Golden Globes 2024: Oppenheimer the big movie winner with 5 awards including best drama film, while Poor Things upsets Barbie in comedy

Awards co-favourite Oppenheimer wins best drama, director, actor and best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jnr, as well as best original score

Barbie wins just two awards of nine it contended for, including best blockbuster, and loses out for best comedy to Poor Things, which takes best actress too

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British director Christopher Nolan and his spouse, film producer Emma Thomas, pose with the Golden Globes for best director and Best motion picture - drama for “Oppenheimer” backstage at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California. Photo: AFP/Getty Images/TNS

Published: 8:37am, 8 Jan 2024Updated: 1:56pm, 8 Jan 2024

Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster biopic Oppenheimer dominated the 2024 81st Golden Globes, winning five awards including best drama, while Yorgos Lanthimos’ Frankenstein riff Poor Things pulled off an upset victor over Barbie to triumph in the best comedy or musical category.

If awards season has been building toward a second match-up of Barbenheimer, this round went to Oppenheimer. The film also won best director for Nolan, best drama actor for Cillian Murphy, best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jnr and for Ludwig Göransson’s score.

“I don’t think it was a no-brainer by any stretch of the imagination to make a three-hour talky movie – R-rated by the way – about one of the darkest developments in our history,” said producer Emma Thomas, accepting the night’s final award and thanking Universal chief Donna Langley.

Along with best comedy or musical, Poor Things also won for Emma Stone’s performance as Bella, a Victorian woman experiencing a surreal life and sexual awakening.

“I see this as a rom-com,” said Stone. “But in the sense that Bella falls in love with life itself, rather than a person. She accepts the good and the bad in equal measure, and that really made me look at life differently.”