Golden Globes award a lot of kooky movies and off-kilter telly

While there were a few serious contenders in this year’s Golden Globe nominations – and we mean serious in the sense of ‘drama/melodrama/so-much-so-it-hurts’ stuff like took-12-years-to-make Boyhood and story-of-Stephen-Hawkins-life The Theory of Everything… there were plenty of nods to given to good ol’ fashioned comedy and kookiness.

The Grand Budapest Hotel scored a trophy for the category of Best Comedy or Musical, while Michael Keaton won Best Actor for his kooky role in Birdman.

Meanwhile, twisted TV series Transparent took home the award for Best Comedy in Television, up against the darker likes of Silicon Valley and Orange Is The New Black. Actor Jeffrey Tambor also won Best Actor for his role in Transparent.

A little known gem from Latin America, telenovela Jane the Virgin saw Gina Rodriguez win Best Actress in a Comedy Series, beating out the veteran likes of Edie Falco in Nurse Jackie and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Veep.

Even the ‘drama’ nominations for film and TV were far-flung left in essence, namely The Imitation Game, Nightcrawler, Cake and St Vincent on the filmic front, and House Of Cards, House of Lies,American Horror Story: Freakshow and Fargo in TV land.

One thing’s for certain: movies and television are getting stranger and stranger – twisted, warped and all – and audiences are lapping the kookiness up.  Lisa Andrews

THE WINNERS: FILM

BEST DRAMA
Foxcatcher
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
WINNER: Boyhood

BEST ACTOR – DRAMA
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler
David Oyelowo, Selma
WINNER: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA
Jennifer Aniston, Cake
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild
WINNER: Julianne Moore, Still Alice

BEST COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Birdman
Into the Woods
Pride
St. Vincent
WINNER: The Grand Budapest Hotel

BEST ACTOR – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Bill Murray, St. Vincent
Joaquin Phoenix, Inherent Vice
Christoph Waltz, Big Eyes
WINNER: Michael Keaton, Birdman

BEST ACTRESS – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Emily Blunt, Into the Woods
Helen Mirren, The Hundred-Foot Journey
Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars
Quvenzhane Wallis, Annie
WINNER: Amy Adams, Big Eyes

BEST DIRECTOR
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ava DuVernay, Selma
David Fincher, Gone Girl
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Birdman
WINNER: Richard Linklater, Boyhood

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year
Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game
Emma Stone, Birdman
Meryl Streep, Into the Woods
WINNER: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Duvall, The Judge
Ethan Hawke, Boyhood
Edward Norton, Birdman
Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher
WINNER: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Big Hero 6
The Book of Life
The Boxtrolls
The Lego Movie
WINNER: How to Train Your Dragon 2

BEST SCREENPLAY
Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Graham Moore, The Imitation Game
WINNER: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo, Birdman

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Lana Del Rey, Big Eyes (from Big Eyes)
Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Mercy Is (Noah)
Greg Kurstin, Sia Furler, Will Gluck, Opportunity (Annie)
Lorde, Yellow Flicker Beat (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1)
WINNER: John Legend, Common, Glory (Selma)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Alexandre Desplat, The Imitation Game
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Gone Girl
Antonio Sanchez, Birdman
Hans Zimmer, Interstellar
WINNER: Johann Johannsson, The Theory of Everything

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Force Majeure Turist
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem Gett
Ida
Tangerines Mandariinid
WINNER: Leviathan

THE WINNERS: TELEVISION

BEST COMEDY
Jane the Virgin
Girls
Silicon Valley
Orange Is the New Black
WINNER: Transparent

BEST ACTOR – COMEDY SERIES
Louis C.K., Louie
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Ricky Gervais, Derek
William H. Macy, Shameless
WINNER: Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

BEST ACTRESS – COMEDY SERIES
Lena Dunham, Girls
Edie Falco, Nurse, Jackie
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Taylor Schilling, Orange Is the New Black
WINNER: Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin

BEST MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
The Missing
The Normal Heart
Olive Kitteridge
True Detective
WINNER: Fargo

BEST ACTOR – MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Martin Freeman, Fargo
Woody Harrelson, True Detective
Matthew McConaughey, True Detective
Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart
WINNER: Billy Bob Thornton, Fargo

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR – MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Alan Cumming, The Good Wife
Colin Hanks, Fargo
Bill Murray, Olive Kitteridge
Jon Voight, Ray Donovan
WINNER: Matt Bomer, The Normal Heart

BEST ACTRESS, MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Freak Show
Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge
Frances O’Connor, The Missing
Allison Tolman, Fargo
WINNER: Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS – MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black
Kathy Bates, American Horror Story: Freak Show
Allison Janney, Mom
Michelle Monaghan, True Detective
WINNER: Joanne Froggatt, Downton Abbey

BEST DRAMA
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife
House of Cards
WINNER: The Affair

BEST ACTOR – DRAMA SERIES
Clive Owen, The Knick
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan
James Spader, The Blacklist
Dominic West, The Affair
WINNER: Kevin Spacey, House of Cards

BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA SERIES
Claire Danes, Homeland
Viola Davis, How to Get Away With Murder
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Robin Wright, House of Cards
WINNER: Ruth Wilson, The Affair