2018 GOLDEN GLOBES Award Winners list and what this might mean for The Oscars

2018 GOLDEN GLOBES Award Winners list and what this might mean for The Oscars

Last night, the (arguably) most fun of the Hollywood award shows took place hosted for the first time by Seth Meyers, and we’ve compiled a list of winners below. Martin McDonagh’s brilliant THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI won big taking home Best Picture Drama, Best Actress Drama, Best Supporting Actor and Best Screenplay Drama, though if you’ve seen it this shouldn’t come as that much of a surprise. Don’t be shocked if we see a repeat of that come Oscar time. Saorise Ronan won Best Actress Musical or Comedy and Frances McDormand won Best Actress Drama, and you can absolutely expect these two to be competing for the Best Actress Academy Award. One of the big themes last night was celebrating women in Hollywood, and pushing for gender equality – some categories were noticeably missing female nominees too. But the most annoying aspect started about an hour in, when they were already saying they were running late, and suddenly all the presenters stopped with the witty banter and just read the nominees and called the winner, and even the acceptance speeches felt very rushed. Not sure who dropped the ball there, but the hurried feel definitely hurt the second half of the show. On the TV side, Big Little Lies was the big winner, but it’s also interesting to see how streaming series are pushing their way in more and more in many of these categories. While the Globes isn’t always a safe bet toward who will win at the Academy Awards, it’s usually a good indicator of who has the more likely chances, and this year’s event really felt like what many in the business are expecting to see come Oscar time. We expect the easy Oscar bets will be COCO for Best Animated Film (of course, it’s Pixar), Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney for Best Supporting again, but the Best Actor and Best Actress are tough calls – Gary Oldman is way overdue for an Oscar, but everyone seems to love James Franco for THE DISASTER ARTIST, which is in truth a more accessible film than DARKEST HOUR, even if it’s not nearly as good. Guillermo del Toro winning Best Director for THE SHAPE OF WATER, and beating out Steven Spielberg for the critic favorite THE POST may bode well for del Toro come Oscar time. Did you see the show? Do you agree with the winning choices? Let us know in the comments.

Best Motion Picture – Drama
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER
Call Me by Your Name
Dunkirk
The Post
The Shape of Water

Best Motion Picture – Animated
Coco – WINNER
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner

Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
In the Fade – WINNER
A Fantastic Woman
First They Killed My Father
Loveless
The Square

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Lady Bird – WINNER
Get Out
I, Tonya
The Disaster Artist
The Greatest Showman

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour – WINNER
Daniel Day-Lewis for Phantom Thread
Denzel Washington for Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Timothée Chalamet for Call Me by Your Name
Tom Hanks for The Post

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
James Franco for The Disaster Artist – WINNER
Ansel Elgort for Baby Driver
Daniel Kaluuya for Get Out
Hugh Jackman for The Greatest Showman
Steve Carell for Battle of the Sexes

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER
Jessica Chastain for Molly’s Game
Meryl Streep for The Post
Michelle Williams for All the Money in the World
Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Saoirse Ronan for Lady Bird – WINNER
Emma Stone for Battle of the Sexes
Helen Mirren for The Leisure Seeker
Judi Dench for Victoria & Abdul
Margot Robbie for I, Tonya

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Sam Rockwell for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER
Armie Hammer for Call Me By Your Name
Christopher Plummer for All the Money in the World
Richard Jenkins for The Shape of Water
Willem Dafoe for The Florida Project

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Allison Janney for I, Tonya – WINNER
Hong Chau for Downsizing
Laurie Metcalf for Lady Bird
Mary J. Blige for Mudbound
Octavia Spencer for The Shape of Water

Best Director – Motion Picture
Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water – WINNER
Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk
Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Ridley Scott for All the Money in the World
Steven Spielberg for The Post

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh – WINNER
Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig
Molly’s Game – Aaron Sorkin
The Post – Liz Hannah, Josh Singer
The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
The Greatest Showman – Benj Pasek, Justin Paul – “This is Me” – WINNER
Coco – Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez – “Remember Me”
Ferdinand – Nick Jonas, Justin Tranter, Nick Monson – “Home”
Mudbound – Raphael Saadiq, Mary J. Blige – “Mighty River”
The Star – Mariah Carey, Marc Shaiman – “The Star”

Best Original Score – Motion Picture
The Shape of Water – Alexandre Desplat – WINNER
Dunkirk – Hans Zimmer
Phantom Thread – Jonny Greenwood
The Post – John Williams
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Carter Burwell

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Sterling K. Brown – This Is Us – WINNER
Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul
Freddie Highmore – The Good Doctor
Jason Bateman – Ozark
Liev Schreiber – Ray Donovan

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Ewan McGregor – Fargo – WINNER
Geoffrey Rush – Genius
Jude Law – The Young Pope
Kyle MacLachlan – Twin Peaks
Robert De Niro – The Wizard of Lies

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Aziz Ansari – Master of None – WINNER
Anthony Anderson – Black-ish
Eric McCormack – Will & Grace
Kevin Bacon – I Love Dick
William H. Macy – Shameless

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Elisabeth Moss – The Handmaid’s Tale – WINNER
Caitriona Balfe – Outlander
Claire Foy – The Crown
Katherine Langford – 13 Reasons Why
Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Deuce

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Nicole Kidman – Big Little Lies – WINNER
Jessica Biel – The Sinner
Jessica Lange – Feud
Reese Witherspoon – Big Little Lies
Susan Sarandon – Feud

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Rachel Brosnahan – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – WINNER
Alison Brie – GLOW
Frankie Shaw – SMILF
Issa Rae – Insecure
Pamela Adlon – Better Things

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Alexander Skarsgård – Big Little Lies – WINNER
Alfred Molina – Feud
Christian Slater – Mr. Robot
David Harbour – Stranger Things
David Thewlis – Fargo

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Laura Dern – Big Little Lies – WINNER
Ann Dowd – The Handmaid’s Tale
Chrissy Metz – This Is Us
Michelle Pfeiffer – The Wizard of Lies
Shailene Woodley – Big Little Lies

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – WINNER
Black-ish
Master of None
SMILF
Will & Grace

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Big Little Lies – WINNER
Fargo
Feud
The Sinner
Top of the Lake

Best Television Series – Drama
The Handmaid’s Tale – WINNER
Game of Thrones
Stranger Things
The Crown
This Is Us

Cecil B. DeMille Award
Oprah Winfrey – WINNER

The Golden Globes aired on January 7, 2018 on NBC

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Born and raised in Dallas, Mark has been a movie critic since 1994, with reviews featured in print, radio and National TV. In 2001 he started the Entertainment section of the Herorealm website, where he contributed film reviews and celebrity interviews until 2004. After three years of service there, he started Bigfanboy.com, which has become one of the Dallas film community's leading information websites. Bigfanboy hosts several movie screenings in the Texas area, and works closely with film and TV studios and promotional partners to host exciting events and contests. The site also features a variety of rare celebrity and filmmaker interviews, and Bigfanboy.com regularly covers the film festival circuit as well. In addition to Hollywood reporting, Mark has worked for many years as an advertising and sci-fi/comic book artist. Clients have included Lucasfilm Ltd., Topps Trading Cards, The Dallas Mavericks and The Dallas Stars. From 2002 until 2015 he managed the Dallas Comic Con, Sci-Fi Expo and Fan Days events in the DFW area. He currently catalogs rare comic books and movie memorabilia for Heritage Auctions, and runs the Dallas Comic Show conventions, but remains an avid moviegoer and cinema buff.