The Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody has confounded some critics by winning what’s widely regarded as the top award at the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills.
As well as taking the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama, it also took the Best Actor in a drama prize for Rami Malek, playing Freddie Mercury.
Peter Farrelly’s Toronto Film Festival winner Green Book took the most awards – Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Ali and Best Screenplay.
Another multiple award winner was the Mexican drama Roma, which won both Best Foreign Language film and – unusually for this category – the overall Best Director prize for Alfonso Cuarón.
But it’s the acting awards that draw most attention – and there was plenty of British interest, with Olivia Colman boosting her Oscar hopes with a win in the Best Actress category for playing Queen Anne in The Favourite, even though her film was nominated in the less favourable Musical or Comedy category. Christian Bale secured the corresponding Actor award for Vice, in which he plays the former US Vice President Dick Cheney, someone he referred to as Satan in his acceptance speech.
In the other film acting categories, Glenn Close won Best Actress in a drama for The Wife and Regina King was named the Best Supporting Actress for If Beale Street Could Talk.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the night was that the only award for the hotly tipped A Star is Born came in the Best Original Song category, for Shallow, co-written by the film’s star Lady Gaga and British DJ, writer and music producer Mark Ronson.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, whose ninety-or-so members vote on the Globes, also uses the ceremony to honour achievement in TV and there was plenty of British success there too, with BBC shows Bodyguard, A Very British Scandal and Killing Eve among the winners. Bodyguard’s Richard Madden was named Best Actor in a TV drama series, Ben Whishaw won the Globe for Best Supporting Actor on TV and the Golden Globes co-host Sandra Oh picking up an award herself, for Killing Eve. The BBC’s Director-General Lord Hall said it had been a “special night” for British creativity.
What influence the Globes will have on Hollywood more widely is never quite clear. Traditionally seen as a signpost to Oscar success, it’s more likely that this list of film winners will be born in mind when the 6000 or so Academy members select their nominees, but when it comes to selecting the winners, other factors are likely to come into play.
But with the HFPA voters necessarily coming from across the world, their awards could be expected to end up with a more diverse range of winners, but whatever happens later in the Awards Season, Hollywood will be pleased to have seen those walking off stage with a Golden Globe including the Egyptian-American Rami Malek, black actors Mahershala Ali and Regina King, the Mexican Alfonso Cuarón, the Canadian-Korean Sandra Oh and the gay actor Ben Whishaw.
And here is the full list of winners:
Film categories
Best motion picture – drama
- Winner: Bohemian Rhapsody
- Black Panther
- Black Klansman
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- A Star is Born
Best motion picture – comedy or musical
- Winner: Green Book
- Crazy Rich Asians
- The Favourite
- Mary Poppins Returns
- Vice
Best performance by an actor in a motion picture – drama
- Winner: Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
- Bradley Cooper – A Star is Born
- Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate
- Lucas Hedges – Boy Erased
- John David Washington – Black Klansman
Best performance by an actress in a motion picture – drama
- Winner: Glenn Close – The Wife
- Lady Gaga – A Star is Born
- Nicole Kidman – Destroyer
- Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Rosamund Pike – A Private War
Best performance by an actor in a motion picture – comedy or musical
- Winner: Christian Bale – Vice
- Lin-Manuel Miranda – Mary Poppins Returns
- Viggo Mortensen – Green Book
- Robert Redford – The Old Man and the Gun
- John C Reilly – Stan and Ollie
Best performance by an actress in a motion picture – comedy or musical
- Winner: Olivia Colman – The Favourite
- Emily Blunt – Mary Poppins Returns
- Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade
- Charlize Theron – Tully
- Constance Wu – Crazy Rich Asians
Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture
- Winner: Mahershala Ali – Green Book
- Timothee Chalamet – Beautiful Boy
- Adam Driver – Black Klansman
- Richard E Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Sam Rockwell – Vice
Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture
- Winner: Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
- Amy Adams – Vice
- Claire Foy – First Man
- Emma Stone – The Favourite
- Rachel Weisz – The Favourite
Best director – motion picture
- Winner: Alfonso Cuaron – Roma
- Bradley Cooper – A Star is Born
- Peter Farrelly – Green Book
- Spike Lee – Black Klansman
- Adam McKay – Vice
Best screenplay – motion picture
- Winner: Green Book
- The Favourite
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Roma
- Vice
Best animated film
- Winner: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Incredibles 2
- Isle of Dogs
- Mirai
- Ralph Breaks the Internet
Best foreign language film
- Winner: Roma
- Capernaum
- Girl
- Never Look Away
- Shoplifters
Best original score
- Winner: First Man – Justin Hurwitz
- Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson
- Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat
- Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman
- A Quiet Place – Marco Beltrami
Best original song – motion picture
- Winner: Shallow – A Star is Born (Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson)
- All the Stars – Black Panther (Kendrick Lamar)
- Girl in the Movies – Dumplin’ (Dolly Parton, Linda Perry)
- Requiem for a Private War – A Private War (Annie Lennox)
- Revelation – Boy Erased (Troye Sivan)
Television categories
Best television series – drama
- Winner: The Americans
- Bodyguard
- Homecoming
- Killing Eve
- Pose
Best television series – comedy
- Winner: The Kominsky Method
- Barry
- The Good Place
- Kidding
- The Marvellous Mrs Maisel
Best actor in a television series – drama
- Winner: Richard Madden – Bodyguard
- Jason Bateman – Ozark
- Stephan James – Homecoming
- Billy Porter – Pose
- Matthew Rhys – The Americans
Best actress in a television series – drama
- Winner: Sandra Oh – Killing Eve
- Caitriona Balfe – Outlander
- Elisabeth Moss – The Handmaid’s Tale
- Julia Roberts – Homecoming
- Keri Russell – The Americans
Best actor in a television series – musical or comedy
- Winner: Michael Douglas -The Kominsky Method
- Sacha Baron Cohen – Who is America?
- Jim Carrey – Kidding
- Donald Glover – Atlanta
- Bill Hader – Barry
Best actress in a television series – musical or comedy:
- Winner: Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvellous Mrs Maisel
- Kristen Bell – The Good Place
- Candice Bergen – Murphy Brown
- Alison Brie – Glow
- Debra Messing – Will and Grace
Best limited series or motion picture made for television:
- Winner: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
- The Alienist
- Escape at Dannemora
- Sharp Objects
- A Very English Scandal
Best actor in a limited series or motion picture made for television:
- Winner: Darren Criss – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
- Antonio Banderas – Genius: Picasso
- Daniel Brühl – The Alienist
- Benedict Cumberbatch – Patrick Melrose
- Hugh Grant – A Very English Scandal
Best actress in a limited series or motion picture made for television:
- Winner: Patricia Arquette – Escape at Dannemora
- Amy Adams – Sharp Objects
- Connie Britton – Dirty John
- Laura Dern – The Tale
- Regina King – Seven Seconds
Best supporting actor in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television:
- Winner: Ben Whishaw – A Very English Scandal
- Alan Arkin – The Kominsky Method
- Kieran Culkin – Succession
- Edgar Ramirez – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
- Henry Winkler – Barry
Best supporting actress in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television:
- Winner: Patricia Clarkson – Sharp Objects
- Alex Bornstein – The Marvellous Mrs Maisel
- Penelope Cruz – The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story
- Thandie Newton – Westworld
- Yvonne Strahovski – The Handmaid’s Tale