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With homebound nominees ap-pearing by remote video and hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

on different sides of the country, a very socially distanced 78th Golden Globe Awards trudged on in the midst of the pandemic and amid a storm of criticism for the Hollywood Foreign Press Associ-ation, with top awards going to “Nomad-land,” “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” “The Crown” and “Schitt’s Creek.”

The night’s top award, best picture drama, went to Chloé Zhao’s elegiac road movie “Nomadland,” a Western set across economic upheaval and personal grief. Zhao, the China-born filmmaker of, be-came the first woman of Asian descent to win best director. She’s only the second woman in the history of the Globes to win, and the first since Barbra Streisand won for “Yentl” in 1984.

“ ‘Nomadland at its core for me is a pil-grimage through grief and healing,” said Zhao, accepting the awards remotely. “For everyone who has gone through this diffi-cult and beautiful journey at some point in their lives. We don’t say goodbye. We say: See you down the road.”

With a canceled red carpet and stars giving speeches from the couch, Sunday’s Globes had little of their typically frothy flavor.

Facing scant traditional studio com-petition, streaming services dominated the Globes like never before — even if the top award went to a familiar if renamed source: Searchlight Pictures, formerly the Fox specialty label of “12 Years a Slave” and “The Shape of Water” now owned by the Walt Disney Co.

Amazon’s “Borat Subsequent Movief-ilm” — one of the few nominated films shot partly during the pandemic — won best film, comedy or musical. Its star gue-rilla comedian, Sacha Baron Cohen, won best actor in a comedy. Referring to Rudy Giuliani’s infamous cameo, Cohen thanked “a fresh new talent who came from nowhere and turned out to be a comedy ge-nius.”

“I mean, who could get more laughs from one un-zipping,” said Cohen.

Netflix, which came in with a command-ing 42 nom-

inations, won the top TV awards. “The Crown,” as expected, took best drama series, along with acting wins for Josh O’Connor (Prince Charles), Emma Cor-rin (Princess Diana) and Gillian Anderson (Margaret Thatcher). “The Queen’s Gam-bit” won best limited series, and best ac-tress in the category for Anya Taylor-Joy. “Schitt’s Creek,” the Pop TV series that found a wider audience on Netflix, won best comedy series for its final season. Catherine O’Hara also took best actress in a comedy series.

Chadwick Boseman, as expected, post-humously won best actor in a drama film for his final performance, in the August Wilson adaptation “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — a Netflix release. Boseman’s wife, Taylor Simone Ledward, tearfully, emotionally accepted the award.

“He would thank God. He would thank his parents. He would thank his ances-

tors for their guidance and their sac-rifices,” said Ledward. “He would

say something beautiful, some-thing inspiring.”

Apple TV+ scored its first ma-jor award when a sweatshirt-clad

Jason Sudeikis won best actor in a comedy series for the streamer’s “Ted Lasso.”

Fey took the stage at New York’s Rain-bow Room while Poehler remained at the Globes’ usual home at the Beverly Hilton. In their opening remarks, they managed their typically well-timed back-and-forth despite being almost 3,000 miles from each other.

“I always knew my career would end with me wandering around the Rainbow Room pretending to talk to Amy,” said Fey. “I just thought it would be later.”

They appeared before masked attend-ees but no stars. Instead, the sparse tables — where Hollywood royalty are usually crammed together and plied with alco-hol during the show — were occupied by “smoking-hot first responders and essen-tial workers,” as Fey said.

78TH GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS

Fey, Poehler open with

jokes from both coastsWith Amy Poehler at the Beverly Hilton

in Beverly Hills, California, and Tina Fey in New York’s Rainbow Room on Sunday night, the two did an initial gag where Fey reached out through the screen and stroked Poehler’s hair.

Globe leaders vow changeThe leaders of the organization that

gives out the Golden Globes is vowing change, and diversity, after reports that the group has no Black voting members.

