Date: 8th January 2024

Cillian Murphy & Lily Gladstone Win Golden Globes for Best Performance by an Actor.


Cillian Murphy wins the Golden Globe for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama. This is the second time Murphy has been nominated for the coveted award.

Lily Gladstone won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for her poignant performance in Killers of the Flower Moon. This was Gladstone's first ever nomination.

Oppenheimer star Murphy paid tribute to Nolan's "rigour, focus and dedication" in making the film, which grossed $954m (£750m) at the box office and won best drama film at the ceremony.

In his acceptance speech, Murphy said: "I knew the first time I walked on Christopher Nolan's set that it was different."

"I could tell by the level of rigour, focus, dedication, and the complete lack of seating options for actors," he joked, "that I was in the hands of a visionary director."

Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone began her acceptance speech by speaking Algonquian language Blackfoot. The actress comes from a Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northern Montana.

"I just spoke a bit of Blackfeet language, the beautiful community nation that raised me, encouraged me to keep doing this," she told the audience.

"I'm here with my mum, who, even though she's not Blackfeet, worked tirelessly to get Blackfeet into our classroom."

"This award is a historic one. I'm so grateful I can speak even a little bit of my language, because in this business, Native actors used to speak their lines in English, and then their sound mixers would run them backwards to accomplish Native languages on camera."

Emma Stone won her second Golden Globe for best actress, musical/comedy, for her performance in Poor Things, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, with whom she worked on The Favourite. "I see this as a rom-com," she said of Poor Things‘ Frankenstein-inspired tale. "But in this sense Bella falls in love with life itself rather than a person, and she accepts the good and the bad in equal measure."

Paul Giamatti won best actor in a musical or comedy for his performance in The Holdovers, his third win since he was first nominated in 2005 for Sideways, his first outing with Holdovers director Alexander Payne. "Surely this is the first time this award has been given to an actor who has played a man who smells like fish," he joked at the top of his speech.

Oppenheimer also won best original score for Ludwig Göransson, while Billie Eilish and brother/co-writer Finneas won best original song for Barbie’s “What Was I Made For.” Animation legend Hayao Miyazaki won his first Golden Globe for best animated feature with his latest (and possible final) film, The Boy and the Heron.

Source: Press Release


 

 

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