The 2024 awards season officially begins as Universal Pictures’ Oppenheimer won the 81st Golden Globes tonight for Best Motion Picture Drama, leading all movies and TV shows with five trophies. See the winners in all 27 categories below, along with wins by distributor and TV network/platform.
Cillian Murphy won Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for Universal’s period film. Earlier, as his director Christopher Nolan won his first career Golden Globe, he noted that his only other time on the Globes stage was when he accepted Heath Ledger’s posthumous statue for 2012’s The Dark Knight.
The three-hour film about J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project, which led to the world’s first atomic bomb, also won Best Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr. and the original score was provided by Ludwig Göransson.
Lily Gladstone made history by winning Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for Apple Original Films director Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. It was her first career nomination.
Searchlight’s Poor Things scored a bit of an upset when it beat out the best movie musical or comedy of 2023, among other things, the glossy Barbie movie. Earlier, Poor Things star Emma Stone won Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical, her second Globe triumph in eight career nominations. She also won 2017’s La La Land.
Paul Giamatti won Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Focus Features’ The Holdovers, his third Globe among six nominees. His co-star Da’vine Joy Randolph earlier picked up the first trophy of the night, for supporting actress.
The Holdovers, Poor Things, Warner Bros’ Barbie and Neon’s Anatomy of a Fall – which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes – were the only other multiple winners of the night. The latter won Best Foreign Language Picture and Best Screenplay.
Barbie took home the inaugural award for film and box office success — co-starring Margot Robbie — and her “Why Was I Made?” won best original song as siblings Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell picked up their second career Globes. The pair also won for their 2021 title track No Time to Die.
On the small screen, HBO’s now-wrapped Succession won Best TV Drama Series for the third time, dominating all shows with four wins tonight. But Netflix led the way for TV with five trophies with three for Beef and one each for The Crown and Armageddon. FX had three.
Beef scored Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or TV Movie, and Ali Wong and Steven Yeun scored Best Performance by a Female and Male Actor in a Limited Series, etc.
FX’s The Bear won Best TV Musical or Comedy, and its star Jeremy Allen White is now 2-for-2 at the Globes, again winning Male Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy. His co-star Ayo Edebiri later won the Best Actress award.
The Succession’s Keiran Culkin won his first Globe in his fifth career nomination, taking Male Actor in a TV Series – Drama, and Sarah Snook completed the show’s lead performance. Their co-star Matthew Macfadyen won Best Supporting Actor, Elizabeth Debicki won Best Supporting Actress for Netflix’s The Crown.
Multiple-time Globes host Ricky Gervais won another first-night category, Best Performance in a Stand-Up Comedy on Television, for his Netflix special Armageddon.
Barbie and the sequel entered the night with a leading nine nominations apiece. Jo Koy hosted the ceremony at the Beverly Hilton.
