Golden Globes 2019: winners, nominations, and biggest moments

At the 2019 Golden Globes on Sunday, gender fluidity surfaced as a major theme on the red carpet, with celebrities like Billy Porter, Judy Greer, and Cody Fern challenging traditional fashion gender norms with their looks.

Golden Globe nominee Porter, star of the groundbreaking FX series Pose, which chronicles the drag ball scene of the 1980s, arrived at the show in a floral embroidered suit and matching cape with a hot pink lining he held open for dramatic effect.

For many social media users, the highlight of the 2019 Golden Globes was the woman dubbed “Fiji Girl” on Twitter, for drawing attention while handing out Fiji brand bottled water on the red carpet.

At Sunday’s Golden Globes, Fiji Water seems to have hired model Kelleth Cuthbert — identified later through Instagram sleuthing — to distribute its product on the red carpet. When asked by a friend if she knew the photos of her were going viral, she replied, “It’s calculated.” Indeed, the viral photos of her were taken by a professional working for Fiji Water. Wearing a glamorous blue dress, Cuthbert stood directly behind celebrities, bearing a tray of bottled water and often staring cannily into the camera. Fiji Water has not responded to a request from Vox for comment.

Here is the number of Golden Globes that The Americans, possibly the most critically acclaimed drama series of the 2010s, has been nominated for across its six seasons, which ran from 2012 through 2018: five.

To be clear: That is not very many! Four of those nominations are for the series’ two estimable leads, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys (who in 2018 finally won an Emmy for his work), and they’ve all come in the last two years, for the show’s last two seasons. The show only just got nominated for Best Drama Series for the first time this year, for its sixth and final season.

The 2019 Golden Globes were handed out on Sunday night. The cordial mingling between television stars and movie stars, Amy Adams overachieving and being nominated in both the film and television categories, jokes about alcohol being served, and witty banter between co-hosts Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh — it was all part of the evening.

The Golden Globes kick off the pocket of time known as awards season, in which Hollywood tastemakers honor the best performances in film for the previous year. Going into the ceremony, Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney biopic Vice led the comedy or musical film categories with six nominations, followed by The Favourite and Green Book, both of which received five. And though Christian Bale did win for portraying Cheney in Vice, the big film winner of the evening was Green Book, which took home Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali), and Best Picture — Comedy or Musical.

Even by the standards of the Golden Globes, the 2019 awards were weird.

One of the night’s Best Picture winners has been received horribly by critics, while the other has spurred constant streams of controversy over what it does and doesn’t include in its portrayal of the pre-civil rights South (to say nothing of black people of that era).

As co-host of the 2019 Golden Globes, Sandra Oh achieved the enormous milestone of being the only host ever to make me cry with their opening monologue. But Oh also made a more significant kind of history. To be exact, she made history three different times, with three different major milestones.

The Golden Globes hosting gig has a tendency to go to someone white and male (there are exceptions, most notably when Tina Fey and Amy Poehler co-hosted the awards three consecutive times from 2013 to 2015).

Green Book took home three Golden Globe Awards on Sunday for Best Comedy, Best Screenplay, and supporting actor Mahershala Ali — and that’s hardly a surprise. A period piece that’s also a road trip movie and a buddy dramedy? Based on a true story? With two strong performances and a heartwarming message about overcoming prejudice? That ends at a Christmas celebration? Sign America up (or at least the Hollywood Foreign Press Association).

The film, directed by comedy veteran Peter Farrelly, stars Viggo Mortensen and Ali. It’s “inspired” by the true friendship of Tony Vallelonga, an Italian-American chauffeur/bodyguard from the Bronx, and Don Shirley, the black pianist Vallelonga is hired to drive and protect on a concert tour through the deep South in 1962. It’s often funny, with some poignant moments and a heart that feels like it’s in the right place.

During the 2019 Golden Globes, meant to honor the best TV and movies of the past year, a tiny snippet of Game of Thrones’ final season stole the show. HBO released a short commercial (that aired during a break) for its upcoming shows on Sunday night, including Game of Thrones:

“Winterfell is yours, your grace,” Sansa Stark tells Daenerys Targaryen in the seconds-long clip, signaling an allegiance between the two.

The producers of the 2019 Golden Globes, by and large, did not fuck around when it came to cutting award speeches short. They played off Lady Gaga when she was accepting the award for Best Original Song for “Shallow” from A Star Is Born! They are ruthless!

But even those cold-blooded professional speech-cutters seem to have thought better of playing off Regina King.

Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh kicked off the 2019 Golden Globe Awards with a lighthearted “roast” of some of the people in the room at the Beverly Hilton — and a heartfelt tribute to the slow but steady moves toward greater diversity in Hollywood over the past year.

Samberg and Oh showed they had chemistry as a comedic pair at the 2018 Emmys, which most likely landed them the Globes’ hosting gig. They showed up at the Globes with that rapport intact, opening the ceremony by poking fun at the Oscars’ ongoing struggle to find a host and saying they got the job because “we are the only two people left in Hollywood who haven’t gotten in trouble for saying something.”

Enthusiasts of Hollywood taxonomy have long struggled with a knotty dilemma: Is Chris Messina technically one of the Hollywood Chrises?

True, Messina’s name is Chris, and true, he works in Hollywood. But unlike the Chrises Pine, Evans, Hemsworth, and Pratt, Messina doesn’t do action movies. He has never pledged his allegiance to either Marvel or DC.

One year ago, at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards, Hollywood was in shock from the dethroning of Harvey Weinstein. The #MeToo movement was gaining ever more momentum; the Time’s Up movement was gathering its force. Actresses wore black gowns on the red carpet to raise awareness for Time’s Up, and some of them brought activists as their dates.

Now, as the Golden Globes swing back around again, it’s time to look at what the fury of the past year has wrought. To that end, Vox checked in with one of the most concrete achievements of the Time’s Up organization: the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.

The 76th annual Golden Globes will air live on NBC on Sunday, January 6, at 8 pm Eastern/5 pm Pacific. Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy Samberg and Killing Eve star Sandra Oh will co-host the show, which will be held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.

What makes the Globes, organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HPFA), special is that it’s a major televised awards show that recognizes achievement in both television and film — usually, those modes of entertainment are recognized separately at the Emmys and Oscars. The awards are also considered to be the kickoff of the annual Hollywood awards season that concludes with the Oscars in late February, and a place where frontrunners can emerge.

The 2019 Golden Globe Awards are here. The awards will be handed out on Sunday, January 6, 2019. Killing Eve star Sandra Oh and Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Andy Samberg will co-host the 76th annual ceremony, which will air live on NBC at 8 pm Eastern/5 pm Pacific.

Organized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HPFA), the Golden Globes recognize achievement in both television and film — usually, those modes of entertainment are recognized separately at the Emmys and Oscars. The awards are also considered to be the kickoff of the annual Hollywood awards season that builds toward the Oscars, and a place where frontrunners can emerge.

The 2019 Golden Globe nominations are the usual mix of wild, outside-the-box thinking and stubborn attempt to rubber-stamp Oscar frontrunners. And that’s before you get to the always distractible TV categories!

In the movie categories, the as-yet-unreleased Dick Cheney biopic Vice leads the comedy or musical film categories with six nominations, followed by The Favourite and Green Book, both of which received five. Both BlacKkKlansman and A Star Is Born (competing as a drama, despite its musical elements) lead the drama categories with five nominations apiece.