All the 2023 Golden Globe Awards film wins and surprise snubs

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s (HFPA) Golden Globe Awards returns in 2023 after a 2022 hiatus and behind-the-scenes overhaul to improve diversity and practices.

Airing in Australia on the Stan streaming service (the first live awards ceremony to broadcast on the local platform), the revamped event’s 80th anniversary, celebrating all things film and television, gave a little more insight into what we can expect from the rest of Awards Season.

Here are the wholesome film wins and shock snubs you may have missed from the 2023 Golden Globe Awards…

The Fabelmans writer and director Steven Spielberg wins Best Director and Best Picture - Drama

Praise was heaped on Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical tale The Fabelmans, with the film taking out Best Picture – Drama and the acclaimed filmmaker winning Best Director. Spielberg may seem a shoe-in for the same awards at the Oscars in March, but Martin McDonagh’s black comedy-drama, The Banshees Of Inisherin, and The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All At Once lead the pack when it comes to nominations across the 2023 season.

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Speaking of The Banshees Of Inisherin, McDonagh’s story of two friends on a remote Irish island who suddenly and inexplicably fall out, nabbed the Globe for Best Picture – Musical/Comedy against Everything Everywhere All At Once, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Babylon and Triangle Of Sadness.

In the acting categories, Colin Farrell won Best Actor – Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy for his nuanced role in The Banshees of Inisherin, while Austin Butler won the same award in the Drama category for his portrayal of music icon Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, accepting his award using a voice many say still sounds eerily like his performance of ‘The King’.

Butler’s win, although no doubt deserved, comes as a surprise when up against celebrated veterans, including Hugh Jackman for his performance in Florian Zeller’s The Son of a father navigating his teen’s mental health; Bill Nighy’s turn as a man making the best of the time he has left in Living; Jeremy Pope as a young man battling discrimination in The Inspection; and Brendan Fraser’s lauded comeback as an obese man trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter (Sadie Sink) in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale.

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Fraser is the Oscars frontrunner among critics this year, but skipped the 2023 Golden Globes ceremony given his allegation that former HFPA president Philip Berk groped him at a luncheon in 2003. His noted absence makes it perhaps unsurprising that he didn’t get the Best Actor win, but as the Globes are often a precursor to the Oscars it will be interesting to see if that affects his chances in March.

Australia’s own Cate Blanchett took home the statue for Best Actress – Motion Picture – Drama for Tár, Todd Field’s character study of a conductor abusing her position of power. Blanchett will no doubt be up against Best Actress – Motion Picture – Musical Comedy winner Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All At Once) at the Oscars, with the latter a favourite among punters this season.

Ke Huy Quan wins Best Supporting Actor for his role in Everything Everywhere All At Once

In one of the most moving acceptance speeches of the night, Yeoh’s EEAAO co-star Ke Huy Quan won Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy, reflecting on his struggles and insecurities in Hollywood, while also thanking Spielberg, for giving him his first shot as a child actor in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and The Daniels for taking a chance on him 30 years later.

Meanwhile, Angela Bassett’s historic win of Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever makes her the first actor to be nominated in an acting category for a Marvel film, putting the icon in good stead for her first ever Oscar nomination in the corresponding category.

Here are the full list of film winners from the 2023 Golden Globe Awards…

Best Motion Picture – Drama
Avatar: The Way of Water
Elvis
The Fabelmans (WINNER)
Tár
Top Gun: Maverick

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Cate Blanchett, Tár (WINNER)
Olivia Colman, Empire of Light
Viola Davis, The Woman King
Ana de Armas, Blonde
Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Austin Butler, Elvis (WINNER)
Brendan Fraser, The Whale
Hugh Jackman, The Son
Bill Nighy, Living
Jeremy Pope, The Inspection

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Babylon
The Banshees of Inisherin (WINNER)
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Triangle of Sadness

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Lesley Manville, Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Margot Robbie, Babylon
Anya Taylor-Joy, The Menu
Emma Thompson, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once (WINNER)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Diego Calva, Babylon
Daniel Craig, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Adam Driver, White Noise
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin (WINNER)
Ralph Fiennes, The Menu

Best Motion Picture – Animated  
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (WINNER)
Inu-Oh
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Turning Red

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
All Quiet on the Western Front (Germany)
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina) (WINNER)
Close (Belgium)
Decision to Leave (South Korea)
RRR (India)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (WINNER)
Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin
Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Dolly De Leon, Triangle of Sadness
Carey Mulligan, She Said

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Brad Pitt, Babylon
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once (WINNER)
Eddie Redmayne, The Good Nurse

Best Director — Motion Picture
James Cameron, Avatar: The Way of Water
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Baz Luhrmann, Elvis
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans (WINNER)

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Todd Field, Tár 
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin (WINNER)
Sarah Polley, Women Talking
Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner, The Fabelmans

Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Carter Burwell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Hildur Gudnadóttir, Women Talking 
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon (WINNER)
John Williams, The Fabelmans 

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“Carolina,” Taylor Swift (Where the Crawdads Sing)
“Ciao Papa,” Alexandre Desplat, Guillermo del Toro, Roeban Katz (Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio)
“Hold My Hand,” Lady Gaga, BloodPop, Benjamin Rice (Top Gun: Maverick)
“Lift Me Up,” Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler, Ludwig Göransson (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever) 
“Naatu Naatu,” Kala Bhairava, M.M. Keeravani, Rahul Sipligunj (RRR) (WINNER)