The Amazon series won the Golden Globe for Best TV Series- Comedy or Musical.
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The Twitosphere erupted within minutes of Lady Gaga barging past Leonardo DiCaprio at the Golden Globes on Sunday night.
“Mad Men”‘s Jon Hamm won best TV dramatic actor prize. Gael García Bernal won Best Performance in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy for his role as Rodrigo de Souza in Mozart in the Jungle.
Leonardo DiCaprio won Best Actor for his work in The Revenant. Some stars and films were snubbed, but being that winners of the Golden Globes are chosen by less than 100 foreign journalists while the Oscars are decided by some 7,000 members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, there are bound to be inconsistencies in the outcomes of the two award shows.
”The Martian” stars Damon as fictional NASA astronaut Mark Watney, who is stranded and presumed dead on a Red Planet outpost after a powerful windstorm. Any added momentum helps, even if Gervais joked at the start of the show that the award is “a bit of metal that some confused old journalist wanted to give you to meet you in person and take a selfie”. Cranston lost to DiCaprio for best actor at the Golden Globes.
Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle” beating Amazon’s “Transparent” (not to mention Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black”) for TV comedy.
When he implied that film companies pay to get awards.
Winslet won for best supporting actress in a film for her role in Steve Jobs, and Stallone won for best supporting actor in Creed, where he reprised his role of boxer Rocky Balboa. As things stand today, the biggest competition for director Alejandro González Iñárritu and The Revenant will come from Ridley Scott and The Martian.
Brie Larson won the Globe for best actress in a drama for her portrayal of a young mother held captive with her child in Room, besting Carol co-stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Last year’s victor Julianne Moore (“Still Alice”) went on to win the Oscar as well.
Kate Winslet poses with her award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture for her role in “Steve Jobs” backstage at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California on January 10, 2016. The crowd greeted his win with a standing ovation. He thanked Gonzalez Inarritu who also won a globe for directing the film.
The awards show also paid tribute to the best in various television series for last year’s run on the small screen.
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Tom Hanks (“Forrest Gump”) presented Denzel Washington (“Training Day”) with the Cecil B. DeMille Award, honoring his extraordinary contributions to the entertainment world.
