The Best, Worst and Wildest Moments from the 2024 Golden Globe Awards

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Awards season is upon us! The first big show of the year, the Golden Globes, aired Sunday night, and while the awards may all be passed out, we aren't finished talking about everything that happened. With the WGA and SAG strikes over and the Globes moved to a new home at CBS, the event was just as star-studded as it has been in the past. As expected, the evening included impassioned winner speeches, quippy jokes, and unforgettable red carpet looks. Of course, there were also plenty of weird, wild and unexpected things that happened as well.

Here's a rundown of all the evening's biggest, most memorable moments:

The best, worst and wildest things that happened at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards

Worst - Jo Koy's bland opening monologue

Despite comedian Jo Koy shouting at the audience, "That's hilarious!", his opening monologue was decidedly not. With jokes as witty and original as "Oppenheimer was long," and "Meryl Streep has a lot of awards," the monologue never got off the ground. Cuts to the audience showed grimaces and uncomfortable smiles without a hint of a chuckle. The monologue kept going and going and going and ended with, "The Color Purple is what happens to your butt when you take Ozempic," and forcing Meryl to say "Wakanda Forever." A rocky rocky rocky start.

Best - Jared Leto pokes fun at his method acting

While presenting the awards of Best Supporting Actor and Actress in a Motion Picture, Jared Leto and Angela Bassett made fun of Leto's notoriously over-the-top method acting, claiming he'd spent months preparing to be a presenter.

Worst - Winners reading their victory speeches off of tiny scraps of paper

The night started with Da'Vine Joy Randolph and Robert Downey Jr. both reading their speeches off of crumpled pieces of paper. Luckily, the trend mostly ended there, with more heartfelt and/or memorized speeches as the night went on.

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Worst - An attempted Taylor Swift joke

Jo Koy attempted to win over the crowd with a pot shot at T. Swift, but it fell flat in the room and especially with her.

Wildest - The emcee interrupting presenters

During the presentation Best Supporting Actress on Television, the emcee interrupted the presenters with the nominee list and caused Elizabeth Debicki to jump.

Best - Ray Romano and Keri Russell's presenting bit

After a ho-hum first 45 minutes, Romano and Russell brought some welcome laughs to the room with a bit about telling the truth.

Best - Writers make fun of studio execs

In another entertaining bit, the cast of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse read a script "written by studio execs" in a nod to their recent battle with the WGA during the strikes.

Best - Anatomy of a Fall wins twice

In a surprising upset, the French film Anatomy of a Fall beat the likes of Barbie, Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon for the Best Screenplay award. A few minutes later, it scooped up a second award for Best Non-English Language Film.

Worst - The first Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy is handed out (sort of)

After a VERY long introduction, Ricky Gervais, the winner, wasn't on site to collect his award, making the whole thing a bit anticlimactic.

Wildest - Kevin Costner quotes America Ferrara's Barbie monologue

Bet you didn't have that on your 2024 bingo card.

Best - Ayo Edebiri thanks assistants during her incredible speech

In the evening's first truly euphoric victory speech, The Bear's Ayo Edebiri thanked various people in a frenetic burst of joy before pouring praise on the unsung assistants of Hollywood. Even Taylor Swift started to clap.

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Wildest - Kieran Culkin burps

Nothing quite like starting your speech with a burp. In a delightfully unhinged speech after winning Best Actor in a TV Drama for Succession, Culkin not only burped but also said, "Suck it, Pedro," to Pedro Pascal.

Best - Jennifer Lawrence threatens to leave

"If I don't win, I'm leaving," she mouthed when they listed off the nominees for Best Actress - Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.

Wildest - Cillian Murphy delivers his winner's speech with lipstick on his nose

After winning Best Actor - Motion Picture, Drama, Cillian Murphy charged the stage only to realize he had his wife's lip stick on his nose.

Best - Jo Koy's disappearance

He appeared to be reading the tweets, because as the evening went on, he and his poorly written jokes were nowhere to be found.

Best - "Strip....................mall"

If there is one presenter pairing from tonight that you want to hang out with its Andra Day and Jon Batiste. The two musicians presented Best Score and Best Original Song and looked to be having the time of their lives. It's unclear just how much was written and how much was ad-libbed, but I'd gladly spend a drunken happy hour with the pair.

Wildest - The Cinematic and Box Office Achievement

The Golden Globes created the amorphous category this year without any defined rubric or criteria. Star Wars's Mark Hamill presented the award, which ultimately went to Barbie after the night's longest clip package dedicated to the nominees.

Best - Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell remind us what comedy looks like

The iconic pair of presenters who brought us the funniest Golden Globes bit of all time returned with a goofy dance number that begged the question, "Why aren't they hosting?"

Best - Paul Giamatti's bid for John Wick 5

After winning Best Actor - Musical or Comedy, Paul Giamatti complained that the night was ruining his knees and would keep him from the fifth installment in the action franchise. I, for one, would love to see Giamatti in John Wick 5.

Wildest - Poor Things beats Barbie

In the night's most shocking upset, Poor Things beat out Barbie for Best Musical or Comedy. While Barbie took home Box Office Achievement and Best Original Song, the box office juggernaut left the night without a single major win. Barbie's path to the Oscars seemed to require a big night at the Globes, so its losses here seem to place Oppenheimer as the clear frontrunner.

Best - Lily Gladstone's historic and emotional win

Gladstone's win for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama makes her the first Indigenous person to win the award. In her teary speech she thanked members of the Osage Nation and spoke in the Blackfeet language that she learned as a child. It will be the one moment from this ceremony that people actually remember.

Worst - Predictable winners

Perhaps to combat their reputation for bizarre winners and nominees, the Golden Globe journalists (not the now defunct Hollywood Foreign Press Association) opted to honor very predictable winners in 2024. There were very few upsets and the same series and movies swept most of the categories with The Bear (3 wins), Beef (3 wins), Succession (4 wins) and Oppenheimer (5 wins) dominating.

Best - Succession and Oppenheimer are the night's big winners

The HBO drama and J. Robert Oppenheimer biopic were the nights big winners. Succession took home four trophies with the show winning Best Drama and Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook and Matthew Macfadyen winning their acting categories. On the film side, Oppenheimer won Best Drama, Best Director and Best Score with Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. winning acting trophies.

Next, The 2024 Golden Globes Complete Winners List