Few winners were seen as more certain than Lady Gaga as best actress in a drama at Sunday\u2019s ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. But the veteran actress Close pulled off the shocker for her performance in \u201cThe Wife,\u201d as the spouse of a Nobel Prize-winning author. Close said she was thinking of her mother, \u201cwho really sublimated herself to my father for her whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to find personal fulfillment. We have to follow our dreams,\u201d said Close, drawing a standing ovation. \u201cWe have to say I can do that and I should be allowed to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minutes later, the surprise was even greater when \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d won the night\u2019s top award, shortly after Rami Malek won best actor for his prosthetic teeth-aided performance as Mercury.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you to Freddie Mercury for giving me the joy of a lifetime,\u201d said Malek. \u201cThis is for you, gorgeous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Politics were largely absent from the ceremony before Christian Bale took the stage for winning best actor in a musical or comedy for his lead performance in Adam McKay\u2019s \u201cVice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Christian Bale and Amy Adams in Vice (Annapurna Pictures, Gary Sanchez Productions, 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhat do you think? Mitch McConnell next?\u201d joked the Welsh-born actor, referring to the Senate\u2019s majority leader. \u201cThank you to Satan for giving me inspiration for this role.\u201d<\/p>\n Oh and Andy Samberg opened the Globes, put on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, on a note of congeniality, including a mock roast of attendees and a string of jokes that playfully commented on critiques of Hollywood. Oh performed an impression of a sexist caveman film executive who casts like the title of Damien Chazelle\u2019s Neil Armstrong drama: \u201cFirst … man!\u201d<\/p>\n Noting the success of \u201cCrazy Rich Asians,\u201d Oh alluded to films with white stars in Asian roles like \u201cGhost in the Shell\u201d and \u201cAloha,\u201d the latter of which prompted Emma Stone, who starred in \u201cAloha,\u201d to shout out \u201cI\u2019m sorry!\u201d from the crowd.<\/p>\n But Oh, who later also won for her performance on the BBC America drama series \u201cKilling Eve,\u201d and Samberg closed their opening monologue on a serious note explaining why she was hosting.<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to be here to look out at this audience and witness this moment of change,\u201d said Oh, tearing up and gazing at minority nominees in attendance. \u201cRight now, this moment is real. Trust me, this is real. Because I see you. And I see you. All of these faces of change. And now, so will everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n Some of those faces Oh alluded to won. Mahershala Ali, whom the foreign press association overlooked for his Oscar-winning performance in \u201cMoonlight,\u201d won best supporting actor for \u201cGreen Book.\u201d While the Globes, decided by 88 voting members of the HFPA, have little relation to the Academy Awards, they can supply some awards-season momentum when it matters most. Oscar nomination voting begins Monday.<\/p>\n The biggest boost went to \u201cGreen Book,\u201d Peter Farrelly\u2019s interracial road trip through the early \u201960s Deep South, which has struggled to catch on at the box office while coming under substantial criticism for relying on racial tropes. It won best film, comedy or musical, and best screenplay. \u201cIf Don Shirley and Tony Vallelonga can find common ground, we all can,\u201d said Farrelly, the director best known for broader comedies like \u201cThere\u2019s Something About Mary.\u201d<\/p>\n As expected, Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt won best song for the signature tune from \u201cA Star Is Born,\u201d the film most expected to dominate the Globes.<\/p>\n Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in A Star Is Born (Warner Bros. Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cCan I just say that as a woman in music, it\u2019s really hard to be taken seriously as a musician and as songwriter and these three incredible men, they lifted me up,\u201d Gaga said.<\/p>\n Though the Globes are put on by foreign journalists, they don\u2019t including foreign language films in their two best picture categories (for drama and musical\/comedy). That left Netflix\u2019s Oscar hopeful, Alfonso Cuaron\u2019s memory-drenched masterwork \u201cRoma\u201d out of the top category. Cuaron still won as best director and the Mexican-born filmmaker\u2019s movie won best foreign language film.