Golden Globes: Miyazaki Makes History, Oppenheimer Dominates
Japan's Hayao Miyazaki has won his first Golden Globe in an awards ceremony otherwise dominated by the blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer.
The 82-year-old director won the award for his movie The Boy and the Heron, which is said to be his final feature film. This was the first ever Golden Globe awarded to a non-English language animated movie.
However, the big winner of the evening was Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, which won five awards including best drama. The film also won best director for Nolan, best drama actor for Cillian Murphy, best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr. and best score for Ludwig Göransson.
Yorgos Lanthimos' movie Poor Things won best comedy or musical, and Emma Stone also won best actress in the category for her performance.
Lily Gladstone won best actress in a dramatic film for Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon. Gladstone, who began her speech speaking the language of her native tribe, Blackfeet Nation, is the first Indigenous winner in the category.
"This is a historic win," said Gladstone. "It doesn't just belong to me."
It was two hours before Barbie, last year's biggest hit with more than $1.4 billion in ticket sales, won an award. Billie Eilish's What Was I Made For? took best song, and swiftly after, Barbie took the Globes' new honor for "cinematic and box office achievement."
Some thought that award might go to Taylor Swift, whose Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour also set box-office records. Swift, though, remained winless.
Margot Robbie, star and producer of Barbie, accepted the award in a pink gown modeled after 1977's Superstar Barbie.
"We'd like to dedicate this to every single person on the planet who dressed up and went to the greatest place on Earth: the movie theaters," said Robbie.
Barbie and Oppenheimer, two blockbusters brought together by a common release date, also faced off in the best screenplay category. But in an upset, Justine Triet and Arthur Harari won for the script to the French courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall. Later, Triet's film picked up best international film, too.
