Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” swept five major awards—including Best Motion Picture Drama—at the 81st Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, adding to the critically acclaimed biopic’s momentum heading into Oscar season, where the British director will be hoping to end a years-long wait for his first Academy Award.
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Aside from “Oppenheimer” winning Best Motion Picture Drama, Nolan won Best Director for the film, while leading man Cillian Murphy took Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama.
Robert Downey Jr. won Best Supporting Actor for his role in the biopic about the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and Ludwig Göransson took home the Best Original Score prize for his work on the film.
Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie”, which was released on the same day as “Oppenheimer” and topped the U.S. box office for 2023, won the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement prize—a new category introduced this year.
The dark comedy “Poor Things” won Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, while its leading star Emma Stone won Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical.
Paul Giamatti won Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his role in “The Holdovers” and his co-star Da’Vine Joy Randolph won Best Supporting Actress.
The HBO drama Succession—which ended its final season last year—dominated the TV category for drama notching up wins in the Best Drama Series, Best Actor (Keiran Culkin), Best Actress (Sarah Snook) and Best Supporting Actor (Matthew Macfadyen) categories.
Lily Gladstone created history on Sunday when she won Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her role in Martin Scorcese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon”, becoming the first indigenous actress to win the prize. Gladstone started her acceptance speech in the Blackfeet language, before switching to English and saying “This is a historic win, and it doesn’t belong to just me.” Gladstone later added: “This is for every little res kid, every little urban kid, every little native kid out there who has a dream, who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves, in our own words.”
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While “Succession” led the TV drama category, FX’s “The Bear” swept the three big TV comedy categories, including Best Comedy Series. The show’s stars, Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, won Best Actor and Actress in a Comedy Series. Netflix’s “Beef” took home the prize for Best Limited Series. Elizabeth Debicki picked up Best Supporting Actress in a Series for her role as Princess Diana in “The Crown,” handing Netflix its only other major award of the night.
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