Sylvester Stallone leads night of surprises at Golden Globes

Joy actress and victor Jennifer Lawrence (25) was pilloried for her $52 million (€47.7 million) paycheck and Gervais talked of keeping his own Golden Globe statuette for a door stopper. Winslet, 40, looked stunning in a blue gown while his 1997 blockbuster’s co-star DiCaprio looked dapper in a black suit and bow tie. Poor Tomlin even missed out twice over, having been nominated for best actress in a musical or comedy for Netflix’s Grace and Frankie, the award going to Rachel Bloom in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

This was the complete list of Golden Globes 2016 winners.

New TV shows did well at the Golden Globes: USA’s Mr. Robot took best drama and supporting actor for Christian Slater, and the Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle won for best comedy, with star Gael Garcia Bernal picking up a best comedy actor honor.

The actor, who’s known for making digs at the star-studded audience, first greeted the crowd with “Shut up, you disgusting, pill-popping deviant scum!”

“I want to say something nice about Mel before he comes out so…” He mocked the whole enterprise, assuring losing actors that “no one cares about awards as much as you do”. It was her first nomination and first win. Last year’s victor Julianne Moore (“Still Alice”) went on to win the Oscar as well.

The Globes offer double the Best Actor and Actress slots, divided between Drama and Musical/Comedy, but the supporting categories offer only five each.

“I want to thank the legendary producers who mortgaged their house to take a chance on a mumbling actor and give me the shot of a lifetime”, Stallone said.

He also blamed alcohol in a pre-emptive apology posted on Twitter last week: “Because I can see the future, I’d like to apologise now for the things I said at next week’s Golden Globes”.

Best actress went to Brie Larson, the breakout star of the captive mother-son drama “Room”.

Comedian Ricky Gervais hosted the ceremony for a fourth time, repeating his unapologetic, boundary-pushing, Hollywood-skewering brand of humour. This idiosyncratic group of 90 entertainment editors and writers who report on the film and television business for their outlets in 55 countries can be counted on to offer up some oddities, but this year hewed to a straighter course than the wacky Screen Actors Guild Awards. Instead, the Globes had a particularly unraveled atmosphere that included Jonah Hill dressed as the bear from “The Revenant”, copious discussion of “Transparent” star Jeffrey Tambor’s male anatomy by Gervais, and much buzzing about Sean Penn’s escapade with Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

The Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement honoree, often an emotional high point in the awards, also lacked a memorable moment. But, buoyed by more respectable picks in recent years and a three-year hosting stint by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the boozy Globes have been on the rise. In Hollywood, though, it’s all about the buzz, and “The Martian” and “The Revenant” just leapt back into the spotlight.