Succession bests The Last of Us at 81st Golden Globe Awards

The 81st annual Golden Globes have wrapped up on CBS. How did things shake out?

On the movie side of things, the big winner was Oppenheimer; Christopher Nolan's biopic walked away with five awards, including Nolan for Best Director, Cillian Murphy for Best Actor, Robert Downey Jr. for Best Supporting Actor, and Best Drama. Barbie, the highest-grossing movie of the year and one half of the box office-storming Barbenheimer event, only took home two awards: Best Original Song and a special award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement. In the category of Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, Barbie star Margot Robbie lost out to Emma Stone for Poor Things. Poor Things also bested Barbie in the Best Picture, Musical or Comedy category.

In TV world, big winners included The Bear and Beef, which took home two awards apiece. But HBO's Succession had the biggest haul with four awards, including Best Actress for Sarah Snook, Best Support Actor for Matthew Macfadyen, Best Drama, and Best Actor for Kieran Culkin, who won out over his Succession castmates Jeremy Strong and Brian Cox.

This was the fourth, final and best season of Succession, so it was pretty much gauranteed that it would be rewarded for years of excellence. The only competition came in the form of another HBO show, The Last of Us, which got a lot of buzz for its premiere season early in 2023. The show cleaned up at the Creative Arts Emmys, so I thought maybe lead actors like Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey had a chance of taking home statues, or even that the show could win Best Drama. But it will have other chances, whereas this was the last time the voters could give Succession its due.

Check out the full list of winners below:

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama

• Bradley Cooper — Maestro
• Cillian Murphy -- Oppenheimer
• Leonardo DiCaprio -- Killers of the Flower Moon
• Colman Domingo -- Rustin
• Andrew Scott -- All of Us Strangers
• Barry Keoghan -- Saltburn

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

• Fantasia Barrino —The Color Purple
• Jennifer Lawrence —No Hard Feelings
• Natalie Portman —May December
• Alma Pöysti —Fallen Leaves
• Margot Robbie —Barbie
• Emma Stone —Poor Things

Best Director, Motion Picture

• Bradley Cooper —Maestro
• Greta Gerwig —Barbie
• Yorgos Lanthimos —Poor Things
• Christopher Nolan —Oppenheimer
• Martin Scorsese —Killers of the Flower Moon
• Celine Song —Past Lives

Best Motion Picture, Animated

• The Boy and the Heron (GKids)
• Elemental (Disney)
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Universal Pictures)
• Suzume (Toho Co.)
• Wish (Disney)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama

• Pedro Pascal —The Last of Us
• Kieran Culkin —Succession
• Jeremy Strong —Succession
• Brian Cox —Succession
• Gary Oldman —Slow Horses
• Dominic West —The Crown

Best Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy

• Ayo Edebiri —The Bear
• Natasha Lyonne —Poker Face
• Quinta Brunson —Abbott Elementary
• Rachel Brosnahan —The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
• Selena Gomez —Only Murders in the Building
• Elle Fanning –The Great

Best Picture, Non-English Language

• Anatomy of a Fall (Neon) — France
• Fallen Leaves (Mubi) — Finland
• Io Capitano (01 Distribution) — Italy
• Past Lives (A24) — United States
• Society of the Snow (Netflix) — Spain
• The Zone of Interest (A24) — United Kingdom

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy

• Ricky Gervais —Ricky Gervais: Armageddon
• Trevor Noah —Trevor Noah: Where Was I
• Chris Rock —Chris Rock: Selective Outrage
• Amy Schumer —Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact
• Sarah Silverman —Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love
• Wanda Sykes —Wanda Sykes: I’m an Entertainer

Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy

• Bill Hader —Barry
• Steve Martin —Only Murders in the Building
• Martin Short —Only Murders in the Building
• Jason Segel —Shrinking
• Jason Sudeikis —Ted Lasso
• Jeremy Allen White —The Bear

Best Screenplay, Motion Picture

• Barbie— Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach
• Poor Things— Tony McNamara
• Oppenheimer— Christopher Nolan
• Killers of the Flower Moon— Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese
• Past Lives— Celine Song
• Anatomy of a Fall— Justine Triet, Arthur Harari

