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Golden Globe Awards Highlight Major Film and Television Wins

At the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, several films and television shows stood out, capturing attention in major categories. "One Battle After Another" emerged as a strong contender, winning multiple awards in the film field. Timothée Chalamet continued to solidify his status as a rising star, while "Hamnet," an origin story of Hamlet, gained momentum in the Oscar race with a win for best drama.

"One Battle After Another," featuring Leonardo DiCaprio in a touching father-daughter narrative wrapped in a thriller about resistance fighters on the run, received nine nominations. The film secured four wins, including best comedy or musical, best director and screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson, and best supporting actress for Teyana Taylor.

Timothée Chalamet, who starred in "Marty Supreme," took home the award for best actor in a comedy or musical. His acceptance speech highlighted a lesson in gratitude learned from his father, reflecting on his rise among Hollywood’s elite leading men. He expressed that gratitude allowed him to leave the ceremony feeling proud, even if he hadn’t won everything. However, he admitted that the moments of struggle made the victory more meaningful. Chalamet concluded his speech by thanking his parents and his partner, Kylie Jenner.

The win for "Hamnet" brought Stephen Spielberg to the stage, as his company produced the film exploring family grief and the creation of a Shakespeare masterpiece. Spielberg presented the award to a stunned-looking director Chloé Zhao, who was flanked by best actress winner Jessie Buckley.

Winners at the event encouraged people to continue attending movies, which has become an increasingly old-fashioned activity. In one of Anderson’s acceptance speeches, the filmmaker shared a cinema-related anecdote about his spouse Maya Rudolph: “I literally proposed to my wife in a movie theater.”

In accepting the award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement—a relatively new category that recognizes both popularity and quality—director Ryan Coogler said, “I just want to thank the audience for showing up.”

Wagner Moura, known for his role as Pablo Escobar in the TV series "Narcos," won best drama actor for "The Secret Agent," a film about his native Brazil and its corruption in the 1970s. The film uses shifting perspectives and sometimes playful references to movies, including "Jaws" and "The Omen."

Television awards were dominated by shows that have already been recognized at the Emmys, including drama "The Pitt," comedy "The Studio," and limited series "Adolescence."

While politics weren’t overt during the show, a few celebrities wore anti-ICE pins, including best actress winner Jean Smart, presenter Wanda Sykes, and best actor nominee Mark Ruffalo. The black-and-white pins said "Be Good" in support of Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis last week.

Host Nikki Glaser closed the show with a tribute to Rob Reiner, who was found murdered last month along with his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, in Los Angeles. Glaser sported a hat for Reiner’s movie "This is Spinal Tap" and referenced one of its signature lines. “This one went to 11,” she said.

Complete List of Winners

Best Motion Picture—Drama

WINNER: “Hamnet”

Nominees: “Frankenstein,” “It Was Just an Accident,” “The Secret Agent,” “Sentimental Value,” “Sinners”

Best Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy

WINNER: “One Battle After Another”

Nominees: “Marty Supreme,” “No Other Choice,” “Blue Moon,” “Bugonia,” “Nouvelle Vague”

Best Actress—Motion Picture Drama

WINNER: Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet”

Nominees: Jennifer Lawrence, “Die My Love”; Renate Reinsve, “Sentimental Value”; Tessa Thompson, “Hedda”; Julia Roberts, “After the Hunt”; Eva Victor, “Sorry, Baby”

Best Actor—Motion Picture Drama

WINNER: Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent”

Nominees: Joel Edgerton, “Train Dreams”; Oscar Isaac, “Frankenstein”; Dwayne Johnson, “The Smashing Machine”; Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners”; Jeremy Allen White, “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere”

Best Actress—Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

WINNER: Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”

Nominees: Cynthia Erivo, “Wicked: For Good”; Kate Hudson, “Song Sung Blue”; Chase Infiniti, “One Battle After Another”; Amanda Seyfried, “The Testament of Ann Lee”; Emma Stone, “Bugonia”

Best Actor—Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

WINNER: Timothée Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”

Nominees: George Clooney, “Jay Kelly”; Leonardo DiCaprio, “One Battle After Another”; Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”; Lee Byung-hun, “No Other Choice”; Jesse Plemons, “Bugonia”

Best Supporting Actress—Motion Picture

WINNER: Teyana Taylor, “One Battle After Another”

Nominees: Emily Blunt, “The Smashing Machine”; Elle Fanning, “Sentimental Value”; Ariana Grande, “Wicked: For Good”; Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, “Sentimental Value”; Amy Madigan, “Weapons”

Best Supporting Actor—Motion Picture

WINNER: Stellan Skarsgård, “Sentimental Value”

Nominees: Benicio Del Toro, “One Battle After Another”; Jacob Elordi, “Frankenstein”; Paul Mescal, “Hamnet”; Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another”; Adam Sandler, “Jay Kelly”

Best Director—Motion Picture

WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”

Nominees: Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”; Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”; Chloé Zhao, “Hamnet”; Guillermo del Toro, “Frankenstein”; Jafar Panahi, “It Was Just an Accident”

Best Screenplay—Motion Picture

WINNER: “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson

Nominees: “Hamnet,” Maggie O’Farrell and Chloé Zhao; “Sinners,” Ryan Coogler; “Sentimental Value,” Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt; “It Was Just an Accident,” Jafar Panahi; “Marty Supreme,” Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie

