Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Crown stars are Global success
Golden night for Brits at virtual ceremony
BRITISH talent reigned at this year’s Golden Globes – with The Crown scooping major awards.
Emma Corrin, 25, and Josh O’connor, 30, who played Princess Diana and Prince Charles in the Netflix drama, were named best actress and actor in a television series.
Gillian Anderson, 52, won for her supporting role as Margaret Thatcher, with the show also named best TV drama series.
Other British winners at the virtual 78th awards were I Care a Lot’s Rosamund
Pike, 42, Queen’s Gambit actress
Anya Taylor-joy, 24, and Sacha Baron
Cohen, 49, for his return as Borat.
Brit Daniel Kaluuya, 32, took the first award for his supporting role in the film Judas and the Black Messiah.
He plays Fred Hampton, the
Black Panther Party chairman assassinated in 1969. Viewers were unable to hear his initial speech, prompting him to joke: “You’re doing me dirty.”
Fellow Brit John Boyega, 28, won for his supporting role in BBC drama Small Axe. “I thought it was going to be one of them nights where... you go to your bed and just chill,” he said, dressed in jogging bottoms. Hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler thanked the “smoking-hot essential workers” who made up the audience so “celebrities can stay safe”. The widow of Chadwick Boseman accepted his award for best actor in the film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
The United States Vs Billie Holiday star Andra Day, 36, became the second black woman to win best actress in a motion picture drama. And Chloe Zhao became the first Asian woman, and second woman, to win best director for Nomadland. Jane Fonda, 83, got the Cecil B Demille life achievement gong.