Seattle native Jean Smart won her second Golden Globe in three years at the 82nd Golden Globes on Sunday. She won the award for Best Performance by a Female Actress in a Television Series.

Smart plays Deborah Vance in the Max series “Hacks.”

“I never thought I would be so happy to be called a hacker,” Smart said during her acceptance speech. “I have the most brilliant showrunners. I have a cast and crew that was heaven sent.”

Smart won the same award for this role in 2022. She graduated from both Ballard High School and the University of Washington (UW).

Smart is a graduate of UW and a graduate of Ballard High School.

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Overall, at the end of the show, two wildly audacious films — Brady Corbet’s 215-minute postwar epic “The Brutalist” and Jacques Audiard’s Spanish-language, genre-bending transmusical “Emilia Perez” — won top honors. The Globes, still going strong after years of scandal and makeover, handed out awards to a number of films. However, the awards group strongly supported two films that defied easy categorization.

“The Brutalist” was named best film and drama, putting one of the most ambitious films of 2024 on track to become a major Oscar contender. Shot in VistaVision and released with a break, the film also won Best Director for Corbet and Best Actor for Adrien Brody. In his acceptance speech, Corbet talked about how filmmakers need permission for the final cut.

“I was told that this film was not distributable,” Corbet said. “Nobody asked for a three-and-a-half-hour 70mm film about a mid-century designer. But it works.”

“Emilia Pérez” won best film, comedy or musical, boosting Netflix’s top contender’s Oscar chances. It also won awards for Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldaña, Best Song (“El Mal”) and Best Foreign Language Film. Audiard, the French director, gave way to Karla Sofía Gascón, the film’s transgender star, who plays a Mexican drug lord undergoing gender-affirming surgery, to speak on behalf of the film.

“Light always triumphs over darkness,” Gascón said, pointing to her bright orange dress. “They might put us in jail. You can beat us up. But you can never take away our soul, our existence or our identity.”

“I am who I am. Not who you want.”

Demi wins her first Globe

Although the Globes audience was particularly star-studded, including nominees Zendaya, Timothée Chalamet, Angelina Jolie and Daniel Craig, most of the winners came from smaller, less-seen films.

This included some surprises. One of them was Demi Moore’s win for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. Her comeback performance in “The Substance,” about a Hollywood star who resorts to an experimental process to recapture his youth, gave the 62-year-old Moore her first Globe – a victory she won over the heavily favored Mikey Madison “Anora” won .”

“I’m in shock right now. “I’ve been doing this for a long time, like over 45 years, and this is the first thing I’ve ever won as an actor,” said Moore, who was last nominated for a film role at the Globes in 1991 for “Ghost.” Thirty years ago a producer told me I was a popcorn actress.”

Winning Best Actress in a Drama was an even bigger surprise. Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres won for her performance in “I’m Still Here,” a drama based on a true story about a family that witnesses the disappearance of political dissident Rubens Paiva in 1970s Rio de Janeiro. Torres dedicated the award to her mother, the great actress Fernanda Montenegro, who also appears in “I’m Still Here.”

“She was here 25 years ago,” Torres said. “And this is like proof that art can last a lifetime, even in difficult moments.”

Best supporting actor in a musical or comedy went to Sebastian Stan for “A Different Man,” in which Stan plays a healed man with a deformed face. Stan, who was also nominated for playing Donald Trump in “The Apprentice,” noted that both films were difficult to make.

“These are difficult topics, but these films are real and necessary,” Stan said. “But we shouldn’t be afraid and look away.”

Glaser lightly roasts the Globes

Comedian Nikki Glaser opened the Globes with a promise: “I’m not here to roast you.”

But Glaser, a stand-up artist whose breakthrough came with a devastating performance by Tom Brady, made her way through the ballroom of the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, choosing in an opening monologue that she elaborated had numerous goals from in comedy clubs before.

While Glaser may not have been able to laugh as much as Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the monologue was a winner and a dramatic improvement over last year’s host, Jo Koy. Last year’s Globes were heavily criticized following a diversity and ethics scandal that led to the dissolution of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. But they delivered where it counted: According to Nielsen, ratings rose again to around 10 million viewers. CBS, which came on board after NBC pulled out of the Globes, signed on for another five years.

As host of the Globes two weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Glaser reserved perhaps her most pithy line for the entire room of Hollywood stars.

“You could really do anything … except tell the country who to vote for,” Glaser said. “But it’s okay, you’ll get them next time…if there is one. I’m scared.”

The Globes are now owned by Todd Boehly’s Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions, which acquired the awards show from the now-defunct Hollywood Foreign Press Association. However, more than a dozen former HFPA members are currently seeking to reverse the sale to Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions.

A win for “Wicked”

Unlike last year’s Oscar race, when “Oppenheimer” competed, this year’s season is more uncertain and there is a field. Most of the films given a shot — “Conclave,” “Emilia Perez,” “The Brutalist,” “Wicked” and “Anora” — won at least one award Sunday. The exception was Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or award-winning “Anora,” which came away empty-handed despite five nominations.

The Globes prize for box office and box office went to Jon M. Chu’s “Wicked,” which grossed nearly $700 million in theaters. Among the Oscars, which are heavily influenced by arthouse films, “Wicked” is by far the biggest hit in the best picture mix. Accepting the award, Chu called for “a radical act of optimism” in art.

Although few awards were predictable this season, Kieran Culkin has emerged as the clear favorite for the Best Supporting Actor category. Culkin won Sunday for his performance in Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain,” his second Globe last year after a win for the HBO series “Succession.” He called the Globes “basically the best date night my wife and I have ever had” and then thanked her for “putting together what you call my madness.”

The papal thriller “Conclave” won Best Screenplay for the screenplay by Peter Straughan. “Flow,” the wordless Latvian animated parable about a cat in a flooded world, won best animated film, beating studio blockbusters like “Inside Out 2” and “The Wild Robot.” Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross won top score for their stirring music for “Challengers.”

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Most of the TV winners were award-winning series, including the Emmy winner “Shōgun.” It won four awards, including best drama series and acting awards for Hiroyuki Sanada, Anna Sawai and Tadanobu Asano. In addition to “Hacks” (Best Comedy Series) and Jean Smart (Best Actress in a Comedy), other repeat winners included “The Bear” (Jeremy Allen White for Best Actor) and “Baby Reindeer” (Best Limited Series).

Ali Wong won for best stand-up performance, Jodie Foster won for True Detective and Colin Farrell won for his physical transformation in The Penguin.

“I suspect it’s just prosthetics from now on,” Farrell said.