'La La Land' wins best film, comedy or musical, at Globes

"Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if you kick them all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts," Streep said to loud applause.

Gosling won best actor in a comedy or musical, Emma Stone took home the trophy for best actress in a comedy or musical, and it took best score (Justin Hurwitz) and best song for "City of Stars."

In one of the evening's more emotional acceptance speeches, Gosling dedicated his award to the late brother of his partner, Eva Mendes.

"While I was singing and dancing and playing piano and having one of the best experiences I've ever had on a film, my lady was raising our daughter, pregnant with our second and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer," said Gosling, referring to Juan Carlos Mendes.

Tracee Ellis Ross, accepting the award for best actress in a comedy for "Black-ish," dedicated her award to "all of the women of color and colorful people whose stories, ideas, thoughts are not always considered worthy and valid and important."

[...] a true Oscar showdown was never in the offing at the Globes.

Since the show separates drama from comedy and musical, "La La Land" didn't go face-to-face with its top competition, "Moonlight" and "Manchester by the Sea," in top categories.

Hugh Laurie, star of "The Night Manager," looked even more surprised when he won best supporting actor in a limited series or TV film over the likes of John Travolta ("The People v. O.J. Simpson") and John Lithgow ("The Crown").