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Meryl Streep rallies Hollywood while ‘La La Land’ scores big at the 2017 Golden Globes –

The 74th Golden Globe Awards were held Sunday and “La La Land” was the top winner in the motion picture categories, while “The Night Manager,” “The Crown” and “Atlanta” claimed top awards on the television side. One of the evening’s most memorable moments was Meryl Streep rallying her colleagues during her very political speech when accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement. “Take your broken heart, make it into art,” she said, quoting Carrie Fisher. [Los Angeles Times]
Meryl Streep

List of the Day –

Golden Globe winners [Daily Telegraph] –

Film

• Best motion picture (drama) – Moonlight
• Best motion picture – (musical or comedy) – La La Land
• Best performance by an actor in a motion picture – Casey Affleck – Manchester By The Sea
• Best performance by an actress in a motion picture – Isabelle Huppert – Elle
• Best performance by an actor in a motion picture – (musical or comedy) – Ryan Gosling – La La Land
• Best performance by an actress in a motion picture – (musical or comedy) – Emma Stone – La La Land
• Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture – Aaron Taylor-Johnson – Nocturnal Animals
• Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture – Viola Davis – Fences
• Best director – Damien Chazelle – La La Land
• Best original screenplay – La La Land
• Best motion picture – foreign language – Elle – France
• Best motion picture – animated – Zootopia
• Best original song – City Of Stars – La La Land
• Best original score – Justin Hurwitz – La La Land

Television

• Best television series – drama – The Crown
• Best television series – musical or comedy – Atlanta
• Best performance by an actor in a television series – Billy Bob Thornton – Goliath
• Best performance by an actress in a television series – Claire Foy – The Crown
• Best performance by an actor in a television series – musical or comedy – Donald Glover – Atlanta
• Best performance by an actress in a television series – musical or comedy – Tracee Ellis-Ross – Black-ish
• Best performance by an actor in a limited series or motion picture made for television – Tom Hiddleston – The Night Manager
• Best performance by an actress in a limited series or motion picture made for television – Sarah Paulson – The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story
• Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television – Olivia Colman – The Night Manager
• Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a series, limited series or motion picture made for television – Hugh Laurie – The Night Manager

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• January 2017 Jerusalem vehicular attack
  • A truck rams into a group of Israeli soldiers in a deliberate attack in East Jerusalem, killing four and wounding 21. The perpetrator was previously convicted of terrorism and was jailed for 10 years. (CNN)(The Guardian)
• Iraqi Civil War
  • Two suicide bombings, one using a car bomb and another with an explosive belt, take place in vegetable markets in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 50. The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility. (Reuters AP via ABC Australia) (AP via The Daily Mail) (Al Jazeera)

Arts and culture

• The 74th Golden Globe Awards are held in Hollywood. (News Limited)
  • The Crown wins the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama. (Variety)
  • La La Land wins the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy while Moonlight wins the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. (Los Angeles Times)
  • La La Land becomes the single most winning film in Golden Globes history, winning all seven awards out of its seven nominations and becomes the seventh film to achieve all the awards it was nominated for, the others being Doctor Zhivago (1966), Love Story (1971), The Godfather (1973), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1976), A Star is Born (1977) and Midnight Express (1979). (Golden Globes) (Los Angeles Times)

Politics and elections

• Israel–United Kingdom relations
  • Several British MPs demand an investigation into a recent scandal in which an Israeli embassy official in London had conspired to damage the reputation of several British politicians in response to the recent United Nations Security Council resolution. (Al Jazeera)
• Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President of Iran, dies at the age of 82. (Reuters) (BBC) (Al-Jazeera)
• Pakistan has decided to impose official prohibition on Jundallah and splinter groups that claim responsibility for terror attacks. (The News) (Daily Times)

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