Colin Farrell won the Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy for The Banshees of Inisherin, the tale of a shattered friendship on a remote Irish island set a century ago, which also won for best screenplay.

Austin Butler won the best actor in a drama award for his role in the biopic Elvis.

The high-school sitcom Abbott Elementary came in as the lead TV nominee and took home three awards, including best comedy series. Quinta Brunson, the show’s creator and star, won best actress in a comedy series, and Tyler James Williams won for his supporting role.

“It has resonated with the world in a way that I couldn’t even have imagined it would have,” said Brunson as she thanked the studios that backed her vision.

Julia Garner won best supporting actress in a TV series for her role in Ozark.

Jeremy Allen White won the Golden Globe for best actor in a musical or comedy TV series for The Bear.

Evan Peters won best actor in a limited series for Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. The prize for best supporting actor, limited series, went to Paul Walter Hauser for Black Bird.

The award for best actress in a limited series went to Amanda Seyfried for The Dropout.

“Hollywood was a dream come true until I came here,” the Malaysian actress of Chinese descent said, noting that she was called a “minority” and asked if she could speak English early in her career.

Forty years later, “it’s been an amazing journey and incredible fight to be here today, but I think it’s been worth it”, she said.

Butler, 31, seemed overwhelmed to accept the honour in front of many of the top names in show business. “I’m in this room with all my heroes,” Butler said. “I can’t believe I’m here. “Brad (Pitt), I love you. Quentin (Tarantino), I printed out the script of Pulp Fiction when I was 12 years old.”

“You were an icon and a rebel and I love you so much,” said Butler to the late, legendary Elvis Presley, in an emotional speech in which he also praised Presley’s family for their support.

Spielberg beat out a field of Hollywood royalty for the best director honour: James Cameron for Avatar: The Way of Water, Baz Luhrmann for Elvis, Martin McDonagh for comedy The Banshees of Inisherin and Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert for Everything Everywhere All at Once.

Black Panther actress Angela Bassett won a supporting actress award. Bassett was honoured for playing Queen Ramonda in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, a sequel that was rewritten after the death of the original superhero film’s star Chadwick Boseman.

“We showed the world what black unity, leadership and love looks like beyond, behind and in front of the camera,” Bassett said as she held her trophy.

Quan, 51 – who shot to fame as a child star in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom almost four decades ago, having been granted asylum in the United States with his family after a spell in a refugee camp in Hong Kong – grew emotional as he admitted he had begun to fear he “would never surpass what I achieved as a kid”.

“Thankfully more than 30 years later, two guys thought of me. They remembered that kid, and they gave me an opportunity to try again,” he said, referring to directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan.

Celebrities and broadcaster NBC abandoned the 2022 Globes because of ethical lapses at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the group that hands out the awards.

A larger, more diverse membership and other changes by the HFPA persuaded many of the biggest movie and TV stars to support this year’s ceremony, which provides publicity for winners and nominees and often boosts their chances at the Oscars.

Comedian and host Jarrod Carmichael opened the show joking: “I’m here because I’m black. One day you’re making mint tea at home. The next day you’re invited to be the black face of an embattled white organisation,” he said at the ceremony.

Big names in attendance at The Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California, included Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis and Elvis star Butler.

Elvis and sci-fi blockbuster Avatar: The Way of Water were vying for the top honour of best drama film against Spielberg’s The Fabelmans and Tár, starring Blanchett as a conniving orchestra conductor.

Top Gun: Maverick was also in the mix, though the military action film’s chances were probably hurt by star Tom Cruise returning his Globe statues in protest in 2021, awards experts said.

Cruise was reacting to a Los Angeles Times investigation that revealed the HFPA had no black journalists in its ranks and accused members of soliciting favours from celebrities and movie studios.