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TUESDAY JANUARY 9 2024
Oppenheimer enjoys Golden Globes success
Irish co-production Poor Things
ELLIE IORIZZO AND
LAURA HARDING
was named best musical or comedy,
which
saw
director
Yorgos
Lanthi-
mos joke on stage that he just wanted
to talk to Bruce Springsteen all night,
T
HE
Golden
Globe
Awards
and best female actor in a musical or
proved a successful night for
comedy went to Emma Stone.
Oppenheimer, which scored
Stone, who plays Bella Baxter in
ve major awards during the
the
ceremony.
British
lm,
Irish
lm-maker
which
studio
is
co-produced
Element
Pictures
by
who
Christopher
previously produced TV hit Normal
Nolan was named best director for
People, said: “Playing Bella was un-
the rst time after six nominations,
believable, I think this is a rom-com, I
while
see this as a rom-com.
Cork
native
Cillian
Murphy
took home best actor in a drama for
“Bella
his work as the father of the atomic
life
bomb.
person.”
Oppenheimer
best
drama
saw
Nolan’s
was
motion
wife
also
named
picture,
Emma
falls
itself,
The
in
rather
ceremony
also
love
with
than
saw
a
a
“his-
which
torical win” for Killers Of The Flower
Thomas
Moon star Lily Gladstone, who began
serve as producer, and best support-
her speech in the Blackfoot language,
ing actor went to Robert Downey jnr
while Elizabeth Debicki also picked
for his role in the thriller.
Murphy,
who
played
up her rst Golden Globe Award for
theoreti-
her role as Diana, Princess of Wales,
cal physicist J Robert Oppenheimer
in The Crown.
in the biopic and is also known for
Anatomy Of A Fall won the best
Peaky Blinders, paid tribute to No-
screenplay and later picked up best
lan’s “level of dedication” when accepting his gong. He also paid trib-
Co Cork native Cillian Murphy with the award for best performance by an actor in a motion picture at the 81st Golden Globe
Awards on Sunday
PICTURE: CHRIS PIZZELLO/AP
utes to his fellow nominees, which
included
Dubliners
Barry
Keoghan
Edebiri won for best male and female
while best female actor in a TV series
(Saltburn) and Andrew Scott (All Of
drama
Us Strangers), adding: “If you’re Irish
Sarah
or not, you’re all legends and I salute
had changed her life.
you.”
Elsewhere, TV show Succession
non-English language lm, while The
Bear’s Jeremy Allen White and Ayo
went
Snook
to
–
Succession
and
Matthew
Australian
who
stars
said
the
Kieran
Macfadyen
actress
show
Culkin
were
also
Barbie took home two awards of
Meanwhile,
Swedish
composer
the nine it was nominated for, win-
Ludwig Goransson won best original
ning the Golden Globe for cinematic
score for Oppenheimer.
performance in a TV series.
The
Holdovers
also
picked
up
two prizes for best male actor in com-
and box ofce achievement and best
There was also triumph for Beef
edy for Paul Giamatti, who dedicated
original song for US stars Billie Eilish
stars Ali Wong and Steven Yeun, who
the award to teachers, and Da’Vine
and her brother Finneas O’Connell.
were named best actor and best ac-
Joy Randolph who took home best
tress
female supporting actor.
also proved a big hit at the 81st cere-
among the winners in the TV catego-
“I
was
not
expecting
this,”
Eil-
in
mony at the Beverly Hilton in Los An-
ries for best actor and best support-
ish said of her Golden Globe win for
show
geles, scoring best TV drama series,
ing actor in a TV series drama.
What Was I Made For?
series.
a
was
limited
also
series,
named
while
best
the
limited
The new stand up comedy performance award went to Ricky Gervais.