One of the great things about the start of a new year is the chance to celebrate the achievements of the previous year.

Unless your previous year wasn’t great, in which case onward and upward, friends.

The Golden Globes 2019 celebrated some of the incredible film and television that fuelled our binge-watching sessions and kept us entertained last year.

As always, there were some wins that we all saw coming, and others that caught us by surprise. The New York Times sums it up:

In a night of major upsets, “Green Book,” a divisive road movie about race relations, emerged as the big winner at the 76th Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, taking home three trophies, including best comedy.

“Bohemian Rhapsody” was named best drama, leaving “A Star Is Born,” the expected front-runner, with a lone Globe for best song.

Among the other surprises, the veteran Glenn Close beat Lady Gaga for best actress. Gaga was expected to win for “A Star Is Born,” her first leading role in a movie. A shocked Close, who won for “The Wife,” spoke of her mother — a woman “who really sublimated herself to my father her whole life.”

So, without further ado, here’s the complete list of winners:

MOVIES

Best Motion Picture, Drama:

“Bohemian Rhapsody”

Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy:

“Green Book”

Best Director, Motion Picture:

Alfonso Cuarón, “Roma”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama:

Glenn Close, “The Wife”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama:

Rami Malek, “Bohemian Rhapsody”

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

Olivia Colman, “The Favourite”

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

Christian Bale, “Vice”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture:

Regina King, “If Beale Street Could Talk”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture:

Mahershala Ali, “Green Book”

Best Screenplay, Motion Picture:

Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly, “Green Book”

Best Motion Picture, Animated:

“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”

Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language:

“Roma”

Best Original Score, Motion Picture:

Justin Hurwitz, “First Man”

Best Original Song, Motion Picture:

“Shallow” — “A Star Is Born”

TELEVISION

Best Television Series, Drama:

“The Americans,” FX

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Drama:

Sandra Oh, “Killing Eve”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama:

Richard Madden, “Bodyguard”

Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy:

“The Kominsky Method,” Netflix

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy:

Rachel Brosnahan, “The Marvelous Mrs Maisel”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy:

Michael Douglas, “The Kominsky Method”

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television:

“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” FX

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television:

Patricia Arquette, “Escape at Dannemora”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television:

Darren Criss, “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television:

Patricia Clarkson, “Sharp Objects”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television:

Ben Whishaw, “A Very English Scandal”

Cool. That should sort out your watercooler banter for the day.

And FYI, if you haven’t seen Bohemian Rhapsody yet are you even living your best life?

A Star is Born is also worth a watch.

Overall, a good year for music-inspired movies.

[source:newyorktimes]