricted sequence in addition to appearing awards for Ali Wong and Steven Yeun.

The Globes additionally added a brand new stand-up particular award. That went, surprisingly, to Ricky Gervais, who did not attend the present he so usually hosted. Some anticipated Chris Rock to win for Selective Outrage, his stand-up response to the Will Smith slap.

The Globes comeback

Just a few years in the past, the Golden Globes had been on the cusp of collapse. After The Los Angeles Times reported that the HFPA had no Black members, Hollywood boycotted the group. The 2022 Globes had been all however canceled and brought off TV. After reforms, the Globes returned to NBC last year in a one-year deal, however the present was booted to Tuesday night. With Jerrod Carmichael internet hosting, the telecast attracted 6.3 million viewers, a brand new low on NBC and a far cry from the 20 million that after tuned in.

The Golden Globes had been acquired by Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions, which Penske Media owns, and changed into a for-profit enterprise. The HFPA (which usually numbered round 90 voters) was dissolved and a brand new group of some 300 leisure journalists from around the globe now vote for the awards.

Questions nonetheless stay in regards to the Globes’ long-term future, however their worth to Hollywood studios stays offering a advertising enhance to awards contenders. (The Oscars will not be held till March 10.) This 12 months, due to the actors and writers strikes, the Globes are airing forward of the Emmys, which had been postponed to Jan. 15.

With film ticket gross sales nonetheless 20% off the pre-pandemic tempo and the trade dealing with a probably perilous 2024 on the field workplace, Hollywood wanted the Golden Globes as a lot because it ever has.