The 72nd annual Golden Globes Awards spread the love around to everyone except North Korea and Bill Cosby.
The awards season favorite, Richard Linklater's 12-years-in-the-making "Boyhood" won both best director for Linklater and best supporting actress for Patricia Arquette. The sweetly humanist film had a similarly touching effect on one of Hollywood's glitziest evenings. Taking out her written speech, Arquette apologized: "I'm the only nerd with a piece of paper."
"Bottom line is we're all flawed in this world. No one's perfect," said Linklater. "I want to dedicate this to parents that are evolving everywhere and families that are just passing through this world and doing their best."
Perhaps the chief Oscar rival to "Boyhood," Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's backstage romp "Birdman," also fared well. It won best actor in a comedy or musical for its lead, Michael Keaton, who plays a former superhero star tinged with his own history, and best screenplay.
Reflecting on his life, Keaton's voice broke up as he thanked his son, whom he called his best friend. "Shoot," he said. "Two things I swore I wasn't going to do: cry and give air quotes."
But in a shocker, "Birdman" was upset by Wes Anderson's "Grand Budapest Hotel" for best film, comedy or musical. The film was Anderson's biggest box office hit yet, but not an award season favorite.
Kicking off the show, hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler wasted no time in skewering Hollywood's most tender subjects: the hacking of Sony Pictures over "The Interview," the sexual assault allegations against Cosby and television's rise as a cultural rival to movies.
In an opening blistering with zingers, the duo welcomed Hollywood's "despicable, spoiled, minimally talented brats" to the Globes to celebrate "all the movies that North Korea was OK with." They several times visited with a North Korea government character, played by Margaret Cho, who voiced her displeasure with all aspects of the show.
"Je Suis Charlie" reverberated through the ceremony, from signs held aloft on the red carpet by the likes of Helen Mirren to the speeches of Cecil B. DeMille winner George Clooney, who evoked the name of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that was recently attacked by deadly terrorists. Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Theo Kingma drew a standing ovation for a speech pledging support of free speech "from North Korea to Paris."
Clooney, a young lifetime achievement honoree at 53, had been among Hollywood's most vocal about preserving free speech after hackers threatened violence over "The Interview."
"It's a good chance for us to meet face to face and apologize for all those snarky things we said to each other," said Clooney, referring to the embarrassing emails leaked by the hackers. He also spoke sincerely about his new wife, Amal Clooney: "It's a humbling thing when you find somebody to love."
In one of the evening's most hotly contested categories, best actor in a drama, Eddie Redmayne emerged as victorious over Benedict Cumberbatch ("The Imitation Game"), Steve Carell ("Foxcatcher"), David Oyelowo ("Selma") and Jake Gyllenhaal ("Nightcrawler") for his performance as Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything."
Julianne Moore won best actress in a drama for her startling performance as an academic with early on-set Alzheimer's in "Still Alice."
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