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  • Golden Globes 2017: The Complete Winners’ List

    THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS -- Pictured: "The Golden Globe Awards" Statuette -- (Photo by: Chris Haston/NBC)From Deadpool to Emma Stone, the 2017 Golden Globes has everything.

    The awards show airs live tonight on NBC, and some of your favorite movies, stars, and TV series will need to make some space in their trophy rooms. Will “La La Land” win pretty much everything and pave its way to Oscar gold? Will the gut-punch of a drama, “Manchester by the Sea,” take home Best Drama?

    We’ll keep you posted right here with all of tonight’s winners, as we update live throughout the telecast.

    Here’s the full list of nominations:

    Best Motion Picture, Drama

    • “Moonlight” — WINNER
    • “Hacksaw Ridge”
    • “Hell or High Water”
    • “Lion”
    • “Manchester by the Sea”

    Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama

    • Isabelle Huppert, “Elle” — WINNER
    • Amy Adams, “Arrival”
    • Jessica Chastian, “Miss Sloane”
    • Ruth Negga, “Loving”
    • Natalie Portman, “Jackie”

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama

    • Casey Affleck, “Manchester by the Sea” — WINNER
    • Joel Edgerton, “Loving”
    • Andrew Garfield, “Hacksaw Ridge”
    • Viggo Mortenson, “Captain Fantastic”
    • Denzel Washington, “Fences”

    Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

    • “La La Land” — WINNER
    • “20th Century Women”
    • “Deadpool”
    • “Florence Foster Jenkins”
    • “Sing Street”

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

    • Emma Stone, “La La Land” — WINNER
    • Annette Bening, “20th Century Women”
    • Lily Collins, “Rules Don’t Apply”
    • Hailee Steinfeld, “The Edge of Seventeen”
    • Meryl Streep, “Florence Foster Jenkins”

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

    • Donald Glover, “Atlanta” — WINNER
    • Anthony Anderson, “Black-ish”
    • Gael Garcia Bernal, “Mozart in the Jungle”
    • Nick Nolte, “Graves”
    • Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent”

    Best Director, Motion Picture

    • Damien Chazelle, “La La Land” — WINNER
    • Tom Ford, “Nocturnal Animals”
    • Mel Gibson, “Hacksaw Ridge”
    • Barry Jenkins, “Moonlight”
    • Kenneth Lonergan, “Manchester by the Sea”

    Best Television Series, Drama

    • “The Crown,” Netflix — WINNER
    • “Game of Thrones,” HBO
    • “Stranger Things,” Netflix
    • “This Is Us,” NBC
    • “Westworld,” HBO

    Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Drama

    • Claire Foy, “The Crown” — WINNER
    • Caitriona Balfe, “Outlander”
    • Keri Russell, “The Americans”
    • Winona Ryder, “Stranger Things”
    • Evan Rachel Wood, “Westworld”

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for TV

    • Tom Hiddleston, “The Night Manager” — WINNER
    • Riz Ahmed, “The Night Of”
    • Bryan Cranston, “All the Way”
    • John Turturro, “The Night Of”
    • Courtney B. Vance, “The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story”

    Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language

    • “Elle” — WINNER
    • “Divines”
    • “Neruda”
    • “The Salesman”
    • “Toni Erdmann”

    Best Motion Picture, Animated

    • “Zootopia” — WINNER
    • “Kubo and the Two Strings”
    • “Moana”
    • “My Life as a Zucchini”
    • “Sing”

    Best Screenplay, Motion Picture

    • “La La Land” — WINNER
    • “Nocturnal Animals”
    • “Moonlight”
    • “Manchester by the Sea”
    • “Hell or High Water”

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

    • Ryan Gosling, “La La Land” — WINNER
    • Colin Farrell, “The Lobster”
    • Hugh Grant, “Florence Foster Jenkins”
    • Jonah Hill, “War Dogs”
    • Ryan Reynolds, “Deadpool”

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

    • Olivia Coleman, “The Night Manager” — WINNER
    • Lena Headey, “Game of Thrones”
    • Chrissy Metz, “This Is Us”
    • Mandy Moore, “This Is Us”
    • Thandie Newton, “Westworld”

    Best Performance by Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

    • Viola Davis, “Fences” — WINNER
    • Naomie Harris, “Moonlight”
    • Nicole Kidman, “Lion”
    • Octavia Spencer, “Hidden Figures”
    • Michelle Williams, “Manchester by the Sea”

    Best Original Song, Motion Picture

    • “City of Stars,” “La La Land” — WINNER
    • “Can’t Stop the Feeling,” “Trolls”
    • “Faith,” “Sing”
    • “Gold,” “Gold”
    • “How Far I’ll Go,” “Moana”

