‘Three Billboards’ Wins Golden Globe Best Picture, Actress, Supporting Actor, Screenplay

Erik Anderson January 7, 2018

Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri came out on top as the Hollywood Foreign Press awarded the Fox Searchlight dark comedy its top awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Actress, Supporting Actress and Screenplay.

The show began with host Seth Meyers skewering Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and the sexual harassment allegations that have awakened Hollywood’s explosive action and navigated a complicated minefield of on-point jokes and gags from his late night show.

Multiple actresses invited activists members of the Time’s Up campaign as well as representatives for gender equality and parity, including Amy Poehler, Emma Stone, and Michelle Williams.

Oprah Winfrey, the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille award and the first black woman to receive it, gave a rip-roaring speech detailing her early life all the way to her current position in Hollywood and ended with a call: “I want all of the girls watching here now to know that a new day is on the horizon.”

The Shape of Water, which came in with the most nominations (7), ended up with two, Original Score and Best Director.

Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) bested competition as Winston Churchill with his first Golden Globe nomination.

Lady Bird was the champion on the Comedy/Musical side, winning Motion Picture and Best Actress (for Saoirse Ronan). Allison Janney represented the sole win for I, Tonya. The film’s inspiration, Tonya Harding was in attendance. Also in attendance was Tommy Wiseau, portrayed by James Franco in The Disaster Artist, who won Best Actor.

Here is the full list of Motion Picture winners for the 75th Golden Globes Awards for Motion Picture.

Best Motion Picture – Drama
Call Me By Your Name
Dunkirk
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
The Disaster Artist
Get Out
The Greatest Showman
I, Tonya
Lady Bird – WINNER

Best Motion Picture – Animated
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco – WINNER
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
A Fantastic Woman, Chile
First They Killed My Father, Cambodia
In the Fade, Germany – WINNER
Loveless, Russia
The Square, Sweden

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Jessica Chastain, Molly’s Game
Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER
Meryl Streep, The Post
Michelle Williams, All the Money in the World

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
Tom Hanks, The Post
Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour – WINNER
Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Judi Dench, Victoria & Abdul
Helen Mirren, The Leisure Seeker
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird – WINNER
Emma Stone, Battle of the Sexes

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Steve Carell, Battle of the Sexes
Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver
James Franco, The Disaster Artist – WINNER
Hugh Jackman, The Greatest Showman
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture:
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
Armie Hammer, Call Me by Your Name
Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
Hong Chau, “Downsizing
Allison Janney, I, Tonya – WINNER
Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

Best Director – Motion Picture
Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water – WINNER
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk”
Ridley Scott, All the Money in the World
Steven Spielberg, The Post

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Lady Bird
Molly’s Game
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – WINNER

Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Dunkirk
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water – WINNER
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“Home,” Ferdinand
“MIghty River,” Mudbound
“Remember Me” from Coco
“The Star” from The Star
“This is Me,” The Greatest Showman – WINNER

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.