Disclosure comes as Pentagon faces public backlash over its secrecy about US defense secretary’s hospitalisation.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalised since January 1 with a urinary tract infection after a December surgical procedure to treat prostate cancer, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center says.
The disclosure on Tuesday came after nearly a week of public backlash directed at the Pentagon over its secrecy about the hospitalisation with President Joe Biden and Austin’s own deputy kept in the dark for days.
Once the Pentagon did disclose on Friday that Austin was in the hospital, it declined to say why he was there or offer details about his medical prognosis.
The 70-year-old was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on December 22 and underwent surgery to treat the cancer, doctors said. Austin later developed the infection and was rehospitalised.
Senior White House and defence officials were not told for days about his hospitalisation or the cancer.
Doctors said the cancer was detected when Austin had a regular screening in early December. They said he “underwent a minimally invasive surgical procedure” and went home the next day. But on January 1, he reported nausea and severe abdominal, hip and leg pain due to the infection.
They said his prostate cancer was detected early, and his prognosis is excellent.
The announcement came after days of questions about why Austin had been hospitalised and why Biden and other top officials hadn’t been informed immediately.
Austin sits just below Biden at the top of the chain of command of the US military, the most powerful in the world. His duties require him to be available at a moment’s notice to respond to any national security crisis.
But the Pentagon said the retired four-star general had no plans to resign, and the White House said Biden, a Democrat, was not seeking to remove him. Austin remains at Walter Reed.
“The secretary continues to remain focused on recovering but, more importantly, on carrying out his duties as secretary of defense and defending the nation,” Air Force Major General Patrick Ryder said at a news briefing.
On January 9, 36 rabbis and rabbinical students from Rabbis for Ceasefire took our prayers and outrage at Israel’s ongoing violence in Gaza to the United Nations headquarters in New York City.
This is the moment the UN was created for. In the wake of the horrors of World War II, the nations of the world came together to charter a new institution that promised “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” and “to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person”.
The UN was born with a bold and urgent mission to ensure the horrors of the Holocaust would never be visited upon the world again. But right now, we find ourselves in the midst of what experts widely believe is a genocide unfolding in Gaza.
Our protest was a prayer service because our calls for a ceasefire are sacred to us. In Jewish tradition, saving a life is a central religious value. We are obligated to break the Sabbath if it means rescuing a single stranger. Prayer is an ancient language Jews have used for thousands of years to funnel our fears, dreams, hopes and despair. These words that soothed and inspired our ancestors for millennia endure as vehicles for our hopes, righteous indignation and conviction today.
The UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights begins much the same way the Torah does. The preamble reads: “Recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.” Likewise, the first chapter of the first book of the Torah affirms the dignity of each person created in the image of the Divine.
This idea of the inherent dignity and worth of all human beings is the root of our call for ceasefire. As we say in our mission statement: “Ceasefire means no more bombing. Ceasefire means no ground war. Ceasefire means all Israeli hostages must be released now. Ceasefire means immediate engagement by the international community toward a just and lasting peace in Israel-Palestine. Ceasefire is the only way to prevent more death and destruction.”
I started Rabbis for Ceasefire because I believe that rabbis have a special responsibility to carry the torch for a Judaism that affirms life. I became a rabbi to caretake Jewish tradition, so that generations of Jewish wisdom can continue as a scaffold for a life of ethical rigour and spiritual depth. All the more so in times of crisis and trauma, rabbis are needed to guarantee a worthy Judaism will be passed to the coming generations.
Our urgent plea for a ceasefire stems from our religious convictions as rabbis. As rabbis we have dedicated our lives to serve the Jewish people and to ensure our traditions endure as a source of inspiration towards pursuing justice, peace and life. This responsibility, to safeguard the ethical core of Judaism, has never felt as urgent as it is today.
Israel and the United States continue to maintain that their actions are in the interest of Jewish people. As rabbis who serve the spiritual and practical needs of Jewish people, we know this couldn’t be more wrong. More than 23,000 Palestinians killed is not in the interest of Jews. Starving Palestinians is not in the interest of Jews. Denying Palestinians basic human rights is not in the interest of Jews. We know that what makes Jews truly safer is solidarity and engagement from the international community.
