Fabelmans, Banshees win top awards as Hollywood embraces Golden Globes

January 11, 2023

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STEVEN SPIELBERG poses with his awards for Best Director in a Motion Picture and Best Picture Drama for The Fabelmans at the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, US, Jan. 10. — REUTERS/MARIO ANZUONI

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans and dark comedy The Banshees of Inisherin landed the top movie awards at the Golden Globes on Tuesday as Hollywood returned to a show that had been knocked off television by scandal.

The Fabelmans, a coming-of-age story based on Mr. Spielberg’s teen years, was named best movie drama at the star-studded ceremony. Banshees of Inisherin, the story of feuding friends on an Irish island, won best movie musical or comedy.

The awards are likely to give both movies a boost on the road to the Academy Awards in March.

Celebrities and broadcaster NBC abandoned the 2022 Globes because of ethical lapses at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the group that hands out the awards.

A larger, more diverse membership and other changes by the HFPA persuaded many of the biggest movie and TV stars to support this year’s ceremony, which provides publicity for winners and nominees and often boosts their chances at the Oscars.

The show unfolded largely as it had in years past, except for a biting monologue from comedian and host Jerrod Carmichael who opened the show joking, “I’m here because I’m black.”

“One day you’re making mint tea at home. The next day you’re invited to be the Black face of an embattled white organization,” he said at the ceremony, which was broadcast live on Comcast Corp.’s NBC network and streamed on Peacock.

Roughly 200 journalists and others from the international film industry voted on this year’s Globes. Among those voters, nearly 52% are racially and ethnically diverse, including 10% who are Black, according to the HFPA.

The following is the full list of winners:

MOVIESBest Picture-drama — The Fabelmans

Best Picture-musical Or Comedy — The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Animated Film — Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Best Picture (Non-English Language) — Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)

Best Actress, Drama — Cate Blanchett, Tar

Best Actor, Drama — Austin Butler, Elvis

Best Actress, Musical or Comedy — Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Actor, Musical or Comedy — Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Supporting Actress — Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Best Supporting Actor — Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Director — Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans