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GOLDEN GLOBES 2018

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri wins big at the Golden Globes

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- Fatih Akin’s In the Fade has triumphed in the Best Foreign-language Film category

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri wins big at the Golden Globes
The cast and crew of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri collect the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Drama on stage (© Paul Drinkwater/NBC)

Last night, the 75th Golden Globe Awards took place in Beverly Hills, California, to acknowledge the best films of the year that has just drawn to a close, according to the votes of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. As the predictions had been hinting at recently, Martin McDonagh’s UK-US co-production Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri [+see also:
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, already awarded (with the Best Screenplay trophy) at the latest edition of the Venice Film Festival, was a big winner at the ceremony. This time, the film took home the Awards for Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (for Frances McDormand), Best Supporting Performance by an Actor (for Sam Rockwell) and, again, Best Screenplay (written by the director himself).

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In the Best Foreign-language Film category, in which four European (co-)productions were competing, the winner was Fatih Akin’s Cannes-awarded In the Fade [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Fatih Akin
film profile
]
. The fact that the Diane Kruger starrer beat the rest of the nominees came as something of a surprise, especially because it was up against critically acclaimed films such as A Fantastic Woman [+see also:
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, Loveless [+see also:
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interview: Andrey Zvyagintsev
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]
and The Square [+see also:
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interview: Ruben Östlund
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]
.

Besides these two titles, Europe is also present in the awards list through Gary Oldman’s win in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama category for his turn in Joe Wright’s British production Darkest Hour [+see also:
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]
. It is worth noting that Luca Guadagnino’s much-praised Call Me by Your Name [+see also:
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Q&A: Luca Guadagnino
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]
left the ceremony empty-handed, as did Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk [+see also:
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, given that both had a good shot at winning in several categories.

Here is the full list of winners in the film categories:

Best Motion Picture – Drama
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri [+see also:
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trailer
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]
 – Martin McDonagh (UK/USA)

Best Motion Picture – Comedy
Lady Bird – Greta Gerwig

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Frances McDormand - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Gary Oldman - Darkest Hour [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
 (UK)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Saoirse Ronan - Lady Bird

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
James Franco - The Disaster Artist

Best Supporting Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Musical or Comedy
Allison Janney - I, Tonya

Best Supporting Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, Musical or Comedy
Sam Rockwell - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Director
Guillermo del Toro - The Shape of Water

Best Screenplay
Martin McDonagh - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat - The Shape of Water

Best Original Song
“This Is Me” (The Greatest Showman) - Benj Pasek, Justin Paul

Best Animated Feature Film
Coco - Lee Unkrich, Adrián Molina

Best Foreign-language Film
In the Fade [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Fatih Akin
film profile
]
 – Fatih Akin (Germany/France)

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