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.
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Meghan reveals who said ‘I love you’ first with Harry – and what she misses about the UK
The second season of the Duchess of Sussex’s lifestyle show With Love, Meghan, has been released.
Over the eight-episode series, which features celebrity guests including US model and TV personality Chrissy Teigen and Queer Eye’s Tan France, Meghan opens up about what she misses most about the UK, the meal she cooked on the night Prince Harry proposed, and who said “I love you” first.
Despite Harry not making a cameo in the Netflix show, Meghan does give some insight into her life in California with the prince, and their two children, Archie and Lilibet.
In one episode, she says it was Harry who first said he loved her, and that she fell in love with him while camping in Botswana, on the pair’s third date.
Harry and Meghan on the day they announced their engagement. Pic: PA
“We met in Bostwana and we camped for five days together,” she says, adding: “You really get to know someone when you are in a little tent.”
Later, Meghan reveals she tried to make a roast chicken on the night Harry proposed in 2017, but it didn’t turn out how she expected.
“I will say when I made a roast chicken for my now-husband I was still having a lot of challenges with the conversion of celsius and fahrenheit. I made a horrible chicken that night. I mean, truly terrible,” she says.
After first getting married, Meghan had planned to apply for British citizenship. But the pair later moved to the US after stepping down from their roles as working royals.
Meghan told Tan France she misses listening to Magic FM. Pic: Netflix/PA
In episode three, with British fashion designer Tan France, Meghan admits one of the things she “misses the most” about the UK, after leaving five years ago.
She says: “Honestly, one of the things I miss the most about the UK is the radio station called Magic.”
To which France quips: “Magic FM. Wow! Now, sorry to say this to you publicly, but that’s such a grandma station.”
A laughing Meghan replies: “I’ll be that grandma.”
During a moment where the pair are crafting aprons for their children, Meghan says she “always wanted to be a mum”, which is now “better than she expected” after the birth of Archie, in 2019, and Lilibet – who they call Lili for short – in 2021.
Meghan and Chrissy Teigen. Pic: Netflix/PA
Sympathising with France, who explained he gets heartbroken if away from his two young children for more than a couple of days, the duchess says the longest she and Harry have ever been without seeing their children is almost three weeks.
“I was… not well,” Meghan says about the separation.
In Harry’s 2023 memoir, Spare, he wrote of the “difficult days” after Queen Elizabeth’s death and how he and Meghan were separated from Archie and Lili for “longer than we’d ever been”.
He said when they reunited at their home in Montecito, “for days and days we couldn’t stop hugging the children, couldn’t let them out of our sight”.
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The premiere of the second season of With Love, Meghan comes two weeks after Harry and Meghan announced a watered-down deal with the streaming giant Netflix.
They have signed a “multi-year, first-look deal for film and television projects”, in contrast to their reported $100m (£74m) contract five years ago.
US rapper Lil Nas X has pleaded not guilty after being charged with assaulting a police officer while walking in downtown Los Angeles in his underwear.
The musician, real name Montero Lamar Hill, was taken to hospital and arrested after police responded to reports of a naked man shortly before 6am on Thursday.
The district attorney’s office said on Monday that Lil Nas X faces three counts of battery with injury on a police officer and one count of resisting an executive officer.
He was being held on a $75,000 (£55,457) bail, conditional on attending drug treatment. It is not immediately clear whether he had posted it and been released yet.
He is set to return to court on 15 September for his next pre-trial hearing.
Pic: AP
During the hearing on Monday, Hill’s lawyer Christy O’Connor told the judge he had led a “remarkable” life, adding: “Assuming the allegations here are true, this is an absolute aberration in this person’s life.
“Nothing like this has ever happened to him.”
A law enforcement source told Sky’s US partner network, NBC News, on Thursday that the Old Town Road and Industry Baby hitmaker punched an officer twice in the face during the encounter.
The source added officers were unsure whether he was on any substances or in mental distress.
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NBC News cited TMZ footage where Hill was seen walking down the middle of Ventura Boulevard at 4am on Thursday in a pair of white briefs and cowboy boots.
In the videos, Hill tells a driver to “come to the party” in one clip and in another tells the person: “Didn’t I tell you to put the phone down?”
“Uh oh, someone’s going to have to pay for that,” Hill says as he continues to walk away.
In some clips, Hill struts as if he’s on a catwalk, posing for onlookers, and at one point he places an orange traffic cone on his head.
Several bands have pulled out from the Victorious music festival just hours before their scheduled performances, following claims by Irish folk group The Mary Wallopers that they were “cut off” for displaying a Palestinian flag.
The Last Dinner Party, Cliffords, and The Academic announced on Saturday that they would no longer be performing at the annual music festival in Portsmouth following Friday’s incident.
The organisers, who said the band’s set was cut short for using a “discriminatory” chant, have since apologised and promised to make “a substantial donation to humanitarian relief efforts for the Palestinian people”.
Rock band The Last Dinner Party said they are “outraged” by the incident and would boycott the festival.
“We are outraged by the decision made to silence The Mary Wallopers yesterday at Victorious. As a band we cannot cosign political censorship and will therefore be boycotting the festival today,” they said in a statement shared on their Instagram page.
“As Gazans are deliberately plunged into catastrophic famine after two years of escalating violence, it is urgent and obvious that artists use their platform to draw attention to the cause.
“To see an attempt to direct attention away from the genocide in order to maintain an apolitical image is immensely disappointing.”
Abigail Morris, Emily Roberts, Georgia Davies, Lizzie Mayland and Aurora Nishevci of The Last Dinner Party. File pic: Reuters
The Last Dinner Party said that throughout the summer, they have used their performances to encourage their audiences to make donations to a medical charity supporting Palestinians and urged their fans “more than ever to do the same”.
The band said they are “devastated to be put in this position” and apologised to those who were hoping to see them perform.
Following The Mary Wallopers’ set, a spokesperson for Victorious said: “We spoke to the artist before the performance regarding the festival’s long-standing policy of not allowing flags of any kind at the event, but that we respect their right to express their views during the show.
“Although a flag was displayed on stage contrary to our policy, and this was raised with the artist’s crew, the show was not ended at this point, and it was the artist’s decision to stop the song.”
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The Mary Wallopers claimed the festival had released a “misleading statement to the press claiming they cut our sound because of a discriminatory chant, and not the band’s call to Free Palestine”.
The band said their video “clearly shows a Victorious crew member coming on stage, interfering with our show, removing the flag from the stage and then the sound being cut following a chant of ‘Free Palestine'”.
“The same crew member is later heard in the video saying ‘you aren’t playing until the flag is removed’,” the band added.
Rock band The Academic have also pulled out of the festival, saying they could not “in good conscience” perform at “a festival that silences free speech”, while Irish band Cliffords said they “refuse to play if we are to be censored for showing our support to the people of Palestine”.
After the bands’ announcements that they were pulling out of the festival, the organisers released another statement, saying that they did not handle “the explanation of our policies sensitively or far enough in advance to allow a sensible conclusion to be reached”, and issued an apology.
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