The banners we unfurled at the UN headquarters read: “Biden: The World Says Ceasefire” and “Biden: Stop Vetoing Peace” – a reminder that the US and Israel stand alone in going headlong into death and destruction instead of diplomacy.
In recent weeks, US President Joe Biden’s administration has sent huge sums of money and arms shipments without consulting the US Congress. Israel has used this funding not for defence, but for slaughter.
The UN knows firsthand the cost of allowing this war to continue. Workers at various UN agencies continue to operate on the ground in Gaza in extremely difficult conditions. The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNICEF, the World Food Programme and the World Health Organization are doing incredible work despite the challenges they face. To date, more than 140 UN workers have been killed in Gaza, the most UN workers lost in any single conflict in its 78-year history.
And there is no end in sight – unless the international community refuses US intransigence at the UN. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the war would continue for “many more months” but the people of Gaza will not survive that. Currently, all of Gaza’s residents are facing starvation with more than 90 percent reporting that they regularly go without food for a whole day.
Jews have ended each meal and each prayer service by calling out for shalom throughout history and around the globe. This ancient commitment to peace continues through times of threat, persecution, isolation and danger. In that tradition, we took our prayers for an immediate permanent ceasefire into the hollowed chambers of the UN because we know peace is the only way for us all to survive. President Biden, we invite you to join us and stop vetoing peace.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.
A ‘critical loss of fuel’ dims hope for what had been a planned moon landing on February 23.
Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander has “no chance” of a soft landing on the moon after springing a propellant leak in the first few hours of its journey in space, the company has said.
There was 40 hours of fuel left on the lander that would allow it to operate “as a spacecraft” even as engineers determine what its new mission in orbit will be, the space robotics firm said on Tuesday.
The craft was launched on board the first flight of Vulcan, a rocket that had been under development for a decade by United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
The lander was launched successfully on Monday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, but it suffered a propulsion system issue en route to the moon.
After the launch, the lander failed to enter its correct sun-facing orientation in space and saw its battery levels plummet, but Astrobotic said it was able to fix the issue.
“The team continues to work to find ways to extend Peregrine’s operational life,” it said, adding that engineers are receiving data and proving spaceflight operations for components and software related to its next lunar lander mission.
NASA had paid the company more than $100m to ship scientific hardware to a mid-latitude region of the moon to answer questions about the surface composition and radiation in the surrounding environment, as it prepares to send astronauts back to Earth’s nearest neighbour later this decade.
The United States is turning to the commercial sector to stimulate a broader lunar economy and cut costs, but Astrobotic’s failure could increase scrutiny about the strategy.
Controlled touchdown on the moon is challenging, with roughly half of all attempts failing. In the absence of an atmosphere that would allow the use of parachutes, a spacecraft must navigate treacherous terrain using only its thrusters to slow descent.
Private missions by Israel and Japan, as well as a recent attempt by the Russian space agency, have ended in failure – though Japan’s space agency is targeting mid-January for the touchdown of its SLIM lander launched last September.
In addition to the science instruments it carried for NASA, Peregrine contains more colourful cargo paid for by private customers, such as a physical Bitcoin as well as cremated remains and DNA, including those of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, legendary sci-fi author Arthur C Clarke, and a dog.
The Navajo Nation, the US’s largest Indigenous tribe, had objected to sending human remains to the moon, calling it a desecration of a sacred space.
Though they were granted a last-ditch meeting with White House and NASA officials, their misgivings were ultimately ignored.
Children’s mental well-being is being pushed beyond the breaking point as experts warn of huge consequences.
The Gaza Strip is the “most dangerous place” in the world to be a child, according to UNICEF. More than 70 percent of those who’ve been killed by Israel’s offensive since October 7 are women and children. It’s not just the physical injuries and death that those children are experiencing. What happens to the children who survive? To those who’ve lost their entire families and are forced to live with the lasting scars of war? What does the future hold for them?
