The Golden Globes Awards were held on Sunday, January 8. It is the first major awards show of the season. The night’s winners are usually a pre-cursor to who will be front-runner come Oscar time.
La La Land lead the film nominees with a total of seven mentions and won all seven awards, followed by Moonlight with six nominations and taking home the award for Best Picture Drama.
The 74th Golden Globe Awards are voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The show was hosted by Jimmy Fallon.
The ceremony also honored Meryl Streep with the Cecil B. DeMille Award. The actress, who has won eight Golden Globes and has been nominated 29 times, most recently starred with Hugh Grant in Florence Foster Jenkins.
The nominees for the Best Original Score included
Nicholas Britell – Moonlight
Justin Hurwitz – La La Land
Johann Johannsson – Arrival
Dustin O’Halloran, Hauschka – Lion
Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams, Benjamin Wallfisch – Hidden Figures
The winner was Justin Hurwitz for “La La Land”. Hurwitz was on hand and stated that he would like to thank everybody who worked in the movie, everybody who works at Lionsgate, all the L.A. musicians. He said that he could start going through names, and he could pick and choose so many names, and he would feel bad and sort of imagine people being angry at him for not saying their name. So that’s across the board, everybody who worked on the movie. He felt like it was the kind of movie where he was lucky to get to work, because it was the music he got to work with,
