Golden Globes 2020: Live Updates

The night’s first award amounted to a showdown between old and new Hollywood, with HBO’s Bill Hader (“Barry”) going up against Hulu’s Ramy Youssef, the Egyptian-American star of the little-seen “Ramy,” for best actor in a TV musical or comedy. Youssef won. “Look, I know you guys haven’t seen my show,” he said from the stage, to polite laughter in the star-studded ballroom.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag”) collected the Globe for best actress in a television musical or comedy. “Thank you for picking up this little scrap of a show,” she said to Amazon, which runs the series on its streaming service. The show also won best musical or comedy.

Jared Harris was expected to collect the Globe for best actor in a limited series for his “Chernobyl” scientist, but the award went to Russell Crowe (Showtime’s “The Loudest Voice”), who skipped the ceremony amid wildfires in his native Australia. Jennifer Aniston, presenting the award with Reese Witherspoon, shared a statement from Crowe, which read in part, “Make no mistake, the tragedy unfolding in Australia is climate-change based.”

The Golden Globes are nothing if not maddeningly mixed in their messaging. For the first time, a Netflix movie viewed mostly on TV sets and mobile devices, “The Irishman,” is expected to win the best drama prize. But the givers of the Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, also hand out a trophy for best comedy or musical. An old-fashioned studio movie, Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” (Sony), won that contest. Tarantino also collected the Globe for best screenplay, beating Noah Baumbach’s “Marriage Story” (Netflix).

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