Golden Globes 2024: Oppenheimer and Succession the big winners – and Barbie’s success also celebrated
Oppenheimer and Succession have been crowned the big winners at this year’s Golden Globes – with Barbie’s box office domination celebrated too.
In the film categories, Emma Stone‘s Poor Things, Paul Giamatti’s The Holdovers, and the French thriller Anatomy Of A Fall were also successful, while comedy-dramas Beef and The Bear took home big prizes in the TV categories.
This year’s Golden Globes ceremony introduced the first award for cinematic achievement – and with Barbie grossing more than $1.4bn worldwide, there could only be one winner (despite tough competition from Taylor Swift). Star and producer Margot Robbie, dressed in Barbie pink, dedicated the gong to “every single person on the planet who dressed up and went to the greatest place on earth – the movie theatres”.
Margot Robbie’s Barbie was honoured for its incredible success at the box office in 2023
But the night belonged to Oppenheimer – with five gongs including best dramatic film, best actor for Cillian Murphy and best director for Christopher Nolan – and the final season of Succession, which took home four. The critically acclaimed show’s prizes included acting trophies for Keiran Culkin, Sarah Snook and Matthew Macfadyen, as well as best TV drama series.
Irish actor Murphy was red-nosed as he accepted his award for playing “father of the atomic bomb” J Robert Oppenheimer, arriving on stage and saying: “Oh boy, do I have lipstick all over my nose? I’m just going to leave it.”
He went on to say that working on a Nolan set was “different” and paid tribute to his co-stars and fellow nominees, which included Saltburn’s Barry Keoghan and All Of Us Strangers’ Andrew Scott, saying: “If you’re Irish or not, you’re all legends and I salute you.”
Oppenheimer stars Robert Downey Jr and Cillian Murphy with their Golden Globes – two of five in total for the film
Oppenheimer’s Robert Downey Jr described the film as “a God damn masterpiece” as he was named best supporting actor, and the film also took home the prize for best original score. And for British filmmaker Nolan, the best director prize was his first win after six nominations.
Succession stars Culkin and Macfadyen were among the early winners in the TV categories, with the former beating his co-stars Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong to be named best actor in a TV drama series for his portrayal of Roman Roy, the youngest son of Cox’s billionaire media boss Logan Roy.
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Taylor Swift was among the A-listers in attendance. Pic: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP
“I was nominated for a Golden Globe like 20 years ago and when that moment passed, I sort of remember thinking I’m never going to be back in this room again,” Culkin said in his acceptance speech. “But thanks to Succession I’ve been in here a couple of times, I accepted I would never be on the stage so this is a nice moment.” He then joked to fellow nominee Pedro Pascal, star of The Last Of Us, saying of the prize: “Sorry, mine.”
Macfadyen was named best supporting actor for “playing the weird and wonderful human grease stain that is Tom Wambsgans”, while Snook said the show had changed her life as she accepted he prize.
Elizabeth Debicki was honoured for her portrayal of Princess Diana in The Crown
Royal drama The Crown also picked up an acting award courtesy of Australian star Elizabeth Debicki, who was honoured for her portrayal of Princess Diana in the sixth and final series. She thanked her “pretend children” who play Prince William and Prince Harry on the show.
There was also triumph for Beef stars Ali Wong and Steven Yeun, who were named best actor and best actress in a limited series, and The Bear stars Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, who took home the same gongs in the musical/ comedy series category.
Emma Stone was named best actress in a musical or comedy for her peformance in Poor Things
Elsewhere, director Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things was named best musical or comedy film, while star Stone took home the prize for best actress in the musical/comedy category for her portrayal of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by a surgeon.
The category saw Margot Robbie nominated for her starring role in Barbie, Jennifer Lawrence for No Hard Feelings, Fantasia Barrino for The Colour Purple, Alma Poysti for Fallen Leaves, and Natalie Portman for May December.
Other film acting awards went to The Holdovers stars Paul Giamatti and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, and Killers Of The Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone, who became the first indigenous person to be named best actress in what she described as a “historic” moment a she began her speech speaking in the Blackfoot language.
“This is for every little urban kid, every little native kid out there who has a dream, who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves in our own words with tremendous allies and tremendous trust,” she said.
Stars including Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Bradley Cooper – who walked the red carpet with his mum Gloria Campano – were among the stars in attendance at this year’s ceremony, which marked the start of the 2024 awards season.
Angelina Jolie says although she appreciates being an artist, she would prefer for her legacy to be “a good mother” and to be known for her “belief in equality and human rights”.
