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GOLDEN GLOBES

Allen J. Schaben Times and Keith Urban enter the ballroom at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills. Kidman was nominated for her supporting role in the “Lion.”

ON THE SCENE WINNERS

FILM Motion picture, drama “Moonlight” Motion picture, musical or Oh, what a night comedy “La La Land” Motion picture, animated “Zootopia” For a show that started with a red carpet-and-limo ode to “La La Land’s” traffic-jam musical opening, the 74th Motion picture, foreign Golden Globes on Sunday weren’t always the most seamlessly choreographed affair. NBC red carpet interviewer language “Elle,” France Jenna Bush Hager mistakenly kicked off a meme-storm when she asked nominated composer Actress in a motion picture, about his film “Hidden Fences,” a malapropism combining “Hidden Figures” and “Fences” that somehow reared drama up again with presenter . The teleprompter didn’t cooperate at the start of Jimmy Fallon’s mono- , “Elle” logue, which flummoxed the host. And a bit in which Goldie Hawn pretended to forget her glasses and misread Actor in a motion picture, drama everything on the teleprompter while presenting with landed with something of a thud. , “Manchester by the Sea” But none of that could diminish the glamour of a night out in Bever- Actress in a motion picture, ly Hills, where the dresses were musical or comedy flowing (as well as the Cham- , “La La Land” pagne), and in a marked shift from Actor in a motion picture, last year’s Oscars, many of the win- musical or comedy ners were people of color. , “La La Land” “Wow, there are so many beauti- ful dresses here this year,” Tracee Supporting actress in any Ellis Ross said on the red carpet. motion picture “Look at all this gorgeousness, , “Fences” these women!” Ellis said she was Supporting actor in any motion especially excited for the women’s picture march later this month in Wash- Aaron Taylor-Johnson, ington, D.C. “I wish I could be there “Nocturnal Animals” but I can’t due to scheduling con- flicts,” she said before winning for Director, motion picture her role on “black-ish.” “But just Damien Chazelle, “La La Land” the idea that so many women get- Screenplay, motion picture ting to express ourselves, our Damien Chazelle, “La La Land” power, on that scale is a beautiful thing for the world.” Original score, motion picture Backstage after her win, Ellis Justin Hurwitz, “La La Land” reflected on the moment. “My Original song, motion picture shoulders got a little heavy [with “City of Stars,” “La La Land” this win], and I got a little taller at the same time. To see the industry look outside of where they [nor- Television series, drama mally] look is very special to me. ““ Our industry needs to be at the Allen J. Schaben Television series, musical or forefront of making sure the diver- RUTH TURPIN,76, of Fort Wo rth, captures the red carpet scene. It was her 27th Globes show. comedy sity of our stories is told. And that “Atlanta” doesn’t just mean people of color.” Mission accomplished, surely. And his initial instincts, “to pull Television limited series or :: back” when people had high expec- motion picture made for tations for the show before its pre- television Viola Davis is no stranger to the miere, paid off. “My instinct is to “The People v. O.J. Simpson: Globes’ nominee list. This year, under-promise, over-deliver.” ” however, she is now a winner, tak- Actress in a television series, ing home the supporting actress :: musical or comedy award for “Fences.” And it couldn’t Tracee Ellis Ross, “black-ish” be a better role to make this mo- As the night went on, it seemed ment happen, she said. All thanks as if Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight” Actor in a television series, goes to August Wilson, the play- was going to get shut out, espe- musical or comedy wright who wrote pro- cially after didn’t Glover, “Atlanta” duction and the screen adaptation win supporting actor (“Nocturnal (in 2005 before his death). Animals’ ” Aaron Taylor-Johnson Actress in a television series, “Very seldom does the average won instead) and “La La Land” drama person get their due, especially cruised to win all seven of Golden , “The Crown” with people of color,” she said, not- Globes it was nominated for. Actor in a television series, ing that most black stories that On the red carpet, Jenkins drama make the big screen are biopics. looked on the sunny side: “I see this , “Goliath” “It’s always someone who did film’s reception as optimism.I see Actress in a limited series or something tremendous in life that Jay L. Clendenin Los Angeles Times it as a sign that we should tell the motion picture made for changes… our country. But I also GAL GADOT takes a selfie as she and Yaron Va rsano arrive for truth, our stories, more often and like the stories of the smaller peo- the ceremony, amid a sea of glamorous gowns and stylish tuxes. more consistently. They say black television ple. I think it encapsulates [us all] don’t travel, but look at this.” , and is universal and inclusive. Darden, didn’t find it surprising home, he stumbled on a letter he But “Moonlight” did eventually “The People v. O.J. Simpson” That’s what August did.” that the series managed to strike a had written his while he triumph, winning the drama film Actor in a limited series or chord after all these years. was in college. The letter refer- prize. “The whole point of this film motion picture made for :: “The show is more relevant enced a dream he had had about for Tarell [Alvin McCraney, the television than what it should be,” Brown the two writing a TV show together. playwright] and I was to tell a very , More than 20 years after the said backstage. “You’d think in 20 That show would become “At- truthful story about how we grow “The Night Manager” trial of the century, “The People v. years time, things would progress,” lanta,” which won the comedy se- up,” Jenkins said, noting that Mi- OJ Simpson: American Crime Brown added, referring to cases of ries Globe on Sunday and for which ami itself was a key character. Supporting actress in a series, Story” illustrates that the nation’s police brutality, “but look at what’s Glover won actor in a TV comedy. And though Hollywood loves limited series or motion picture obsession with the Simpson trial happening right now.” “It’s been in my head a long saying that the universal story is made for television hasn’t gone away. time,” he said, “so I do believe in one that is truly specific, Jenkins , The FX drama follows the trial :: magic and dreams.” didn’t focus on universality. “It was “The Night Manager” of O.J. Simpson, who faced charges And with his dream now come about getting it right,” he said. Supporting actor in a series, that he killed ex-wife Nicole Brown Donald Glover is a dreamer. true, all the recognition the show is “And speaking truth to power.” limited series or motion picture Simpson and her friend Ronald He’s always known this, but he was receiving is unbelievable, he said. —Tre’vell Anderson, made for television Goldman. Sterling K. Brown, who slappedin the face with this idea al- All he hoped was that the people in Deborah Vankin, , starred as prosecutor Christopher most two years ago. At his mother’s Atlanta would like the series. Yvonne Villarreal “The Night Manager”