Golden Globes Full of Surprises

Seth Rogen and Catherine O'Hara
were the funniest presenters at
the Golden Globes.
Credit: CBS

It was a night of surprises at the Golden Globes with its precursor-to-the-Oscars status turning the competition for Hollywood's top honor into a real horse race. Netflix's transgendered-druglord musical Emilia Perez took the most awards with four including Best Picture--Comedy or Musical, Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldana), non-English-Language Film and Best Song. Leading actress Sofía Gascón, the first transgender performer to receive a GG nom, made an emotional plea for acceptance: 

"I chose these colors tonight, the Buddhist colors, because I have a message for you: The light always wins over darkness, You can maybe put us in jail. You can beat us up, but you can never take away our soul, our existence, our identity. And I want to say to you: Raise your voice for freedom. I am who I am, not who you want."

The Brutalist was next with three awards including Best Picture--Drama, Best Actor in a Drama (Adrian Brody), and Best Director. Brutalist and Emilia Perez move to the front of the pack for the Oscar noms which will be announced on Jan. 17.

Surprise winners were Leading Actresses Demi Moore in The Substance and Fernanda Torres in I'm Still Here, for comedy/musical and drama respectively. Sebastian Stan won for Best Actor in a Comedy for A Different Man. He was also nominated in the Drama category for playing a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice. These wins for Moore and Torres skew the predictions for the Oscars since Nicole Kidman of Babygirl and Mikey Madison of Anora won most of the critics' awards. Marianne Jean-Bapiste of Hard Truths, winner of the New York, Los Angeles and National Society of Film Critics Awards, was not even nominated for the GGs.

Nikki Glaser hosted the ceremony telecast on CBS and did much better than last year's lambasted emcee Jo Koy. Presenters Seth Rogen and Catherine O'Hara were the funniest, satirizing their Canadian roots by saying they had won various Golden Antler Awards for their work north of the border including Logrider and the Mooseknuckles trilogy. O'Hara then remarked she suffered nipple damage while breast-feeding an otter. (Well, I thought it was funny.) Melissa McCarthy and Awkafina were also amusing as they parodied noble causes while announcing the nominees for Best Comedy TV series. An unscripted highlight were provided by Sofía Vergara (Griselda) who jokingly heckled winner Jodie Foster (True Detective: Night Country) to whom she lost Actress in a Limited Series, or Made-for-TV Movie, after also losing to her at the Emmys.

Even with cutting the presentations to Viola Davis (the Cecile B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement) and Ted Danson (the Carol Burnett Award for TV Achievement) down to pre-taped clips, the evening still ran over its three-hour allotted network time by 15 minutes. 

A complete list of Golden Globe winners follows:

Motion Pictures

Best Motion Picture – Drama

The Brutalist WINNER
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Nickel Boys
September 5

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Anora
Challengers
Emilia Pérez WINNER
A Real Pain
The Substance
Wicked 

Best Motion Picture – Animated 

Flow WINNER
Inside Out 2
Memoir of a Snail
Moana 2
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Wild Robot

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement 

Alien: Romulus
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Deadpool & Wolverine
Gladiator II
Inside Out 2
Twisters
Wicked -- WINNER
The Wild Robot

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language

All We Imagine as Light (India)
Emilia Pérez (France) --WINNER
The Girl with the Needle (Denmark)
I’m Still Here (Brazil)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany)
Vermiglio (Italy) 

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Pamela Anderson - The Last Showgirl
Angelina Jolie - Maria
Nicole Kidman - Babygirl
Tilda Swinton - The Room Next Door
Fernanda Torres - I’m Still Here --WINNER
Kate Winslet - Lee

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama 

Adrien Brody - The Brutalist--WINNER
Timothée Chalamet - A Complete Unknown
Daniel Craig - Queer
Colman Domingo - Sing Sing
Ralph Fiennes - Conclave
Sebastian Stan - The Apprentice

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Amy Adams - Nightbitch
Cynthia Erivo - Wicked
Karla Sofía Gascón - Emilia Pérez
Mikey Madison - Anora
Demi Moore - The Substance --WINNER
Zendaya - Challengers

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Jesse Eisenberg - A Real Pain
Hugh Grant - Heretic
Gabriel LaBelle - Saturday Night
Jesse Plemons - Kinds of Kindness
Glen Powell - Hit Man
Sebastian Stan - A Different Man --WINNER

