The 81st Annual Golden Globe® Awards kick off on CBS at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT tonight, Jan. 7, 2024, from The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, CA, and are streaming on Paramount+. It’s a very different year for the Golden Globes, following the dissolution of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) after ethical concerns and a perceived lack of diversity. The Golden Globes are now owned by Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge Industries, and are airing on CBS for the first time in four decades. The nominees and winners this year are chosen by 300 voting members from 75 countries.
Comedian Jo Koy is the host of the 2024 Golden Globes, which will also be introducing new categories (one for stand-up comedy and one for cinematic box office achievement, which Barbie seems to be a shoo-in for, considering it made nearly $1.5 billion in 2023). The frontrunners this year are the Barbenheimer phenomenon and Martin Scorsese’s epic, Killers of the Flower Moon.
Presenters this year include Amanda Seyfried, America Ferrera, Andra Day, Angela Bassett, Annette Bening, Ben Affleck, Daniel Kaluuya, Don Cheadle, Dua Lipa, Elizabeth Banks, Florence Pugh, Gabriel ‘Fluffy’ Iglesias, Gabriel Macht, George Lopez, Hailee Steinfeld, Hunter Schafer, Issa Rae, Jared Leto, Jodie Foster, Jon Batiste, Jonathan Bailey, Julia Garner, Justin Hartley, Kate Beckinsale, Keri Russell, Kevin Costner, Mark Hamill, Matt Damon, Michelle Yeoh, Naomi Watts, Oprah Winfrey, Orlando Bloom, Patrick J. Adams, Ray Romano, Rose McIver, Shameik Moore, Simu Liu, Utkarsh Ambudkar, and Will Ferrell.
We’ll be updating this list of nominees with the winners throughout the night.
Jo Koy’s best bits so far — saying Barry Keoghan’s penis is the star of Saltburn; asking Robert De Niro how he created a child at 80 years old (and speculating that it was CGI); speculating that The Color Purple is the color of one’s butthole after taking Ozempic; how Succession taught him that if you’re a billionaire, just pull out, because your kids will just be a bad version of you; joking that the Golden Globes has fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift than an NFL game (which seemed to piss Swift off).
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Focus Features
Nominees:
Emily Blunt – Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks – The Color Purple
Jodie Foster – Nyad
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Julianne Moore – May December
Rosamund Pike – Saltburn
Winner:
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Da’Vine Joy Randolph gave an incredible performance in The Holdovers as the resident chef of the elite Massachusetts school where the film is set. She plays a woman grieving the loss of her son in the military, and spending her first Christmas without him. While often in the background as Paul Giamatti’s teacher character supervises ‘the holdovers’ who don’t go home for the holidays, Randolph’s character is the beating heart of the film and deepens its emotional impact and commentary on class and race relations.
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Universal Pictures
Nominees:
Mark Ruffalo – Poor Things
Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling – Barbie
Charles Melton – May December
Willem Dafoe – Poor Things
Winner:
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
In a very crowded field where it could easily have gone to anyone — Charles Melton was incredible, Robert De Niro is a legend, the Poor Things actors were completely out of their comfort zone, and Ryan Goslin was beloved as Ken. But it’s undeniable that Downey Jr. gave his best performance in at least a decade or more as Lewis Strauss, an egotistical government official who pushes back against Oppenheimer’s worries about the H-bomb and seeks to expose the scientist’s Communist past. Downey Jr. oscillates between haughty hubris and bitter resentment in the role, and becomes the most important player if you view Oppenheimer as a meditation on power and destruction.
Check out our interview with Charles Melton below about his incredible performance in May December:
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Made for TV Movie
Netflix
A24
Nominees:
Steven Yeun – Beef
Jon Hamm – Fargo
Matt Bomer – Fellow Travelers
Sam Claflin – Daisy Jones and the Six
David Oyelowo – Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Woody Harrelson – White House Plumbers
Winner:
Steven Yeun – Beef
Steven Yeun gave an emotional but also humorous acceptance speech at the Golden Globes, equating his feeling of separateness and loneliness with the plot of Frozen as he looked around the room and realized he’s connected with so many people. The actor deservedly won for Beef, the best show of the year. Netflix and A24’s masterpiece follows Yeun after a road rage incident changes his and his brother’s life.
Related Beef Review: A Shockingly Perfect Netflix Series Steven Yeun and Ali Wong play enemies in this TV masterpiece about lies, road rage, class warfare, and the meaning of everything.
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Made for TV Movie
Netflix
A24
Nominees:
Brie Larson – Lessons in Chemistry
Ali Wong – Beef
Riley Keough – Daisy Jones and the Six
Elizabeth Olsen – Love & Death
Juno Temple – Fargo
Rachel Weisz – Dead Ringers
Winner:
Ali Wong – Beef
We think Beef is the best TV show of 2023, so it’s great to see both Steven Yeun and Ali Wong win awards for the series. Wong was incredible as a somewhat spoiled artist who nonetheless worked extremely hard for her wealth. She finds a sense of purpose after a road rage incident sparks a prolonged feud between her and another Asian, a struggling working-class man played by Yeun. It’s one of the weirdest, boldest, most meaningful series of the year. Check out our interview with some of the cast below.
