Matt Damon won the Golden Globe for best actor in a comedy or musical film on Sunday for his role in “The Martian”.
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Lesbian romance “Carol” leads the drama film category with five nominations, while Wall Street fraud tale “The Big Short” leads comedy film with four nods. Matt Damon also won best actor in a comedy film for his role in the hit film which many don’t consider a comedy.
Ennio Morricone garnered a win for best original score for The Hateful Eight, and director Quentin Tarantino accepted the Globe for the 87-year-old musician he called his favorite composer.
Sorkin went for humility in his speech: “Honest to God, I thought I had as much chance of winning this screenplay award as I had of winning best actress in a musical”. I just want to start by saying what an incredible year for women in film. For the fun of it. (I wonder if she really thought anyone in that crowd would eat those evil carb mounds.) Why else would Jim Carrey, in his driest satirical tones, joke about dreaming about winning a third Globe?
A surprised Kate Winslet has picked up the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role.
This will surely be one of the things acerbic host Ricky Gervais needles the Hollywood Foreign Press Association about at the Beverly Hilton Hotel ceremony, which runs from 8-11 p.m. EST, telecast live on NBC.
American actress Maura Tierney, who is best known for her role as nurse Abby Lockhart on ER, has won the Best Supporting Actress Series-Limited Series TV Movie Golden Globe.
Room star Brie Larson was the perhaps surprising victor of the best actress in a drama prize after beating favourite Cate Blanchett. Actors in both shows – Christian Slater for “Mr. Robot” and Gabriel Garcia Bernal for “Mozart in the Jungle” – also won.
Accepting the award and fighting back tears, she said: “I feel like Cher in Moonstruck right now, it’s like one of the greatest moments of my life”.
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He beat out Bryan Cranston of “Trumbo”, Michael Fassbender of “Steve Jobs”, Eddie Redmayne of “The Danish Girl”, and Will Smith of “Concussion”. It was his second nomination for the character, having been nominated 29 years ago for “Rocky”.
