The 72nd Golden Globe Awards were held in Beverly Hills, California, on Sunday, US time.

The Globes celebrate the cream of television and film, and is considered one of the major pre-cursors to the Oscars, which will be held in February.

There were some unexpected winners out of the nominations in 25 categories, but as expected Boyhood and Fargo were big winners.

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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE 

Winner: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

Nominees: Robert Duvall, The Judge, Ethan Hawke, Boyhood, Edward Norton, Birdman, Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Winner: Joanne Froggatt, Downton Abbey

Nominees: Uzo Aduba, Orange is the New Black, Kathy Bates, American Horror Story: Freak Show, Allison Janney, Mom, Michelle Monaghan, True Detective.

BEST MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Winner: Fargo, FX, FX Productions & MGM Television

Nominees: The Missing, The Normal Heart, Olive Kitteridge, True Detective.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Winner: Billy Bob Thornton, Fargo

Nominees: Martin Freeman, Fargo, Woody Harrelson, True Detective, Matthew McConaughey, True Detective, Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

Winner: Gina Rodriguez, Jane The Virgin

Nominees: Amy Adams, Big Eyes, Emily Blunt, Into the Woods, Helen Mirren, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars.

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

Winner: Transparent, Amazon, Amazon Studios Instant Video

Nominees: Girls, Jane the Virgin, Orange Is the New Black, Silicon Valley.

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTURE

Winner: Johann Johannsson, The Theory Of Everything

Nominees: Alexandre Desplat, The Imitation Game, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Gone Girl, Antonio Sanchez, Birdman, Hans Zimmer, Interstellar. 

BEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE

 Winner: “Glory”, Selma

Nominees: Big Eyes, Big Eyes, Mercy Is, Noah, Opportunity, Annie, Yellow Flicker Beat, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Winner: Matt Bomer, The Normal Heart

Nominees: Alan Cumming, Good Wife, Colin Hanks, Fargo, Bill Murray, Olive Kitteridge, Jon Voight, Ray Donovan.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

Winner: Amy Adams, Big Eyes

Nominees: Emily Blunt, Into the Woods, Helen Mirren, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Julianne Moore, Maps to the Stars, Quvenzhané Wallis, Annie.

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Winner: How To Train Your Dragon 2, DreamWorks Animation LLC; Twentieth Century Fox.

Nominees: Big Hero 6, The Book of Life, The Boxtrolls, The Lego Movie.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE

Winner: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

Nominees: Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year, Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game, Emma Stone, Birdman, Meryl Streep, Into The Woods.

BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE

Winner: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo, Birdman

Nominees: Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Richard Linklater, Boyhood, Graham Moore, The Imitation Game.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

Winner: Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

Nominees: Louis CK, Louie, Don Cheadle, House of Lies, Ricky Gervais, Derek, William H Macy, Shameless.

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Winner: Leviathan (Russia), (Левиафан) Non-Stop Production, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation of the Cinema Funds, RuArts Foundation; Sony Pictures Classics

Nominees: Force Majeure Turist (Sweden),  Gett: The Trial of Viviane (Israel), Ida (Poland/Denmark), Tangerines Madanriinid (Estonia).

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Winner: Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman

Nominees: Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Freak Show,  Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge, Frances O’Connor, The Missing, Allison Tolman, Fargo.

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

Winner: The Affair, Showtime, Showtime Presents, Sheleg, Higlewater

Nominees: Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey, The Good Wife, House of Cards.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

Winner: Kevin Spacey, House Of Cards.

Nominees: Clive Owen, The Knick, Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan, James Spader, The Blacklist, Dominic West, The Affair.

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

Winner: Boyhood, IFC Productions and Detour Filmproduction; IFC Films

Nominees: Foxcatcher, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of Everything.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

Winner: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory Of Everything

Nominees: Steve Carell, Foxcatcher, Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game, Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler, David Oyelowo, Selma.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

Winner: Julianne Moore, Still Alice

Nominees: Jennifer Aniston, Cake, Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything, Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl, Reese Witherspoon, Wild.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

Winner: Ruth Wilson, The Affair

Nominees: Claire Danes, Homeland, Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder, Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife, Robin Wright, House of Cards.

BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

Winner: The Grand Budapest Hotel, American Empirical Picture; Fox Searchlight Pictures

Nominees: Birdman, Into the Woods, Pride, St Vincent.

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

Winner: Michael Keaton, Birdman

Nominees: Ralph Fiennes, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Bill Murray, St Vincent, Joaquin Phoenix, Inherent Vice, Christoph Waltz, Big Eyes.

BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE

Winner: Richard Linklater, Boyhood

Nominees: Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Ava DuVernay, Selma, David Fincher, Gone Girl, Alejandro González Inñárritu, Birdman.