Resurrected Golden Globes kick off with Jo Koy monologue, Downey win

LOS ANGELES -- A revamped Golden Globes kicked disconnected with Taylor Swift successful the house, wins for Robert Downey Jr. and Da'Vine Joy Randolph and a rocky monologue from comedian Joy Koy.

Koy took the signifier astatine the Beverly Hilton International Ballroom successful Beverly Hills to unfastened the 81st Golden Globes. The Filipino American stand-up deed connected immoderate expected topics: Ozempic, Meryl Streep's knack for winning awards and the long-running "Oppenheimer." ("I needed different hour.")

After 1 gag flubbed, Koy, who was named big aft immoderate bigger names reportedly passed, besides noted however accelerated helium was thrust into the job.

"Yo, I got the gig 10 days ago. You privation a cleanable monologue?" said Koy. "I wrote immoderate of these and they're the ones you're laughing at."

The night's archetypal grant went to Da'Vine Joy Randolph for champion supporting histrion successful Alexander Payne's "The Holdovers." Randolph has emerged arsenic the favourite successful the class for her show arsenic a grieving pistillate successful the 1970s-set boarding schoolhouse drama.

"Oh, Mary you person changed my life," Randolph said of her character. "You person made maine consciousness seen successful truthful galore ways that I person ne'er imagined."

That was rapidly followed by a triumph for Robert Downey Jr., who won his 3rd Globe for his supporting show successful "Oppenheimer." It was the archetypal head-to-head contention betwixt Christopher Nolan's epic and Greta Gerwig's "Barbie." Downey's closest contention was considered the Kenergy of Ryan Gosling.

"Golden Globes journalists, convey you for changing your game, truthful changing your name," said Downey.

In the TV categories, Ali Wong and Steven Yeun some won for their performances successful "Beef." "Succession," the pb tv nominee, started disconnected with a triumph for Matthew MacFadyen, who said helium adored "every 2nd playing the weird, the fantastic quality grease stain that is Tom Wambsgans."

A new-look Globes

The carpet was red, but the colour of the nighttime mightiness beryllium pink. "Barbie," the year's biggest hit, came successful the pb nominee with 9 nominations, including champion drama oregon musical. Margot Robbie, prima and shaper of the film, arrived dressed for the part, sporting a pinkish Armani formal modeled aft Superstar Barbie from 1977.

But successful immoderate color, it was a new-look Golden Globes. The awards returned sans the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which was disbanded aft years of diverseness and ethical scandals. The Globes besides mislaid its longtime web home. This year's amusement is being broadcast connected CBS successful a one-year deal. Even the paper was flipped, with Nobu catering.

The revamped Globes had the situation of moving past a tumultuous fewer years portion recapturing the bubbly, irreverent tone of each those shows hosted by Ricky Gervais oregon Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

Those broadcasts helped crook the Globes into the 3rd biggest grant amusement of the year, aft the Oscars and the Grammys. The Globes' glitzy bully clip enabled galore to place the impropriates of an grant amusement that often doubled arsenic a punchline.

"I deliberation it's connected the upswing now," Colman Domingo, nominated for his pb show successful the Bayard Rustin play "Rustin," said connected the reddish carpet. "I deliberation that they've had immoderate psyche searching and we each person to let everyone to person psyche searching."

Changes to the categories

Making a precocious entranceway was Taylor Swift, whose "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour" is nominated successful the recently launched "cinematic and box-office achievement" award. Swift's boyfriend, Travis Kelce, was with his team, the Kansas City Chiefs, who played the Chargers astatine adjacent SoFi Stadium earlier successful the afternoon.

That category, on with an grant for stand-up comedy, were caller additions this year. Also new: Most categories see six, not five, nominees.

You won't spot 2 awards usually handed retired astatine the Globes: the Cecil B. DeMille Award oregon the Carol Burnett Award. Both of those tribute honors aren't being fixed this year, though 2 caller categories are: the blockbuster grant and 1 for stand-up drama special.

The contenders

Gerwig's "Barbie," the biggest movie of the twelvemonth with much than $1.4 cardinal successful summons sales, comes successful the pb for nominees with 9 nods, including champion drama oregon musical, champion manager for Gerwig, champion histrion for Robbie, champion supporting histrion for Ryan Gosling, and 3 archetypal opus nominations.

Nolan's "Oppenheimer" is adjacent down with 8 nominations, including for champion drama, champion manager for Nolan and champion histrion for Cillian Murphy.

On the TV side, HBO's "Succession" leads with 9 nominations. "The Bear" and "Only Murders successful the Building" travel with 5 apiece.

The Globes comeback

A fewer years ago, the Golden Globes were connected the cusp of collapse. After The Los Angeles Times reported that the HFPA had nary Black members, Hollywood boycotted the organization. The 2022 Globes were each but canceled and taken disconnected TV. After reforms, the Globes returned to NBC past twelvemonth successful a one-year deal, but the amusement was booted to Tuesday evening. With Jerrod Carmichael hosting, the telecast attracted 6.3 cardinal viewers, a caller debased connected NBC and a acold outcry from the 20 cardinal that erstwhile tuned in.

The Golden Globes were acquired by Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions, which Penske Media owns, and turned into a for-profit venture. The HFPA (which typically numbered astir 90 voters) was dissolved and a caller radical of immoderate 300 amusement journalists from astir the satellite present ballot for the awards.

Questions inactive stay astir the Globes' semipermanent future, but their worth to Hollywood studios remains providing a selling boost to awards contenders. (The Oscars won't beryllium held until March 10.) This year, due to the fact that of the actors and writers strikes, the Globes are airing up of the Emmys, which were postponed to Jan. 15.

With movie summons income inactive 20% disconnected the pre-pandemic gait and the manufacture facing a perchance rocky 2024 astatine the container office, Hollywood needs the Golden Globes arsenic overmuch arsenic it ever has.