‘Oppenheimer’ & ‘Poor Things’ Win Top Movie Prizes At Golden Globes – Complete Winners List

The 2024 awards season is officially underway as Universal Pictures’ Oppenheimer won Best Motion Picture Drama the 81st annual Golden Globes tonight, leading all films and TV shows with five trophies. Check out the winners in all 27 categories below, see the wins by distributor and TV network/platform here.

Cillian Murphy took Best Male Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for Universal’s global smash period pic. Earlier, when its director Christopher Nolan won his first career Golden Globe, he noted that the only other time he’d been on the Globes stage was to accept Heath Ledger’s posthumous statuette for 2012’s The Dark Knight.

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The three-hour film about J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project that led to the world’s first atomic bomb also won Male Supporting Actor for Robert Downey Jr, and the pic’s Ludwig Göransson took Original Score.

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Lily Gladstone made history by winning Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for Apple Original Films’ Martin Scorsese-directed Killers of the Flower Moon. It was her first career nomination.

Searchlight’s Poor Things scored a bit of an upset, taking Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy over 2023’s top-glossing film Barbie, among others. Earlier, Poor Things star Emma Stone won Female Actor in a Motion Picture Musical, her second Globe triumph in eight career nominations. She also won for 2017’s La La Land.

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Paul Giamatti won Male Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Focus Features’ The Holdovers, his third Globe win among six noms. His co-star Da’vine Joy Randolph earlier scooped the first trophy of the night, for Female Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.

The Holdovers, Poor Things, Warner Bros’ Barbie and Neon’s Anatomy of a Fall — which took the Palme d’Or at Cannes — were the only other film multiple winners of the night. The latter won Best Non-English Language pic and Best Screenplay.

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Barbie took home the inaugural award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement — with star Margot Robbie accepting — and its “What Was I Made For?” won Best Original Song, as siblings Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas O’Connell won their second career Globe. The pair also won for the title track from 2021’s No Time to Die.

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Hayao Miyazaki’s first feature in a decade, The Boy and the Heron from Gkids, won for Best Animated Motion Picture.

Universal led all distributors with its five Oppenheimer trophies, and Focus, Searchlight, Warner Bros had two each. Awards-season hopefuls including Maestro, American Fiction, The Color Purple, Saltburn, Past Lives and May December were shut out tonight.

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On the small screen, HBO’s now-wrapped Succession won Best TV Series Drama for the third time and topped all shows with four wins tonight. But Netflix led the way for television with five trophies with three for Beef and one each for The Crown and Armageddon. FX had three.

Beef scored Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or TV Movie, and the show’s Ali Wong and Steven Yeun scored Female and Male Actor in a Limited Series, etc.

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FX’s The Bear took Best TV Musical or Comedy, and its star Jeremy Allen White is now 2-for-2 at the Globes, again taking Male Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy. His co-star Ayo Edebiri later scooped the Female Actor prize.

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Succession‘s Keiran Culkin won his first Globe in his fifth career nom, taking Male Actor in a TV Series – Drama, and Sarah Snook completed the show’s lead actor sweep. Their co-star Matthew Macfadyen took Male Supporting Actor, Elizabeth Debicki won the Female Supporting Actor prize for Netflix’s The Crown.

Multiple past Globes host Ricky Gervais won the night’s other first-time category, Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television, for his Netflix special Armageddon.

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There has been some turnover for the Globes during the past 12 months as it changed ownership and status, becoming a for-profit organization owned by Deadline parent PMC along with show producer Dick Clark Productions in a joint venture with Eldridge; its voting body has expanded to 300 members representing 76 countries; and CBS aired the show for the first time since 1982 — after decades on NBC — with Paramount+ streaming it. The show’s longtime former owner, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has shuttered.

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Barbie and Succession came into the night with a leading nine nominations apiece. Jo Koy hosted the ceremony at the Beverly Hilton.

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Last year at the Golden Globes, Universal’s The Fabelmans took Best Motion Picture Drama and Searchlight’s The Banshees of Inisherin won for Musical or Comedy. But both were eclipsed for the Best Picture Oscar by Everything Everywhere All at Once.

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Here is the full winners list:

Best Motion Picture – Drama
Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)

Best Television Series – Drama
Succession (HBO | Max)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Sarah Snook (Succession)

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
The Bear (FX)

Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made For Television
Beef (Netflix)

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement
Barbie (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“What Was I Made For?” — Barbie
Music & Lyrics By: Billie Eilish O’Connell, Finneas O’Connell

Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Ludwig Göransson (Oppenheimer)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Emma Stone (Poor Things)

Best Director – Motion Picture
Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer)

Best Motion Picture – Animated
The Boy and the Heron (Gkids)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Kieran Culkin (Succession)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Ayo Edebiri (The Bear)

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
Anatomy of a Fall (Neon) – France

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy On Television
Ricky Gervais (Ricky Gervais: Armageddon)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Jeremy Allen White (The Bear)

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Justine Triet, Arthur Harari (Anatomy of a Fall)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role On Television
Matthew Macfadyen (Succession)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role On Television
Elizabeth Debicki (The Crown)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made For Television
Steven Yeun (Beef)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made For Television
Ali Wong (Beef)

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer)

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Da’vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)


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