<\/p>\n \u201cCinema at its best tears down walls and builds bridges to other cultures. As we cross these bridges, these experiences and these new shapes and these new faces, we begin to realize that while they may seem strange, they are not unfamiliar,\u201d Cuaron said accepting the foreign language Globe. \u201cThis film would not have been possible without the specific colors that made me who I am. Gracias, familia. Gracias, Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n Netflix also won numerous awards for the series \u201cThe Kominsky Method,\u201d which won both best actor in a comedy series for Michael Douglas (he dedicated the honor to this 102-year-old father, Kirk Douglas) and for best comedy series over favored nominees like \u201cThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel\u201d (whose star, Rachel Brosnahan still won) and \u201cBarry.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNetflix, Netflix, Netflix,\u201d said series creator Chuck Lorre.<\/p>\n Olivia Colman, expected to be Lady Gaga\u2019s stiffest competition when the two presumably go head-to-head at the Oscars, won best actress in a comedy\/musical for her Queen Anne in the royal romp \u201cThe Favourite.\u201d \u2033I ate constantly throughout the film,\u201d said Colman. \u201cIt was brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n Best supporting actress in a motion picture went to the Oscar front-runner Regina King for her matriarch of Barry Jenkins\u2019 James Baldwin adaptation \u201cIf Beale Street Could Talk.\u201d King spoke about the Time\u2019s Up movement and vowed that the crews of everything she produces in the next two years will be half women. She challenged others to do likewise.<\/p>\n Stephan James and KiKi Layne in If Beale Street Could Talk (2018, Annapurna)<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cStand with us in solidarity and do the same,\u201d said King, who was also nominated for the TV series \u201cSeven Seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n A year after the Globes were awash in a sea of black and #MeToo discussion replaced fashion chatter, the red carpet largely returned to more typical colors and conversation. Some attendees wore ribbons that read TIMESUPx2, to highlight the second year of the gender equality campaign that last year organized the Globes black-clad demonstration. Alyssa Milano, the actress who was integral in making #MeToo go viral, said on the red carpet that in the past year a \u201creally wonderful sisterhood has formed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse\u201d won for best animated film. Ryan Murphy\u2019s \u201cThe Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story\u201d won for both best limited series and Darren Criss\u2019 lead performance.<\/p>\n For its sixth and final season, FX\u2019s \u201cThe Americans\u201d took best drama series over shows like Amazon\u2019s conspiracy thriller \u201cHomecoming\u201d and Oh\u2019s own \u201cKilling Eve.\u201d Richard Madden, the breakout star of the terrorism suspense series \u201cBodyguard,\u201d won best actor in a drama series. Ben Wishaw took best supporting actor in a limited series for \u201cA Very English Scandal.\u201d<\/p>\n The press association typically likes having first crack at series that weren\u2019t eligible for the prior Emmys. They did this year in not just \u201cThe Kominsky Method\u201d and \u201cBodyguard\u201d but also the Showtime prison drama \u201cEscape at Dannemora.\u201d Its star, Patricia Arquette, won for best actress in a limited series.<\/p>\n Usually the Hollywood Foreign Press Association\u2019s ceremony is known for its freewheeling frivolity and fun. The free-flowing booze helps. But the 2018 Globes were the first major televised awards in Hollywood following the downfall of Harvey Weinstein and the subsequent push for greater gender equality in the film industry.<\/p>\n Last year\u2019s show, like a lot of recent awards shows, saw ratings decline. Some 19 million tuned in to the Seth Meyers-hosted broadcast, an 11-percent decline in viewership. This year, NBC has one thing in its favor: an NFL lead in. Ahead of the Globes, NBC broadcast the late afternoon wild card game between the Chicago Bears and the Philadelphia Eagles, which proved to be a nail-bitingly close game \u2014 likely delivering the network a huge audience.<\/p>\n Jeff Bridges received the Globes\u2019 honorary Cecil B. DeMille Award. In remarks about everything from Michael Cimino to Buckminster Fuller and, of course, to his \u201cBig Lebowski\u201d character the Dude, Bridges compared his life to a great game of tag. \u201cWe\u2019ve all been tagged,\u201d said Bridges. \u201cWe\u2019re alive.\u201d He ended by \u201ctagging\u201d everyone watching. \u201cWe can turn this ship in the way we want to go, man,\u201d said Bridges.<\/p>\n A similar television achievement award was also launched this year, dubbed the Carol Burnett Award. 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