Presenter: Anelise Borges
Guests: Arwa Damon – founder of the International Network for Aid, Relief & Assistance Iman Farajallah – clinical psychologist
China claims Taiwan as its own territory and the US is watching. So what’s the status of Taiwan? And why is it such a flashpoint between the world’s two biggest powers? Start Here with Sandra Gathmann explains.
Note: This is an updated version of an episode that was first published in November 2021.
Watch the moment protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza heckled US President Joe Biden during a speech in South Carolina, as he begins to ramp up his re-election campaign for 2024.
Airlines are inspecting the controversial aircraft after a midair blowout forced an Alaska jet to make an emergency landing.
United Airlines and Alaska Airlines have said they found loose parts on multiple grounded Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft, raising new concerns among industry experts about the manufacturing process for the passenger planes.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which regulates the industry in the United States, grounded 171 Max 9 planes worldwide after a cabin panel blew off an Alaska-operated plane in midair on Friday, forcing the pilots to make an emergency landing.
United said on Monday that it “found bolts that needed additional tightening,” in its initial inspections.
Alaska said early reports from its technicians indicated some “loose hardware” was visible on some aircraft when it conducted checks of its fleet.
The carriers are focusing on an area known as the door plug, a cover panel used to fill an unneeded emergency exit in aircraft that have been configured with fewer seats.
The panel that blew out on Friday’s Alaskan flight was a door plug and the FAA ordered operators to ground all aircraft with the same configuration.
With 79 Max 9 planes, United has the largest fleet of the aircraft in question. Alaska has 65 of the planes, while the remainder are operated by Turkish Airlines, Panama’s Copa Airlines and Aeromexico.
The midair incident has raised concerns about the production process and quality control for the Max 9. The model is used by relatively few airlines but the 737 Max family of aircraft has been dogged by controversy since the entire global fleet was grounded in March 2019 after two crashes in the space of six months killed 346 people.
Boeing said it was staying in close contact with Max 9 operators and would help customers address any findings during the latest inspections.
“We are committed to ensuring every Boeing airplane meets design specifications and the highest safety and quality standards,” the US plane maker said. “We regret the impact this has had on our customers and their passengers.”
On Monday, the FAA announced that it approved a roadmap for carriers to complete inspections that include both left and right door plugs, components and fasteners. It said planes would remain grounded until operators complete the “enhanced inspections”.
US investigators are continuing to investigate Friday’s incident.
None of the 174 passengers or six crew on the aircraft suffered serious injuries in the incident even as oxygen masks were deployed and personal items were sucked out of the plane in the sudden depressurisation.
The panel was recovered on Sunday by a Portland teacher who found it in his backyard, National Transportation Safety Board Chair Jennifer Homendy said.
The NTSB said the recovery of the fuselage would enable them to determine whether the plug was properly bolted in place or whether the bolts existed.
For decades, it was a tradition for Iowa governors to remain neutral ahead of the state’s all-important caucuses — the first major contest of the United States presidential race.
And Republican Governor Kim Reynolds seemed poised to uphold that tradition for much of last year.
“I’m going to remain neutral,” she told Fox News in May, touting her role in welcoming all Republican presidential hopefuls, no matter who they are, to her state.
But facing pressure from Republican frontrunner Donald Trump to pick a side, Reynolds made a defiant choice: She decided to back Florida Governor Ron DeSantis over the former president, her erstwhile ally.
Now, with the Iowa caucuses only days away, her decision is being seen as a test of her power as a rising star in the Republican Party — and a high-stakes gamble that could alienate her from Trump’s broad base of supporters.
“Governors have long played key roles in endorsing particular presidential candidates and organising their state parties to gear up for the year’s elections,” Ken Kollman, a political science professor at the University of Michigan, told Al Jazeera.
“What’s interesting is the calculations different leaders are making. What’s the right timing to break with Trump, betting that — when the party emerges from Trump and becomes a normal party again — it will be a boost to have opposed him now as opposed to later?”
Whether that bet will ultimately pay off remains unclear, Kollman added. Leaders like Reynolds “are playing a longer game than others, but clearly a risky one”.
