Alejandro Inarritu won the best director gong while Leonardo DiCaprio, who won the best actor award, dedicated his win to the indigenous communities around the world.
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The Canadian cast also includes child actor Isaiah Tootoosis from the Poundmaker First Nation, who plays Hugh’s son, and Grace Dove, as Hugh’s wife.
“I don’t know what I will look like for my next album”, she continued. The crowd greeted him with a standing ovation. Best comedy series was a similar upset, with Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle”, winning over the HBO heavyweight “Veep”.
According to Amobee Brand Intelligence, Lady Gaga, who won an award for her role on American Horror Story: Hotel, was the most talked about celebrity of the night with 141,147 mentions. During her acceptance speech, she admitted that she wanted to be an actress before she wanted to be a singer.
For actresses in the drama category, Taraji P. Henson won the Golden Globe for her role in “Empire”, which looks at the struggle inside the family behind a major hip-hop label. That is a serious blow to its Oscar chances, especially those of leads Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, who were each nominated for best actress in a drama, but lost out to Brie Larson for “Room”.
Despite Gervais’ insistence that the awards carry absolutely no significance in the grand scheme of Hollywood, as he has three of his own, the show featured several exciting wins and uncomfortable encounters. He had trouble reading his speech and his wife told him he needed his glasses.
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It’s widely believed that the Globes predict the Oscars, despite industry critics (including four-time host Ricky Gervais) that blast the award show’s credibility. That was the most-watched Golden Globes in a decade. Their Oscar predictive power, though, is nonexistent. While it is considered a lock for a Best Picture nomination on Thursday, the film apparently did not win the favor of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and received no awards on Sunday.
