Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” won five major awards—including Best Motion Picture Drama—at the 81st Golden Globes on Sunday, adding to the critically acclaimed biopic’s momentum heading into Oscars season, where the British director is anticipating his first Academy Award.
Key Facts
- Nolan also won Best Director for the film, while leading man Cillian Murphy took Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama.
- Robert Downey Jr. won Best Supporting Actor for his role in the biopic about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, while Ludwig Göransson took home the Best Original Score prize for his work on the film.
- Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie”, which was released on the same day as “Oppenheimer” and topped the U.S. box office for 2023, won the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement prize—a new category introduced this year.
- The dark comedy “Poor Things” won Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, while its leading star Emma Stone won Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical.
- Paul Giamatti won Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for his role in “The Holdovers” and his co-star Da’Vine Joy Randolph won Best Supporting Actress.
- The HBO drama Succession—which ended its final season last year—dominated the TV category for drama, winning Best Drama Series, Best Actor (Keiran Culkin), Best Actress (Sarah Snook) and Best Supporting Actor (Matthew Macfadyen).
Lily Gladstone made history Sunday, becoming the first indigenous actor to win Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her role in Martin Scorcese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon”. Gladstone began her acceptance speech in the Blackfeet language before switching to English. “This is a historic win, and it doesn’t belong to just me,” she said, adding: “This is for every little res kid, every little urban kid, every little native kid out there who has a dream, who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves, in our own words.”
Tangent
While “Succession” led the TV drama category, FX’s “The Bear” swept the three big TV comedy categories, including Best Comedy Series. The show’s stars, Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, won Best Actor and Actress in a Comedy Series. Netflix’s “Beef” took home the prize for Best Limited Series. Elizabeth Debicki picked up Best Supporting Actress in a Series for her role as Princess Diana in “The Crown,” handing Netflix its only other major award of the night.