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Selena Gomez - Emilia Pérez
Ariana Grande - Wicked
Felicity Jones - The Brutalist
Margaret Qualley - The Substance
Isabella Rossellini - Conclave
Zoe Saldaña - Emilia Pérez  --WINNER

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Yura Borisov - Anora
Kieran Culkin - A Real Pain --WINNER
Edward Norton - A Complete Unknown
Guy Pearce - The Brutalist
Jeremy Strong - The Apprentice
Denzel Washington - Gladiator II

Best Director 

Jacques Audiard - Emilia Pérez
Sean Baker - Anora
Edward Berger - Conclave
Brady Corbet - The Brutalist --WINNER
Coralie Fargeat - The Substance
Payal Kapadia - All We Imagine as Light

Best Screenplay 

Emilia Pérez
Anora
The Brutalist
A Real Pain
The Substance
Conclave--WINNER

Best Original Score

Conclave
The Brutalist
The Wild Robot
Emilia Pérez
Challengers -- WINNER
Dune: Part Two

Best Original Song

“Beautiful That Way,” Music & Lyrics By: Andrew Wyatt, Miley Cyrus, Lykke Zachrisson - The Last Showgirl

“Compress / Repress,” Music & Lyrics By: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Luca Guadagnino - Challengers
“El Mal,” Music & Lyrics By: Clément Ducol, Camille, Jacques Audiard - Emilia Pérez -- WINNER
“Forbidden Road,” Music & Lyrics By: Robbie Williams, Freddy Wexler, Sacha Skarbek - Better Man
“Kiss The Sky,” Music & Lyrics By: Delacey, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Maren Morris, Michael Pollack, Ali Tamposi - The Wild Robot
“Mi Camino,” Music & Lyrics By: Clément Ducol, Camille - Emilia Pérez

TV

Best Television Series – Drama

The Day of the Jackal
The Diplomat
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Shōgun -- WINNER
Slow Horses
Squid Game

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy 

Abbott Elementary
The Bear -- WINNER
The Gentlemen
Hacks
Nobody Wants This
Only Murders in the Building

Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Baby Reindeer -- WINNER
Disclaimer
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
The Penguin
Ripley
True Detective: Night Country

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Kathy Bates - Matlock
Emma D’Arcy - House of the Dragon
Maya Erskine - Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Keira Knightley - Black Doves
Keri Russell - The Diplomat
Anna Sawai - Shōgun --WINNER

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Donald Glover - Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Jake Gyllenhaal - Presumed Innocent
Gary Oldman - Slow Horses
Eddie Redmayne - The Day of the Jackal
Hiroyuki Sanada - Shōgun  -- WINNER
Billy Bob Thornton - Landman

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Kristen Bell - Nobody Wants This
Quinta Brunson - Abbott Elementary
Ayo Edebiri - The Bear
Selena Gomez - Only Murders in the Building
Kathryn Hahn - Agatha All Along
Jean Smart - Hacks -- WINNER

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Adam Brody - Nobody Wants This

Ted Danson - A Man on the Inside
Steve Martin - Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel - Shrinking
Martin Short - Only Murders in the Building
Jeremy Allen White - The Bear -- WINNER

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Cate Blanchett - Disclaimer
Jodie Foster - True Detective: Night Country -- WINNER
Cristin Milioti - The Penguin
Sofía Vergara - Griselda
Naomi Watts - Feud: Capote vs. the Swans
Kate Winslet - The Regime

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television 

Colin Farrell - The Penguin --WINNER
Richard Gadd - Baby Reindeer
Kevin Kline - Disclaimer
Cooper Koch - Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Ewan Mcgregor - A Gentleman in Moscow
Andrew Scott - Ripley

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Liza Colón-Zayas - The Bear

Hannah Einbinder - Hacks
Dakota Fanning - Ripley
Jessica Gunning - Baby Reindeer -- WINNER
Allison Janney - The Diplomat
Kali Reis - True Detective: Night Country

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Tadanobu Asano - Shōgun -- WINNER
Javier Bardem - Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
Harrison Ford - Shrinking
Jack Lowden - Slow Horses
Diego Luna - La Máquina
Ebon Moss-Bachrach - The Bear

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television

Jamie Foxx - Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was
Nikki Glaser - Nikki Glaser: Someday You’ll Die
Seth Meyers - Seth Meyers: Dad Man Walking
Adam Sandler - Adam Sandler: Love You
Ali Wong - Ali Wong: Single Lady -- WINNER
Ramy Youssef - Ramy Youssef: More Feelings