Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge landed the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy GETTY IMAGES/JC OliveraBritish talent dominated the Golden Globes last night at a ceremony that widened rather than narrowed the Oscars race and anointed Fleabag and Succession as pre-eminent television shows. In the first big awards show of the new decade Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Brian Cox, Jesse Armstrong, Olivia Colman, Taron Egerton and Sam Mendes all claimed signature wins in some of the evening’s biggest categories at the event in Los Angeles. Then, with the final award of the night Mendes’s First World War thriller 1917, which has yet to reach British cinemas and only came out in the United States on Christmas Day, beat off three hotly tipped Netflix films — The Irishman, Marriage Story and The Two Popes — and Joker, the most successful R-rated film of all time…

Source: The Times January 06, 2020 05:48 UTC