The Most Touching Moments From the 2017 Golden Globes

Tracee Ellis Ross won a Golden Globe award for best actress in a TV series musical or comedy for “black-ish” at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. (The other went to “La La Land.”) It was the only prize “Moonlight” took home, which is a bummer. If that doesn’t prove just how good the music as a whole is, then there’s nothing else we can really say.

La La Land dominated the Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical categories with wins for stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, writer-director Damien Chazelle, composer Justin Hurwitz and lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. The 29-year-old told Esquire that he nearly gave up the film War Dogs with Jonah Hill due to scheduling conflicts with La La Land when he unexpectedly found out the film was moving forward without him.

There were some surprises in the film section.

Once inside, Fallon did his best impression of Ryan Gosling’s character, a moody pianist in a dimly lit club singing about his Golden Globe guests with witty lyrics like, “They’ve been getting drunk since 3″-before throwing to a cutaway of Bryan Cranston downing an entire battle of champagne”.

The first award surprisingly went to Aaron Taylor-Johnson as best supporting film actor.

There was one more stunner. The brooding French actress Isabelle Huppert won for the thriller Elle. A heavily pregnant Natalie Portman, fancied for her role as Jacqueline Kennedy in Jackie, managed to look sportingly stoic.

There was disappointment on the night for all the Irish nominees: actors Caitriona Balfe, Colin Farrell and Ruth Negga and the movie Sing Street. Still, it would have been nice to see NBC’s “This Is Us” recognized as drama series.

Moonlight, meanwhile, took the Globe for motion picture drama. Casey Affleck took Best Actor (Drama) for his portrayal of a man trying to find his way out of the family hell for which he must bear the responsibility, in the powerfully sorrowful Manchester by the Sea. Best supporting actress victor Viola Davis, the co-star of Denzel Washington’s August Wilson adaptation “Fences”, alluded to the group’s reputation for being wined and dined.

“It’s nice at 44”, she said, beaming.

You know what, Fallon? “He had a story and it deserved to be told – and August Wilson told it”.

That leaves current events as a key source of comic material and, given the liberal slant of Hollywood, he’ll have a receptive audience if he chooses to make jokes about America’s new political reality.

“What a way to start the show!”

– Someone brings up past host Ricky Gervais. After a year full of notable deaths, the back-to-back passing over the holidays of Debbie Reynolds and her daughter Carrie Fisher, was felt particularly in a Hollywood that revered them both.

Most impressive name-drop: By Claire Foy (The Crown), who thanked, among others, the woman she played, Queen Elizabeth II.

Everyone was obsessed with Meryl Streep’s speech. There will be more of this at the Oscars.

But the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization that founded and votes for the Golden Globes, is only made up of about 90 people. The former triumphed. Midnight Express lost to The Deer Hunter.