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, whom Donald Trump hosted at the White House on several occasions, has since had a falling-out with the former president [File: Leah Millis/Reuters]
Fractures in Trump’s leadership
Going into the Iowa caucuses on January 15, Trump remains the faraway leader in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
A national polling average compiled by the website FiveThirtyEight shows Trump nearly 50 percentage points ahead of his next closest rivals, DeSantis and former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley.
So far, no Republican candidate has come close to challenging Trump’s lead. Nevertheless, Reynolds and New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu — from another early primary state — have both backed Trump opponents for the party nod, revealing subtle fault lines in the Republican caucus.
Reynolds credited her decision to political pragmatism in an interview with the Des Moines Register. “I don’t think he can win,” she said of Trump’s prospects in the general election, where he likely faces a rematch with current President Joe Biden.
She also noted the 45-year-old DeSantis’s relative youth, compared to the 77-year-old Trump. “We have to look towards the future and not the past.”
But some analysts believe behind-the-scenes friction contributed to Reynolds’s decision, particularly as Trump publicly blasted the governor for her early gestures at neutrality.
No other Iowa governor, however, had endorsed a candidate before the caucuses since 1996.
“Reynolds apparently can’t stand Trump personally, and she likes and clicked early with DeSantis,” Steffen Schmidt, an emeritus professor at Iowa State University, told Al Jazeera.
Schmidt explained that DeSantis and Reynolds bonded during the COVID-19 pandemic, when both of their states resisted federal health recommendations to close public institutions and encourage physical distancing.
“She also thought DeSantis would shortlist her, given her support for him, for the vice president role,” Schmidt added.
Governor Kim Reynolds has appeared in multiple rallies with Donald Trump, including one in Sioux City, Iowa, on November 3, 2022 [File: Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo]
A poster child for ‘Trump’s America’
But Reynolds’s defection from the Trump camp was seen as a stark reversal for the Iowa Republican, whose political rise was intimately linked with the former president’s.
Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 elections quickly catapulted Reynolds into the national spotlight.
At the time, Reynolds was a 57-year-old grandmother and former county treasurer working as lieutenant governor under Terry Branstad, the longest-serving governor in US history.
But when Trump tapped Branstad to be his ambassador to China, Reynolds inherited the executive seat. In doing so, she made history, becoming Iowa’s first female governor.
Very quickly, Reynolds developed into the poster child for Trump’s transformation of the Republican Party. Politico Magazine dubbed her “the governor of Trump’s America”, describing a new political landscape where it would be “dangerous for any Republican to abandon the president”.
And Reynolds embraced the association. Faced with running for governor for the first time in 2018, she appeared on the campaign trail with both Trump and his daughter Ivanka.
“The Midwest has a partner in the White House with President Donald Trump,” she said, standing next to him at a 2018 rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
When Trump made his re-election bid in 2020, Reynolds likewise made appearances on his behalf, helping him to carry Iowa by eight percentage points over Biden.
But Trump ultimately lost that race. Though Reynolds eventually acknowledged his defeat, she was careful not to criticise or contradict Trump — despite his false claims that the election had been “stolen” through widespread voter fraud.
“What we need to do is stop pointing fingers, and we need to move forward,” she said in a call to reporters in January 2021, shortly after Trump supporters attacked the US Capitol.
Governor Kim Reynolds hosted Republican candidates including Ron DeSantis (right) and Doug Burgum at the Iowa State Fair for ‘Fair-Side Chats’, a play on the presidential tradition of ‘fireside chats’ [File: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters]
Surviving Trump’s ire
While Trump briefly faltered, Reynolds’s star continued to rise. She cruised to an easy re-election in 2022, and she has since styled herself as a Republican kingmaker, holding “Fair-Side Chats” at last year’s Iowa State Fair, where she hosted presidential hopefuls for public interviews.
Some of those contenders even courted her endorsement. In July, Haley praised her as a “conservative rockstar” on social media. Meanwhile, Chris Christie, another Republican candidate, told a SiriusXM radio show that she is someone who “has the capabilities, if she wanted to be president, to be president”.
