Brad Pitt, 'Fleabag', Tom Hanks steal the show during the 2020 Globes

We didn't get the Brad and Jen reunion we wanted but it was a heck of a party.
January 6, 2020 12:15 a.m. EST
January 7, 2020 11:00 p.m. EST
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 05: In this handout photo provided by NBCUniversal Media, LLC,  Brad Pitt accepts the award for BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE for  "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood" onstage during the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 5, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal Media, LLC via Getty Images) BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 05: In this handout photo provided by NBCUniversal Media, LLC, Brad Pitt accepts the award for BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN ANY MOTION PICTURE for "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood" onstage during the 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 5, 2020 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal Media, LLC via Getty Images)
The 77th Golden Globes were the official start of awards season, and let’s just say they definitely set the tone for all the glitter to come in 2020. From upsets and wacky speeches to some really memorable presentations (we love you Tom Hanks!), the night was everything we could hope for from an awards shows.We’ve all got that Fleabag itchIf you haven’t gotten your fill of angsty female characters and hot priests yet, well what the heck are you waiting for? Even Barack Obama is on the Fleabag train and for good reason: it’s one of the buzziest shows of the season. Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her ace team took home the trophy for Best Comedy, while the star/producer also nabbed a trophy for Best Actress in a Comedy. (Check out the full list of Golden Globe winners here.)Watch : Fleabag thanks ObamaConsidering the collective love for PWB and her dry sense of humour it was icing on the cake to see her so well-frosted on stage; now if only we could all collectively convince her to please, please, please do a third season already.Olivia Colman really is the queenOlivia Colman's run is far from over. The Oscar winner not only appeared in a pitch-perfect supporting role in Fleabag, she took home Best Actress for playing Queen Elizabeth in The Crown. That’s a big deal, since she took over the role from another Golden Globe winner, Claire Foy. But it’s an ever bigger deal that on Sunday night Colman bested A-listers Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman for the hardware.Watch: Olivia Colman had money on her not winning No Brad and Jen drama, or… anything Once Upon a Time in Hollywood won Brad Pitt the Golden Globe for acting in a comedy or musical, and the cameras didn’t pan to Jen Aniston once. To say we were disappointed would be an understatement, especially considering all of the hype leading up to those two being in the same room in a post-Angelina world. We got glimpses of her nodding to his clever Titanic joke but it was not the reunion we were dreaming about. Watch: Brad Pitt to Leo—I would have shared the raftEllen DeGeneres and the power of televisionWas there anything better than Kate McKinnon introducing the Carol Burnett Award to Ellen DeGeneres? Sure, modern audiences know the daytime talk show host as the funny lady that she is, but back in 1997, she made some history when she played the first gay lead on television and McKinnon thanked her for paving the way: "I would've gone on thinking that I was an alien and that maybe I didn't even have a right to be here, so thank you Ellen for giving me a shot." "All I ever wanted to do was make people feel good and laugh and there's no greater feeling than when someone tells me I've made their day better with my show or that I've helped them get through a sickness or a hard time with their lives," DeGeneres  said during her moving acceptance speech."The power of television for me is not that people watch my show, but that they watch my show and then they're inspired to go out and do the same thing in their own lives. They make people laugh or be kind or help someone that's less fortunate than themselves and that is the power of television and I'm so, so grateful to be a part of it."Watch: Ellen DeGeneres receives the Carol Burnettt TV Achievement AwardTom Hanks is everyone’s dadGuys, even Charlize Theron thinks Tom Hanks is her dad. When she presented him with his Cecil B. deMille Award, she told a story of freaking out during an audition for him back in the day for That Think You Do!. Instead of calling her out, he pretended that he needed five minutes so that she could compose herself, something she’s never forgotten.Even better than that introduction though was the amazing clip package some genius editor put together featuring all of Hanks’ best roles. Seriously, that thing could have been a movie in and of itself. It was enough to make Hanks tear up as he did the most DAD thing ever and used his platform to basically thank everyone for showing up and doing their job. [video_embed id='1869379']RELATED: Tom Hanks gets emotional during his Cecil B. DeMille Award speech[/video_embed]Michelle Williams gave voice to feminismWhen Michelle Williams walked the red carpet with fiancé and baby daddy Thomas Kail earlier in the evening we were pretty obsessed. But then Williams won Outstanding Actress in a miniseries for her work on Fosse/Verdon and made a pretty darn amazing speech, as she is wont to do, and our hearts grew in size.“Women, vote in your own self-interest,” she urged. “It's what men have been doing for years. It's why the world looks so much like them.” Let’s just say Busy Phillips wasn’t the only Williams fan tearing up over those spot-on words.Watch: Michelle Williams appreciates a woman's choiceRocketman rode sky-highThe critics may have been skeptical about another musical biopic taking home top honours at the awards this year, but the Globes proved them all wrong when it celebrated Rocketman in style. Taron Egerton won a Best Actor award while Sir Elton John and his longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin got some hardware for “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again.”“It’s the first time I won an award with him. Ever,” John said from the podium. “We never won a Grammy, we never did win anything together except for this and I’m so happy, thank you very much.”Watch: I'm Gonna Love Me wins the Golden GlobeAwkwafina made historyUm, did we need another reason to love Awkwafina? No, not really. But now that she’s made history as the first woman of Asian descent to win the award for Lead Actress in a Comedy/Musical at the Globes we got one anyhow. Also, her genuinely down-to-earth speech where she gave a shout-out to her dad Wally was pretty perfect.Watch: Awkwafina is proud to prove her dad wrong[video_embed id='1869372']RELATED: Awkwafina makes history at the Globes, but she's starstruck by these Canadians[/video_embed]Quentin Tarantino thanks himselfYup, that really happened.“Normally the thing is when I win a writing award, I kind of don’t have anyone to thank. I did it,” he #humblebragged.Yup, okay. It’s probably a good thing that the director decided NOT to speak when the movie also won the best musical or comedy of the year. When even Lorelei Gilmore isn’t impressed you know things are bad.Watch: Quentin Tarantino actually has people to thankJoaquin shouts out the plant-based menuWas anyone really surprised at Joaquin Phoenix’s win for Joker? Well, no. But we were tickled at his exceptionally long acceptance speech, which was slightly jumbled and made us wonder if he enjoyed a few too many sips of champagne or if that's just his regular MO. We mean, we get it—it is a long night, but when you start thanking the catering and need to be played off stage because the show is already over time, it means you should start fine-tuning that acceptance speech before the Oscars. Watch: Joaquin is going to rock the f******g boatStars. They really aren’t like us at all, but that’s why we love them.

You might also like