It’s the start of a New Year, so you know what that means. Yes, it’s time for new beginnings and new promises that you can’t deliver upon and all that hogwash. It also means that it is time for everyone who thinks they have a say about the movie industry to start handing out awards simply because they can. Thankfully, not all awards shows are equal. So while every Tom, Dick and Harry is giving out their awards, we can at least focus on the select few that mean something in an industry that already has far too many of them.
Obviously, we’ve already revealed our favourite movies of 2017, which should be the only list you care about, but if you want to know the best of the rest and also find out who are the best actors and directors across both movies and television, then a good place to start is the awards handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which is surprisingly still called the Golden Globes after a tumultuous 2017 in the industry for all the wrong reasons.
So, just who won one of these coveted awards this year, well find out for yourself below:
Movies
- “Call Me by Your Name”
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“Dunkirk”
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“The Post”
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“The Shape of Water”
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“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” *WINNER
- “The Disaster Artist”
- “Get Out”
- “The Greatest Showman”
- “I, Tonya”
- “Lady Bird” *WINNER
- Jessica Chastain, “Molly’s Game”
- Sally Hawkins, “The Shape of Water”
- Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” *WINNER
- Meryl Streep, “The Post”
- Michelle Williams, “All the Money in the World”
- Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me by Your Name”
- Daniel Day-Lewis, “Phantom Thread”
- Tom Hanks, “The Post”
- Gary Oldman, “Darkest Hour” *WINNER
- Denzel Washington, “Roman J. Israel, Esq.”
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
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Judi Dench, “Victoria & Abdul”
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Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”
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Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird” *WINNER
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Emma Stone, “Battle of the Sexes”
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Helen Mirren, “The Leisure Seeker”
- Guillermo del Toro, “The Shape of Water” *WINNER
- Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
- Christopher Nolan, “Dunkirk”
- Ridley Scott, “All The Money in the World”
- Steven Spielberg, “The Post”
- Steve Carell, “Battle of the Sexes”
- Ansel Elgort, “Baby Driver”
- James Franco, “The Disaster Artist” *WINNER
- Hugh Jackman, “The Greatest Showman”
- Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”
- Mary J. Blige, “Mudbound”
- Hong Chau, “Downsizing”
- Allison Janney, “I, Tonya” *WINNER
- Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
- Octavia Spencer, “The Shape of Water”
- Willem Dafoe, “The Florida Project”
- Armie Hammer, “Call Me by Your Name”
- Richard Jenkins, “The Shape of Water”
- Christopher Plummer, “All the Money in the World”
- Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” *WINNER
- “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
- “The Shape of Water” *WINNER
- “Phantom Thread”
- “The Post”
- “Dunkirk”
- “Home,” “Ferdinand”
- “Mighty River,” “Mudbound”
- “Remember Me,” “Coco”
- “The Star,” “The Star”
- “This Is Me,” “The Greatest Showman” *WINNER
- “The Shape of Water”
- “Lady Bird”
- “The Post”
- “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” *WINNER
- “Molly’s Game”
- “A Fantastic Woman”
- “First They Killed My Father”
- “In the Fade” *WINNER
- “Loveless”
- “The Square”
- “The Boss Baby”
- “The Breadwinner”
- “Ferdinand”
- “Coco” *WINNER
- “Loving Vincent”
TV
- “The Crown”
- “Game of Thrones”
- “The Handmaid’s Tale” *WINNER
- “Stranger Things”
- “This Is Us”
- Caitriona Balfe, “Outlander”
- Claire Foy, “The Crown”
- Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Deuce”
- Katherine Langford, “13 Reasons Why”
- Elisabeth Moss, “The Handmaid’s Tale” *WINNER
- Sterling K. Brown, “This is Us” *WINNER
- Freddie Highmore, “The Good Doctor”
- Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
- Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan”
- Jason Bateman, “Ozark”
- “Black-ish”
- “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” *WINNER
- “Master of None”
- “SMILF”
- “Will & Grace”
- Anthony Anderson, “Black-ish”
- Aziz Ansari “Master of None” *WINNER
- Kevin Bacon, “I Love Dick”
- William H. Macy, “Shameless”
- Eric McCormack, “Will and Grace”
- Pamela Adlon, “Better Things”
- Alison Brie, “Glow”
- Issa Rae, “Insecure”
- Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” *WINNER
- Frankie Shaw, “SMILF”
- “Big Little Lies” *WINNER
- “Fargo”
- “Feud: Bette and Joan”
- “The Sinner”
- “Top of the Lake: China Girl”
- Robert De Niro, “The Wizard of Lies”
- Jude Law, “The Young Pope”
- Kyle MacLachlan, “Twin Peaks”
- Ewan McGregor, “Fargo” *WINNER
- Geoffrey Rush, “Genius”
- Jessica Biel, “The Sinner”
- Nicole Kidman, “Big Little Lies” *WINNER
- Jessica Lange, “Feud: Bette and Joan”
- Susan Sarandon, “Feud: Bette and Joan”
- Reese Witherspoon, “Big Little Lies”
- Alfred Molina, “Feud”
- Alexander Skarsgard, “Big Little Lies” *WINNER
- David Thewlis, “Fargo”
- David Harbour, “Stranger Things”
- Christian Slater, “Mr. Robot”
- Laura Dern, “Big Little Lies” *WINNER
- Ann Dowd, “The Handmaid’s Tale”
- Chrissy Metz, “This is Us”
- Michelle Pfeiffer, “The Wizard of Lies”
- Shailene Woodley, “Big Little Lies”
As for the results themselves, on the movie front its a little difficult to judge the merits considering most of the top films haven’t reached our shores yet. At least it means we have something to look forward to in the cinemas over the next few months. The only winner on this list that I can attest to being a deserving winner is Pixar’s Coco, which was far and away the best animated movie of last year. We’ve had more exposure to all of the TV series that were up for nomination, but I guess these awards were another reminder that I’ve yet to actually watch The Handmaid’s Tale. I guess I better start soon because according to these award shows, it’s really good.
As the industry builds up to its ultimate behemoth, the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes perhaps give one of the biggest indications of who could be in line for a potential Oscar. Obviously, success here is no guarantee that the Academy will agree with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, but at least it’s fun to speculate.
What do you make of this year’s awards?
Last Updated: January 8, 2018
