Brought to you by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and champagne, the Golden Globe Awards are easily the most free-wheeling show of trophy season. Each January, celebrities dress up, get drunk, and sometimes even trade the platitudes for candor. This year’s show was no different, with legendary acceptance speeches jockeying for attention alongside media screwups and flashes of actual, organic spontaneity. But if you happened to miss it—or just want to relive the highlights—the massively crowdsourced recap known as Twitter is happy to help.
Before the show even started, the red carpet provided more than a few awkward moments—one in particular that became a recurring theme. When interviewing Pharrell Williams, who produced and contributed music for the film Hidden Figures, Jenna Bush referred to the movie as "Hidden Fences." *Fences *is another movie that snagged Globe nominations—but while it's the adaptation of a hugely famous play that won a Pulitzer when it came out 30 years ago, it also has a largely black cast, which made Bush's stumble a little more egregious.
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Blunders aside, the red carpet was full of the usual ogling and awkwardness.
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Meanwhile, those hoping to stream the show got a big surprise from its home network. Nice work, Peacock!
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Finally, the ceremony began...
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...with a musical number that felt like one big, sloppy fan-service kiss to TV.
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Jimmy Fallon kicked off his monologue with a TelePrompter malfunction and a number of shots at the incoming POTUS. Not everyone was feeling the newfound friskiness from the guy who so (in)famously tousled Donald Trump's hair on his show last year.
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The awards started going out---with a few surprises in the mix. To kick things off, Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass, Godzilla) won for his supporting turn in Nocturnal Animals. Not the outcome many people were expecting.
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Then Tracee Ellis Ross, Atlanta, and Sarah Paulson won and—in the eyes of Twitter, at least—things got back on track.
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Things started dragging a bit after that, though Hugh Laurie came with the Lauriest speech that ever Lauried.
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Not every bit went over well, of course.
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OK, so remember that thing we said about "Hidden Fences"? Well, this happened.
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Presenters kept presenting, and La La Land kept winning.
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Meanwhile, “Hidden Fences” only gained traction.
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Then it was back to the awards.
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In what will likely be the most talked about moment of the night, Meryl Streep took to the stage to accept the Cecil B. DeMille award—and went after President-elect Donald Trump. Hard.
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Then Donald Glover was back, this time winning for his acting in Atlanta.
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But La La Land wasn't quite finished winning every. Single. Award.
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Oh, and Brad Pitt showed up!
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And Casey Affleck won for Manchester By the Sea.
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Isabelle Huppert took home a surprising win for Elle, beating out the likes of Natalie Portman, Amy Adams, and Jessica Chastain.
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Ultimately, after being shut out all night, Moonlight took home an award for Best Motion Picture, Drama.
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Overall, there weren't *too *many surprises. La La Land is exactly the type of movie the HFPA loves, and just about everything else people were hoping to see win managed to nab a Globe or two. Except, that is, for the network that brought us *Game of Thrones, *The Night Of, Westworld, and Insecure.
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See you next year, all!
