Golden Globe Awards: Michelle Williams puts on a very loved-up display with her husband Thomas Kail

Michelle Williams and her husband Thomas Kail put on a smitten display as they shared an embrace at the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Tuesday night.

The actress, 42, gave her husband, 44, a look of love as they shared a romantic moment in the Moët & Chandon lounge at The Beverly Hilton in California. 

Michelle appeared happier than ever as she went in for a smooch with her husband Thomas, and the married couple proved they are as loved up as ever.

Love: Michelle Williams and her husband Thomas Kail put on a smitten display as they shared an embrace at the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Tuesday night

For the occasion, Michelle slipped into a ruffled one-shoulder gown in a gorgeous cream shade, complete with sparkling detailing.

The actress – who received a nomination at the ceremony after already winning two Golden Globes over her impressive career – accessorised with silver bangles.

She showed off her natural beauty with a high glamour make-up look and swept her blonde tresses into a stylish up-do. 

Thomas put on an affectionate display after Michelle went head-to-head against the likes of Ana de Armas and Cate Blanchett in the highly-coveted ‘Best Actress’ category for her role in The Fabelmans.

Smitten: The actress, 42, gave her husband, 44, a look of love as they shared a romantic moment in the Moët & Chandon lounge at The Beverly Hilton in California

Though it was Cate who took home the gong for Tar, Michelle was brimming with pride as she cosied up to her husband after the esteemed awards ceremony.

Michelle and Thomas, who wed in 2020, welcomed their second child just two months ago and also share two-year-old son Hart.

The Dawson’s Creek star also has 17-year-old daughter Matilda with her late ex-partner Heath Ledger.

Michelle sported the same glamorous gown on the red carpet, giving a flash of her toned pegs in the asymmetrical dress. 

Nomination: Michelle went head-to-head against the likes of Ana de Armas and Cate Blanchett in the highly-coveted ‘Best Actress’ category for her role in The Fabelmans 

She kept close to her husband, who looked dapper in a classic black suit with a skinny tie and crisp white dress shirt.

Michelle received a nomination for her performance in The Fabelmans, which is a semi-autobiographical film by Steven Spielberg.

It details the dissolution of the marriage of Mitzi (Michelle Williams) and Burt Fabelman (Paul Dano) as seen through the eyes of Spielberg’s surrogate, played by Gabriel LaBelle.

Jennifer Coolidge, House Of The Dragon and Steven Spielberg’s box office flop The Fabelmans were the big winners at Tuesday night’s 80th annual Golden Globes in Los Angeles.

Cosy: Michelle and Thomas, who wed in 2020, welcomed their second child just two months ago and also share two-year-old son Hart 

The White Lotus lead Jennifer, 61, earned Best Supporting Actress – Television Limited Series/Motion Picture while The White Lotus triumphed in the Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture category during the ceremony at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. 

Meanwhile, House Of The Dragon earned the top television honor of Best Drama Series.

The Fabelmans – which stars Michelle Williams and Seth Rogen – took home the coveted Best Picture – Drama beating out Avatar: The Way of Water, Elvis, TAR, and Top Gun: Maverick.

Spielberg, 76, also won Best Director over James Cameron – Avatar: The Way of Water, Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan – Everything Everywhere All at Once, Baz Luhrmann – Elvis, and Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin.

Ethereal: For the red carpet, Michelle slipped into a ruffled one-shoulder gown in a gorgeous cream shade, complete with sparkling detailing

British and Irish talent fared well at the annual ceremony – one of the first major events of the award season calendar – with several wins for Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees Of Inisherin including a win in the best motion picture, musical or comedy category.

Top awards also went to Austin Butler and Cate Blanchett, with Austin taking home the trophy for Best Performance by an Actor in a motion picture: drama gong for his lead role in Elvis. 

Cate, who was a no show at the ceremony triumphed in Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Drama category, for her performance in Tar.

Irish star Colin Farrell took home the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role in The Banshees Of Inisherin, which he stars in alongside Brendan Gleeson, and thanked his entire cast and crew.

Winner: Tuesday’s 80th annual Golden Globes in Los Angeles saw Jennifer Coolidge win Best Supporting Actress – Television Limited Series/Motion Picture

McDonagh also went on to win the award for best screenplay for The Banshees Of Inisherin.

Earlier, Naatu Naatu, from the film RRR, overcame pop music heavyweights Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and Rihanna, to claim the Golden Globe for best original song.

Eddie Murphy received a standing ovation as he collected the coveted Cecil B DeMille award, which paid homage to his 40 year career.

A slew of celebrities took on presenting duties throughout the evening including Letitia Wright, Jennifer Hudson, Salma Hayek, Hilary Swank and Ana De Armas.

GOLDEN GLOBES 2023: Winners at a glance

FILM:  

Best Picture – Drama: The Fabelmans

Best Picture – Musical/Comedy: The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama: Cate Blanchett – TAR

Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama: Austin Butler – Elvis

Best Actress – Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy: Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Actor – Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy: Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture: Ke Huy Quan – Everything Everywhere All At Once

Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture: Angela Bassett – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Best Director – Motion Picture: Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans

Best Screenplay Motion Picture: Martin McDonagh – The Banshees of Inisherin

White Lotus’ Jennifer Coolidge accepting her win for Best Supporting Actress – Television Limited Series/Motion Picture 

 

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Best Drama Series: House Of The Dragon

Best Musical/ Comedy series: Abbott Elementary

Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture: The White Lotus

Best Actress – Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture: Amanda Seyfried – The Dropout

Best Actor – Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Motion Picture: Evan Peters – Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

Best Television Actress – Drama Series: Zendaya – Euphoria

Best Television Actor – Drama Series: Kevin Costner – Yellowstone

Best Television Actress – Musical/Comedy Series: Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary

Best Television Actor – Musical/Comedy Series: Jeremy Allen White – The Bear

Best Supporting Actress – Television Limited Series/Motion Picture: Jennifer Coolidge – The White Lotus

Best Supporting Actor – Television Limited Series/Motion Picture: Paul Walter Hauser – Black Bird

Best Supporting Actress – Television Series: Julia Garner – Ozark

Best Supporting Actor – Television Series: Tyler James Williams – Abbott Elementary

Dimensional: Each layer of ruffling was lined with sparkly aqua toned sequins for some added dimension

Leggy: The dress’ asymmetrical design allowed Michelle to show off her shapely legs and sky-high rose gold heels

Michelle recently revealed to W Magazine that she learned Spielberg was interested in casting her after she received a text saying he wanted to do a Zoom call.

‘It so shocked me. I couldn’t speak, and I just sort of showed the phone to my husband [director Thomas Kail] so that he could confirm that it said what I thought I had read,’ she told the outlet. ‘Then we jumped, and we cried, and we laughed, and we wondered and then we Zoomed.’ 

Although she plays a version of the legendary filmmakers mother, Michelle noted that he didn’t say that ‘outright’ at the start of their conversations.

‘So I asked him, ‘For clarity’s sake, if I’m understanding correctly, you are asking me to play your beloved mother?’ And he said, ‘Oh yeah,” she continued.

‘One of the things that I loved most was that they gave me a track of Steven’s mother laughing through the years. When she laughed, she collapsed into people. Before every take, I would go back to her laugh track. And then I’d have this euphoria running through my body,’ Michelle recalled.

The couple, who wed in 2020, share the newborn as well as two-year-old son Hart. Michelle also has 17-year-old daughter Matilda with her late ex-partner Heath Ledger

Along with competing with Ana and Cate, Michelle also went up against Viola Davis and Olivia Colman in the ‘Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.’

Cate ended up coming out victorious for her performance in Tár. 

The Golden Globes ceremony was held once again at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills following a one year break from screens amid controversy over ethical lapses and a lack of diversity. 

Brendan Fraser won a nomination for Best Actor for his role in The Whale, however he previously vowed not to attend the show in a boycott of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. 

Nominee: She went head-to-head against the likes of Ana de Armas and Cate Blanchett in the highly-coveted ‘Best Actress’ category for her role in The Fabelmans

Semi-autobiographical: The Fabelmans is a semi-autobiographical film by Steven Spielberg. It details the dissolution of the marriage of Mitzi (Michelle Williams) and Burt Fabelman (Paul Dano) as seen through the eyes of Spielberg’s surrogate, played by Gabriel LaBelle

He previously accused Philip Berk – the now banned former HFPA president who called BLM a ‘hate movement – of groping him at a luncheon. 