Related: Exclusive: Beef Stars Joseph Lee and Young Mazino on Their Phenomenal Netflix Series
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role on Television
Netflix
Nominees:
Elizabeth Debicki – The Crown
Abby Elliott – The Bear
Christina Ricci – Yellowjackets
J. Smith-Cameron – Succession
Meryl Streep – Only Murders in the Building
Hannah Waddingham – Ted Lasso
Winner:
Elizabeth Debicki – The Crown
Debicki plays Princess Diana in The Crown and thanked her beloved godmother “who left us too soon.” She thanked her pretend children as well. Debicki played Ayesha in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, starred in Tenet, The Night Manager, The Great Gatsby, Widows, and more.
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role on Television
HBO
Nominees:
Matthew Macfadyen – Succession
James Marsden – Jury Duty
Alan Ruck – Succession
Alexander Skarsgård – Succession
Billy Crudup – The Morning Show
Ebon Moss-Bachrach – The Bear
Winner:
Matthew Macfadyen – Succession
In his acceptance speech, Matthew Macfadyen called his Succession character a “human grease stain,” but boy can Macfadyen play a scumbag. He had a lot of competition in Succession, which aired its final season in 2023 and featured some of the best performances of the year (hence the three nominations for the show in this category alone). Personally, we would’ve liked to have seen James Marsden win for the surprisingly delightful Jury Duty, or Alan Ruck for Succession (oh yeah), but Macfadyen was certainly excellent in the role. Check out our video essay below on how we see Succession as a retelling of the Olympian Gods.
Best Motion Picture – Drama
Nominees:
Oppenheimer
Anatomy of a Fall
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Past Lives
The Zone of Interest
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Nominees:
Barbie
American Fiction
The Holdovers
May December
Poor Things
Air
Winner:
Best Director – Motion Picture
Nominees:
Greta Gerwig – Barbie
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song – Past Lives
Winner:
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Le Pacte
Nominees:
Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach – Barbie
Tony McNamara – Poor Things
Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer
Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song – Past LIves
Justine Triet, Arthur Harari – Anatomy of a Fall
Winner:
Justine Triet, Arthur Harari – Anatomy of a Fall
Hilariously presented by the cast of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse as “movie writing for the movies” (with the concept that studio executives wrote the presenters’ words), the award for Best Screenplay went to director Justine Triet and writer Arthur Harari for their script for Anatomy of a Fall, which won the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. It’s a surprise win in a packed category, but a highly deserved one for the tense legal and marriage drama.
Best Motion Picture – Animated
Nominated:
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Suzume
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Wish
Winner:
Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
Nominees:
Anatomy of a Fall (France)
Io Capitano (Italy)
Past Lives (United States)
Society of the Snow (Spain)
The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)
Fallen Leaves (Finland)
Winner:
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Nominees:
Bradley Cooper – Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo – Rustin
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers
Barry Keoghan – Saltburn
Winner:
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Nominees:
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee – Past Lives
Carey Mulligan – Maestro
Annette Bening – Nyad
Cailee Spaeny – Priscilla
Winner:
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Nominees:
Timothée Chalamet – Wonka
Nicolas Cage – Dream Scenario
Paul Giamatti – The Holdovers
Matt Damon – Air
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction
Joaquin Phoenix – Beau Is Afraid
Winner:
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Nominees:
Fantasia Barrino – The Color Purple
Jennifer Lawrence – No Hard Feelings
Natalie Portman – May December
Margot Robbie – Barbie
Emma Stone – Poor Things
Alma Pöysti – Fallen Leaves
Winner:
Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Nominees:
The Boy and the Heron
Poor Things
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Killers of the Flower Moon
Winner:
Best Original Song
Nominees:
“Addicted to Romance” (She Came to Me)
“Dance the Night” (Barbie)
“I’m Just Ken” (Barbie)
“Peaches” (The Super Mario Bros. Move)
“Road to Freedom” (Rustin)
“What Was I Made For?” (Barbie)
Winner:
Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
Nominees:
Barbie
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
John Wick: Chapter 4
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Winner:
Best Television Series — Drama
Nominees:
1923 (Paramount+)
The Crown (Netflix)
The Diplomat (Netflix)
The Last of Us (HBO)
The Morning Show (Apple TV+)
Succession (HBO)
Winner:
Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Nominees:
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
Barry (HBO/Max)
Jury Duty (Amazon Freevee)
Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)
The Bear (FX)
Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees:
All the LIght We Cannot See (Netflix)
Beef (Netflix)
Daisy Jones & the Six (Amazon)
Lessons in Chemistry
Fellow Travelers
Fargo
Winner:
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Nominees:
Pedro Pascal – The Last of Us
Kieran Culkin – Succession
Jeremy Strong – Succession
Brian Cox – Succession
Gary Oldman – Slow Horses
Dominic West – The Crown
Winner:
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Nominees:
Helen Mirren – 1923
Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us
Keri Russell – The Diplomat
Sarah Snook – Succession
Imelda Staunton – The Crown
Emma Stone – The Curse
Winner:
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Hulu
Nominees:
Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso
Bill Hader – Barry
Steve Martin – Only Murders in the Building
Martin Short – Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel – Shrinking
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear
Winner:
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear
Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Nominees:
Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Ayo Edebiri – The Bear
Natasha Lyonne – Poker Face
Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary
Elle Fanning – The Great
Selena Gomez – Only Murders in the Building
Winner:
Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television
Nominees:
Amy Schumer – Emergency Contact
Chris Rock – Selective Outrage
Wanda Sykes – I’m an Entertainer
Sarah Silverman – Someone You Love
Trevor Noah – Where Was I
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