Original Score

WINNER: “Sinners,” Ludwig Göransson

Nominees: “Frankenstein,” Alexandre Desplat; “Hamnet,” Max Richter; “One Battle After Another,” Jonny Greenwood; “F1,” Hans Zimmer; “Sirāt,” Kangding Ray

Original Song

WINNER: “KPop Demon Hunters,” “Golden” by EJAE and Mark Sonnenblick

Nominees: “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” “Dream as One” by Miley Cyrus, Simon Franglen, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt; “Sinners,” “I Lied to You” by Ludwig Göransson and Raphael Saadiq; “Wicked: For Good,” “The Girl in the Bubble” by Stephen Schwartz; “Wicked: For Good,” “No Place Like Home” by Stephen Schwartz; “Train Dreams,” “Train Dreams” by Nick Cave, Bryce Dessner

Best Animated Motion Picture

WINNER: “KPop Demon Hunters”

Nominees: “Arco”; “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle”; “Elio”; “Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”; “Zootopia 2”

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

WINNER: “Sinners”

Nominees: “Avatar: Fire and Ash”; “F1”; “KPop Demon Hunters”; “Weapons”; “Wicked: For Good”; “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning”; “Zootopia 2”

Best Motion Picture—Non-English Language

WINNER: “The Secret Agent”

Nominees: “It Was Just an Accident”; “No Other Choice”; “Sentimental Value”; “The Voice of Hind Rajab”; “Sirāt”

Best Television Series—Drama

WINNER: “The Pitt”

Nominees: “Severance”; “The White Lotus”; “Slow Horses”; “The Diplomat”; “Pluribus”

Best Television Series—Musical Or Comedy

WINNER: “The Studio”

Nominees: “Hacks”; “The Bear”; “Abbott Elementary”; “Only Murders in the Building”; “Nobody Wants This”

Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television

WINNER: “Adolescence”

Nominees: “Dying for Sex”; “Black Mirror”; “All Her Fault”; “The Beast In Me”; “The Girlfriend”

Best Actress in a Television Series—Drama

WINNER: Rhea Seehorn, “Pluribus”

Nominees: Britt Lower, “Severance”; Kathy Bates, “Matlock”; Keri Russell, “The Diplomat”; Bella Ramsey, “The Last of Us”; Helen Mirren, “MobLand”

Best Actor in a Television Series—Drama

WINNER: Noah Wyle, “The Pitt”

Nominees: Adam Scott, “Severance”; Sterling K. Brown, “Paradise”; Gary Oldman, “Slow Horses”; Diego Luna, “Andor”; Mark Ruffalo, “Task”

Best Actress in a Television Series—Musical Or Comedy

WINNER: Jean Smart, “Hacks”

Nominees: Kristen Bell, “Nobody Wants This”; Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear”; Selena Gomez, “Only Murders in the Building”; Jenna Ortega, “Wednesday”; Natasha Lyonne, “Poker Face”

Best Actor in a Television Series—Musical Or Comedy

WINNER: Seth Rogen, “The Studio”

Nominees: Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”; Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building”; Steve Martin, “Only Murders in the Building”; Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This”; Glen Powell, “Chad Powers”

Best Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, Or A Motion Picture Made For Television

WINNER: Stephen Graham, “Adolescence”

Nominees: Charlie Hunnam, “Monster: The Ed Gein Story”; Jude Law, “Black Rabbit”; Paul Giamatti, “Black Mirror”; Jacob Elordi, “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”; Matthew Rhys, “The Beast In Me”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

WINNER: Michelle Williams, “Dying for Sex”

Nominees: Rashida Jones, “Black Mirror”; Claire Danes, “The Beast in Me”; Sarah Snook, “All Her Fault”; Robin Wright, “The Girlfriend”; Amanda Seyfried, “Long Bright River”

Best Supporting Actress, Television

WINNER: Erin Doherty, “Adolescence”

Nominees: Carrie Coon, “The White Lotus”; Parker Posey, “The White Lotus”; Aimee Lou Wood, “The White Lotus”; Hannah Einbinder, “Hacks”; Catherine O’Hara, “The Studio”

Best Supporting Actor—Television

WINNER: Owen Cooper, “Adolescence”

Nominees: Tramell Tillman, “Severance”; Walton Goggins, “The White Lotus”; Jason Isaacs, “The White Lotus”; Ashley Walters, “Adolescence”; Billy Crudup, “The Morning Show”

Podcast of the Year

WINNER: “Good Hang with Amy Poehler”

Nominees: “Call Her Daddy”; “Smartless”; “Up First from NPR”; “Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard”; “The Mel Robbins Podcast”

Best Stand-Up Comedy Performance

WINNER: Ricky Gervais, “Ricky Gervais: Mortality”

Nominees: Bill Maher, “Bill Maher: Is Anyone Else Seeing This?”; Brett Goldstein, “Brett Goldstein: The Second Best Night of Your Life”; Kevin Hart, “Kevin Hart: Acting My Age”; Kumail Nanjiani, “Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts”; Sarah Silverman, “Sarah Silverman: Postmortem”