• ‘Naatu Naatu’, the foot-tapping hit from filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli’s ‘RRR’, danced its way to the best original song-motion picture win at the 80th Golden Globe Awards on January 11.

• The song is composed by veteran music director M.M. Keeravaani and sung by Kala Bhairava and Rahul Sipligunj.

• The song beat out competition from the likes of Taylor Swift, Rihanna and Lady Gaga to register a win at the Gloden Globes. 

• ‘Naatu Naatu’ has already made it to the 95th Academy Awards shortlist for best original song, along with 14 others. 

• ‘RRR’, which was nominated under two categories at the Golden Globes Awards, lost the best picture non-English drama award to another historical drama ‘Argentina, 1985’.

• ‘RRR’, a lavishly mounted period epic, was the first Indian film in over two decades to be nominated for the awards. 

• The other two films nominated in the category earlier called foreign language films were ‘Salaam Bombay!’ (1988) and ‘Monsoon Wedding’ (2001), both directed by Mira Nair.

Award winners in Cinema 

• Best Motion Picture (Drama) - The Fabelmans

• Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) - The Banshees of Inisherin

• Best Motion Picture (Animated) - Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

• Best Motion Picture (Foreign Language) - Argentina, 1985

• Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) - Cate Blanchett (Tar)

• Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama) - Austin Butler (Elvis)

• Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) - Michelle Yeoh  (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

• Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) - Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin) 

• Best Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture - Angela Bassett (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)

• Best Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture - Ke Huy Quan  (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

• Best Director (Motion Picture) - Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)

• Best Screenplay (Motion Picture) - Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)

• Best Original Score (Motion Picture) - Justin Hurwitz (Babylon)

• Best Original Song (Motion Picture) - Naatu Naatu (RRR).

Award winners in Television

• Best Television Series (Drama) - House of the Dragon

• Best Television Series (Musical or Comedy) - Abbott Elementary

• Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television - The White Lotus

• Best Actress in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television - Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout)

• Best Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television - Evan Peters (Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)

• Best Actress in a Television Series (Drama) - Zendaya (Euphoria) 

• Best Actor in a Television Series (Drama) - Kevin Costner (Yellowstone)  

• Best Actress in a Television Series (Musical or Comedy) - Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary)

• Best Actor in a Television Series (Musical or Comedy) - Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) 

• Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television - Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus)

• Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television - Paul Walter Hauser (Black Bird)

• Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series (Musical, Comedy or Drama) - Julia Garner (Ozark)

• Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series (Musical, Comedy or Drama) - Tyler James Williams  (Abbott Elementary).

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded in 1943 with the name of Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association (HFCA), by a group of journalists who joined together in order to formalise their relationship with the studios and facilitate their work of interviewing movie stars and film directors for publications around the world. 

The HFCA established the Golden Globe Awards, held for the first time on February 11, 1944.

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