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Where to watch the films and TV shows that won Golden Globes in 2024
On Monday, the 81st Golden Globe Awards celebrated the best of television and film from the past year.
The awards recognised a wide range of screen offerings, from blockbuster films to television dramas and more niche independent productions.
Here’s where you can watch this year’s Golden Globe award winners in Australia.
Best Television Series, Drama
Winner: Succession
Sarah Snook (centre) as Shiv Roy in Succession.Credit: Foxtel/HBO
It was the year’s most talked about television series, along with The Crown, and it was a glittering night for the cast and crew of Succession with a record-equalling third win in this category.
Australia’s Sarah Snook, who played Shiv Roy, took home the Golden Globe for best actress in a drama series, and Kieran Culkin, who played her brother Roman Roy, was named best actor.
Across four seasons, the series focused on the Roy family and their battle to control Waystar RoyCo, the media and entertainment company founded by family patriarch Logan Roy, played by Brian Cox.
Succession became the “benchmark for prestige TV,” wrote TV critic Thomas Mitchell in this masthead, following the finale in May. “Succession reminded us why it is often cited as the best show on television.”
Where you can watch it: Binge and Foxtel
Best Musical/Comedy Series
Winner: The Bear
Jeremy Allen White in The Bear.Credit: Chuck Hodes/FX
Starring Jeremy Allen White as chef Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto, The Bear tells the story of Carmy’s family’s sandwich shop, the Original Beef of Chicagoland. Following the death of his older brother Michael, who ran the shop, the fine dining chef returns home to take over the business.
Where you can watch it: Disney+
Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture
Winner: Beef
Ali Wong and Steven Yeun are flawed protagonists in Beef.Credit: Andrew Cooper/Netflix via AP
Based on a real-life road rage incident, director Jake Schreier’s Beef won all three categories it was nominated in at this week’s Golden Globes. The show won best limited series, facing off against other nominees including Daisy Jones & the Six, Lessons In Chemistry and Fargo.
Beef follows strangers, Danny (Steven Yeun) and Amy (Ali Wong), after their tense first meeting in a Los Angeles car park. “Existential anxiety percolates through the early episodes,” Craig Mathieson wrote for this masthead. Beef explores the complexity of anger, as Danny and Amy’s lives become entangled, and difficult truths are revealed across 10 episodes.
Where you can watch it: Netflix
Best Picture - Drama
Winner: Oppenheimer
Cillian Murphy plays J. Robert Oppenheimer, in Oppenheimer.Credit: Universal Studios
Based on Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s biography American Prometheus, the film stars Cillian Murphy as physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.
Director Christopher Nolan’s three-hour drama focuses on the intense Oppenheimer, who led the Manhattan Project during World War II.
It also features Robert Downey jnr as Atomic Energy Commission chair Lewis Strauss, Matt Damon as Oppenheimer’s gruff wartime boss, Gary Oldman as Harry Truman, and Florence Pugh and Emily Blunt, as the two main women in Oppenheimer’s life.
Murphy added to the show’s success at the Globes, winning best performance by an actor in a motion picture.
Where you can watch it: Rent for $5.99 on Amazon Prime Video (and Google Play Movies) or from $6.99 on Apple TV
Best Picture - Musical/Comedy
Winner: Poor Things
Emma Stone plays Bella, a young woman who is brought back to life in Poor Things.
Australian screenwriter Tony McNamara, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos and American actor Emma Stone combine forces again after The Favourite for a dazzlingly crazy absurdist comedy. In a variation on Frankenstein, Stone plays a child-like young woman who, after being reanimated by a god-like scientist (Willem Dafoe), goes on a lusty journey of self-discovery in a fantasy version of Victorian Europe.
Where you can watch it: Currently in cinemas
Best Picture - Animated
Winner: The Boy and the Heron
A scene from The Boy and the HeronCredit: Studio Ghibli/GKIDS via AP
Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s film is set in 1943, as Tokyo was bombed during World War II. The boy is 12-year-old Mahito Maki, whose mother has died in a hospital fire.
Mahito finds himself in a fantastical parallel dimension, where he encounters a talking heron (voiced by Robert Pattinson) that leads him to an abandoned tower with the promise he will find his mother inside.
Where you can watch it: Currently in cinemas
Best Picture - Non-English Language
Winner: Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall won the 2024 Golden Globe award for best picture - non-English language.
Justine Triet’s French courtroom drama, about a writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband’s death, was up against director Celine Song’s Past Lives in a category that’s recently been won by Parasite and Roma.
A Cannes Palme d’Or winner, Anatomy of a Fall puts a couple’s failed marriage on trial, and their 11-year-old son, who lost his eyesight in an accident several years earlier, is plunged into the scrutiny.
Featuring Sandra Huller as the defendant, Triet’s film puts domestic life and all of its complexities under an intense spotlight.
Where you can watch it: Prime Video and Apple TV
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