Golden Globes ceremony: Winners, speeches and shocking moments

Regina Hall had the Golden Globes audience in stitches after losing it at the words she had to read from her teleprompter.

The 80th Golden Globe Awards are now underway in Los Angeles, with comedian Jerrod Carmichael on hosting duties.

Earlier, stars walked the red carpet outside the Hilton in Beverly Hills.

Aussie Cate Blanchett and White Lotus star Jennifer Coolidge were among the night’s big winners - check out our full, live winners list.

Here are the highlights (and lowlights) from the ceremony, as they happened... starting with one star’s very confusing accent:

Presenter loses it at Kevin Costner’s excuse

Regina Hall provided a few moments of extreme levity as she presented the award for Best Actor in a TV Drama Series, won by Yellowstone star Kevin Costner for his role as rancher patriarch John Dutton.

Costner was not at the ceremony due to the storms that have been wreaking havoc across southern California - though as she read the reason for his absence of the teleprompter, Hall couldn’t hold it together.

“Kevin Costner, he so much wanted to -” she began before immediately cracking up.

“I always like how they write this. Like, ‘They so much wanted to,’ yeah I’m sure he did.”

The crowd erupted in laughter at this point.

“But you won. So, he so much wanted to be here, but because of the unprecedented weather and flooding, he has to shelter in place. In Santa Barbara, Jesus, this is a sad story right now. Let’s pray, everyone,” Hall continued.

Regina Hall finding out why Kevin Costner couldn’t be at the #GoldenGlobes just won next year’s #GoldenGlobes for Best Actress in a TV Comedy pic.twitter.com/5WjI6zosdn

— Jarett Wieselman (@JarettSays) January 11, 2023

officially starting the Regina Hall Emmy nomination campaign for her performance in “accepting Kevin Costner’s Golden Globe for Actor in a Drama Series”

— Katie Rayford (@katie_rayford) January 11, 2023

Actor’s ‘real’ voice puzzles viewers

Austin Butler won Best Actor in a Drama Film for his celebrated performance as Elvis in Baz Luhrmann’s biopic, giving special thanks to Baz and to Elvis: “You were an icon and a rebel and I love you so much.”

Austin Butler won Best Actor in a Drama Film.

But it was Butler’s husky drawl of a voice during his speech that left viewers puzzled: Wait, is he still ‘doing Elvis’?

Austin Butler has one more chance to shut the Elvis voice off I swear to god #GoldenGlobespic.twitter.com/DP0p8bmIJi

— Gianni Raisins 🎄 (@BGaytion) January 11, 2023

Austin Butler still speaking in that weird Elvis voice or #GoldenGlobespic.twitter.com/0kzIZ2Atkp

— Real Housewives Heaven (@RHWHeaven) January 11, 2023

Why is Austin Butler still doing the Elvis voice #GoldenGlobespic.twitter.com/Uu0b16Trst

— Adam Smith (@AdamJSmithGA) January 11, 2023

The Austin Butler voice change situation is both absolutely mind boggling and hilarious to me. #GoldenGlobes

— Charles O'Keefe (@CharlesAOKeefe) January 11, 2023

Austin Butler’s voice is WILD that cannot be real #goldenglobes

— 🗣 (@RYBKR) January 11, 2023

Listen for yourself:

Austin Butler accepts his #GoldenGlobes  Award in the 'Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama' Category for his performance in 'ELVIS'. pic.twitter.com/YoBm9h9aSw

— Austin Butler News (@AButlerNews) January 11, 2023

Eddie Murphy’s hilarious Will Smith quip

Accepting a lifetime achievement award, comedy legend Eddie Murphy was surprisingly earnest and soft-spoken... until the very end of his speech. He advised young actors to follow his three rules for surefire success: “Pay your taxes, mind your business... and KEEP WILL SMITH’S NAME OUT YOUR F**KIN’ MOUTH!” he screamed.

Someone had to do it.

Not Eddie Murphy ending his Golden Globes speech like that 🤭😭 pic.twitter.com/SQiMqwJZnR

— Queens of Bravo (@queensofbravo) January 11, 2023

Noteworthy winners

A big Aussie win! Cate Blanchett picked up the award for Best Actress in a Drama Film for her starring role in Tar - but she wasn’t on hand to accept the award, as she’s filming in the UK.

The Banshees of Inisherin took out the award for Best Musical or Comedy film, while Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans won Best Drama film.

