Golden Globes 2015

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Golden Globes 2015: Winners, highlights, top moments

Stars of film and television stepped out Sunday for the 72nd annual Golden Globe Awards, where hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler wasted no time skewering Hollywood's most tender subjects: the hacking of Sony Pictures over "The Interview," the sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby and television rise as a cultural rival to movies.
The duo, in their third consecutive year as hosts, opened the show by welcoming "despicable, spoiled, minimally talented brats" to the show, celebrating "all the movies that North Korea was OK with."

Fey and Poehler also made sure to relish their favorite target: George Clooney. Of the night's Cecil B. DeMille honoree, Fey suggested the lifetime achievement award might have been better off going to his new wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, who spent 2014 working for the United Nations.
On the subject of Cosby, Poehler quipped (while describing "Into the Woods"), "Cinderella ran away from her prince, Rapunzel was thrown from a tower... and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby," before she and Fey parodied him with dueling impressions.

The recent terrorist attack in Paris at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo hung heavily over the show, televised live from the Beverly Hill Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. Attendees such as Clooney sported "Je Suis Charlie" pins and others like Helen Mirren held up signs that read the same on the red carpet.
Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Theor Kingma drew a standing ovation for a speech pledging support of free speech "from North Korea to Paris." Actor Jared Leto also said "Je Suis Charlie" in a message of solidarity with the French.

Jessica Chastain arrives to the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards

The first award of the night went to J.K. Simmons for best supporting actor for his performance as a domineering jazz teacher in the acclaimed indie "Whiplash." He thanked his young and confident co-star, Miles Teller, who "inspired me every day to want to scream at him and hit him in the face."

Some winners were caught by surprise. Accepting the award for best actress in a comedy or musical for her performance in "Big Eyes," an unprepared Amy Adams said: "I didn't even reapply lip gloss."

AMC's adaptation of the Coen brothers' acclaimed 1996 film, "Fargo," came in the leading TV contender with five nominations and promptly won best miniseries or movie, as well as best actor, miniseries or movie, for Billy Bob Thornton.
"You can say anything in the world and get in trouble. I know this for a fact," said Thornton. "So I'm just going to say thank you."

Amazon, crashing the party like Netflix did before it, celebrated its first Golden Globe for the sexual identity comedy "Transparent," winning best TV series, musical or comedy.

Joanne Froggatt holds the award for Best Supporting Actress.

First-time nominee Gina Rodriguez was named best actress in a TV series, comedy or musical, for "Jane the Virgin," and Joanne Froggatt, winner of best supporting actress for "Downton Abbey," thanked survivors of rape who reached out to her after her character's storyline on the show.

With a leading seven nominations, including best picture, comedy or musical, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's backstage romp "Birdman" will rival Richard Linklater's 12-years-in-the-making "Boyhood" (five nods) and the Alan Turing World War II thriller "The Imitation Game" (also five nominations) for the night's dominant award-winner.

Thus far, Hollywood's award season has generally gone in favor of the critical darling "Boyhood," but the season has featured a diverse bunch of candidates, albeit ones lacking major box-office draws. The civil rights drama "Selma," the Stephen Hawking tale "The Theory of Everything" and Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" are also heavily in the mix.
Led by Fey and Poehler, the Globes have been on a terrific upswing in recent years. Last year's awards drew 20.9 million viewers, the most since 2004. Accepting the Globe for best original song for "Glory" in the civil rights drama "Selma," the rapper Common raised the status of the group behind the Globes even higher: "I want to thank God and the Hollywood Foreign Press."

The Hollywood Foreign Press, a group of mostly freelance journalists, has lately cleaned up its reputation for idiosyncratic choices and awards swayed by celebrity. Last year, the HFPA chose the eventual Academy Awards best-picture winner, "12 Years a Slave," as best drama and "American Hustle" as best comedy.

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