La La Land sweeps Golden Globe Awards

Hollywood musical La La Land has broken the
record for the most Golden Globe Awards,
winning seven prizes.
It won every award it was nominated for -
including best musical or comedy film, best
director, screenplay, score and song.
Its stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling also won
in the acting categories.
The Globes are seen as pointers to the Oscars.
Moonlight was named best drama film, while
Casey Affleck and Isabelle Huppert won other
acting prizes.
British stars dominate TV awards
All the winners and nominees
Golden Globes 2017: In pictures
The ceremony as it happened
Affleck was named best actor in a film drama for
his role in Manchester By The Sea and French
star Huppert was the surprise winner of the
award for best film drama actress.
Her performance in thriller Elle - which was also
named best foreign language film - beat
contenders including Natalie Portman, who had
been considered the favourite for playing Jackie
Kennedy in Jackie.
Viola Davis was named best supporting film
actress for playing a woman in 1950s Pittsburgh
in Fences - a role she first played on Broadway
six years ago.
The movie is an adaptation of the August Wilson
play, which explores race relations in post-war
America.
Accepting the award, Davis said: "It's not every
day that Hollywood thinks of translating a play to
screen - it doesn't scream 'moneymaker'. But it
does scream art, and it does scream heart."
In a surprise result, British actor Aaron Taylor-
Johnson was named best supporting actor for his
role in Nocturnal Animals - a prize that had been
widely expected to go to Mahershala Ali for
Moonlight.
Zootopia was named best animated feature film
at Sunday's ceremony, which was hosted by
Jimmy Fallon.
The comedian's opening monologue was less
risque than those of some of his predecessors,
but he still found time to make light of the
divisive year in US politics.
The talk show host joked that the Golden Globes
ceremony was "one of the few places left where
America still honours the popular vote" - a
reference to Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton
in the recent US election despite getting fewer
votes overall.
He also described grief-stricken film Manchester
By The Sea as "the only thing more depressing
than 2016".
The ceremony featured several references to Mr
Trump - not least when Meryl Streep launched an
attack on the US President-elect while accepting
the Cecil B Demille award for outstanding
contribution to entertainment.
Streep referred to Trump's mocking of a disabled
reporter and said: "Disrespect invites disrespect,
violence incites violence. And when the powerful
use their position to bully others we all lose."
There were several British triumphs in the
television categories , including wins for Tom
Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie and Olivia Colman for
The Night Manager.
Claire Foy also won best actress in a television
series for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in
Netflix's The Crown.
The Golden Globe Awards, which are run by the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association, honour the
best in TV and film from the past year.

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