2015 Golden Globe Awards: Winners List | CNN (2025)

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The winners of the 72nd Annual Golden Globes Awards are noted with an asterisk (*WINNER):

MOVIES

Best motion picture – drama

“Boyhood” (* WINNER)
“Foxcatcher”
“The Imitation Game”
“Selma”
“The Theory of Everything”

Best motion picture – musical or comedy

“Birdman”
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” (* WINNER)
“Into the Woods”
“Pride”
“St. Vincent”

Best actress in a motion picture – drama

Jennifer Aniston, “Cake”
Felicity Jones, “The Theory of Everything”
Julianne Moore, “Still Alice” (* WINNER)
Rosamund Pike, “Gone Girl”
Reese Witherspoon, “Wild”

Best actor in a motion picture – drama

Steve Carell, “Foxcatcher”
Benedict Cumberbatch, “The Imitation Game”
David Oyelowo, “Selma”
Eddie Redmayne, “The Theory of Everything” (* WINNER)
Jake Gyllenhaal, “Nightcrawler”

Best actor in a motion picture – musical or comedy

Ralph Fiennes, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Michael Keaton, “Birdman” (* WINNER)
Bill Murray, “St. Vincent”
Joaquin Phoenix, “Inherent Vice”
Christoph Waltz, “Big Eyes”

Best actress in a motion picture – musical or comedy

Amy Adams, “Big Eyes” (* WINNER)
Emily Blunt, “Into the Woods”
Helen Mirren, “The Hundred-Foot Journey”
Julianne Moore, “Maps to the Stars”
Quvenzhane Wallis, “Annie”

Best supporting actor in a motion picture

Robert Duvall, “The Judge”
Ethan Hawke, “Boyhood”
Edward Norton, “Birdman”
Mark Ruffalo, “Foxcatcher”
J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash” (*WINNER)

Best supporting actress in a motion picture

Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood” (* WINNER)
Jessica Chastain, “A Most Violent Year”
Emma Stone, “Birdman”
Meryl Streep, “Into the Woods”
Keira Knightley, “The Imitation Game”

Best animated feature film

“Big Hero 6”
“The Book of Life”
“The Boxtrolls”
“How to Train Your Dragon 2” (* WINNER)
“The Lego Movie”

Best director

Wes Anderson, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Ava DuVernay, “Selma”
David Fincher, “Gone Girl”
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Birdman”
Richard Linklater, “Boyhood” (* WINNER)

Best screenplay

Wes Anderson, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Gillian Flynn, “Gone Girl”
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Birdman” (* WINNER)
Richard Linklater, “Boyhood”
Graham Moore, “The Imitation Game”

Best original score

Alexandre Desplat, “The Imitation Game”
Johann Johannsson, “The Theory of Everything” (*WINNER)
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, “Gone Girl”
Antonio Sanchez, “Birdman”
Hans Zimmer, “Interstellar”

Best original song

“Big Eyes,” from “Big Eyes”
“Glory,” from “Selma” (*WINNER)
“Mercy Is,” from “Noah”
“Opportunity,” from “Annie”
“Yellow Flicker Beat,” from “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I”

Best foreign language film

“Force Majeure Turist” (Sweden)
“Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem Gett” (Israel)
“Ida” (Poland/Denmark)
“Leviathan” (Russia) (* WINNER)
“Tangerines Mandariinid” (Estonia)

TELEVISION

Best TV series – drama

“The Affair” (* WINNER)
“Downton Abbey”
“Game of Thrones”
“The Good Wife”
“House of Cards”

Best actor in a TV series – drama

Clive Owen, “The Knick”
Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan”
Kevin Spacey, “House of Cards” (* WINNER)
James Spader, “The Blacklist”
Dominic West, “The Affair”

Best actress in a TV series – drama

Claire Danes, “Homeland”
Viola Davis, “How to Get Away With Murder”
Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife”
Ruth Wilson, “The Affair” (* WINNER)
Robin Wright, “House of Cards”

Best TV series – comedy

“Girls”
“Jane the Virgin”
“Orange is the New Black”
“Silicon Valley”
“Transparent” (*WINNER)

Best actor in a TV series – comedy

Louis C.K., “Louie”
Don Cheadle, “House of Lies”
Ricky Gervais, “Derek”
William H. Macy, “Shameless”
Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent” (* WINNER)

Best actress in a TV series – comedy

Lena Dunham, “Girls”
Edie Falco, “Nurse Jackie”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep”
Gina Rodriguez, “Jane the Virgin” (*WINNER)
Taylor Schilling, “Orange is the New Black”

Best TV movie or miniseries

“Fargo” (*WINNER)
“The Missing”
“The Normal Heart”
“Olive Kitteridge”
“True Detective”

Best actor in a miniseries or TV movie

Martin Freeman, “Fargo”
Woody Harrelson, “True Detective”
Matthew McConaughey, “True Detective”
Mark Ruffalo, “The Normal Heart”
Billy Bob Thornton, “Fargo” (*WINNER)

Best actress in a miniseries or TV movie

Maggie Gyllenhaal, “The Honorable Woman” (* WINNER)
Jessica Lange, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Frances McDormand, “Olive Kitteridge”
Frances O’Connor, “The Missing”
Allison Tolman, “Fargo”

Best supporting actor in a series, miniseries or TV movie

Matt Bomer, “The Normal Heart” (* WINNER)
Alan Cumming, “The Good Wife”
Colin Hanks, “Fargo”
Bill Murray, “Olive Kitteridge”
Jon Voight, “Ray Donovan”

Best supporting actress in a series, miniseries or TV movie

Uzo Aduba, “Orange is the New Black”
Kathy Bates, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Allison Janney, “Mom”
Michelle Monaghan, “True Detective”
Joanne Froggatt, “Downton Abbey” (*WINNER)