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 Mother-daughter comedy "Lady Bird" was named best comedy film
and the indie A24 movie's star Saoirse Ronan won for comedy
actress.
Gary Oldman was named best drama movie actor for his role as
British wartime leader Winston Churchill in Focus Features'
"Darkest Hour" and Frances McDormand took home the award for
drama actress for her role as an angry mother seeking vengeance
in Fox Searchlight's "Three Billboards."
James Franco won the comedy actor award for his cult movie
homage "The Disaster Artist," also from A24. Mexican director
Guillermo del Toro won best director for magical fantasy "The
Shape of Water."
However, the night was dominated not by who took home prizes but
by jokes and speeches about the sexual misconduct scandal that
has rocked Hollywood.
"Happy New Year Hollywood! It's 2018. Marijuana is finally
allowed and sexual harassment finally isn't," quipped Globes
host Seth Meyers in his opening remarks, bringing wild applause
from the A-list audience in Beverly Hills.
Multiple allegations against actors, filmmakers and Hollywood
agents since October 2017 have led to many of the accused being
fired, forced to step down, or dropped from creative projects.
Referring to the male nominees gathered in Beverly Hills for the
top television and movie awards, Meyers said: "This is the first
time in three months it won't be terrifying to hear your name
read out loud."
The evening began with the normally colorful red carpet
transformed into a sea of black gowns as every actress showed
solidarity with victims of sexual harassment inside and outside
the entertainment industry. Many have given their own harrowing
accounts. [L1N1P300D]
Women kept up the theme inside the Beverly Hilton ballroom.
"This year, we became the story," Oprah Winfrey said in a
rousing speech while accepting the annual lifetime achievement
award.
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McDormand said she was proud to be a woman in the industry. "It's
great to be here and be part of the tectonic shift in our industry's
power structure," she said.
Laura Dern, a supporting actress winner for "Big Little Lies," said:
"May we teach our children that speaking out without retribution is
our culture's new north star."
The HBO TV series was one of several female-driven winners on
Sunday.
The Golden Globes ceremony, the first of the major awards shows in
the run-up to the Oscars in March, marked the first big test for how
Hollywood would handle the scandal.
Meyers joked that, as the first of the hosts, he felt like "the
first dog they shot into outer space."
He appeared to have found the right balance, getting cheers in the
room and warm early reviews. Industry website Deadline.com said
Meyers "deftly executed a seemingly impossible task," while E! News
said he "made lemonade out of lemons."
Dystopian tale "The Handmaid's Tale" won best TV drama series and
"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," Amazon's new series about a 1950s
housewife who become a stand-up comedian, took best TV comedy or
musical series. [L1N1P3046]
Fox Searchlight and parent company Twentieth Century Fox were the
big winners in terms of studios, with their films winning seven
awards. Indie movie studio A24 had three.
(Additional reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy and Nichola Groom; Editing
by Sandra Maler and Paul Tait)
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