Dennis Goldford, political science professor at Drake University, told Al Jazeera that Reynolds ticks a lot of boxes for conservative voters.
“Reynolds follows the typical Republican list of economic- and business-related policies, but her signature political identity is culture-war conservatism in the guise of every small town’s homecoming queen,” Goldford said.
He believes that combination of qualities will help insulate her against any backlash from her DeSantis endorsement.
“She’s pretty much a MAGA politician anyway,” Goldford said, using the acronym for the Trump slogan, Make America Great Again. “So I don’t see a lot of Trump supporters holding this against her.”
Tim Hagle, a political science professor at the University of Iowa, predicts there could even be a reconciliation if Trump becomes the party pick for 2024.
“I assume that if Trump wins the Republican nomination, she will support him in the general election. That would likely blunt any hard feelings that some Trump supporters might have,” he said.
Images of Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds campaigning with Donald Trump have appeared in a campaign ad for the former president’s re-election bid [File: Leah Millis/Reuters]
Rejecting and embracing Reynolds
Still, Trump himself has promised dire consequences for Reynolds’s perceived betrayal. Even before she ended her neutrality, Trump warned that a DeSantis endorsement would “be the end of her political career”.
“I believe in loyalty,” Trump said in a December speech in Ankeny, Iowa, evoking cheers. “I don’t care if she endorses me or not. It’s not going to make any difference. Because the only endorsement that matters is the Trump endorsement.”
The University of Michigan’s Kollman said Trump’s backing still holds significant weight in states like Iowa.
“You essentially haven’t been able to get elected to statewide office as a Republican in a state like Iowa without showing deference or fealty to Trump,” he noted.
And Schmidt, the Iowa State University professor, said Reynolds’s break with the tradition of neutrality could indeed backfire among the state’s voters.
“Many Iowa Republicans don’t think she should have endorsed anyone,” he explained. “A high-level endorsement like hers is seen by many as undermining the caucuses’ impartiality.”
Still, analysts point to a curious phenomenon that could indicate Reynolds’s enduring appeal: Both Trump and DeSantis campaigned in part on Reynolds’s support in the lead-up to the Iowa caucuses.
Indeed, last month, the Trump official campaign released what it called a “must see” advertisement, stitching together Reynolds’s past appearances with the former president — and her glowing praise for his track record.
The ad made no mention of her DeSantis endorsement, nor of her recent rupture with Trump.
The 81st Annual Golden Globe awards were held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
On Sunday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented the 81st Golden Globe Awards, with audience favourites from the year such as Oppenheimer and Succession ruling the night.
The winners were chosen by roughly 300 entertainment journalists who voted on the honours as a part of a new organisation created after an ethics and diversity scandal hit the previous panel of voters.
The awards included categories for both film and television.
Here is a list of the major winners and nominees they were up against.
Film
Best Motion Picture – Drama: Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Anatomy of a Fall
The Zone of Interest
Past Lives
The cast and crew of Oppenheimer accept the award [Sonja Flemming/CBS via AP]
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Poor Things
May December
American Fiction
Barbie
The Holdovers
Air
Yorgos Lanthimos, from left, Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo, and Ramy Youssef pose with the award for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for Poor Things [Chris Pizzello/AP]
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture: Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
Poor Things
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Past Lives
Filmmaker Justine Triet from Anatomy of a Fall accepts the award [Sonja Flemming/CBS via AP]
Best Motion Picture – Animated: The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Suzume
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Wish
Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language: Anatomy of a Fall
Lo Capitano
Past Lives
Society of the Snow
The Zone of Interest
Best Original Song – Motion Picture: What Was I Made For? Billie Eilish and Finneas, Barbie
Addicted to Romance, Bruce Springsteen, She Came to Me
Dance the Night, Caroline Ailin, Dua Lipa, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, Barbie
I’m Just Ken, Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, Barbie
Peaches, Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond and John Spiker, The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Road to Freedom, Lenny Kravitz, Rustin
Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell, winners of Best Original Song – Motion Picture for What Was I Made For? from Barbie [Mario Anzuoni/Reuters]
Best Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama: Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Barry Keoghan, Saltburn
Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers
Cillian Murphy, winner of the award for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture for Oppenheimer [Mario Anzuoni/Reuters]
Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama: Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Sandra Huller, Anatomy of a Fall
Annette Bening, Nyad
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla
Lily Gladstone poses in the press room with the award for best performance by an actress in a motion picture, drama for Killers of the Flower Moon [Chris Pizzello/AP]
Best Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Nicolas Cage, Dream Scenario
Timothee Chalamet, Wonka
Matt Damon, Air
Joaquin Phoenix, Beau Is Afraid
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction
Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy: Emma Stone, Poor Things
Fantasia Barrino, The Color Purple
Jennifer Lawrence, No Hard Feelings
Natalie Portman, May December
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone accepts the award for Best Female Actor in a Motion Picture for her role in Poor Things [Sonja Flemming/CBS via AP]
Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture: Robert Downey Jr, Oppenheimer
Willem Dafoe, Poor Things
Robert DeNiro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Charles Melton, May December
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things
Robert Downey Jr, winner of the award for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture for Oppenheimer [Mario Anzuoni/Reuters]
Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Julianne Moore, May December
Rosamund Pike, Saltburn
Best Director – Motion Picture: Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon
Celine Song, Past Lives
Christopher Nolan accepted the award for Best Director for Oppenheimer [Sonja Flemming/CBS via AP]
Best Original Score: Ludwig Goransson, Oppenheimer
Jerskin Fendrix, Poor Things
Mica Levi, The Zone of Interest
Daniel Pemberton, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Robbie Robertson, Killers of the Flower Moon
The Boy and the Heron
Cinematic and Box Office Achievement: Barbie
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
John Wick: Chapter 4
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
Director Greta Gerwig, left, and actor Margot Robbie accept the award for Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement for the film Barbie [Sonja Flemming/CBS via AP]
Television
Best Drama Series: Succession
1923
The Crown
The Diplomat
The Last of Us
The Morning Show
Nicholas Braun, from left, J Smith-Cameron, Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, Alan Ruck, and Matthew Macfayden pose in the press room in the press room with the award for Best Television Series, Drama for Succession [Chris Pizzello/AP]
Best Musical or Comedy Series: The Bear
Abbott Elementary
Only Murders in the Building
Ted Lasso
Jury Duty
The team behind The Bear arrive at the 81st Golden Globe Awards Billboard after-party on Sunday [Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP]
Best Male Actor – Drama: Kieran Culkin, Succession
Brian Cox, Succession
Jeremy Strong, Succession
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
Dominic West, The Crown
Pedro Pascal, The Last of Us
Kieran Culkin poses in the press room with the award for best performance by an actor in a television series, drama for Succession [Chris Pizzello/AP]
Best Female Actor – Drama: Sarah Snook, Succession
Helen Mirren, 1923
Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us
Keri Russell, The Diplomat
Sarah Snook poses in the press room with the award for best performance by an actress in a television series, drama for Succession. [Chris Pizzello/AP]
Best Supporting Male Actor: Matthew Macfadyen, Succession
Alan Ruck, Succession
Alexander Skarsgard, Succession
Billy Crudup, The Morning Show
James Marsden, Jury Duty
Ebon Moss–Bachrach, The Bear
Best Supporting Female Actor: Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown
Abby Elliott, The Bear
Christina Ricci, Yellowjackets
J Smith-Cameron, Succession
Meryl Streep, Only Murders in the Building
Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso
Elizabeth Debicki accepted the award for best performance by a female actor in a supporting role on television for her role in The Crown during the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards [Sonja Flemming/CBS via AP]
Best Male Actor – Musical or Comedy Series: Jeremy Allen White, The Bear
Bill Hader, Barry
Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Segel, Shrinking
Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building
Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso
Jeremy Allen White accepted the award for best performance by a male actor in a television series for his role in The Bear [Sonja Flemming/CBS via AP]
