The 72nd Golden Globes - winners & grinners!

All the Hollywood glitz & glamour of the Golden Globe Awards unfolded for the 72nd time on Sunday 11th January at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Hosted once again by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the Golden Globes acknowledge excellence in film and American television, and are seen as the pre-cursor to the Academy Awards which will be held for the 87th time on 22nd February. Many of the winners & grinners walking away with a Golden Globe will be secretly hoping to snaffle a golden statue in a few weeks from now and catapult their film and/or television careers into the A-list big time! We'll see!

And so, for your reference in case you missed it, here are the main winners of the 2015 Golden Globe Awards.

    

Best Motion Picture  - Drama : 'BOYHOOD'
Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy : 'THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL'

Best Actor Performance in a Motion Picture - Drama : EDDIE REDMAYNE in 'THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING' (Australian release date : 29th January)
Best Actress Performance in a Motion Picture - Drama : JULIANNE MOORE in 'STILL ALICE' (Australian release date : 29th January)

Best Actor Performance in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy : MICHAEL KEATON in 'BIRDMAN' (Australian release date : 15th January)
Best Actress Performance in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy : AMY ADAMS in 'BIG EYES' (Australian release date : 5th February)

     

Best Supporting Actor Performance in a Motion Picture - Drama, Musical or Comedy : J.K. SIMMONS in 'WHIPLASH'

Best Supporting Actress Performance in a Motion Picture - Drama, Musical or Comedy : PATRICIA ARQUETTE in 'BOYHOOD'

Best Director : RICHARD LINKLATER for 'BOYHOOD'

Best Screenplay : ALEJANDRO GONZALES INARRITU for 'BIRDMAN' shared with Nicolás Giacobone, Armando Bo, Alexander Dinelaris Jr.

Best Animated Motion Picture : 'HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2'

Best Foreign Language Motion Picture : 'LEVIATHAN' (Russia)

Best Television Mini-Series : 'FARGO'

   

The votes then are in, the decisions made and the awards received by a handful of winners and grinners who for this year at least can lay claim to be up there amongst the best in the world of film and US TV. A bunch of movies here that have already been and gone and are now available to rent or buy, and few still yet to hit our screens. Do yourself a favour, and check out any one of these soon - you won't be disappointed!

-Steve, at Odeon Online-