Brian Cox has taken home the award for best actor in a drama television series at the 2020Golden Globe Awards.
During the 77th annual awards show on Sunday evening, Cox was nominated alongsideKit Harington(Game of Thrones),Rami Malek(Mr. Robot),Tobias Menzies (The Crown) andBilly Porter(Pose). This was the first Golden Globe nomination for Harington, the second for Cox, Menzies and Porter, and the fourth for Malek.
“I’m sorry — I mean, this kind of event does your head in. No, it really does. It does your head in,” said Cox, who dedicated the award to showrunner Jesse Armstrong. “First of all, I want to apologize to my fellow nominees for winning this. I mean, I’m sorry. And that’s all I can say: I’m sorry.”
“But I never expected this,” the actor, who portrays Logan Roy on the HBO series, continued. “And I’ve been in this business, well, next year I would have been in this business 60 years. I mean, I started when I was 2, and I just never thought this would happen to me, so I’m a wee bit shocked.”
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“And I just wanna say, it wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t worked with the most extraordinary bunch of people ever: the cast and the crew ofSuccession,” he continued, calling Armstrong an “incredibly modest man.”
“But man, what a talent, what a gift. He’s inspired us to do the best work, and there’s nothing like it,” Cox said. “There’s nothing like it when you’ve got a showrunner who comes along and empowers you to do your best work.”
“So, thank you, Jesse, because if it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have had this,” Cox concluded, adding his thanks to his family and wife as well.
Cox, 73, was previously nominated for the 2000 miniseriesNuremberg, for which he also won an Emmy. In HBO’sSuccession, the Scottish actor plays patriarch Logan Roy, the ailing founder of a successful media conglomerate which his family members are fighting to control.
“I’m at a certain age, so I’ve been doing this for a few weeks [laughs]— you’re just grateful to get a role like this now,” he toldRolling Stonein August 2019. “I always thought, I’m in this for the long game. As long as human beings will get up there and say lines and audiences or cameras show up, I’m in there. Logan is sort proof of that particular pudding, in a way. Stick around long enough and you eventually get a role where you think, Yup. This is right. This is what I should be doing right now.”
“Once again, they’ve made me an offer I can’t refuse. But this is the very last time I’m doing this, which could make for a fun evening,” Gervais, 58, said in a press release when theannouncementwas made in November.
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Gervais — who won a Golden Globe in 2004 for his performance inThe Office‘s original U.K. series— previously hosted the show in 2010, 2011,2012and2016.He will now hold the record for hosting the most Globes ceremonies.
In 2017,Gervais told PEOPLEhe wanted to host the Globes again because of the opportunity for new joke material.
“At the moment, there’s something in the news every day that makes me go, ‘I wish I was doing the Globes tonight,’ ” he said at the time. “It would be too easy. Oh my God, how easy would it be? Bullseye.”
The 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony is airing live on NBC from the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 5.
source: people.com
