La La Land rules at the Golden Globe Awards

Article by The Skinny | 09 Jan 2017

Damien Chazelle’s musical starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone was the big winner at last night’s Golden Globe awards, along with Donald Glover’s Atlanta and the Tom Hiddleston-starring The Night Manager

Last night the 74th Golden Globes – think a less prestigious but more fun version of the Oscars – took place in Los Angeles and the resounding winner on the night was La La Land, Damien Chazelle’s love letter to the city of angels. The effervescent romantic musical, which stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as ambitious young creative types struggling to make it in LA in their chosen fields (he’s a jazz pianist, she’s an actor), stormed the ceremony, winning every category in which it was was nominated, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actress in the musical/comedy categories.

The film won seven awards in all, which makes it a Globes record-breaker, beating Midnight Express (1978) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), both of which won a tally of six. In must now go into the Oscar race as the big favourite for Best Picture.

Manchester by the Sea and Moonlight, La La Land’s main competition in the Oscar race, picked up only one award each, but they were biggies. The former won Best Actor in a drama for Casey Affleck’s moving portrait of a divorcee dealing with grief and heartbreak while the latter, a moving and lyrical tale of a young gay black man growing up in Miami, won arguably the biggest award of the night: Best Picture in the drama category.

It was a great night for renaissance man Donald Glover. The actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, rapper, singer and songwriter’s inventive and idiosyncratic comedy series Atlanta, which stars Glover as a broke young man trying to make it as the manager of his rapper cousin, won two awards: Best Comedy and Best Actor in a comedy.

British talent were also well rewarded by the Globes. Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie and Olivia Colman all won acting awards for The Night Manager, the BBC’s adaptation of John le Carre’s spy novel. Meanwhile, Netflix’s show looking at the life of Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown, meanwhile won two awards in the TV drama category: Best Series and Best Actress for Claire Foy's portrait of the young Queen.

Full Results are below (winners shown in bold):

Best Picture, Drama

Moonlight
Hacksaw Ridge 
Hell or High Water 
Lion 
Manchester by the Sea

Best Picture, Comedy/Musical

La La Land
Deadpool
Florence Foster Jenkins
20th Century Women
Sing Street

Best Actor, Drama

Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea 
Joel Edgerton, Loving 
Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge 
Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic 
Denzel Washington, Fences

Best Actress, Drama

Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Amy Adams, Arrival 
Jessica Chastain, Miss Sloane 
Ruth Negga, Loving 
Natalie Portman, Jackie

Best Actor, Comedy/Musical

Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Colin Farrell, The Lobster
Hugh Grant, Florence Foster Jenkins
Jonah Hill, War Dogs
Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool

Best Actress, Comedy/Musical

Emma Stone, La La Land
Annette Bening, 20th Century Women
Lily Collins, Rules Don’t Apply
Hailee Steinfeld, The Edge of Seventeen
Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins

Best Supporting Actor

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water
Simon Helberg, Florence Foster Jenkins
Dev Patel, Lion

Best Supporting Actress

Viola Davis, Fences 
Naomie Harris, Moonlight 
Nicole Kidman, Lion 
Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures 
Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea

Best Director 

Damien Chazelle, La La Land 
Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals 
Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge 
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight 
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea

Best Screenplay

Damien Chazelle, La La Land 
Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals 
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight 
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester By the Sea 
Taylor Sheridan, Hell or High Water

Best Picture, Animated

Zootopia
Kubo and the Two Strings 
Moana 
My Life as a Courgette
Sing 

Best Picture, Foreign Language Film

Elle — France
Divines — France 
Neruda — Chile 
The Salesman — Iran, France 
Toni Erdmann — Germany

Best Original Score 

Justin Hurwitz, La La Land 
Nicholas Britell, Moonlight 
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Arrival 
Volker Bertelmann and Dustin O’Halloran, Lion 
Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams, and Hans Zimmer, Hidden Figures

Best Original Song 

City of Stars, La La Land
Can’t Stop the Feeling, Trolls
Faith, Sing Steet
Gold, Gold 
How Far I’ll Go, Moana

Best Television Series, Drama

The Crown, Netflix 
Game of Thrones, HBO 
Stranger Things, Netflix 
This Is Us, NBC 
Westworld, HBO

Best Television Series, Musical/Comedy

Atlanta, FX 
Black-ish, ABC 
Mozart in the Jungle, Amazon 
Transparent, Amazon 
Veep, HBO

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, FX 
American Crime, ABC 
The Dresser, Starz 
The Night Manager, AMC 
The Night Of, HBO

Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama

Billy Bob Thornton, Goliath
Rami Malek, Mr. Robot
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Matthew Rhys, The Americans
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan

Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama

Claire Foy, The Crown
Caitriona Balfe, Outlander 
Keri Russell, The Americans 
Winona Ryder, Stranger Things 
Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld

Best Actress in a Television Series, Musical/Comedy

Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish
Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Sarah Jessica Parker, Divorce
Issa Rae, Insecure
Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin

Best Actor in a Television Series, Musical/Comedy

Donald Glover, Atlanta
Anthony Anderson, Black-ish 
Gael García Bernal, Mozart in the Jungle 
Nick Nolte, Graves 
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

Best Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Tom Hiddleston, The Night Manager
Riz Ahmed, The Night Of 
Bryan Cranston, All the Way 
John Turturro, The Night Of 
Courtney B. Vance, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story

Best Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Sarah Paulson, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Felicity Huffman, American Crime
Riley Keough, The Girlfriend Experience
Charlotte Rampling, London Spy
Kerry Washington, Confirmation

Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television

Hugh Laurie, The Night Manager
Sterling K. Brown, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
John Lithgow, The Crown
Christian Slater, Mr. Robot
John Travolta, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story

Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television

Olivia Colman, The Night Manager
Lena Headey, Game of Thrones
Chrissy Metz, This Is Us
Mandy Moore, This Is Us
Thandie Newton, Westworld

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