Golden Globes 2024 live: Awards show sees huge ratings boost with controversial host
Annual ceremony returned in its usual Sunday slot, hosted at the Beverly Hilton Hotel
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The Golden Globes returned with a blowout, star-studded ceremony on Sunday (7 January) night.
The annual, Beverly Hills-based awards show has been obscured in recent years after a 2021 Los Angeles Times investigation revealed that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (the awards’ voting body) did not have a single Black member.
However, this year, the Globes were back in their usual Sunday slot on CBS and hoping to regain viewers. Broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel, A-listers including Taylor Swift, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence and Kylie Jenner brought some much-needed stardust to the beleaguered show.
Oppenheimer, Barbie, Poor Things and Anatomy of a Fall were among the films to earn multiple awards. Christopher Nolan won his first Globe following six nominations while Barbie was surprisingly pipped to Best Picture in the Musical/Comedy category Poor Things.
Meanwhile, Beef, The Bear and Succession were the big winners in the TV categories.
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ICYMI: The full list of winners
Oppenheimer was the evening’s big movie winner, with Succession and The Bear sweeping the TV categories.
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Golden Globes 2024 winners: The full list
The victorious movies, TV shows and actors have been revealed
The biggest talking points from the night
From Jo Koy’s opening monologue getting booed to Poor Things’s surprise win over Barbie, here are all the highs and lows from a very star-studded evening...
The 6 biggest talking points from the Golden Globes
A booed monologue, first-time wins, moving tributes – this year’s ceremony had a lot of highs and lows
Reactions to Emma Stone’s win are going viral
Here are some of the best celebrity reactions to Poor Things star Stone winning a Globe for Best Actress – Musical or Comedy, featuring Jennifer Lawrence, Taylor Swift and Stone herself...
Jo Koy, who got the hosting job just two weeks ago, struggled to impress
At the start of the ceremony, New York Times journalist Nicole Sperling tweeted that a “prominent director” could be heard condemning comic Jo Koy from the crowd. “[We] are all here and this is what they give us?” they allegedly said. “This is a disaster”. Yikes.
Jo Koy’s Harry and Meghan joke
Jo Koy didn’t exactly have people in stitches all night, but one gag that did go down well was this one. “Harry and Meghan Markle got paid millions for doing absolutely nothing – and that’s just by Netflix,” he told the crowd.
Jokes about Barry Keoghan’s penis in Saltburn and the runtime of Oppenheimer didn’t quite have the same effect.
It was a rough night for two people in particular...
Barbie was snubbed, Jo Koy was booed.
Read all about it in this dispatch from Adam White...
Barbie or Jo Koy: Who had a worse night at the Golden Globes?
At last night’s joke-free Globes, ‘Barbie’ took home just two awards – for Best Original Song and a controversial new category celebrating ‘Box Office Achievement’, with Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and Greta Gerwig otherwise snubbed. What does this mean for its award season future, asks Adam White
Lily Gladstone gave the most powerful speech of the night
Lily Gladstone’s historic win for Killers of the Flower Moon saw her become the first star of Blackfeet and Nimiipuu heritage to win a Golden Globe with her gong for Best Performance by a Female Actor – Motion Picture, Drama. In her speech, the most powerful of the night, she spoke in Blackfeet then in English, paying tribute to her “beautiful community”. “This is an historic win. It doesn’t belong to just me; I’m holding it with all my beautiful sisters, the film, my mother – I’m just standing on all of your shoulders,” she said.
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Lily Gladstone gets standing ovation after historic Golden Globes win
Gladstone delivered most powerful speech of the night after taking home Best Actress
Taylor Swift purses her lips over joke at her expense
“The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL?” struggling host Jo Koy asked the crowd. “On the Golden Globes, we have fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift... there’s just more to go to here.”
The musician was not keen on the joke, which referenced her attendance at NFL games to watch her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight-end Travis Kelce.
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Taylor Swift appears unimpressed by Jo Koy’s NFL joke at Golden Globes
Comedian poked fun at the pop star’s highly publicised relationship with NFL star Travis Kelce
Cillian Murphy’s lipstick moment
One wonderful moment was when Cillian Murphy accepted his award for Oppenheimer with lipstick all over his face from his wife’s kisses.
The internet went wild for it...
The Epstein joke
The audience at the ceremony was left wincing when US comic Jim Gaffigan cracked a joke about Hollywood stars being named in the newly released legal documents linked to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein. Before he presented an award, he quipped: “This is so exciting for me. The Golden Globes – I can’t even believe I’m in the entertainment industry. I can’t. You know, it’s so unlikely. I’m from a small town in Indiana. I’m not a paedophile. I don’t know if that’s a new category here, but...”
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Jim Gaffigan addresses Jeffrey Epstein list in controversial Golden Globes joke
Audience groaned as comedian controversially referred to six Hollywood stars who were spuriously named in unsealed records
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