Stage Faves (But Not Woods) Win Big at the 2015 Golden Globes

Tony winners and Broadway alums dominated the 72nd annual Golden Globes on January 11. Actors with current, recent and not-so-recent turns on the Great White Way accepted awards for performances on the big and small screen, while a certain Sondheim tuner was cursed with a shutout.

After accepting the award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture—Drama for portraying Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, Eddie Redmayne can now display a Golden Globe next to his Tony and Olivier. The English actor received his stage accolades in 2010 for Red. Fellow Broadway alums Julianne Moore and J.K. Simmons also took home awards for Still Alice and Whiplash, respectively.

Two Broadway newcomers this season took home their first Golden Globe Award: Maggie Gyllenhaal, who made her Great White Way debut this fall in The Real Thing, won for her performance in the British miniseries The Honorable Woman, and Ruth Wilson, who is currently starring in Constellations opposite Maggie’s brother Jake, was recognized for her performance in the Showtime drama The Affair. Jake was nominated last night for Nightcrawler.

Additional names familiar to the theater community to win TV awards included Oscar and Tony winner Kevin Spacey, who took home the award for House of Cards (his second nomination and first win for the role of Francis Underwood), Broadway alum Jeffrey Tambor, who dedicated his win for Transparent to the transgender community and Matt Bomer, who won for his performance in the HBO adaptation of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association historically throws Globes at movie musicals, but Rob Marshall’s film adaptation of Into the Woods received no such love. The flick lost Best Motion Picture—Comedy or Musical to The Grand Budapest Hotel. Its two nominated performers, Emily Blunt and Meryl Streep, lost their respective categories to Amy Adams (who, coincidentally, played the Baker’s Wife in the 2012 Shakespeare in the Park production) and Patricia Arquette, respectively.

Also losing to The Grand Budapest Hotel was the Broadway-centric Birdman. The film, however, did take home two awards: for its headliner Michael Keaton, as well as for Best Screenplay. Among the screenwriters for it are Alexander Dinelaris, bookwriter and lyricist for the off-Broadway cult favorite Zanna, Don’t!. Dinelaris will also pen the book for the upcoming Gloria and Emilio Estefan tuner On Your Feet!.

Click here for a complete list of winners. Congrats to all!