    Original Score, Motion Picture

    • “La La Land” — WINNER
    • “Moonlight”
    • “Arrival”
    • “Lion”
    • “Hidden Figures”

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

    • Hugh Laurie, “The Night Manager” — WINNER
    • Sterling K. “Brown, The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story”
    • John Lithgow, “The Crown”
    • Christian Slater, “Mr. Robot”
    • John Travolta, “The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story”

    Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

    • “The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story” — WINNER
    • “American Crime”
    • “The Dresser”
    • “The Night Manager”
    • “The Night Of”

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

    • Sarah Paulson, “The People v. O.J.: American Crime Story” — WINNER
    • Felicity Huffman, “American Crime”
    • Riley Keough, “The Girlfriend Experience”
    • Charlotte Rampling, “London Spy”
    • Kerry Washington, “Confirmation”

    Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy

    • “Atlanta” — WINNER
    • “Black-ish”
    • “Mozart in the Jungle”
    • “Transparent”
    • “Veep”

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

    • Tracee Ellis Ross, “Black-ish” — WINNER
    • Rachel Bloom, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”
    • Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep”
    • Sarah Jessica Parker, “Divorce”
    • Issa Rae, “Insecure”
    • Gina Rodriguez, “Jane the Virgin”

    Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama

    • Billy Bob Thornton, “Goliath” — WINNER
    • Rami Malek, “Mr. Robot”
    • Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
    • Matthew Reese, “The Americans”
    • Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan”

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

    • Aaron Taylor Johnson, “Nocturnal Animals” — WINNER
    • Mahershala Ali, “Moonlight”
    • Jeff Bridges, “Hell or High Water”
    • Simon Helberg, “Florence Foster Jenkins”
    • Dev Patel, “Lion”

    For comparison’s sake, here are last year’s nominations and winners.

  • How Denzel Washington Brought Fences from Broadway to the Screen

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    Denzel Washington from Fences

    Denzel Washington Talks Going from Broadway to Big Screen in Fences

    The Broadway revival of “Fences” in 2010 enjoyed great success, with more than 100 performances and a best actor Tony Award for Denzel Washington as Troy Maxson, the former baseball standout who wound up as a garbage collector struggling to support his family in 1950s Pittsburgh.

    Still, Washington took his time making a film version of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1987 play.

    “It was another two-and-half, three-year process of me getting up the nerve … to get ready for the film,” he tells Made in Hollywood Reporter Patrick Stinson.

    The issues?

    “Getting my head around it,” Washington says. “Should it be me doing to do all of this?”

    In the end, he decided it should be him. “I knew the material as well as anyone because we did 114 shows.”

    Fences Returns Broadway Revival Stars Denzel Washington and Viola Davis

    It was the right call. Also starring Viola Davis from the Broadway run, plus newcomer Jovan Adepo as Washington’s son, Cory, this major Christmas holiday release has garnered rave reviews and Oscar buzz.

    “August Wilson wrote a masterpiece that touches you wherever you’re vulnerable spot is,” he says. “For some you’re the son in that play, in that movie. For some you’re the father. For some you’re the wife. For some, you’re the daughter. There’s something there for everyone. We’ve all seen something like this in our live and had to deal with it.”

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  • ‘Fences’ Star Viola Davis on Her ‘Vulnerable, Fiery Tornado’ Role


    Viola Davis delivers one of her most powerful film performances in “Fences” as ’50s housewife Rose Maxson, reprising the role that earned her a Tony Award.

    Moviefone sat down with the actress to talk about reuniting with Broadway costar Denzel Washington (who also directs). Washington plays Troy Maxson, a former promising baseball player who now works as a garbageman and Davis plays his no-nonsense wife, Rose.

    The “How to Get Away With Murder” star says bringing August Wilson’s award-winning play from stage to screen resulted in an “even deeper, more vulnerable” performance, including some dramatic scenes that are sure to net her her third Oscar nomination.

    “There is still no difference in the essence of what we did,” she says. “August didn’t write small. You can’t play that small. You’ve got to play it for what it is. You can’t rein it in. You can’t even control it. It’s a fiery tornado that needs to be played out.”

    It’s a role she says she never tired of. “It’s a love affair that can last for 25 years. You never fall out of love with it. The characters are so rich.”

    “Fences,” which costars Mykelti Williamson and Russell Hornsby, is in limited release now, and opens December 25th everywhere."Fences" New York Screening - Arrivals

  • Here’s What ‘Fences’ Director Denzel Washington Learned From Great Directors


    One of Hollywood’s greatest actors is becoming one of its best directors — but to become one of the best, you have to learn from the best.

