Golden Globes 2019: Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh kick of Golden Globes

Jake Coyle, The Associated Press</span>
Published Sunday, January 6, 2019 10:04AM EST
Last Updated Sunday, January 6, 2019 7:38PM EST

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- The Latest on the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards, being presented live Sunday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California (all times local):

5:05 p.m.

Hosts Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh have started the Golden Globe Awards with a shot at the still hostless Academy Awards

Samberg said in the show's opening Sunday night that they are "going to have some fun, give out some awards, and one lucky audience member is going to get to host the Oscars!"

Oh said the unlikely pairing of her and Samberg came because they're "the only two people left in Hollywood who haven't gotten in trouble for saying something offensive."

Oh is also a nominee Sunday for her role in the TV drama "Killing Eve."

The hosts also tamely roasted attendees, praising their talents instead of telling off-colour jokes.

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4:55 p.m.

The suspense builds as the Golden Globes telecast prepared to go live.

The narrow entry to the ballroom floor became clogged with fashionably late arrivals, including Timothee Chalamet, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, Halle Berry, Saoirse Ronan, Antonio Banderas arrives as voiced boomed over the loudspeaker: "Ladies and gentlemen, we're are seven minutes away from officially live to air. Please take your seats."

Would they make it in time? Lady Gaga's journey to her front-row table had been a long one as admirers stopped her for hugs and air kisses.

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4:50 p.m.

Ben Stiller joked Sunday on the Golden Globes red carpet that the last time he was nominated for an award was in 2002 for a Teen Choice Award, which isn't entirely true. He was nominated for choice hissy fit and choice actor that year for "Zoolander," but he also has at least 10 other Teen Choice nominations since.

But he's never been nominated for a Golden Globe before, until this year for his show "Escape at Dannemora," which he produces and directs. The prison series which airs on Showtime is up for best television limited series Sunday night. It's been a passion project of his for two years.

Stiller says he likes that with television the audience can grow from week to week.

He doesn't know yet if he'll be returning to the big screen anytime soon, though.

Stiller says he's "going to take a little time and figure it out."

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4:15 p.m.

The Golden Globes redefine fast food.

A gourmet dinner awaits each guest, but not for long. The waiters have about an hour to serve three courses and then whisk the dishes away, so meal time is done by show time.

Stars who linger for photographers on the red carpet are missing the sweet potato vichyssoise.

The soup went uneaten at the "A Star is Born" table. But Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper could still make it in for the Chilean sea bass course or the pistachio cream cheese cake.

But celebrities aren't left high and dry: the wine and Champagne will keep flowing, and there are high-end snacks and cocktails available in a bar area.

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4 p.m.

One year after actresses made a major statement about equality at the Golden Globe Awards, Alyssa Milano says that a lot has changed but they still have a long way to go.

Milano helped make .MeToo a viral phenomenon following the initial reports about Harvey Weinstein in Oct. 2017.

She says that in the past year, a "really wonderful sisterhood has formed" and that they're "really finding our voice through our pain and our collective pain."

But she added that she's more concerned with women in underseen industries -- farmworkers, those in the military, hotel employees -- than those walking the red carpet alongside her.

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