Best Female Actor – Musical or Comedy Series: Ayo Edebiri, The Bear
Elle Fanning, The Great
Natasha Lyonne, Poker Face
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
Selena Gomez, Only Murders in the Building
Ayo Edebiri accepted the award for best performance by a female actor in a TV series for her role in The Bear [Sonja Flemming/CBS via AP]
Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or Movie Made for Television: Beef
All the Light We Cannot See
Daisy Jones & the Six
Fargo
Fellow Travelers
Lessons in Chemistry
Creator Lee Sung Jin, left, with actors Ali Wong, from second left and Steven Yeun as he accepts the award for Best Limited Series for Beef [Sonja Flemming/CBS via AP]
Best Male Actor – Limited series, anthology series or movie made for television: Steven Yeun, Beef
Matt Bomer, Fellow Travelers
Sam Claflin, Daisy Jones & the Six
Jon Hamm, Fargo
Woody Harrelson, White House Plumbers
David Oyelowo, Lawmen: Bass Reeves
Steven Yeun poses in the press room with the award for best performance by an actor in a limited series, anthology series, or a motion picture made for television for Beef [Chris Pizzello/AP]
Best Female Actor – Limited series, anthology series or movie made for television: Ali Wong, Beef
Brie Larson, Lessons in Chemistry
Elizabeth Olsen, Love & Death
Riley Keough, Daisy Jones & the Six
Juno Temple, Fargo
Rachel Weisz, Dead Ringers
Ali Wong poses in the press room with the award for best performance by an actress in a limited series, anthology series, or a motion picture made for television for Beef [Chris Pizzello/AP]
Christopher Nolan’s epic about the atomic bomb had eight nominations compared with nine for the box office blockbuster Barbie.
Oppenheimer, one of the biggest box office hits of 2023, has won multiple Golden Globes, as Hollywood kicked off its annual awards season.
Irish actor Cillian Murphy took home best male actor for his portrayal of scientist J Robert Oppenheimer in the film about the development of the atomic bomb.
The film was named best drama, Christopher Nolan the best director and Robert Downey Jr the best male supporting actor.
“I was in the hands of a visionary director, a master,” Murphy said as he accepted the Golden Globe on Sunday night.
Cillian Murphy won best male actor for his portrayal of scientist J Robert Oppenheimer [Universal Pictures via AP Photo]
Indigenous actor Lily Gladstone, a firm favourite, won best actress in a drama film for her role in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.
The gothic comedy-drama Poor Things, from celebrated Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, was named best film comedy or musical, and its star, Emma Stone, best actress in a film comedy or musical.
The Globes ceremony marks the start of Hollywood’s annual awards season, which culminates with the Oscars on March 10. Overhauled after a diversity and ethics scandal in 2021, the Globes recognise the best in film and television and brought the stars together for the first time after six months of strikes by actors and writers in 2023.
In television, the drama series Succession was named best television drama and took the top acting awards for its final season about the high-stakes battle for control of a global media empire. Kieran Culkin, who played the wayward son Roman Roy, landed the award for best actor, while Australian Sarah Snook won best actress. British actor Matthew Macfadyen took home best supporting actor for his role as her fictional husband, Tom Wambsgans.
The cast of Succession celebrates winning best television drama. Sarah Snook (third left), Kieran Culkin (third right) and Matthew Macfadyen (right) also took home acting awards [Mario Anzuoni/Reuters]
Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri, meanwhile, were recognised for their leading roles in the television comedy The Bear, while road-rage saga Beef picked up best actor and actress limited series awards for Ali Wong and Steven Yeun.
Several Hollywood legends, from Meryl Streep to Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster, all Globe nominees vying for Oscars this year, were among those on the red carpet for the revamped awards.
Pop superstar Taylor Swift was also at the ceremony where she was nominated for best song.
That award went to Billie Eilish for What Was I Made For? which she wrote for Barbie.
The satire on misogyny and female empowerment made more than $1bn in ticket sales and was nominated for nine awards including best comedy and best director for Greta Gerwig.
Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas O’Connell accepting the award for best original song What Was I Made For? from the film Barbie [Sonja Flemming/CBS via AP]
It went home with the newly created trophy for box office achievement.
Among the other winners were the French courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall, which won best screenplay and best film not in English, and The Boy and the Heron, which won best animated film for Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki.
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