Amazon Studio's comedy Fleabag emerged the big winner the Golden Globes television awards. Fleabag won the Best Television Series—Musical or Comedy, and its actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge won the award for Best Actress in a Television Series. TV show Succession, on a media conglomerate and a family war, won the Best Television Series. Brian Cox was named best TV actor for Succession. In the movies, Sam Mendes won the best director winner for his First World War movie 1917, beating out Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino.
Hollywood stars Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Charlize Theron, Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Craig and Octavia Spencer were among the first presenters announced for 77th Golden Globe Awards. Other presenters included Sofia Vergara, Kerry Washington, Tiffany Haddish, Glenn Close, Will Ferrell, Nick Jonas, Ansel Elgort, Kate McKinnon and Ted Danson, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced.
Ricky Gervais hosted the annual awards ceremony.
Hollywood veteran Tom Hanks will receive the Cecil B DeMille Award, while TV host Ellen DeGeneres will be honoured with the Carol Burnett Award, a counterpart to the DeMille Award that focuses on life achievement in television. Tim Allen, Pierce Brosnan, Ana de Armas, Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Salma Hayek, Harvey Keitel, Rami Malek, Kate McKinnon, Amy Poehler, Margot Robbie,Sofia Vergara and Kerry Washington are also presenting.
Marriage Story, directed by Noah Baumbach and featuring Johansson alongside Adam Driver, is leading the Golden Globe nominations with six nods. Ace filmmaker Martin Scorsese's The Irishman and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood have five nominations each. Chernobyl, The Crown and Unbelievable are leading the TV nominations. Barry, Big Little Lies and Fleabag have three nods each.
The Golden Globes Award ceremony took place at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
-Inputs from PTI
