The Golden Globes crown The Revenant

by David González

11/01/2016 - Europe makes it onto the list of winners with Room, Steve Jobs, Son of Saul, Spectre and Ennio Morricone

Alejandro González Iñárritu, with his Golden Globe for The Revenant

While Todd Haynes’ masterful melodrama Carol [+see also:
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In order to find European films in the list of winners, we have to look further down. Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs [+see also:
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In the Best Foreign-language Film category, though, it was certainly a European affair. Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes’ ferocious, overwhelming Son of Saul [+see also:
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Lastly, the music categories were dominated by Sam Mendes’ Spectre [+see also:
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