So, it’s the start of a new year and that means we are fully into the award season of the movie world where the industry and those most gullible to hype will determine which films were the best of the preceding year. Or as is the case for South Africa, which upcoming films should we end up watching in the next few months (at least for many of these movies).

And the first big awards item on the award season agenda is the Golden Globes Awards, which took place last night. Below are the full list of winners:

Movies

Best Motion Picture – Drama

• “Hacksaw Ridge”
• “Hell or High Water”
• “Lion”
• “Manchester by the Sea”
• “Moonlight” *WINNER

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

• “20th Century Women”
• “Deadpool”
• “Florence Foster Jenkins”
• “La La Land” *WINNER
• “Sing Street”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

• Amy Adams – “Arrival”
• Jessica Chastain – “Miss Sloane”
• Isabelle Huppert – “Elle” *WINNER
• Ruth Negga – “Loving”
• Natalie Portman – “Jackie”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

• Casey Affleck – “Manchester by the Sea” *WINNER
• Joel Edgerton – “Loving”
• Andrew Garfield – “Hacksaw Ridge”
• Viggo Mortensen – “Captain Fantastic”
• Denzel Washington – “Fences”

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

• Colin Farrell – “The Lobster”
• Ryan Gosling – “La La Land” *WINNER
• Hugh Grant – “Florence Foster Jenkins”
• Jonah Hill – “War Dogs”
• Ryan Reynolds – “Deadpool”

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

• Annette Bening – “20th Century Women:
• Lily Collins – “Rules Don’t Apply”
• Hailee Steinfeld – “The Edge of Seventeen”
• Emma Stone – “La La Land” *WINNER
• Meryl Streep – “Florence Foster Jenkins”

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

• Mahershala Ali – “Moonlight”
• Jeff Bridges – “Hell or High Water”
• Simon Helberg – “Florence Foster Jenkins”
• Dev Patel – “Lion”
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson – “Nocturnal Animals” *WINNER

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

• Viola Davis – “Fences” *WINNER
• Naomie Harris – “Moonlight”
• Nicole Kidman – “Lion”
• Octavia Spencer – “Hidden Figures”
• Michelle Williams – “Manchester by the Sea”

Best Animated Feature Film

• “Kubo and the Two Strings”
• “Moana”
• “My Life as a Zucchini’
• “Sing”
• “Zootopia” *WINNER

Best Director

• Damien Chazelle – “La La Land” *WINNER
• Tom Ford – “Nocturnal Animals”
• Mel Gibson – “Hacksaw Ridge”
• Barry Jenkins – “Moonlight”
• Kenneth Lonergan – “Manchester by the Sea”

Best Screenplay

• Damien Chazelle – “La La Land” *WINNER
• Tom Ford – “Nocturnal Animals”
• Barry Jenkins – “Moonlight”
• Kenneth Lonergan “Manchester by the Sea”
• Taylor Sheridan – “Hell or High Water”

Best Original Score

• “Moonlight”
• “La La Land” *WINNER
• “Arrival”
• “Lion”
• “Hidden Figures”

Best Original Song

• “Can’t Stop the Feeling” – “Trolls”
• “City of Stars” – “La La Land” *WINNER
• “Faith” – “Sing”
• “Gold” – “Gold”
• “How Far I’ll Go” – “Moana”

Best Foreign Language Film

• “Divines” – (France)
• “Elle” – (France) *WINNER
• “Neruda” – (Chile)
• “The Salesman” – (Iran/France)
• “Toni Erdmann” – (Germany)

TV

Best TV series – Drama

• “The Crown” *WINNER
• “Game Of Thrones”
• “Stranger Things”
• “This Is Us”
• “Westworld”

Best performance by an Actor in a TV series – Drama

• Rami Malek – “Mr. Robot”
• Bob Odenkirk – “Better Call Saul”
• Matthew Rhys – “The Americans”
• Liev Schreiber – “Ray Donovan”
• Billy Bob Thornton – “Goliath” *WINNER

Best performance by Actress in a TV series – Drama

• Caitriona Balfe – “Outlander”
• Claire Foy – “The Crown” *WINNER
• Keri Russell – “The Americans”
• Winona Ryder – “Stranger Things”
• Evan Rachel Wood – “Westworld”

Best TV series – Musical or Comedy

• “Atlanta” *WINNER
• “black-ish”
• “Mozart In The Jungle”
• “Transparent”
• “Veep”

Best performance by an Actor in a TV series — Musical or Comedy

• Anthony Anderson – “black-ish”
• Gael Garcia Bernal – “Mozart in the Jungle”
• Donald Glover – “Atlanta” *WINNER
• Nick Nolte – “Graves”
• Jeffrey Tambor – “Transparent”

Best performance by an Actress in a TV series – Musical or Comedy

• Rachel Bloom – “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus – “Veep”
• Sarah Jessica Parker – “Divorce”
• Issa Rae – “Insecure”
• Gina Rodriguez – “Jane the Virgin”
• Tracee Ellis Ross -“black-ish” *WINNER

Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• “American Crime”
• “The Dresser”
• “The Night Manager”
• “The Night Of”
• “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” *WINNER

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• Riz Ahmed – “The Night Of”
• Bryan Cranston – “All The Way”
• Tom Hiddleston – “The Night Manager” *WINNER
• John Turturro – “The Night Of”
• Courtney B Vance – “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• Olivia Colman – “The Night Manager” *WINNER
• Lena Heady – “Game Of Thrones”
• Chrissy Metz – “This is Us”
• Mandy Moore – “This is Us”
• Thandie Newton – “Westworld”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• Sterling K Brown – “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”
• Hugh Laurie – “The Night Manager” *WINNER
• John Lithgow – “The Crown”
• Christian Slater – “Mr. Robot”
• John Travolta – “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• Felicity Huffman – “American Crime”
• Riley Keough – “The Girlfriend Experience”
• Sarah Paulson – “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” *WINNER
• Charlotte Rampling – “London Spy”
• Kerry Washington- “Confirmation”

So, anything take you by surprise? For me, Moonlight winning for best dramatic film was a bit of a surprise with Manchester By the Sea getting the most critical noise in this category. Also, Issabelle Hupper for her performance in Elle (a French movie) is also a bit of a surprise. La La Land seems to be continuing with its Award hype and looks like it is going to be a truly outstanding film. Having not seen any of these movies yet, I can’t speak for myself.

On the TV front, The Crown took drama series category against some incredible competition. I haven’t started watching it yet, but based on the competition it beat out, it should be really good and something to start scheduling on Netflix. A big surprise was the love for Atlanta and star Donald Glover in the comedy or musical category. I actually haven’t heard good things about this series, but it seems to have the love of the foreign press association at least.

While the Golden Globes are not the most accurate prediction of who will be successful at the Oscar awards (whose nominations come out later this week), it does at least allow us to know what films and performances are worth looking out for.

Last Updated: January 30, 2017