Marvel and DC Stars Who Won at the Golden Globes
Sunday’s 76th annual Golden Globes brought wins for numerous Marvel and DC stars, including top [...]
Jeff Bridges, Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient
Veteran actor Jeff Bridges was celebrated with the annual Cecil B. Demille award, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment."
Bridges, best known for portraying the slacking Dude in the Coen Brothers' 1998 fan-favorite The Big Lebowski, portrayed ruthless businessman Obadiah Stane in Marvel Studios' 2008 Iron Man.
The once close friend of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) betrayed the then-aloof playboy, nearly resulting in Stark's death but inadvertently forcing the genius to manufacture the first Iron Man armor and emerge as the modern world's flashiest superhero who would go on to save the world multiple times over as a member of the Avengers.
Bridges was introduced by Wonder Woman and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse star Chris Pine, who co-starred with the 69-year-old actor in acclaimed 2016 drama Hell or High Water.
prevnextChristian Bale, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Four-time Golden Globe nominee Christian Bale earned his second win for his portrayal of former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney in Vice, the Adam McKay-directed biographical dramedy centered around Cheney's powerful strings-pulling in the administration of President George W. Bush (Sam Rockwell).
Bale portrayed Bruce Wayne and crime-fighting alter ego Batman in director Christopher Nolan's acclaimed Dark Knight trilogy, launched with Batman Begins in 2005 before concluding with The Dark Knight Rises in 2012.
prevnextMahershala Ali, Best Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Mahershala Ali, who won his first Academy Award in 2018 for Best Picture winner Moonlight, won his first Golden Globe Sunday for his role as Dr. Don Shirley in the 1960s-set biographical dramedy Green Book, which also took home the prize for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
Ali portrayed criminal organization leader Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes in Marvel-Netflix series Luke Cage before loaning his voice to Miles Morales' (Shameik Moore) Uncle Aaron in Sony's animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Glenn Close, Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Six-time Academy Award nominee and three-time Golden Globe winner Glenn Close won her third trophy Sunday for portraying Joan Castleman in drama The Wife.
Close joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy, where she played Nova Corps commander Irani Rael.
Nova-Prime ultimately thanked a misfit band of unlikely heroes — Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Drax (Dave Bautista), Groot (Vin Diesel) and Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper) — for saving her home planet of Xandar from destruction at the hands of zealot Kree Ronan (Lee Pace).
prevnextMichael Douglas, Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Nine-time Golden Globes nominee and three-time winner Michael Douglas, who also holds two Academy Awards, won his third trophy Sunday for his role as over-the-hill acting coach Sandy Kominsky in Chuck Lorre-produced comedy The Kominsky Method, where he stars alongside Alan Arkin (Argo, Dumbo).
Douglas also belongs to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where he plays big-brained scientist Hank Pym, husband to the long-missing Janet van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiffer) and father to Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) in both Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp.
The 74-year-old actor is next expected to reprise the role in Avengers: Endgame.
prevnextSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Best Motion Picture – Animated
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won the trophy for Best Motion Picture - Animated, beating out Disney-Pixar's Incredibles 2, Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated Isle of Dogs, Mamoru Hosoda's Mirai, and Walt Disney Animation Studios' Ralph Breaks the Internet.
The category, launched in 2007, has only been won by a non-Disney or Pixar production twice in its 12-year history. Spider-Verse marks the third non-Disney win, joining Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin and DreamWorks Animation's How to Train Your Dragon 2.
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