HOLLYWOOD GETS THE PARTY STARTED
Live from the Globes, where the countdown to the Oscars is on
The 74th Golden Globe Awards begins the journey to next month’s Oscars in earnest, with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association honoring 2016’s best in movies and TV. A breakdown of Sunday night’s festivities: 11:01: Moonlight only wins one Golden Globe but it’s a big one: best drama. And director Barry Jenkins had a message for those who enjoy his Oscar contender: “If you have seen this film ... tell a friend, tell a friend, tell a friend.” 10:59: Elle star Isabelle Huppert pulls off a major upset, winning best actress in a drama. “Thank you for letting me be who I am,” Huppert says. 10:53: This is starting to look like the year Casey Affleck finally gets an Oscar. But before that he gets the Globe for best actor in a drama for Manchester by the Sea. He pretty much thanks everyone. 10:42: Annnnd La La Land wins one of the big prizes of the night, best musical or comedy. Producer Fred Berger thanks studio Lionsgate “for ignoring and dismissing all conventional wisdom and jumping off a cliff with us to make this movie.” 10:33: Emma Stone takes best actress in a comedy or musical for ... La La Land. “Hope and creativity are two of the most important things in the world, and that’s what this movie is about,” she says. 10:25: Atlanta’s Donald Glover hits the stage for a second time to accept his Globe for best actor in a TV comedy. “I grew up in a house where magic wasn’t allowed, so everybody in here was magical to me.” 10:23: La La Land racks up yet another win, best director for Damien Chazelle. Mood: “I’m in a daze now, officially.” 10:04: Viola Davis presents Meryl Streep with the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Streep calls for an honest press going forward and feels the movie industry is a “vilified” segment of society. “Hollywood is crawling with foreigners and outsiders. And if you kick them out, all we’ll have left to watch is football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.” 9:54: The HFPA gives The Crown the royal treatment: The Netflix show is honored with best TV drama and best actress for Claire Foy, who plays young Queen Elizabeth II. Of the real queen: “She has been the center of the world for the past 63 years,” Foy says, “and the world could do with a few more women at the center of it, if you ask me.” 9:40: In accepting his Globe for best actor in a limited series, The
Night Manager star Tom Hiddleston recounts a story of traveling as a UNICEF ambassador and how they’d just binge-watched his show. “The idea that we could provide some relief or entertainment for (people helping the world) makes me immensely proud.” 9:38: Best foreign film goes to the French thriller Elle. Director Paul Verhoeven thanks the HFPA for having an open mind when honoring a movie with a complicated female character. 9:29: Fallon introduces a special clip reel honoring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. 9:28: Zootopia snags best animated feature, a movie that spoke about embracing diversity. “On top of all that, we still managed to fit in a joke about a sloth working at the DMV. That, my friends, is a big victory for all of us,” says director Rich Moore. 9:22: At this point, it’s four for La
La Land. Chazelle wins for best screenplay. 9:14: Gosling gets La La Land’s third win of the night, for best actor in a comedy or musical. He jokes the award belongs to him as well as Chazelle and co-star Stone. “I’ll chop it into three pieces if you want.” 9:10: The Night Manager’s win total rises to two: Supporting actress in a limited series goes to Olivia Colman. 9:05: Viola Davis is named best supporting actress for her role opposite Denzel Washington in his adaptation of August Wilson’s
Fences. “This is my fifth nomination. I took all the pictures, went to the luncheon, but it’s right on time,” she says with a smile.
8:54: La La Land takes two ma- jor music Globes: Justin Hurwitz takes original score, and City of
Stars is named best original song. 8:48: The Night Manager’s Hugh Laurie wins for best supporting actor in a limited series and is in a jokey mood. “This is obviously a
terrible mix-up. ... I accept this award on behalf of psychopathic billionaires everywhere.”
8:39: FX’s acclaimed The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime
Story quickly wins back-to-back honors for best limited series and actress, to Sarah Paulson. 8:27: Glover is all smiles as At
lanta is named best comedy. 8:23: In taking home best actress in TV comedy, Black-ish star Tracee Ellis Ross wins her first Globe. “This is for all the women, women of color and colorful people whose stories, ideas (and) thoughts aren’t always considered worthy and valid and important,” she says. “But I want you to know that I see you, we see you.” 8:14: Billy Bob Thornton wins for TV actor in a drama for Goliath. 8:10: Stone and Ryan Reynolds hand out the first award of the night ... and it’s a stunner: Aaron Taylor-Johnson snags the bestsupporting-actor Globe for his backwater villain in director Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals.