Golden Globes 2017: Winners, speeches and highlights from the show
IT WAS the appearance no one expected amid one of the blandest ceremonies ever. When Brad Pitt walked on to the Golden Globes stage, the reaction was huge.
IN WHAT was one of the most bland ceremonies in Golden Globes history, the most surprising moment of this year’s show came when the incredibly dreamy Brad Pitt made an unexpected appearance as a presenter.
It’s the first time the actor has appeared at a major event since his highly-publicised split from Angelina Jolie. And he looked smoking. Like, seriously amazing. The tan. The hair. Everything.
If you’ve recently split from your partner and have a major televised awards show honouring the year’s best work in television and film to attend, you want to be giving off the same vibes Brad Pitt was giving at Sunday night’s ceremony.
As soon as the 53-year-old walked out on stage, the star-studded crowd visibly perked up as they pieced all this information together: Brad Pitt, total babe, currently tangled in a ferocious divorce with Angelina Jolie, first major appearance.
Pitt’s pal Matt Damon enthusiastically led the cheers from the crowd. The bustle in the audience was obvious. If Brad wasn’t standing on a stage, things probably would’ve gone further. Damon would’ve hoisted Brad onto his shoulders and run through the A-list crowd, high-fiving Jon Hamm on the way past. Maybe Drew Barrymore would’ve poured some kind of really expensive rosé over his head.
Matt Damon is VERY happy to see Brad Pitt. #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/9m2NyeaFs2
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) January 9, 2017
Despite the excitement, Pitt kept things chill with his hands in his pockets as he dutifully delivered his part — reading the scripted introduction to a clip for Best Motion Picture Drama winner Moonlight. But it was clear he knew what everyone in the audience and at home was thinking.
Pitt’s appearance was one of only a few small moments that piqued the audience’s interest during the three-hour long ceremony.
Host Jimmy Fallon failed to impress with his opening monologue, which was overshadowed by a technical glitch just a few seconds after hitting the stage.
Following a star-studded prerecorded musical number that parodied awards favourite La La Land, the host walked onto the stage in Los Angeles ready to gibe some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, but things didn’t go to plan.
“Already the teleprompter is down, so this a great way to start the show,” he told the audience.
“I could do, uh, impressions. What do we do here? I could think of something. Cut to Justin Timberlake, please. Just wink at me or something.”
While it wasn’t clear at first whether it was just a cute comedy bit, it turned out to be true, with Fallon telling viewers a new monitor was being wheeled out.
“Already you have your Golden Globes moment ... it’s already, like, a GIF. I’m happy I didn’t trip,” he added.
And once everything was sorted, it was straight into the Trump jokes.
“It’s one of last places left where America still honours the popular vote,” he said of the ceremony.
Giving a nod to Meryl Streep’s role as “the world’s worst opera singer” in Florence Foster Jenkins, Fallon said: “Even she turned down performing at Trump’s inauguration.”
Referring again to next week’s inauguration, the host joked that in 12 days we’ll find out what happens if King Joffrey from Game of Thrones had lived.
Fallon then poked fun at this year’s award favourite La La Land.
“We have Ryan Gosling, right there! Amazing job … such an amazing job in La La Land, playing a jazz pianist in Hollywood. By the way don’t Google, ‘Ryan Gosling penis’. It’s a, uh, trust me, it’s an HR nightmare,” he said.
The friendly host kept his jokes aboveboard and non-offensive during the monologue. And while we were never going to get anything with the same bite of previous host Ricky Gervais, Fallon did take a friendly swipe at Ben Affleck, whose 2015 film Batman Vs Superman received a thumbs down from some fans and critics.
“Matt Damon — of course we all know Matt Damon from his greatest role yet: telling Ben Affleck that he liked Batman v Superman.”
Returning to the stage later in the ceremony, Fallon laughed off the clunky start to the show, joking that “Mariah Carey thinks Dick Clark Productions ruined my monologue”. Just days ago, the singer blamed the production company for her televised New Year’s Eve gaffe.
Later in the night, Kristen Wiig and Steve Carell trumped Fallon and delivered the funniest moment of the ceremony.
In a tight five-minute routine, the comedians managed to crush the lacklustre monologue Fallon delivered earlier in the night when they hit the stage to present the award for Best Animated Motion Picture.
“We co-star in the film Despicable Me — we also we get our hair cut together,” Wiig informed the audience. Asked by Wiig about the first animated film he ever saw, Carell recounted the time his father took him to see Fantasia as a child and how after the movie they found his mother in the lobby of the theatre.
“That was the moment she told my dad she wanted a divorce,” he deadpanned. “I never saw my father then after that day — Fantasia day.”
Attempting to change gears, Kristen recalled the first animated movie she saw — Bambi. And it was equally depressing.
“March 14 1981. It was the same day we had to put our dogs down. Three of them. Little Jack, Janet and Chrissie. My grandpa thought it’d be fun to go to a movie. It didn’t take our minds off it. Bambi’s mum. And also that was the last day I saw my grandpa. He disappeared. And I didn’t speak for two years.”
The two comedians stared blankly at the floor.
“And the nominees are,” Carell said, ending the intentionally awkward silence.
Kristen Wiig and @SteveCarell team up to present Best Motion Picture - Animated. #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/456617TZCG
— Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes) January 9, 2017
Accepting the Best Supporting Actor award for his role in The Night Manager, Hugh Laurie joked: “I suppose I’ll be able to say I won this at the last ever Golden Globes. I don’t mean to be gloomy, it’s just that it has the words ‘Hollywood’, ‘foreign’ and ‘press’ in the title.”
“I think some Republicans even have a problem with ‘association’,” he added.
Bringing a serious note to the evening, Meryl Streep received thunderous applause from the crowd as she talked about America’s political climate while accepting the Cecil B. DeMille award.
The film icon echoed Hugh Laurie’s message as she thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press, saying: “You and all of us in the room belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now, Hollywood. Foreigners and the press.”
She called out Hollywood stars in the room and listed the places they were born.
“So Hollywood is crawling with foreigners and outsiders and if you kick them all out all you’ll have to watch is football and mixed martial arts, which is not the arts.”
She added there was one performance that stunned her the most this year. “It sank its hooks in my heart not because it was good — there was nothing good about it.”
Streep then described the moment she saw president-elect Donald Trump impersonate a disabled reporter, saying it “broke my heart”.
“It filters down into everyone’s life because it gives permission for other people to do the same. Disrespect invites disrespect.”
Streep’s message quickly provoked backlash from Trump supporters on social media, who called for people to boycott her movies.
Streep became tearful as she delivered her final words — a quote from Carrie Fisher.
“As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once: Take your broken heart, make it into art.”
Television’s funny ladies brought some lighter moments early on in the ceremony. While Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus pretended to hit the decks as DJ, Sofia Vergara brought her usual schtick while presenting — choosing to repeatedly mispronounce “annual” as “anal”.
DJ JLD on the beat. #GoldenGlobes 😂 pic.twitter.com/CSbCiK0cM9
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) January 9, 2017
Winning the Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture gong for her role in Fences, Viola Davis delivered an emotional speech, thanking family and the film’s director, Denzel Washington. “(Denzel) I’m a friend and a fan. Thank you for being an extraordinary leader. Thank you for saying ‘trust me and remember the love’.”
Pairing Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer could’ve been the funniest moment of the night but instead began to crawl into awkward territory.
It started out cute, with Hawn telling the crowd she and Schumer play mother and daughter in their upcoming movie.
“I play the daughter,” Schumer clarified. “Although I read for both parts.”
But Hawn’s running joke about being senile quickly tumbled out of control.
.@amyschumer & @goldiehawn present Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/oOQ2spTgvV
— Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes) January 9, 2017
Eventually, the pair presented Ryan Gosling with the award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture. And Gosling won the audience over while emotionally thanking his wife, actress Eva Mendes, for looking after their kids and helping her brother battle cancer while he worked on La La Land. Gosling dedicated the award to his late brother.
Gosling also joked that fellow nominee Ryan Reynolds was actually meant to win.
“This isn’t the first time I’ve been mistaken for Ryan Reynolds but I understand. Ryan, obviously there’s been some kind of mistake that I’m up here.”
But Reynolds had already accepted his consolation prize in the form of a kiss from Andrew Garfield. The blink-and-you’ll-miss-it pash went down as Gosling walked on stage to accept his award.
😱😂 ¿TE LO PERDISTE? Ryan Reynolds y Andrew Garfield se besaron al perder contra Ryan Gosling en los #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/G7EtHu4XtS
— Carla Prensa (@carlaprensa) January 9, 2017
Gosling also paid tribute to his co-star Emma Stone and director Damien Chazelle. “Damien and Emma, this belongs to the three of us. I’ll chop it into three pieces if you want. I don’t really wanna do that because who would get what piece and no one wants the bottom and we’d fight over the top. It could tear us apart. But the point is ... it’s ours.”
Critic favourite Emma Stone picked up the gong for Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy.
“I moved here 13 years ago his week,” the La La Land star said. “This is a film for dreamers and I think hope and creativity are two of the most important things in the world and that’s what this film’s about. So to anyone who’s had a door slammed in their face — either metaphorically or physically ... I share this with you.”
The musical ode to Los Angeles dominated the ceremony, winning all seven of the awards it was nominated for. The wins — which also included best director and Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy — make La La Land the most awarded film in Golden Globes history.
Scooping up the final award for the night was Moonlight, which was awarded Best Motion Picture — Drama.
WINNERS — FILM
Best Motion Picture — Drama
Moonlight
Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama
Casey Affleck, Manchester By The Sea
Best Director — Motion Picture
Damien Chazelle, La La Land
Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy
La La Land
Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy
Ryan Gosling, La La Land
Best Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy
Emma Stone, La La Land
Best Supporting Actress in any Motion Picture
Viola Davis, Fences
Best Supporting Actor in any Motion Picture
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals
Best Original Screenplay — Motion Picture
La La Land
Best Original Song — Motion Picture
City of Stars, La La Land
Best Original Score — Motion Picture
La La Land
Best Motion Picture — Animated
Zootopia
Best Motion Picture — Foreign Language
Elle
WINNERS — TELEVISION
Best Television Series — Drama
The Crown
Best Actor in a Television Series — Drama
Billy Bob Thornton, Goliath
Best Actress In A Television Series — Drama
Claire Foy, The Crown
Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy
Atlanta
Best Actor in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy
Donald Glover, Atlanta
Best Actress in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy
Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish
Best Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Tom Hiddleston, The Night Manager
Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Sarah Paulson, The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Olivia Coleman, The Night Manager
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Hugh Laurie, The Night Manager
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