LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the Golden Globe ceremony (all times local):
8:05 p.m.
“Nomadland” has come in from the desert to take the Golden Globe for best picture in the drama category.
The film, a prime candidate for a best-picture Oscar, took home two Globes on Sunday night in the most atypical of years, where the pandemic had a major effect on the scaled-back, bi-coastal ceremony and on the films released.
Earlier, Chloe Zhao became the first woman of Asian descent to win the Golden Globe for best director for the film.
“Nomadland” follows a woman, played by Frances McDormand, who leaves her small town to join a group of wanderers in the American West.
It beat out fellow nominees “Mank,” “The Father,” “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Promising Young Woman.”
Accepting the best picture award, Zhao paid tribute to all those who have been on difficult journeys, quoting a line from the film: “We don’t say goodbye, we say see you down the road.”
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8:00 p.m.
Andra Day was singing no blues at the Golden Globes.
In a major surprise, the Globe for best actress in a drama film went to Day in “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” on Sunday night.
It’s the first acting Golden Globe for the 36-year-old singer, songwriter and actress Day.
She was one of several Black actors, including Daniel Kaluuya and the late Chadwick Boseman, who won Globes on a night when the organization that hands them out was under a cloud for having no black voting members.
Day plays the legendary jazz and blues singer Holiday in the biopic directed by Lee Daniels.
A tearful and overwhelmed Day spoke through tears as she said she was “in the presence of giants,” naming her fellow nominees Viola Davis, Carey Mulligan, Vanessa Kirby and Frances McDormand.
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7:55 p.m.
It is biggest night for Borat at Golden Globes!
“Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” is the winner of the Globe for best picture, musical or comedy.
Sacha Baron Cohen directed and reprises the title role of a man from Kazakhstan documenting America in the sequel to 2006’s “Borat” that also stars Maria Bakalova in a Globe-nominated role.
Baron Cohen thanked “comic genius” Rudy Giuliani, who was tricked into appearing in the film.
It beat out fellow nominees “Hamilton,” “Music,” “Palm Springs” and “The Prom.”
Baron Cohen then won best actor in a musical or comedy for the role, the after winning the same award for the original “Borat!” in 2006.
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7:50 p.m.
Chloe Zhao became the first woman of Asian descent to win the Golden Globe for best director on Sunday night in a groundbreaking year for female filmmakers.
Zhao, an Oscar frontrunner, was favored to win Sunday night for her film “Nomadland.”
She is the first woman to win the award since Barbra Streisand won for “Yentl” in 1984.
She was one of three women nominated in the category, along with Regina King and Emerald Fennell.
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7:40 p.m.
Six months after his death at age 43, Chadwick Boseman has won a Golden Globe.
The award for best actor in a dramatic film was earned by Boseman for his final role, in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”
Boseman’s widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, accepted the award for her late husband, saying “he would thank God, he would thank his parents, he would thank his ancestors for their guidance and their sacrifices.”
Through tears, Ledward added: “I don’t have his words, but we have to take all the moments to celebrate those we love.”
In the Netflix film, Boseman plays an ambitious trumpeter named Levee who aims to launch himself with his own updated version of the songs of Ma Rainey, the powerhouse blues singer played by Viola Davis.
Boseman, who starred in the Marvel blockbuster “Black Panther,” died in August after privately battling colon cancer for four years.
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7:35 p.m.
It’s checkmate for “The Queen’s Gambit. It has captured two Golden Globes.
The Netflix show about a young girl in an orphanage who becomes a chess…