The best/worst dressed stars at Golden Globes

In a closely-contested men’s field, Leonardo DiCaprio won for his lead role as a fur trapper seeking retribution in “The Revenant” while Matt Damon’s astronaut stranded on Mars in “The Martian” won the comedy acting award.

A year after Inarritu’s “Birdman” took top honors at the Academy Awards, his follow-up swept three of the top awards at the Globes on Sunday.

Those wins, along with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Best Actor Globe, added up to a sweeping victory for the gritty survival movie.

“The Revenant” also brought a directing prize for Alejandro Inarritu, who recalled the long arduous shoot in sub-zero temperatures.

But, instead of just being another booze-soaked, starry year at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Sunday’s bleep-filled ceremony also gave a boost to two films that have been lingering on the edges of an undefined award season – the crowd-pleasing space romp “The Martian” and the brutal frontier epic “The Revenant”, mere days before the Academy Award nominees are revealed.

Sylvester Stallone won best supporting actor for the “Rocky” sequel-reboot “Creed”.

The Golden Globes’ split between drama and comedy does always muddy the waters a little bit, so it’ll be interesting to see whether The Martian manages to steal anything from underneath The Revenant’s gaze at the BAFTAs on 14 February.

The movie that wins the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast has gone on to win Oscar’s Best Picture seven out of the last 10 years.

Though “Steve Jobs” failed to win over many critics or moviegoers, Danny Boyle’s drama about the Apple co-founder earned best screenplay for Aaron Sorkin and best supporting actress for Kate Winslet, her fourth Globe in 11 nominations.

This year, it was hosted by comedian Ricky Gervais.

DiCaprio’s eloquently delivered speech ended, even though the music had swelled, with an impassioned tribute; “I want to share this award with all the first nations people represented in this film, and all the indigenous communities around the world”.

Mozart in the Jungle won Best Television Series in a Musical or Comedy.

Best foreign language film went to Hungary’s Laszlo Nemes’ “Son of Saul”, a harrowing view of life inside Auschwitz, and best animated film went to Pixar’s acclaimed “Inside Out”. Christian Slater took best supporting actor in a TV series for USA’s “Mr. Robot”. Not only did they star again together in 2008’s Revolutionary Road (for which she won a Globe), but also frequently and lovingly name-checking each other in interviews and acceptance speeches. Rachel Bloom of the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend was an excited delight as the winning TV comic actress, Oscar Isaac was charming accepting an award for the HBO miniseries Show Me a Hero, Taraji P. Henson was luminous accepting for Empire, and Tom Hanks made a predictably fine presenter of the Cecil B. DeMille Award to his Philadelphia co-star, Denzel Washington, who got a very good career montage out of the deal. Lady Gaga made her Golden Globe debut this year. 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.