Jessie Buckley Wins Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama

“Hamnet” star Jessie Buckley won the Golden Globe for best actress in a drama at Sunday night’s star-studded awards ceremony.

The win continues a streak for Buckley, who won the Critics Choice award for her performance last weekend, and has also been nominated for the Screen Actors Guild’s Actor Awards.

Buckley was nominated alongside Jennifer Lawrence (“Die My Love”), Renate Reinsve (“Sentimental Value”), Julia Roberts (“After the Hunt”), Tessa Thompson (“Hedda”) and Eva Victor (“Sorry, Baby”). This was Buckley’s first Golden Globe nomination.

In her acceptance speech, Buckley began by saying, “This is not a normal feeling or situation to be in, but thank you, Golden Globes, thank you Focus and everybody who supported this film.” She then thanked many of her collaborators on the film, with a special shoutout reserved for the film’s key grip, Tomasz Sternicki.

“I found [Tomasz] one day at the back of his truck, and he was chopping up potatoes and onions and meat. He was making — and he brought his ginormous cast iron pot over from Poland — and he was making soup. And this soup started turning up on set, so it was delicious.”

In “Hamnet,” Buckley plays Agnes Shakespeare as she falls in love with a poor Latin tutor named William (Paul Mescal), who goes on to become the famed playwright. The historical fiction story follows the Shakespeares’ love story as they wed and have three children, but tragedy strikes when their only son, 11-year-old Hamnet, dies from the plague. The film, directed by Oscar winner Chloé Zhao, explores the family’s grief over the devastating loss and how the tragedy inspired Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet.”

The Focus Features film earned 6 nominations at this year’s Golden Globes, including best motion picture drama, best supporting actor (Mescal), best director (Zhao), best screenplay (Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell) and best original score (Max Richter).

The ceremony, held at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, was hosted by comedian Nikki Glaser, who returned as the emcee for the second consecutive year.

“Hamnet” debuted at the Telluride Film Festival in August, where Buckley’s devastating performance was hailed as her best work to date. The actress previously starred in “Women Talking,” “Wild Rose” and “The Lost Daughter,” for which she earned a best supporting actress Oscar nod; she will next be seen starring in “The Bride!”

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