BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The latest from Sunday’s 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California (all times local):
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6:15 p.m.
Viola Davis is the winner of the Golden Globe Award for best supporting film actress.
Davis won for her role in Amazon’s “Fences.” She stars opposite Denzel Washington in the first big-screen adaptation of an August Wilson play.
Both won Tony Awards for their 2010 performances in a revival of the show
The Globes have honored diversity throughout Sunday’s ceremony, bestowing awards on actress Tracee Ellis Ross and actor-writer Donald Glover.
Davis noted in her acceptance speech this was her fifth Globe nomination and her first win, adding, “it’s right on time.”
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5:35 p.m.
“Atlanta” has won the best television comedy or musical Golden Globe Award.
The FX show stars Donald Glover, who is also the show’s creator and director.
In his acceptance speech, Glover said he was surprised by the honor. He thanked the city of Atlanta and its residents, adding he wasn’t sure the show would catch on when it first aired.
The Globes also awarded Tracee Ellis Ross the best actress in a television comedy during Sunday’s ceremony.
She stars in the ABC series “Black-ish.”
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5:25 p.m.
Billy Bob Thornton is the winner of the Golden Globe Award for best TV drama actor.
Thornton won for his role in the Amazon series “Goliath.”
He plays a disgraced lawyer seeking revenge against his former firm.
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5:20 p.m.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is the winner of the Golden Globe Award for best supporting actor.
Taylor-Johnson won for his role in “Nocturnal Animals.”
It was the first award presented during Sunday’s ceremony, which is being broadcast on NBC.
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4:10 p.m.
Jimmy Fallon borrowed the traffic jam song-and-dance routine from “La La Land” to kick off the Golden Globe Awards, with a song-and-dance intro featuring cameos from Globes nominees Raimi Malek and John Travolta, among others.
The pre-recorded intro then morphed into footage of Fallon sitting at a piano serenading stars in the Beverly Hilton Hotel ballroom, including “La La Land” star Ryan Reynolds.
It’s Fallon’s first year hosting the Globes and he has combined his love of music with music from one of the year’s top movies. “La La Land” is vying for a win in the best film comedy or musical category.
Perhaps the pre-recorded routine was a good call: Fallon’s opening monologue was delayed when he said his teleprompter failed.
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4:25 p.m.
Most stars don’t make it inside the Beverly Hilton ballroom in time to eat and drink the 3:30 champagne dinner before the Golden Globes awards kicks off, but there were a few hungry and thirsty early birds this year.
Among them was actress Gwendolyn Christie, who chatted with a pal at her table while Tracee Ellis Ross breezed into the bar area.
“Transparent” creator Jill Soloway was seated on the patio with model Emily Ratajkowski , who showed off a new short haircut.
— Sandy Cohen @apsandy.
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3:50 p.m.
At the Golden Globes, the best seat in the house is sometimes the seat outside the house.
Limos, SUVs and Uber cars stop right in front of the fan bleachers to let the stars out, much to the delight of those gathered there.
The crowd let loose with one of its biggest cheers when a very pregnant Natalie Portman stepped out.
Portman, a best actress nominee for motion picture drama for the film “Jackie,” was instantly recognizable in a mustard yellow gown.
One bleacher fan could relate to far more than her role in the film, however.
“Natalie! I’m pregnant too!” a woman shouted. “Do you get heartburn too?”
— Andrew Dalton.
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3:40 p.m.
The red carpet is starting to fill up but with about 90 minutes to go to show time, the Beverly Hilton Hotel’s International Ballroom is free of famous faces.
The biggest attention-getter right now is Bingo the bomb-sniffing dog, who’s standing at the doorway with his handler, Devon Waite.
— Sandy Cohen @apsandy.
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3:30 p.m.
“The Big Bang Theory’s” Simon Helberg says he hopes Meryl Streep “wins an award and finally gets some recognition” at this year’s Golden Globes.
Helberg, perhaps channeling his “Big Bang” character Howard Wolowitz, was joking of course.
Streep has been nominated for 30 Globes over the years, and this year she’ll be taking home the Cecil B. DeMille Award for career achievement.
She’s also nominated for best performance by an actress in a motion picture musical or comedy for “Florence Foster Jenkins.”
Helberg, who is up for a supporting actor nomination in that film, says he’s looking forward to a boisterous and booze-filled evening at the Globes where “people drink and say more than they need to say.”
— Lindsey Bahr @ldbahr on Twitter
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2:30 p.m.
Stars arriving at Sunday’s Golden Globes are being met with brilliant sunshine — the clearest and warmest afternoon in LA in many days.
A clear plastic rain cover over the red carpet has proved entirely unnecessary, and is only heightening heat that’s in the upper 70s. Rains that have soaked much of California and might have dampened Sunday’s festivities are now not expected to arrive until hours after the show is over.
Despite the blue skies, a somber mood may dominate the evening in the first major Hollywood awards show since Donald Trump’s election.
And after recent terrorist truck attacks in Europe and Friday’s airport shooting in Florida, the security provided by the Beverly Hills Police Department is warier and heavier than ever. Long lines of police SUVs and officers on foot created a tight seal around the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the longtime Globes home.
— Andrew Dalton.
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