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The Golden Globes,<\/a>\u00a0which host Nikki Glaser introduced as \u201cOzempic’s biggest night,\u201d dished out awards Sunday for Demi Moore in the body horror film \u201cThe Substance,” Sebastian Stan for \u201cA Different Man\u201d and the genre-shifting trans musical\u00a0\u201cEmilia P\u00e9rez<\/a>.”<\/p>\n In a ceremony that offered few surprises early, one shocker was Moore’s win for best actress in a comedy or musical. Her comeback performance in \u201cThe Substance,” about a\u00a0Hollywood star who resorts to an experimental process<\/a>\u00a0to regain her youth, landed the 62-year-old Moore her first Globe \u2014 a victory that came over the heavily favored Mikey Madison of \u201cAnora.\u201d<\/p>\n “I\u2019m just in shock right now. I\u2019ve been doing this a long time, like over 45 years, and this is the first thing I\u2019ve ever won as an actor,” said Moore, who was last nominated by the Globes in 1991 for \u201cGhost.\u201d \u201cThirty years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a popcorn actress.\u201d<\/p>\n Best supporting actor in a musical or comedy went to Sebastian Stan for another movie about physical transformation:\u00a0\u201cA Different Man,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in which Stan plays a man with a deformed face who’s healed. Stan, who was\u00a0also nominated for playing Donald Trump in \u201cThe Apprentice,”<\/a>\u00a0noted that both films were hard to get made.<\/p>\n \u201cThese are tough subject maters but these films are real and they’re necessary,\u201d said Stan. \u201cBut we can’t be afraid and look away.\u201d<\/p>\n Comedian Nikki Glaser kicked off the 82nd Golden Globes, with a promise: \u201cI’m not here to roast you.\u201d<\/p>\n But\u00a0Glaser, a stand-up whose breakthrough came<\/a>\u00a0in a withering roast of Tom Brady, made her way around the ballroom of the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, on Sunday picking out plenty of targets in an opening monologue she had worked out extensively in comedy clubs beforehand.<\/p>\n Glaser, hosting the Globes two weeks before the inauguration of Donald Trump, reserved perhaps her most cutting line for the whole room of Hollywood stars.<\/p>\n \u201cYou could really do anything … except tell the country who to vote for,\u201d said Glaser. \u201cBut it\u2019s OK, you\u2019ll get \u2019em next time … if there is one. I\u2019m scared.”<\/p>\n She then turned toward \u201cWicked\u201d star Ariana Grande with a request: “Ariana, hold my finger.\u201d<\/p>\n Glaser complimented\u00a0Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet,<\/a>\u00a0nominated for his performance as Bob Dylan in \u201cA Complete Unknown,\u201d for having \u201cthe most gorgeous eye-lashes on your upper lip.\u201d<\/p>\n While Glaser might not have reached Tina Fey and Amy Poehler levels of laughs, the monologue was mostly a winner, and a dramatic improvement over last year’s host, Jo Koy. Glaser assured the crowd that, win or lose, \u201cthe point of making art is to start a tequila brand so popular that you never have to make art again.\u201d<\/p>\n The night’s first winner was Zoe Salda\u00f1a for best supporting actress. Salda\u00f1a won for her performance in Jacques Audiard’s \u201cEmilia Perez,\u201d the trans musical that came in with a leading 10 nods. Later, it added another prize, for best non-English language film. French director Audiard said through an interpreter that he hoped the film is \u201ca beacon of light” in dark times.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t have sisters and maybe that\u2019s why I made this film about sisterhood,\u201d said Audiard. “If there were more sisters in the world, maybe it would be a better place.\u201d<\/p>\n Though few film awards have been predictable this season, Kieran Culkin is emerging has the clear favorite for best supporting actor. Culkin won Sunday for his performance\u00a0in Jesse Eisenberg\u2019s \u201cA Real Pain,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0his second Globe in the past year following a win for the HBO series \u201cSuccession.\u201d He called the Globes \u201cbasically the best date night that my wife and I ever have,\u201d and then thanked her for \u201cputting up what you call my mania.\u201d<\/p>\n The papal thriller \u201cConclave\u201d took best screenplay, for Peter Straughan’s script.<\/p>\n The big Emmys winner \u201cSh\u014dgun\u201d\u00a0kept its momentum Sunday,<\/a>\u00a0with wins for Hiroyuki Sanada, for best actor in a drama series, and Tadanobu Asano for best supporting actor in a drama series. \u201cI\u2019m very happy!\u201d exclaimed Asano with his arms raised.<\/p>\n Ali Wong, who reportedly previously turned down the chance to host the Globes, won for best stand-up comedy performance. For the second time, Jean Smart won best lead actress in a comedy series for \u201cHacks.\u201d Said the much-honored Smart: \u201cI never thought I\u2019d be so happy to be called a hack.\u201d<\/p>\n Other wins included Jeremy Allen White for \u201cThe Bear\u201d (he wasn’t in attendance), Jodie Foster for \u201cTrue Detective\u201d and Colin Farrell for his physical transformation in \u201cThe Penguin.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI guess it’s prosthetics from here on out,” said Farrell.<\/p>\n After a rocky few years and the disbanding of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes have seemingly stabilized. The question heading into Sunday was: But can they still put on a good show?<\/p>\n Last year\u2019s comeback edition, hosted by\u00a0Koy<\/a>, was widely panned, but it delivered where it counted:\u00a0Ratings rebounded<\/a>\u00a0to about 10 million viewers, according to Nielsen. CBS, who waded in after NBC dumped the Globes, signed up for five more years.<\/p>\n The Globes are now owned by Todd Boehly\u2019s Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions, which acquired the award show from the now defunct Hollywood Foreign Press Association. After diversity and ethics scandals, the HFPA sold off the Globes and dissolved. However, more than a dozen former HFPA members are seeking to have the sale to Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions rescinded.<\/p>\n Either way, the Globes\u2019 primary reason for being, from studios\u2019 perspectives, is to serve as one big marketing event for its awards contenders. It\u2019s still almost two months until the Academy Awards on March 2.<\/p>\n But unlike last year, where \u201cOppenheimer\u201d steamrolled and the billion-dollar-grossing \u201cBarbie\u201d juiced the race, this year\u2019s top contenders are more arthouse, and no clear favorite has yet emerged.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\nGlaser opens<\/h4>\n
Early Winners<\/h4>\n
TV prizes<\/h4>\n
Steadying Globes?<\/h4>\n