La La Land rules at the Golden Globe Awards
Damien Chazelle’s musical starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone was the big winner at last night’s Golden Globe awards, along with Donald Glover’s Atlanta and the Tom Hiddleston-starring The Night Manager
Last night the 74th Golden Globes – think a less prestigious but more fun version of the Oscars – took place in Los Angeles and the resounding winner on the night was La La Land, Damien Chazelle’s love letter to the city of angels. The effervescent romantic musical, which stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as ambitious young creative types struggling to make it in LA in their chosen fields (he’s a jazz pianist, she’s an actor), stormed the ceremony, winning every category in which it was was nominated, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress in the musical/comedy categories.
The film won seven awards in all, which makes it a Globes record-breaker, beating Midnight Express (1978) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), both of which won a tally of six. In must now go into the Oscar race as the big favourite for Best Picture.
Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight, La La Land’s main competition in the Oscar race, picked up only one award each, but they were biggies. The former won Best Actor in a drama for Casey Affleck’s moving portrait of a divorcee dealing with grief and heartbreak while the latter, a moving and lyrical tale of a young gay black man growing up in Miami, won arguably the biggest award of the night: Best Picture in the drama category.
It was a great night for renaissance man Donald Glover. The actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, rapper, singer and songwriter’s inventive and idiosyncratic comedy series Atlanta, which stars Glover as a broke young man trying to make it as the manager of his rapper cousin, won two awards: Best Comedy and Best Actor in a comedy.
British talent were also well rewarded by the Globes. Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie and Olivia Colman all won acting awards for The Night Manager, the BBC’s adaptation of John le Carre’s spy novel. Meanwhile, Netflix’s show looking at the life of Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, meanwhile won two awards in the TV drama category: Best Series and Best Actress for Claire Foy's portrait of the young Queen.
Full Results are below (winners shown in bold):
Best Picture, Drama
Moonlight
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Lion
Manchester by the Sea
Best Picture, Comedy/Musical
La La Land
Deadpool
Florence Foster Jenkins
20th Century Women
Sing Street
Best Actor, Drama
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Joel Edgerton, Loving
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington, Fences
Best Actress, Drama
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Amy Adams, Arrival
Jessica Chastain, Miss Sloane
Ruth Negga, Loving
Natalie Portman, Jackie
Best Actor, Comedy/Musical
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Colin Farrell, The Lobster
Hugh Grant, Florence Foster Jenkins
Jonah Hill, War Dogs
Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool
Best Actress, Comedy/Musical
Emma Stone, La La Land
Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
Lily Collins, Rules Don’t Apply
Hailee Steinfeld, The Edge of Seventeen
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins
Best Supporting Actor
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Simon Helberg, Florence Foster Jenkins
Dev Patel, Lion
Best Supporting Actress
Viola Davis, Fences
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Nicole Kidman, Lion
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea
Best Director
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals
Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea
Best Screenplay
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 Picture, Animated
Zootopia
Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life as a Courgette
Sing
Best Picture, Foreign Language Film
Elle — France
Divines — France
Neruda — Chile
The Salesman — Iran, France
Toni Erdmann — Germany
Best Original Score
Justin Hurwitz, La La Land
Nicholas Britell, Moonlight
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Arrival
Volker Bertelmann and Dustin O’Halloran, Lion
Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams, and Hans Zimmer, Hidden Figures
Best Original Song
City of Stars, La La Land
Can’t Stop the Feeling, Trolls
Faith, Sing Steet
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/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
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, FX
American Crime, ABC
The Dresser, Starz
The Night Manager, AMC
The Night Of, HBO
Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama
Billy Bob Thornton, Goliath
Rami Malek, Mr. Robot
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Matthew Rhys, The Americans
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan
Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama
Claire Foy, The Crown
Caitriona Balfe, Outlander
Keri Russell, The Americans
Winona Ryder, Stranger Things
Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld
Best Actress in a Television Series, Musical/Comedy
Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish
Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Sarah Jessica Parker, Divorce
Issa Rae, Insecure
Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin
Best Actor in a Television Series, Musical/Comedy
Donald Glover, Atlanta
Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
Gael García Bernal, Mozart in the Jungle
Nick Nolte, Graves
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
Best Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Tom Hiddleston, The Night Manager
Riz Ahmed, The Night Of
Bryan Cranston, All the Way
John Turturro, The Night Of
Courtney B. Vance, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Best Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Sarah Paulson, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Felicity Huffman, American Crime
Riley Keough, The Girlfriend Experience
Charlotte Rampling, London Spy
Kerry Washington, Confirmation
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television
Hugh Laurie, The Night Manager
Sterling K. Brown, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
John Lithgow, The Crown
Christian Slater, Mr. Robot
John Travolta, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Best Supporting Actress 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