'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' won four awards, including the highly-coveted Best Picture award and the Best Actress trophy for its lead actress, Frances McDormand.
- Jan 8, 2018
AceShowbiz - As the 2018 Golden Globes unveiled its full winner list at the Sunday, January 7 award show, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" emerged as the big winner that night. The black comedy crime film took home four awards, including the highly-coveted Best Picture award and the Best Actress trophy for its lead actress, Frances McDormand.
McDormand made the audience burst into laughter with her funny acceptance speech. "Well, I have a few things to say," she began. "I'm gonna keep it short, 'cause we've been here a long time and we need some tequila." She went on thanking the HFPA even though she's "not quite sure who they are when I run into them for the last thirty five years," before expressing her gratitude toward director Martin McDonagh and Fox Searchlight as well as "the entire cast and crew" for bringing "their base game into this one."
Let's hear it for our winner of Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama, Frances McDormand! She's honored for her role in @3Billboards. #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/1bJOBP3YNW
— Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes) January 8, 2018
For his work on "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri", Martin McDonagh was honored with the Best Screenplay award. Meanwhile, Sam Rockwell was announced earlier in the night as the winner of Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture, beating fellow nominees like Willem Dafoe ("The Florida Project"), Armie Hammer ("Call Me By Your Name"), Richard Jenkins ("The Shape of Water") and Christopher Plummer ("All the Money in the World"), the latter of whom replaced Kevin Spacey following his sexual assault scandal.
Greta Gerwig's directorial debut, "Lady Bird", and Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water" followed behind with two awards each. The comedy flick took home the award for Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical and helped its star Saoirse Ronan win her first Golden Globe award.
Congratulations to Saoirse Ronan - Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy - Lady Bird (@LadyBirdMovie) - #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/KVE2FaULH5
— Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes) January 8, 2018
del Toro was named Best Director for his work on "The Shape of Water" that night. He won the honor over other strong fellow nominees that included Christopher Nolan ("Dunkirk"), Ridley Scott ("All the Money in the World"), Steven Spielberg ("The Post") and McDonagh ("Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri"). Earlier in the night, Alexandre Desplat was honored with the Best Original Score award for his work on the sci-fi movie.
Congratulations to Guillermo Del Toro (@RealGDT) - Best Director - Motion Picture - The Shape of Water (@shapeofwater) - #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/Uq3ePtg7U9
— Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes) January 8, 2018
Taking to the stage to accept the honor, del Toro talked about the value of monster movies, saying, "I have been saved and absolved by them. Monsters are our way of making sense of imperfection." When the orchestra tried to play him offstage, he hushed the conductor and continued saying, "For 25 years, I have handcrafted very strange little tales made of motion, color, light, and shadow. And in many of these instances - three precise instances - these little stories have saved my life."
The famed filmmaker then thanked his cast and crew in his emotional acceptance speech, while his lead actress Sally Hawkins could be seen in the audience seat bursting into tears. "I wouldn't be here... without my cast... my crew," he said, before giving a shout-out to "a few fantastic women" that included Hawkins, Octavia Spencer and his co-scribe Vanessa Taylor.
Congratulations to winner of Best Director - Motion Picture, @RealGDT for @shapeofwater! #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/q7LFbCCZ2e
— Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes) January 8, 2018
Also at the ceremony, Gary Oldman was named the Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for his work on "Darkest Hour", a biopic about British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Meanwhile, announced as the Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language was "In the Fade", a German drama directed by Fatih Akin.
Congratulations to Gary Oldman - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama - Darkest Hour (@DarkestHour) - #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/AmGR8mynUL
— Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes) January 8, 2018
In addition to the competitive awards, the 2018 Golden Globes honored Oprah Winfrey, star of upcoming "A Wrinkle in Time", with the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award for her "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment."
This year's ceremony marked the first to be held since Hollywood's pervasive issues with sexual misconduct have been exposed. In conjunction with the Time's Up movement, men and women attending the event graced the red carpet in black in protest and in solidarity.
2018 Golden Globe Winners in Movie: