Emma Stone poses in the press room with the award for best performance. AP

“Oppenheimer," Christopher Nolan's drama about the inventor of the atomic bomb, topped the Golden globes on Sunday — but its fellow summer smash hit "Barbie" missed out on best comedy film honors to "Poor Things." "Oppenheimer" took five prizes including best drama, best director for Nolan, best score, as well as acting trophies for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr.

Turning nostalgia for the beloved doll into a sharp satire about misogyny and female empowerment, "Barbie" was the leading film heading into the night with nine nominations, but ended the gala with just two prizes.

It won the award for best song, for a tune written by Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas. And as the year's highest grossing movie, it claimed a newly created trophy for box office achievement.

 Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell.

But "Barbie" lost out on best comedy to "Poor Things" — a surreal, sexy bildungsroman which also earned Emma Stone best actress for her no-holds-barred turn as Bella Baxter.

The Globes provide a timely boost for the Oscars. Nominations voting for the Academy Awards begins Thursday, with the Oscars taking place this year on March 10.

 Mark Ruffalo.

Indigenous actor Lily Gladstone won best actress in a drama for her role in Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon," delivering some of her emotional speech in the native language of the Blackfeet Nation.

"This is an historic win, it doesn't belong to just me," she said.

"This is for every little res kid."

Best screenplay and best non-English language film went to French courtroom drama "Anatomy of a Fall."

Hayao Miyazaki's "The Boy and the Heron" won best animated film.

 Justine Triet poses with the awards.

The Globes also honored the best in television, just a week before the strike-delayed Emmys.

"Succession" dominated, claiming best drama series, and acting wins for stars Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook and Matthew Macfadyen.

"The Bear" swept the comedy categories, while road-rage saga "Beef" did the same in limited series.

Past Globes host Ricky Gervais, who did not attend, won best stand-up comedy performance, a new category.

Agence France-Presse