The 2023 awards marks a return to air for the embattled Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HPFA) since it overhauled its organization following a racism row in 2021. 

The HFPA scandal erupted in 2021 when it emerged there were no black members among the 87-person association. 

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler called out the association live during their 2021 opening monologue in February of that year. 

Michelle recently revealed to W Magazine that she l earned Spielberg was interested in casting her after she received a text saying he wanted to do a Zoom call; Michelle and Spielberg seen in 2022

‘The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is made up of around 90 international no black journalists who attend movie junkets each year in search of a better life.

‘We say around 90 because a couple of them might be ghosts,’ Fey said. 

Stars threatened to boycott the awards and Tom Cruise, who had won three Globes in the past, vowed to return them all unless the association changed its ways. 

In April, the association’s former president Phil Berk was fired for his resistance to BLM. 

Ana de Armas won a nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her role as Marilyn Monroe in Blonde. Viola Davis was also nominated for Best Actress for her role in The Woman King 

He sent an email to other members with a link to an article in which the organization was compared to cult murderer Charles Manson. 

The article in Frontpagemag.com claimed BLM was trying to incite a ‘race war’. 

The 2023 Globes will be hosted by black comedian Jerrod Carmichael. There are 27 awards up for grabs. 

The Golden Globe Awards honor the best in film and American television as voted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.  They are also considered the unofficial kick-off to awards season which culminates with The Oscars on March 12. 

Previously announced Golden Globe Award winner and six-time nominee Eddie Murphy will be the recipient of the 2023 Cecil B. DeMille Award.

Kevin Costner won a nomination for his role as John Dutton  in Yellowstone in the Best Actor in a TV series – Drama category 

The Banshees of Inisherin starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson won eight nominations 

Five-time Golden Globe Award winner and sixteen-time nominee Ryan Murphy will receive the Carol Burnett Award. 

Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Quentin Tarantino and Billy Porter are among the stars presenting awards at the show.

As the awards show has been accused of having a lack of diversity, perhaps the HFPA wanted to steer clear of controversy as  Will Smith, 54, did not receive a nomination for film Emancipation months after his infamous slap of Chris Rock at The Oscars.

Meanwhile Jennifer Lawrence, 32, was also ignored for indie film Causeway.

Keke Palmer also did not earn a recognition for her transcendent performance in Jordan Peele’s horror/sci-fi flick Nope.

Julia Roberts and George Clooney also failed to be recognized for their romantic comedy Ticket To Paradise which earned an impressive $70million in the worldwide box office.

Hollywood had effectively boycotted the Globes. It used to be one of the most-watched award shows after the Academy Awards. 

NBC had reason to want to get the Globes back on the air. 

The 2023 Globes will be hosted by black comedian Jerrod Carmichael. Carmichael is the show’s first ever black solo host 

In 2018, the network signed an eight-year deal to continue airing the awards through 2026. 

Citing the HFPA’s ongoing reforms, NBC elected not to televise the previous Golden Globes in January. The organization went ahead announcing awards, anyway, in an untelevised and little-noticed gathering unattended by nominees.

This year´s ceremony, the organizations said, will be broadcast in a one-year agreement.

Terms were unavailable but the deal is expected to be less than the approximately $60 million the network previously paid annually to air the Globes. With backlash swirling and the ceremony scaled down because of the pandemic, the 2021 Globes were watched by 6.9 million people, according to Nielsen, down from more than 18 million the year before.

Whether NBC’s endorsement will be enough to return the Globes to Hollywood’s good graces, however, remains to be seen. Nominations for the Globes were announced on December 12.

The HFPA is currently being run by interim Chief Executive Todd Boehly, whose investment firm, Eldridge Industries, bought the Globes and turned it from a nonprofit into a for-profit venture. 

Boehly’s firm is also the parent company of dick clark productions, the awards’ producer, and the owner of the Globes’ longtime home, the Beverly Hilton.

 The 80th annual Golden Globe Awards will air on NBC and streaming service Peacock on Tuesday, January 10 at 8pm EST/5pm PST.

The last Globes was in 2021 when Amy Poehler and Tina Fey hosted a mostly virtual event. During their opening monologue, they slammed the HFPA for not having any black members