Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet were among the top winners at the Golden Globes awards held on Sunday night in Los Angeles. Anderson’s political drama, about a washed-up revolutionary’s efforts to rescue his kidnapped daughter, won Best Picture in the musical comedy category. (The Globes organises nominees into the drama and musical comedy genres.)
One Battle After Another also won Best Director and Best Screenplay awards. Teyana Taylor won Best Female Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for playing the activist Perfidia. Taylor dedicated the honour to “my brown sisters, and little brown girls watching tonight, our softness is not a liability”.
Zhao’s Hamnet was named Best Picture in the Drama category. Based on the Maggie O’Connell novel of the same name, Hamnet explores the grief experienced by William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes following their 11-year-old son’s death. Jessie Buckley, who plays Agnes, won the best actress (Drama) award.
Rose Byrne won the best actress award the musical or comedy category for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, in which she plays the mother of a child with a feeding disorder.
Wagner Moura won best actor in a drama for Kleber Mendonca Filho’s The Secret Agent. Set in 1977 during Brazil’s military dictatorship, The Secret Agent stars Moura as a dissident professor on the run from the authorities and an old adversary. The Portuguese-language film also won the prize for Best Motion Picture – Non English.
In his acceptance speech, Moura said, “The Secret Agent is a film about memory, or the lack of memory. And generational trauma. I think that if trauma can be passed along generations, values can too.”
Timothée Chalamet picked up best actor in a musical or comedy prize for playing a table tennis player in Marty Supreme. Stellan Skarsgard won best supporting actor for Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value.
Other winners included KPop Demon Hunters for Best Animated Film and Ludwig Goransson for Best original score for Sinners.
In the television section, Adolescence (Netflix) won four awards: best limited or anthology series, best actor in a limited series for Stephen Graham, best supporting actress in a TV drama for Erin Doherty and best supporting actor in a TV drama for Owen Cooper. Adolescence comprises four single-take episodes about a teenager who has murdered his classmate.
The Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy went to The Studio (Apple TV+), starring Seth Rogen as a Hollywood company executive trying to balance commerce with creativity.
The Pitt (JioHotstar) was named Best Drama in the television section. Noah Wyle won Best actor in a drama for The Pitt.
Rhea Seehorn won Best actress in a drama for Pluribus. Michelle Williams won Best actress in a limited series in Dying for Sex.
American media noted that while President Donald Trump was infrequently mentioned, there were political comments on the state of the country. Presenter Judd Apatow said, “I believe we are in a dictatorship now.”
The Secret Agent director Kleber Mendonca Filho said, “This is a very important moment in time, in history, to be making films.”
Jack Thorne, co-creator of Adolescence, noted: “Removing hate is our generation’s responsibility. It requires thought from the top down. The possibility seems remote right now, but hope is a beautiful thing.”
Priyanka Chopra Jonas was among those who walked the red carpet. Here is a selection of photos of celebrities who attended the event.
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