The eightieth Golden Globe Awards at the moment are underway in Los Angeles, with comic Jerrod Carmichael on internet hosting duties.
Earlier, stars walked the crimson carpet exterior the Hilton in Beverly Hills.
You can even maintain up to date with each award because it’s introduced with our full, stay winners listing.
Here are the highlights (and lowlights) from the ceremony, as they occur:
Actor’s ‘real’ voice puzzles viewers
Austin Butler gained Best Actor in a Drama Film for his celebrated efficiency as Elvis in Baz Luhrmann’s biopic, giving particular due to Baz and to Elvis: “You were an icon and a rebel and I love you so much.”
But it was Butler’s husky drawl of a voice throughout his speech that left viewers puzzled: Wait, is he nonetheless ‘doing Elvis’?
Listen for your self:
Host’s jaw-dropping Tom Cruise joke
Host Jerrod Carmichael made a really close-to-the-bone joke about Hollywood’s most well-known Scientologist, Tom Cruise, halfway via the joke. Returning to the stage with three Golden Globe awards in his palms, to introduce two of Cruise’s co-stars in Top Gun: Maverick, Carmichael stated: “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 chief David Miscavige’s spouse, who has been the topic of a lot hypothesis about her whereabouts and wellbeing after disappearing from the general public eye in 2007.
The joke drew audible gasps from these within the room.
Another quip later within the present drew a muted response, as Carmichael stated organisers wished him to provide a “shout out” to the venue. “We are here, live, at the hotel that killed Whitney Houston,” he stated, referring to Houston’s unintentional loss of life in a resort room upstairs on 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 started, earlier than “filling everyone in” on the Golden Globes’ controversial latest previous.
“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 stated of the decision 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 stated he was uncertain if he ought to take the job, till a good friend had requested how a lot he was getting paid, and he revealed it was $500,000.
She advised 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 gentle on laughs from these within the room, with not one of the typical jokes on the expense of the celebrities current.
Big winners
An enormous Aussie win! Cate Blanchett picked up the award for Best Actress in a Drama Film for her starring position in Tar – however she wasn’t available to simply accept the award, as she’s filming within the UK.
The evening’s first award, for Best Supporting Actor in a movie, went to Ke Huy Quan for Everything Everywhere All at Once. He gave an emotional speech, monitoring his journey from an Indiana Jones baby star to now.
Angela Bassett then gained the Best Supporting Actress in a movie award, for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical movie went to Colin Farrell for The Banshees of Inisherin, who quipped “You can forget that piano” because the play-off music began – earlier than calling out a colleague on the movie for “eating my Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.”
Michelle Yeoh gained Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical movie for her acclaimed efficiency in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Her speech was very shifting, revealing the unfairness she confronted in her early years in Hollywood as an Asian actress.
Again, she was performed off stage mid-speech, and once more, she fought again. “Shut up, please,” she advised the orchestra. “I can beat you up, OK? And that’s serious.”
Best Director went to the legendary Steven Spielberg for his very private movie The Fabelmans, a film he stated he “never had the courage” to make till this level in his profession.
Jennifer Coolidge was an early spotlight, presenting the Best Supporting Actor in a TV sequence award to Tyler James Williams for Abbott Elementary. After an extended, hilarious bit about how nervous she was she’d mess one thing up, she introduced the award as: “And the Oscar goes to…”
She was additionally a winner afterward, successful Best Supporting Actress in a restricted sequence for The White Lotus. She grew to become emotional – however nonetheless hilarious, after all – as she thanked these within the room who’d forged her in the course of the 20 or so years when she was a working actress.
“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 stated, dropping a number of F-bombs as she spoke lovingly of the present’s creator Mike White for giving her profession new spark.
Shortly afterwards, The White Lotus gained Best Limited Series, with a “too drunk” White giving a hilarious, charming speech by which he cheekily known as out all of the individuals within the room who handed on the present earlier than HBO picked it up. “Everybody passed – you all passed!”
Other TV awards went to Quinta Brunson, for Best Actress in a TV comedy for Abbott Elementary, and Jeremy Allen White for The Bear, successful Best Actor in a TV comedy.
This 12 months’s ceremony is definitely an improve on the 2022 occasion, which noticed the present diminished to a streamed slide present and not using a host or a crimson carpet after NBC dropped the printed and celebrities boycotted the occasion over corruption and racism claims.
More to come back …
Originally printed as Golden Globes ceremony: Winners, speeches and surprising moments
