Big wins for 'Oppenheimer' at Golden Globes
"Oppenheimer" – Christopher Nolan's retelling of the story of the inventor of the atomic bomb – bagged the Golden Globe for best drama film as Hollywood's awards season kicked off on Sunday. It beat out "Anatomy of a Fall", "Killers of the Flower Moon", "Maestro", "Past Lives" and "The Zone of Interest" for its fifth award of the night, a showing that will generate significant momentum ahead of the Oscars in March. Ahead of the top gong, "Oppenheimer" picked up multiple key wins at the Golden Globes on Sunday, on a night billed as a celebration of Christopher Nolan's epic and its fellow summer smash hit "Barbie". Dubbed "Barbenheimer" after they were released on the same weekend and grossed a combined US$2.4 billion, the two movies boasted 17 nominations between them at the Globes. "Oppenheimer" also took best director for Nolan, as well as acting wins for Cillian Murphy who took the prize for lead male actor in a drama, and Robert Downey Jr for supporting male actor. Nolan won best director, fending off Greta Gerwig, who directed "Barbie", the leading film heading into the night with nine nominations. "Barbie", which turned nostalgia for the beloved doll into a sharp satire about misogyny and female empowerment, is tipped to win best comedy film, and won the award for best song, for a tune written by Billie Eilish. As the year's highest grossing movie, it claimed a newly created trophy for box office achievement. But it surprisingly lost out on best screenplay to French courtroom drama "Anatomy of a Fall". That film's director and co-writer Justine Triet said she had assumed that "nobody is going to see this movie" about "a couple fighting, suicide, a dog vomiting... I mean, come on"! Among the other winners were Emma Stone as best comedy actress for her no-holds-barred turn in surreal, sexy bildungsroman "Poor Things", and Da'Vine Joy Randolph for her supporting role in prep school comedy "The Holdovers". Hayao Miyazaki's "The Boy and the Heron" won best animated film. (AFP)_____________________________
Last updated: 2024-01-08 HKT 12:39 