Ricky Gervais, whose three-year stretch as Globes host both tickled and clobbered his audience, was back on duty Sunday after yielding the task the past three years to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Jon Hamm won his second Globe for the final season of “Mad Men”.
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Referring to the film’s arduous shoot in the Canadian Rockies, Innaritu said: “Pain is temporary”.
Popular TV shows including Game of Thrones, Empire, Mr. Robot, Narcos, and Outlander will compete for the Best Television Series – Drama award.
The Golden Globes may be known as “Oscar’s ugly inebriated stepsister”, but the 73rd annual awards ceremony is also famously known as the most fun event where stars get to drink and eat while sitting at tables with their co-stars and dates throughout the evening.
Winslet was visible shocked as she won best supporting actress for her role as Joanna Hoffman in biopic “Steve Jobs”, saying she was “extremely surprised and overwhelmed”. Rachel Bloom from the new show “Crazy Ex Girlfriend” won!
Best foreign language film went to Hungary’s Laszlo Nemes’ “Son of Saul”, a harrowing view of life inside Auschwitz.
Sam Smith and his songwriting partner Jimmy Napes slapped each other on the back as they were announced as the winners of best original song for Writing’s On The Wall for the James Bond film Spectre.
Pop music star Lady Gaga made the transition to acting in a big way, winning a Globe for her role as the Countess in “American Horror Story: Hotel”. “So just to be clear: that’s a joke about me shoving Golden Globes that I’ve won up my ass, and they asked me to host four times”.
Appropriately enough, Taraji P. Henson passed out cookies while coming to the stage to accept her best actress award in a drama. He thanked the HFPA for the support to their long support of the show and his “horrible” character, Don Draper.
Jamie Foxx tried to give the award for best soundtrack to NWA for Straight Outta Compton, despite the rap group not being nominated. I won it fair and square.
A little over a minute later Gervais found time to send a zinger to Caitlyn Jenner over the fatal auto accident the reality-TV star – while still known as Bruce Jenner – was involved in a year ago.
“If you do win tonight, remember that no one cares about the award as much as you do”.
“That award is, no offense, worthless…it’s a nice bit of metal”.
Amazon’s comedy Mozart In The Jungle took the prize for Best Comedy Series.
Many of the Globes’ dramatic nominees, especially Ronan, Blanchett, and Larson, are considered locks for an Academy Award nomination too.
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In typical Gervais comedy-style, he told his audience he used one of his own Golden Globes as a doorstop, one to beat burglars and one was by his bedside.
