Ridley Scott was a sentimental choice to win Best Director at the Golden Globes, but the 78-year-old filmmaker had to settle for The Martian claiming Best Comedy.
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The Revenant-the story of 19th century fur trapper Hugh Glass, played by Leonardo DiCaprio-won three top awards at the star-studded gala, for best drama, best actor (DiCaprio) and best director (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu).
The Golden Globes are considered second only to the Academy awards in importance for film and is closely observed as a precursor to the Oscars.
He revealed to Conan O’Brien last week that we would try to go easy on celebrities in attendance on the big night: “No one wants to be the butt of a joke, but I’m not trying to ruin their night”. Gervais returned to host the Golden Globes for the fourth time.
Jon Hamm, on the heels of his first Emmy win in November, won best actor in a TV drama for his defining role as the tormented, womanizing Don Draper in AMC’s “Mad Men”, which wrapped its final season past year.
On the drama side, the US cable network series “Mr. Robot”, about a bunch of hackers and anarchists, emerged the surprise victor, defeating Emmy-winning HBO medieval fantasy “Game of Thrones”.
In what is probably the year’s most competitive category, best actress in a drama, Brie Larson won out over Cate Blanchett (“Carol”) and Saoirse Ronan (“Brooklyn) for her affecting performance as a woman in captivity in “Room”.
Nominated for the same character that earned him his only other Golden Globe nod, Stallone took best supporting actor for the “Rocky” sequel-reboot “Creed”.
Best foreign film went to “Son of Saul”, a Holocaust drama from Hungary about an Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner trying to give a proper burial to his son.
-Supporting Actress, Motion Picture: Kate Winslet, “Steve Jobs”.
Noting that NBC had no nominations of its own, which made it a “fair and impartial” network to host the show, Gervais said, “Nothing in it for them tonight; they don’t care”, he noted.
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Taraji P Henson handed cookies to audience members including Gaga, Angela Bassett and DiCaprio as she was named best actress in a TV drama for the role of Cookie Lyon in hip hop saga Empire.
Pop star Katy Perry also dared in a plunging Prada gown in this year’s Pantone color of the year, rose quartz. And crooner Sam Smith accepted the award for best song for “Writing’s On the Wall”, his theme song from the James Bond movie “Spectre“.
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