‘La La Land’ dominates at Golden Globes awards
thing it was nominated for, including best film, musical “L a L a L a n d ” s t e a m - or comedy. Chazelle won rolled through a Jimmy Falboth best director and best lon-hosted Golden Globes screenplay. Gosling won best that mixed the expected, actor in a comedy or musiChampagne-sipping Hollycal, as did Emma Stone for wood celebration with oftenbest actress. It also took best voiced concern over presiscore ( Justin Hurwitz) and dent-elect Donald Trump. best song for “City of Stars.”
Though “La La Land” domIn one of the evening’s inated with seven awards, more emotional acceptance including best motion picspeeches, Gosling dedicated ture, comedy or musical, the his award to the late brother night’s final award went to of his partner, Eva Mendes. Barry Jenkins’ tender coming The ceremony got off to of age drama “Moonlight.” a rocky start, with a bro - Its sole award was for best ken teleprompter initially motion picture, drama. froze Fallon. It was the sec
But Meryl Streep, the Cecil B. ond fiasco for Globes proDeMille Award honoree, supducer Dick Clark Producplied Sunday evening’s most tions, which presented the striking moment: a rebuke to infamous Mariah Carey flub Trump that stirred the Beverly on New Year’s Eve. Hilton Hotel crowd. Streep, The “Tonight Show” host who spoke at the Democratic started the show with a cold National Convention, called open ode to “La La Land” the president-elect’s mockin a lavish sketch more typing of a disabled reporter the ical of the Academy Awards year’s performance that most than the Globes. Fallon did “stunned her.” a version of the film’s open
Arguing for the multinaing dance scene, with starry tional makeup of Hollywood, cameos from Timberlake, Streep listed off the far-flung previous Globes host Tina homes of stars from Dev Patel Fey, Amy Adams and the to Ryan Gosling. white Ford Bronco of “The
“Hollywood is crawling People v. O.J. Simpson.” with outsiders and foreignIn a more truncated monoers, and if you kick them all l o g u e , Fa l l o n’s s ha r pe s t out, you’ll have nothing to barbs weren’t directed at watch but football and mixed the stars in the room but martial arts, which are not president-elect Trump. He the arts,” Streep said. compared Trump to the bel
Damien Chazelle’s Los ligerent teenage king Joffrey Angeles musical “La La Land” of “Game of Thrones.” His came in with a leading seven first line (at least once the nominations, and won every- teleprompter was up) was introducing the Globes as “one of the few places left where America still honors the popular vote.”
That, though, isn’t quite true. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a collection of 85 members, has its own methods of selecting winners. Best supporting actress winner Viola Davis, the co-star of Denzel Washington’s August Wilson adaptation “Fences,” alluded to the group’s reputation for being wined and dined.
“I took all the pictures, went to luncheon,” said Davis, to knowing chuckles through the ballroom, as she clutched her award. “But it’s right on time.”
Dav i s c o n t i nu e d what appears to be a certain path to the Oscar. Another favorite, Casey Affleck, also padded his favorite status. The “Manchester by the Sea” star took best actor.
The night was notable for the widespread diversity of its winners, in film and TV. Donald Glover’s “Atlanta” won best comedy series over heavyweights like “Veep” a nd “Tra nspare nt , ” a nd Glover later added best actor in a comedy.
Tracee Ellis Ross, accepting the award for best actress in a TV comedy for “Blackish,” dedicated her award to “all of the women of color and colorful people whose stories, ideas, thoughts are not always considered worthy and valid and important.”