Best Supporting Actor, Television

• Billy Crudup —The Morning Show
• Matthew Macfadyen —Succession
• James Marsden —Jury Duty
• Ebon Moss-Bachrach —The Bear
• Alan Ruck —Succession
• Alexander Skarsgård —Succession

Best Supporting Actress, Television

• Elizabeth Debicki —The Crown
• Abby Elliott —The Bear
• Christina Ricci —Yellowjackets
• J. Smith-Cameron —Succession
• Meryl Streep —Only Murders in the Building
• Hannah Waddingham —Ted Lasso

Best Performance by an Actor, Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

• Matt Bomer —Fellow Travelers
• Sam Claflin —Daisy Jones & the Six
• Jon Hamm —Fargo
• Woody Harrelson —White House Plumbers
• David Oyelowo —Lawmen: Bass Reeves
• Steven Yeun —Beef

Best Performance by an Actress, Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

• Riley Keough —Daisy Jones & the Six
• Brie Larson —Lessons in Chemistry
• Elizabeth Olsen —Love and Death
• Juno Temple —Fargo
• Rachel Weisz —Dead Ringers
• Ali Wong —Beef

Best Supporting Actor, Motion Picture

• Willem Dafoe —Poor Things
• Robert De Niro —Killers of the Flower Moon
• Robert Downey Jr. —Oppenheimer
• Ryan Gosling —Barbie
• Charles Melton —May December
• Mark Ruffalo —Poor Things

Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture

• Emily Blunt —Oppenheimer
• Danielle Brooks —The Color Purple
• Jodie Foster —Nyad
• Julianne Moore —May December
• Rosamund Pike —Saltburn
• Da’Vine Joy Randolph —The Holdovers

Best Original Score, Motion Picture

• Ludwig Göransson — Oppenheimer
• Jerskin Fendrix — Poor Things
• Robbie Robertson — Killers of the Flower Moon
• Mica Levi — The Zone of Interest
• Daniel Pemberton — Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Joe Hisaishi — The Boy and the Heron

Best Original Song, Motion Picture

• Barbie — “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and Finneas
• Barbie — “Dance the Night” by Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt
• She Came to Me — “Addicted to Romance” by Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie — “Peaches” by Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond, and John Spiker
• Barbie — “I’m Just Ken” by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt
• Rustin — “Road to Freedom” by Lenny Kravitz

Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

• Barbie (Warner Bros.)
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (Disney)
• John Wick: Chapter 4 (Lionsgate Films)
• Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount Pictures)
• Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Sony Pictures)
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Universal Pictures)
• Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (AMC Theatres)

Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

• Beef
• Lessons in Chemistry
• Daisy Jones & the Six
• All the Light We Cannot See
• Fellow Travelers
• Fargo

Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy

• The Bear (FX)
• Ted Lasso (Apple TV+)
• Abbott Elementary (ABC)
• Jury Duty (Amazon Freevee)
• Only Murders in the Building (Hulu)
• Barry (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Drama

• Helen Mirren —1923
• Bella Ramsey —The Last of Us
• Keri Russell —The Diplomat
• Sarah Snook —Succession
• Imelda Staunton —The Crown
• Emma Stone —The Curse

Best Television Series, Drama

• 1923 (Paramount+)
• The Crown (Netflix)
• The Diplomat (Netflix)
• The Last of Us (HBO)
• The Morning Show (Apple TV+)
• Succession (HBO)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

• Nicolas Cage —Dream Scenario
• Timothée Chalamet —Wonka
• Matt Damon —Air
• Paul Giamatti —The Holdovers
• Joaquin Phoenix —Beau Is Afraid
• Jeffrey Wright —American Fiction

Best Picture, Musical or Comedy

• Barbie (Warner Bros.)
• Poor Things (Searchlight Pictures)
• American Fiction (MGM)
• The Holdovers (Focus Features)
• May December (Netflix)
• Air (Amazon MGM Studios)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama

• Lily Gladstone —Killers of the Flower Moon
• Carey Mulligan —Maestro
• Sandra Hüller —Anatomy of a Fall
• Annette Bening —Nyad
• Greta Lee —Past Lives
• Cailee Spaeny —Priscilla

Best Motion Picture, Drama

• Oppenheimer (Universal Pictures)
• Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures)
• Maestro (Netflix)
• Past Lives (A24)
• The Zone of Interest (A24)
• Anatomy of a Fall (Neon)

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