A musical about a transgender Mexican drug lord, Emilia Pérez, and a drama about the post-war immigrant experience in New York, The Brutalist, have taken many of the top prizes at the Golden Globes – setting themselves up as the films to beat at the Oscars in March.

The drama awards are often seen as the most likely to translate to Oscar recognition, as The Brutalist was named best drama film, Brady Corbet was named the best director and the film’s star Adrien Brody won the Golden Globe for the best actor in a drama.

The best actress in a drama was Brazil’s Fernanda Torres for Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here.

The most nominated film going into awards night was Emilia Pérez, which also left with the most prizes; it was named the best comedy or musical film, won best supporting actress for Zoe Saldaña, it won for best original song and was also named the best film not in the England language.

One of the most notable individual prizes saw Demi Moore named the best actress in a comedy for her role as an aging star in The Substance. The best actor in a comedy was Sebastian Stan for A Different Man, while Keiran Culkin was named the best supporting actor in a film for Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain.

The main winners in the TV categories were the drama Shōgun, the comedy Hacks and the British mini-series Baby Reindeer.

The new owners of the awards are trying to put recent controversies behind them after an LA Times expose almost put the Globes out of business, with allegations of racism, misogyny and corruption. The Chelsea owner Todd Boehly was brought in to rescue what was then called the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, but he’s since sold the awards to one of his other companies and sidelined the voting members of the HFPA. Only the Emilia Pérez Jacques Audiard doesn’t seem to have got the memo about the HFPA being disbanded, as he thanked them in one of his acceptance speeches.

To the outside world, the ceremony looks every bit as it used to as publicists and stars have ended their boycotts, realising that every bit of the Hollywood biosystem needs every other bit for the whole to survive.

The Globes have now served their purpose, raising awareness of the films that are likely to be in the race for Oscars, in less than two months’ time, giving the new organisers another year of relative privacy to sort out their remaining legal battles, before returning to do it all again next year.

Here is the full list of the winners, handed out at the star-studded ceremony at the Beverly Hilton hotel, also partly owned by Boehly:

FILM CATEGORIES

Best Film, Drama

• The Brutalist

Best Film, Musical or Comedy

• Emilia Pérez

Best Actress, Drama

• Fernanda Torres – I’m Still Here

Best Actor, Drama

• Adrien Brody – The Brutalist

Best Actress, Musical or Comedy

• Demi Moore, The Substance

Best Actor, Musical or Comedy

• Sebastian Stan, A Different Man

Best Supporting Actress

• Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

Best Supporting Actor

• Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain

Director

• Brady Corbet, The Brutalist

Screenplay

• Emilia Pérez

Best Animated Film

• Flow

Cinematic and box office achievement

• Wicked

TV CATEGORIES

Best Drama Series

• Shōgun

Best Comedy or Musical Series

• Hacks

Best Limited Series

• Baby Reindeer

Best Actress, Drama Series

• Anna Sawai, Shōgun

Best Actor, Drama Series

• Hiroyuki Sanada – Shōgun

Best Actress, Musical or Comedy Series 

• Jean Smart – Hacks

Best Actor, Musical or Comedy Series

• Jeremy Allen White – The Bear

Best Actress, Limited Series

• Jodie Foster – True Detective: Night Country

Best Actor, Limited Series

• Colin Farrell – The Penguin

Best Supporting Actress

• Jessica Gunning – Baby Reindeer

Best Supporting Actor

• Tadanobu Asano – Shōgun

Best Stand-up

• Ali Wong, Single Lady