The Oscar-winning actress stars as Maria Callas in the new Pablo Larrain film about the opera singer’s life.
Pic: StudioCanal
She has called Maria “the hardest” and “most challenging” role she has had in her career and put months of preparation into immersing herself into the world of opera.
Jolie, who recently reached a divorce settlement with actor Brad Pitt, told Sky News: “To be very candid, it was the therapy I didn’t realise I needed. I had no idea how much I was holding in and not letting out.
“So, the challenge wasn’t the technical [side of opera], it was an emotional experience to find my voice, to be in my body, to express. You have to give every single part of yourself.”
The biopic combines the voice of the Maleficent actress with recordings of Maria Callas.
Jolie believes it “would be a crime to not have [Callas’] voice through this because, in many ways, she is very present in this film”.
Who was Maria Callas?
Born in New York in 1923, Maria Callas was the daughter of Greek immigrants who moved back to Athens at the age of 13 with her mother and sister.
After enrolling at the Athens Conservatory, she made her professional debut at 17 and went on to become one of the most famous faces of opera, travelling around the world and performing at Covent Garden in London, The Met in New York and La Scala in Milan.
Callas’s final operatic performance took place at Covent Garden in 1965 when she was 41 but she continued to work conducting master classes at Juilliard School, doing concert tours and starring in the 1969 film Medea.
Written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, Maria focuses on the artist’s final years in the 1970s when she moved to Paris and disappeared from public view.
She died on 16 September 1977 at the age of 53.
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Jolie on changing motivations as an actor
Maria follows the life of an artist fully consumed by the art she creates and even remarks that “happiness never developed a beautiful melody”.
Reflecting on her own life in the spotlight, Jolie said she noticed her own career motivations change over the years.
“There’s this kind of study of being human that we do when we create, and we communicate with an audience because our work is not in isolation – it’s a connection.
“I think when I was younger, I had different questions about being human and different feelings and now as I’ve gotten older, I understand some things and now I have different questions.
“It’s a matter of life, right? And so maybe that’s interesting that this now is a character really contemplating death and really contemplating the toll of certain things in life that I, of course, couldn’t have understood in my 20s”.
Jolie at the New York Film Festival in September with three of her children (L-R) Pax, Zahara and Maddox. Pic: AP
A family affair
Two of Jolie’s children, Maddox and Pax, took on production assistant roles during the filming of Maria and witnessed their mother perform opera for the first time in public.
She says the film allowed them to create new experiences together and for her children to see her approach to playing a difficult role.
“Everyone in my home, we all give each other space to be who we are and we’re all different.
“I’m the mom, but I’m also an artist and a person and so my family has been very kind and gives me their understanding. They make fun of me, and they support me and just as you’d hope it would be.”
She adds: “When you play somebody who is dealing with so much pain, it’s very important to come home to some kindness.”
Maria is in cinemas now.
Tom Holland’s dad has confirmed his son’s engagement to Zendaya – revealing how the 28-year-old meticulously planned the proposal.
Zendaya, also 28, sparked engagement rumours when she attended last Sunday’s Golden Globes wearing a sparkling diamond on her ring finger.
Neither star has publicly addressed the rumours but Tom’s comedian father, Dominic Holland, has now confirmed the pair are set to wed.
He wrote in a post on his Patreon account: “Tom, as you know by now was very incredibly well prepared. He had purchased a ring.
“He had spoken with her father and gained permission to propose to his daughter.”
“Tom had everything planned out… When, where, how, what to say, what to wear,” he added.
Zendaya arrived at the Golden Globes with a noticeable piece of new jewellery. Pic: Invision/AP
Dominic also noted that while most men worry about being able to afford an engagement ring, he suspects his actor son was “more concerned with the stone, its size and clarity, its housing, which jeweller”.
Tom and Zendaya met on the set of Spider-Man: Homecoming in 2016, when they played the titular hero and his love interest MJ, respectively. Their romance was confirmed in 2021.
In his post, Tom’s father admitted fears over whether being in the spotlight could put a strain on the couple’s relationship.
He wrote: “I do fret that their combined stardom will amplify their spotlight and the commensurate demands on them and yet they continually confound me by handling everything with aplomb.”
“And even though show business is a messy place for relationships and particularly so for famous couples as they crash and burn in public and are too numerous to mention […] yet somehow right at the same time, I am completely confident they will make a successful union.”
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Zendaya rose to fame after landing a role in Disney sitcom Shake It Up, and became a household name after starring in Euphoria.
Holland – who has starred in three Spider-Man films opposite his now-fiancée – made his stage debut in Billy Elliot the Musical in 2008.
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