    “Fences” director and star Denzel Washington reveals what he’s learned from the world’s greatest directors — and it’s quite a list. Watch the interview above to get the rundown of who’s influenced the Oscar winner’s directing style.

  • 2017 Golden Globe Nominations: The 5 Biggest Snubs and Surprises

    That sound you heard after Don Cheadle, Laura Dern, and Anna Kendrick read out the names of this year’s Golden Globes nominees this morning? That was the inevitable head-scratching over the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s sometimes on-point — but usually baffling — picks for the year’s best in film and TV.

    Here are five of their choices that knocked us out of our chairs.

    1. A Deafening “Silence”
    Two films that almost everyone was sure were going to be nominated for Best Drama were awards-season favorite Martin Scorsese‘s epic “Silence” and “Fences,” the latter directed by Denzel Washington. He and VIola Davis did get nominated for acting in “Fences,” but that was it for the prestigious Broadway-bred drama.

    Still, that’s more than the silent treatment the Globe voters gave to “Silence.” In their places: World War II drama “Hacksaw Ridge” — which also earned nods for star Andrew Garfield and director Mel Gibson, to whom the foreign reporters of the HFPA have always been kinder than their American counterparts — and rural new-noir “Hell or High Water.” Both are acclaimed movies but were considered long-shots in this race. By the way, Garfield also stars in “Silence,” so for Scorsese, the actor’s nomination for Gibson’s film over his probably adds insult to injury.

    2. “Deadpool“
    It was a pleasant surprise to see the satirical superhero movie nominated in the comedy categories for Best Film and Best Actor (Ryan Reynolds), both because it came out way back in February and because, well, it’s a superhero movie.

    The genre tends to get no love at awards time, but then again, the movie itself blew a raspberry at the genre, so maybe the filmmakers and the Globe voters were on the same page. Also, a worldwide gross of $783 million is hard to ignore; clearly, “Deadpool” was a favorite in many countries whose reporters are HFPA members.

    3. Jon Snow, Killed Again
    Yes, we live in a golden age of television where there’s a glut of great shows on broadcast, cable, and now streaming, but that also means there were too many snubs in the TV categories to count. No Stranger Things?” No Westworld”? Nothing, not even a cup of coffee, for the “Gilmore Girls” revival?

    Still, the one that hurts the most is Game of Thrones” actor flippin’ RETURNED FROM THE DEAD for your entertainment, then delivered his most dramatic season ever, culminating in the epic “Battle of the Bastards.” Plus, he spent more than a year off-screen fooling the world into thinking he wasn’t coming back. If that’s not award-worthy acting, what is?

    4. Issa Rae
    The Globe voters pride themselves on being ahead of the pack when it comes to discovering new TV talent, since the calendar gives them an eight-month head start over the Emmys. They especially like anointing new comedy ingenues. After crowning Jane the Virgin”) two years ago and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”) last year, it’s now Rae’s turn for her delightful turn as a muddling single gal on HBO’s “Insecure.”

    5. “Finding Dory” Denied
    Granted, the Best Animated Feature category already has two deserving Disney movies in it, “Zootopia” and “Moana.” Still, the slot everyone expected would go to the fish-tale favorite went instead to something called “My Life as a Zucchini.”

    For the record, it’s a stop-motion film about an orphaned boy, submitted by Switzerland this year as the country’s entry into the Oscars’ Best Foreign Language Film pool. It wowed ‘me last May at Cannes. Still, fans of what is (so far) the biggest hit of 2016 have to wonder if there isn’t something fishy about this selection.

  • ‘Fences’ Trailer Reteams Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in Emotional Wringer

    Fences“Fences” isn’t content winning all the Tonys. Now, it wants all the Oscars.

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning play by August Wilson has been adapted into a film, directed by and starring Denzel Washington. In its first Broadway run, “Fences” won best play, best play, best leading actor (James Earl Jones), and best featured actress (Mary Alice). The 2010 revival won best revival, best leading actor (Washington), and best leading actress (Viola Davis).

    The first trailer for the movie shows exactly why this powerhouse play raked in the awards. Washington stars as a 1950s-era former baseball player turned garbage truck driver who is worn down by life. Davis reprises her role as his put-upon wife.
    The trailer leads with an intense, emotional scene of Washington dressing down his son after the teen asks him why his father never liked him. Bitterness and disappointment simmer until both Washington and Davis explode at each other. With awards season getting underway, “Fences” looks like it will be a major player, with possible nominations for the two leads.

    “Fences” opens in theaters December 25.

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