Golden Globes: Burnett 'gobsmacked' by new life honour

Jake Coyle, The Associated Press</span>
Published Sunday, January 6, 2019 10:04AM EST
Last Updated Sunday, January 6, 2019 8:32PM 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):

6:10 p.m.

Carol Burnett says she is "gobsmacked" to receive the inaugural Carol Burnett Award at the Golden Globes.

Burnett wondered Sunday if her name being on the trophy means she gets to accept it every year.

She says her childhood dreams came true when she got to make her long-running TV variety show that "half a century later still connects with people."

Burnett lamented the decline on TV of shows like hers, saying, "here's to reruns and YouTube."

She closed with a line from her show's theme song: "I'm so glad we had this time together."

Steve Carell presented the award to the 85-year-old Burnett, whom he praised as a television legend and a person so nice she makes Tom Hanks seem like a jerk, using a synonym for "jerk" that got him bleeped on the telecast.

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6 p.m.

"Shallow" from "A Star is Born" has won the Golden Globe for best original song.

Mark Ronson thanked director-actor Bradley Cooper for incorporating the song's lyrics into his film.

Lady Gaga sang with Cooper on the song, and shared the Globes honour. She thanked Cooper during her speech.

Justin Hurwitz won for best original score for "First Man." It's the third Golden Globe for Hurwitz, who won two Globes and two Academy Awards in 2017 for his work on "La La Land."

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5:35 p.m.

Patricia Arquette has won the Golden Globe for best actress in limited TV series for his role in "Escape at Dannemora."

It's the second Golden Globe in five nominations for Arquette, who also won in 2015 for the movie "Boyhood." She played a prison guard who becomes romantically involved with two men who are planning an escape in the Showtime series "Escape at Dannemora."

Arquette thanked a long list of people, including producer Ben Stiller, who presented her the award. After a couple minutes of thanks, Arquette cursed about her teeth and her comments were bleeped on the telecast.

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5:32 p.m.

"The Americans" is the winner of the best TV drama actor Golden Globe Award.

The first Golden Globe comes for the sixth and final season of "The Americans," the FX series about a pair of Russian spies hiding out as husband-and-wife travel agents in the U.S. in the 1980s.

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5:30 p.m.

Richard Madden has won the Golden Globe for best TV drama actor for his role in "Bodyguard."

It's the first Golden Globe and first nomination for Madden, the Scottish actor best known for playing Robb Stark on "Game of Thrones." In the BBC and Netflix thriller "Bodyguard" he plays a British veteran assigned to guard a government official.

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5:25 p.m.

Golden Globes co-host Sandra Oh's opening monologue shifted from jokes to real emotions when she talked about the show's diverse set of nominees from films including "Crazy Rich Asians."

Oh teared up next to co-host Andy Samberg during the Globes opening bit on Sunday as she talked about saying yes to hosting despite her fear.

She said she "wanted to be here to look out on this audience and witness this moment of change."

Oh said she's not fooling herself, and next year could be back to the status quo.

But right now, she said, looking to various members of the audience, "the moment is real. Because I see you. And I see you. All these faces of change. And now so will everyone else."

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5:10 p.m.

Michael Douglas has won the Golden Globe for best TV comedy actor for his role in "The Kominsky Method."

Douglas received the first award of the night from Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga.

It's the third Golden Globe Award in nine nominations for the 74-year-old Douglas. He previously won in 2014 for playing Liberace in "Behind the Candelabra" and in 1988 for playing Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street." He also has received the Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Golden Globes in 2004.

Douglas thanked Chuck Lorre, who created the Netflix series focusing on his character, an aging acting coach and his close friendship with his agent, played by Alan Arkin. He also raised his award and gave a shout-out to his 102-year-old father, Kirk Douglas.

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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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