Golden Globes 2021 Highlights & List of Winners

(POP NEWS EDITION) — Awards season kicked off tonight with the first socially-distanced show of the year — the 78th annual Golden Globes.

Fourth-time hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler assumed hosting duties from opposite coasts, with Fey presenting from the Rainbow Room in New York City and Poehler hosting from The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Celebrities accepted trophies remotely with presenters appearing at either locations. 

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosting Golden Globes 2021 from opposite coasts.

While nominees dialed in from home, the live audience was made up of frontline workers and first responders of the Covid-19 pandemic. “Tonight, our audience on both coasts is made up of smoking hot first responders and essential workers,” Fey revealed live during the first minutes of the broadcast. “We are so grateful for the work that you do and that you’re here, so the celebrities can stay safely at home.”

Frontline workers and first responders sitting in the audience of the Golden Globes 2021 at The Beverly Hilton.

All eyes were on Netflix tonight as the streaming service giant leads the pack with 42 nominations. “Mank” tops the list with six nominations, including “Best Motion Picture”. “The Crown” also garnered six nominations, the most for any television series this year. “The Trial of the Chicago 7” follows closely with five nominations, and “The Father”, “Nomadland” and “Promising Young Woman” tied with four nominations each. 

Chloé Zhao, director of “Nomadland,” made history tonight as the second woman ever to win best director – first woman of color.  Chadwick Boseman posthumously received the award for best actor in drama for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”. 

Jane Fonda received the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Norman Lear became the third recipient of the Carol Burnett Award. 

Nominations for Golden Globes are decided upon by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), which is made up of approximately 90 journalists from around the world. Active HFPA members participate in covering the press conferences, and interviewing cast members, of selected films and TV programs. Each HFPA member then votes for their top five choices in each category, numbering them 5 to 1, with 5 being their top choice. The nominees in each category are then the five selections that receive the most votes. 

Below is the full list of winners:

Best Television Series — Drama

• “The Crown” — Winner
• Lovecraft Country”
• “The Mandalorian”
• “Ozark”
• “Ratched”

Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy

• “Schitt’s Creek” — Winner
• “Emily in Paris”
• “The Flight Attendant”
• “The Great”
• “Ted Lasso”

Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• “The Queen’s Gambit” — Winner
• “Normal People”
• “Small Axe”
• “The Undoing”
• “Unorthodox”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series — Drama

• Emma Corrin, “The Crown” — Winner
• Olivia Coleman, “The Crown”
• Jodie Comer, “Killing Eve”
• Laura Linney, “Ozark”
• Sarah Paulson, “Ratched”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Drama

• Josh O’Connor, “The Crown” — Winner
• Jason Bateman, “Ozark”
• Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
• Al Pacino, “Hunters”
• Matthew Rhys, “Perry Mason”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy

• Catherine O’Hara, “Schitt’s Creek” — Winner
• Lily Collins, “Emily in Paris”
• Kaley Cuoco, “The Flight Attendant”
• Elle Fanning, “The Great”
• Jane Levy, “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Musical or Comedy

• Jason Sudeikis, “Ted Lasso” — Winner
• Don Cheadle, “Black Monday”
• Nicholas Hoult, “The Great”
• Eugene Levy, “Schitt’s Creek”
• Ramy Youssef, “Ramy”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Supporting Role

• Gillian Anderson, “The Crown” — Winner
• Helena Bonham Carter, “The Crown”
• Julia Garner, “Ozark”
• Annie Murphy, “Schitt’s Creek”
• Cynthia Nixon, “Ratched”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Supporting Role

• John Boyega, “Small Axe” — Winner
• Brendan Gleeson, “The Comey Rule”
• Daniel Levy, “Schitt’s Creek”
• Jim Parsons, “Hollywood”
• Donald Sutherland, “The Undoing”

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

• Anya Taylor-Joy, “The Queen’s Gambit” — Winner
• Cate Blanchett, “Mrs. America”
• Daisy Edgar-Jones, “Normal People”
• Shira Haas, “Unorthodox”
• Nicole Kidman, “The Undoing”

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

• Mark Ruffalo, “I Know This Much is True” — Winner
• Bryan Cranston, “Your Honor”
• Jeff Daniels, “The Comey Rule”
• Hugh Grant, “The Undoing”
• Ethan Hawke, “The Good Lord Bird”

Best Motion Picture — Drama

• “Nomadland” — Winner
• “The Father”
• “Mank”
• “Promising Young Woman”
• “The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

• “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” — Winner
• “Hamilton”
• “Music”
• “Palm Springs”
• The Prom

Best Director — Motion Picture

• Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland” — Winner
• Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”
• David Fincher, “Mank”
• Regina King, “One Night in Miami…”
• Aaron Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama

• Andra Day, “The United States Vs. Billie Holiday — Winner
• Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
• Vanessa Kirby, “Pieces of a Woman”
• Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”
• Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama

• Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — Winner
• Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal”
• Anthony Hopkins, “The Father”
• Gary Oldman, “Mank”
• Tahar Rahim, “The Mauritanian”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

• Rosamund Pike, “I Care a Lot” — Winner
• Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
• Kate Hudson, “Music”
• Michelle Pfeiffer, “French Exit”
• Anya Taylor-Joy, “Emma.”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy

• Sacha Baron Cohen, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” — Winner
• James Corden, “The Prom”
• Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
• Dev Patel, “The Personal History of David Copperfield”
• Andy Samberg, “Palm Springs”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture

• Jodie Foster, “The Mauritanian” — Winner
• Glenn Close, “Hillbilly Elegy”
• Olivia Coleman, “The Father”
• Amanda Seyfried, “Mank”
• Helena Zengel, “News of the World”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture

• Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah” — Winner
• Jared Leto, “The Little Things”
• Bill Murray, “On the Rocks”
• Leslie Odom, Jr., “One Night in Miami…”
• Sacha Baron Cohen, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”

Best Motion Picture — Animated

• “Soul” — Winner
• “The Croods: A New Age”
• “Onward”
• “Over the Moon”
• “Wolfwalkers”

Best Motion Picture — Foreign Language

• “Minari” — Winner
• “La Llorna”
• “Another Round”
• “The Life Ahead”
• “Two of Us”

Best Screenplay — Motion Picture

• Aaron Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7” — Winner
• Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”
• Jack Fincher, “Mank”
• Christopher Hampton and Florian Zeller, “The Father”
• Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”

Best Original Song — Motion Picture

• “Io Sì (Seen),” Diane Warren, Laura Pausini, Niccolò Agliardi – “The Life Ahead” — Winner
• “Fight for You,” H.E.R., Dernst Emile II, Tiara Thomas – “Judas and the Black Messiah”
• “Hear My Voice,” Daniel Pemberton, Celeste Waite – “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
• “Speak Now,” Leslie Odom, Jr., Sam Ashworth – “One Night in Miami…”
• “Tigress & Tweed,” Raphael Saadiq, Andra Day – “The United States Vs. Billie Holiday”

Best Original Score — Motion Picture

• Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste, “Soul” — Winner
• Alexander Desplat, “The Midnight Sky”
• Ludwig Göransson, “Tenet”
• James Newton Howard, “News of the World”
• Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, “Mank”