Historical drama Oppenheimer on Sunday dominated the Golden Globe awards, while gothic comedy Poor Things upset summer blockbuster Barbie, as Hollywood threw its biggest party since labor disputes shut down much of show business last year.
Oppenheimer, about the making of the atomic bomb, landed five honors, including the coveted best movie drama prize and acting awards for stars Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr.
Christopher Nolan won his first Golden Globe award for best director for the film, which was distributed by Comcast’s Universal Pictures.
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“I am so pleased that Chris has been acknowledged because I just think that what he does is unlike anything anyone else is doing,” Oppenheimer producer Emma Thomas said on stage.
She said that Nolan, who is her husband, “brings the best out in people by being the very best himself.”
Poor Things, starring Emma Stone as a deceased woman revived by scientists, won best movie musical or comedy.
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Awards watchers had widely expected that honor to go to Barbie, the female empowerment story inspired by the iconic doll that topped last year’s box office charts and went into the night with a leading nine nominations. Stone also was named best actress in a movie comedy or musical.
The winners were chosen by about 300 entertainment journalists who voted on the honors as a part of a new organization created after an ethics and diversity scandal among Globe voters.
Lily Gladstone, best actress winner for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon, began her acceptance speech by introducing herself in the Blackfeet language.
“This is a historic win,” she said, on becoming the Globes’ first indigenous winner of best actress in a drama. “This is for every little rez [reservation] 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 — with tremendous allies and tremendous trust from and with each other.”
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