Britain was left out in the cold at America’s Golden Globes, picking up just two of the 27 awards.
Among the nominated actors to miss out were Lily James for Pam & Tommy, Emma D’Arcy for House of the Dragon and The Good Nurse’s star Eddie Redmayne.
There was also disappointment for Dame Emma Thompson, Olivia Colman, Bill Nighy, Ralph Fiennes, Bill Nighy and Daniel Craig.
Britain had its lowest tally of gongs since 2014, when it came away with one award for the US/UK co-production 12 Years a Slave.
It is also a sharp contrast with 2020 and 2021, both of which saw the UK pick up a bumper 10 awards, thanks to the success of TV series like The Crown, Fleabag and Succession, as well as films such as 1917 and Rocketman.
Britain could at least draw comfort from not leaving the Golden Globes empty-handed, as happened in 2010.
At Tuesday’s awards in Los Angeles, British-Irish writer Martin McDonagh, who was with partner Phoebe Waller-Bridge, flew the union flag. His dark comedy The Banshees Of Inisherin, a US/UK/Ireland co-production, won Best Screenplay and Best Musical or Comedy.
The big winners were TV shows The White Lotus, Abbott Elementary and House of the Dragon.
There were also Best Motion Picture and Best Director gongs for Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, loosely based on his childhood.
Austin Butler won Best Actor in a drama for the biopic Elvis and Michelle Yeoh was a Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Last year's Golden Globes event was held in private, with no TV broadcast and winners announced on social media.
It came amid a controversy over the diversity of the organising body's membership and allegations that votes had been influenced by “freebies”.
This issue was made light of by host Jerrod Carmichael who wasted no time addressing the scandal that has overshadowed the awards.
"I'll tell you why I'm here - I'm here because I'm black," said the US comedian Carmichael as he opened the event.
"This show, the Golden Globe Awards, did not air last year because the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which I won't say they were a racist organisation, but they didn't have a single black member until George Floyd died - do with that information what you will.
"One minute I'm making mint tea at home, the next, you're invited to be the black face of an embattled white organisation. Life really comes at you fast."
He added: "I took this job assuming they hadn't changed at all. Regardless of whatever the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's past may be, this is an evening where we get to celebrate. And I think this industry deserves evenings like these. And I'm happy to be here."
Over the past year, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has been attempting to rebuild the awards' reputation and has added more than 100 new voters to its voting body, which it says "is now 52% female, 51.5% racially and ethnically diverse”.
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