Early in the Globes ceremony on Sunday night, three senior leaders of the Holly-wood Foreign Press Association took the stage and said they would do better.

Vice President Helen Hoehne said “we recognize we have our own work to do” and, “We must have Black journalists in our organization.”

Board chair Meher Tatna said, “We need to insure that all under-represented com-munities get a seat at our table, and we are going to make that happen.”

HFPA president Ali Sar says that “means creating an environment where diverse membership is the norm, not the excep-tion,” and “we look forward to a more di-verse future.”

First award comes with

technical difficultiesThe winner of the Golden Globe for best

supporting actor in a film is Daniel Kaluuya for his work in “Judas and the Black Mes-siah.”

Kaluuya’s acceptance speech could not be heard from his location at first, and he jokingly shouted “You did me dirty!” once the audio was restored.

Charles and Diana

make it a royal nightCharles and Diana took

home matching Golden Globes.

The Globe for best actor in a TV drama series went to Josh O’Connor for “The Crown” on Sunday night.

The 30-year-old Brit-ish actor won the award for playing Prince Charles in season four of the Net-flix series, moments after Emma Corrin won best actress in a TV drama for playing Princess Diana on the show. The show also took home the best televi-sion drama prize.

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GLOBES GO VIRTUAL‘Nomadland,’ ‘Borat’ win as bicoastal broadcast kicks off awards season

Corrin

O’Connor

FILM � Best supporting actor in a film: Daniel

Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah” � Best animated film: “Soul” � Best screenplay, motion picture:

Aaron Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”

� Best original song: “IO SI (Seen),” “The Life Ahead”

� Best original score: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste, “Soul”

� Best actress, musical or comedy: Rosamund Pike, “I Care A Lot”

� Foreign language film: “Minari,” USA

� Best supporting actress in a film: Jodie Foster, “The Mauritanian”

� Best actor, drama: Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”

� Best director, motion picture:

Chloe Zhao, “Nomadland” � Best motion picture, comedy or musical:

“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” � Best actor, musical or comedy:

Sacha Baron Cohen, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”

� Best actress, drama: Andra Day, “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”

� Best motion picture, drama: “Nomadland”

TELEVISION � Best supporting actor in a TV series:

John Boyega, “Small Axe” � Best actress in a

TV series, musical or comedy: Catherine O’Hara, “Schitt’s Creek”

� Best actor in a limited series, anthology series or TV film: Mark Ruffalo, “I Know This Much is True”

� Best actress in a TV series, drama: Emma Corrin,“The Crown”

� Best actor in a TV series, musical or comedy: Jason Sudekis, “Ted Lasso”

� Best TV series, musical or comedy: “Schitt’s Creek”

� Best actor in a TV series, drama: Josh O’Connor, “The Crown”

� Best TV series, drama: “The Crown”

� Best supporting actress in a TV series: Gillian Anderson, “The Crown”

� Best actress in a limited series, anthology series or TV film: Anya Taylor-Joy, “The Queen’s Gambit”

� Best limited series, anthology series or TV film: “The Queen’s Gambit”

Cohen

O’Hara

Pike

Sudekis

WINNERS

HULU

The Globe for best actress in a drama film went to Andra Day in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday.”

NETFLIX

The award for best actor in a dramatic film was earned by Chadwick Boseman for his final role, in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”

GOLDEN MOMENTS

SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES

Frances McDormand, left, and director Chloe Zhao on the set of “Nomadland.” The film took home best drama film and best director honors.

Hosts Tina Fey, left, from New York, and Amy Poehler, from Beverly Hills, Calif., speak at the Golden Globe Awards.

“Soul”

DISNEY/PIXAR

Norman Lear accepts the Carol Burnett television

achievement award virtually Sunday at

the Golden Globe Awards.

NBC

Daniel Kaluuya reacts to technical difficulties after Laura Dern presented him the award for best supporting actor in a film.

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