'Boyhood' wins top movie honors

The 72d annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night spread the love around to everyone except North Korea and Bill Cosby.

The awards-season favorite, Richard Linklater's 12-years-in-the-making Boyhood was named best drama and also won both best director for Linklater and best supporting actress for Patricia Arquette. The sweetly humanist film had a similarly touching effect on one of Hollywood's glitziest evenings. Taking out her written speech, Arquette apologized: "I'm the only nerd with a piece of paper."

"Bottom line is we're all flawed in this world. No one's perfect," said Linklater. "I want to dedicate this to parents that are evolving everywhere and families that are just passing through this world and doing their best."

Perhaps the chief Oscar rival to Boyhood, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's backstage romp Birdman, also fared well. It won best actor in a comedy or musical for its lead, Michael Keaton, who plays a former superhero star tinged with his own history, and best screenplay.

Reflecting on his life, Keaton's voice broke up as he thanked his son, whom he called his best friend. "Shoot," he said. "Two things I swore I wasn't going to do: cry and give air quotes."

But in a shocker, Birdman was upset by Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel for best film comedy or musical. The film was Anderson's biggest box-office hit yet, but not an awards-season favorite.

Kicking off the show, hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler wasted no time in skewering Hollywood's most tender subjects: the hacking of Sony Pictures over The Interview, the sexual-assault allegations against Cosby, and television's rise as a cultural rival to movies.

In an opening blistering with zingers, the duo welcomed Hollywood's "despicable, spoiled, minimally talented brats" to the Globes to celebrate "all the movies that North Korea was OK with." They several times visited with a North Korea government character, played by Margaret Cho, who voiced her displeasure with all aspects of the show.

Poehler also went after Cosby, who has been accused by multiple women of serving them drug-laced beverages and sexually assaulting them. While referring to the film Into the Woods, a musical mash-up of various Grimms fairy tales, Poehler said: "Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby."

"Je Suis Charlie" reverberated through the ceremony, from signs held aloft on the red carpet by the likes of Helen Mirren to the speeches of Cecil B. DeMille winner George Clooney, who evoked the name of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that was recently attacked by deadly terrorists. Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Theo Kingma drew a standing ovation for a speech pledging support of free speech "from North Korea to Paris."

In one of the evening's most hotly contested categories, best actor in a drama, Eddie Redmayne emerged as victorious for his performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.

Julianne Moore won best actress in a drama for her startling performance as an academic with early onset Alzheimer's in Still Alice.

Amy Adams surprised in taking best actress in a comedy or musical for her performance in Big Eyes. "I didn't even reapply lip gloss," said an unprepared Adams.

The first award of the night went to J.K. Simmons for best supporting actor for his performance as a domineering jazz teacher in the acclaimed indie Whiplash. He thanked his costar Miles Teller, whom he called: "A young actor of such maturity and brilliance that he inspired me every day to want to scream at him and hit him in the face."

In honoring both movies and TV, the Globes have also benefited from television's rise. Fey and Poehler alluded to that by leading the crowd in a call-and-response cheer, chanting "Movies . . . awesome! TV . . . better!"

Amazon, crashing the party like Netflix did before it, celebrated its first - and second - Golden Globe for the sexual identity comedy Transparent, winning best TV series, musical or comedy. The show's star, Jeffery Tambor, landed best actor in the category, dedicating his award to the transgender community.

AMC's adaptation of the Coen brothers' acclaimed 1996 film, Fargo, came in the leading TV contender with five nominations and promptly won best miniseries or movie, as well as best actor, miniseries or movie, for Billy Bob Thornton.

"You can say anything in the world and get in trouble. I know this for a fact," said Thornton. "So I'm just going to say thank you."

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Here is a complete list of winners from the 72d annual Golden Globe Awards, announced Sunday in Beverly Hills by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association:

MOTION PICTURES

Drama: Boyhood.

Director, Richard Linklater, Boyhood.

Musical or Comedy: The Grand Budapest Hotel.

Actress, Drama: Julianne Moore, Still Alice.

Actor, Drama: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything.

Actor, Musical or Comedy: Michael Keaton, Birdman.

Actress, Musical or Comedy: Amy Adams, Big Eyes.

Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash.

Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood.

Foreign Language: Leviathan, Russia.

Animated Film: How to Train Your Dragon 2.

Screenplay: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo, Birdman.

Original Score: Johann Johannsson, The Theory of Everything.

Original Song: "Glory" (music by John Legend, Common), Selma.

TELEVISION

Series, Drama: The Affair.

Series, Musical or Comedy: Transparent.

Actress, Musical or Comedy: Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin.

Actor, Musical or Comedy: Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent.

Miniseries or Movie: Fargo.

Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman.

Actor, Drama: Kevin Spacey, House of Cards.

Actress, Drama: Ruth Wilson, The Affair.

Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Billy Bob Thornton, Fargo.

Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Joanne Froggatt, Downton Abbey.

Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Matt Bomer, The Normal Heart.

Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award: George Clooney.