The night’s first award, for Best Supporting Actor in a film, went to Ke Huy Quan for Everything Everywhere All at Once. He gave an emotional speech, tracking his journey from an Indiana Jones child star to now.

Ke Huy Quan - Golden Globes 2023 Ceremony. Picture: Stan

Angela Bassett then won the Best Supporting Actress in a film award, for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical film went to Colin Farrell for The Banshees of Inisherin, who quipped “You can forget that piano” as the play-off music started - before calling out a colleague on the film for “eating my Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.”

Michelle Yeoh won Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical film for her acclaimed performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Her speech was very moving, revealing the prejudice she faced in her early years in Hollywood as an Asian actress.

Again, she was played off stage mid-speech, and again, she fought back. “Shut up, please,” she told the orchestra. “I can beat you up, OK? And that’s serious.”

Best Director went to the legendary Steven Spielberg for his very personal film The Fabelmans, a movie he said he “never had the courage” to make until this point in his career.

Jennifer Coolidge was very on-brand. Picture: Stan

Jennifer Coolidge was an early highlight, presenting the Best Supporting Actor in a TV series award to Tyler James Williams for Abbott Elementary. After a long, hilarious bit about how nervous she was she’d mess something up, she announced the award as: “And the Oscar goes to...”

She was also a winner later on, winning Best Supporting Actress in a limited series for The White Lotus. She became emotional - but still hilarious, of course - as she thanked those in the room who’d cast her during the 20 or so years when she was a working actress.

Coolidge immediately put down her Golden Globe: “I don’t work out.” Picture: Stan

“I had such dreams and expectations when I was younger, but life fizzles them. I thought I was going to be Queen of Monaco - somebody else took that job,” she said, dropping several F-bombs as she spoke lovingly of the show’s creator Mike White for giving her career new spark.

Shortly afterwards, The White Lotus won Best Limited Series, with a “too drunk” White giving a hilarious, charming speech in which he cheekily called out all the people in the room who passed on the show before HBO picked it up. “Everybody passed - you all passed!”

Elsewhere in the big TV awards, Abbott Elementary won Best Comedy Series and House of the Dragon won best Drama.

A “too drunk” Mike White accepts the award for White Lotus. Picture: Stan

Other TV awards went to Quinta Brunson, for Best Actress in a TV comedy for Abbott Elementary, and Jeremy Allen White for The Bear, winning Best Actor in a TV comedy.

Host’s jaw-dropping Tom Cruise joke

Host Jerrod Carmichael made a very close-to-the-bone joke about Hollywood’s most famous Scientologist, Tom Cruise, midway through the evening. Returning to the stage with three Golden Globe awards in his hands, to introduce two of Cruise’s co-stars in Top Gun: Maverick, Carmichael said: “I found these three Golden Globes backstage. They were returned by Tom Cruise... I think maybe we take these three things and pay for the safe return of Shelly Miscavige.”

Cruise famously returned his three Golden Globes in 2021 the wake of the controversy engulfing the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. And Miscavige is Scientology leader David Miscavige’s wife, who has been the subject of much speculation about her whereabouts and wellbeing after disappearing from the public eye in 2007.

The joke drew audible gasps from those in the room.

Another quip later in the show drew a muted response, as Carmichael said organisers wanted him to give a “shout out” to the venue. “We are here, live, at the hotel that killed Whitney Houston,” he said, referring to Houston’s accidental death in a hotel room upstairs at the venue in 2012.

Host opens by revealing his paycheque

“I am your host Jerrod Carmichael, and I’ll tell you why I’m here: I’m here because I’m black,” the host began, before “filling everyone in” on the Golden Globes’ controversial recent past.

Jerrod Carmichael opens the Golden Globes. Picture: Stan

“The Hollywood Foreign Press Association - I won’t say they were a racist organisation, but they didn’t have a single black member until George Flloyd died, so do with that what you will.”

Carmichael said of the call to host: “One minute you’re making mint tea at home, the next you’re invited to be the black face of an embattled white organisation. Life comes at you fast.”

He said he was unsure if he should take the job, until a friend had asked how much he was getting paid, and he revealed it was $500,000.

She told him: “Boy, if you don’t put on a suit and take that white people money...”

It was a slow-paced opening monologue that was light on laughs from those in the room, with none of the usual jokes at the expense of the celebrities present.

This year’s ceremony is certainly an upgrade on the 2022 event, which saw the show reduced to a streamed slide show without a host or a red carpet after NBC dropped the broadcast and celebrities boycotted the event over corruption and racism claims.

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