Golden Globes Has the Beef! Netflix Show Sweeps the Night After Being Named Best Limited Series

‘All the Light We Cannot See’, ‘Daisy Jones & The Six,’ ‘Fargo’, ‘Fellow Travelers’ and ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ were also all in the running this year

Ali Wong as Amy, Steven Yeun as Danny in episode 106 of Beef
Ali Wong and Steven Yeun in Beef. Photo:

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At the 2024 Golden Globes, the competition for best limited or anthology series has come to a conclusion — and Beef took home the glory, sweeping for the evening!

Beef, which starts with an entertaining road-rage incident between Steven Yeun and Ali Wong's characters, becomes something far more as it progresses.

In the event's aftermath, the main characters find their lives intertwined in unexpected ways and explore the complex push and pull between the shackles of cultural expectations and being one's real self.

Ahead of Sunday's awards, both Yeun, 40, and Wong, 41, won best performance by a male actor and female actor in a limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television. It marked their first Golden Globe nominations and wins.

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Netflix's Beef and All the Light We Cannot See and competed against Prime Video's Daisy Jones & The Six, FX's Fargo, Showtime's Fellow Travelers and Apple TV+'s Lessons in Chemistry.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See tells the story of Marie-Laure (Aria Mia Loberti), a blind teenage who flees Paris with a precious diamond.

All the Light We Cannot See.
Aria Mia Loberti and Mark Ruffalo in All the Light We Cannot See.

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As she and her father, played by Mark Ruffalo, struggle to keep the item out of Nazi hands, they take up refuge with a great-uncle, portrayed by Hugh Laurie, who illegally broadcasts messages of resistance via the radio. The radio gives way to an unexpected friendship when Marie-Laure meets Louis Hofmann's Werner, a Nazi regime radio broadcaster, whose job is to intercept messages of resistance.

All the Light We Cannot See also features a stellar acting debut from Loberti, a blind PhD student who landed the role from among the hundreds of women who auditioned.

Camila Morrone (Camila Dunne), Sam Claflin (Billy Dunne), Riley Keough (Daisy Jones), Daisy Jones and The Six - First Look
Camila Morrone, Sam Claflin and Riley Keough in Daisy Jones & The Six. Pamela Littky/Prime Video

Based on Taylor Jenkins Reid's best-selling novel of the same name, Daisy Jones and The Six details the rise and fall of a fictional '70s rock band — loosely inspired by Fleetwood Mac — revolving around Riley Keough's Daisy Jones and Sam Claflin's Billy Dunne.

Structured like a documentary, Daisy Jones & The Six sees the band members reflecting on their glory days decades after they all went their separate ways.

Keough, 34, and Claflin, 37, were also nominated for best performance by a female and male actor in a limited series, anthology series or a motion picture made for television.

Keough previously told PEOPLE that her mother Lisa Marie Presley's career was a source of inspiration for performance, explaining she was "raised by somebody who did their own thing and didn't really care what other people thought."

Juno Temple in 'Fargo' Season 5.
Juno Temple in Fargo.

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Based on the Coen brothers' revered 1996 classic, the satirical FX anthology crime series Fargo unfolds in the same universe, bringing forth new mysteries and characters each season. 

Season 5 — which takes place three years after the previous season — starts with the abduction of Juno Temple's character, a Minnesota housewife with a secret past.

Temple, 34, and Jon Hamm, who plays the preacher and sheriff, were both nominated for best female actor and male actor in a limited series, anthology series or a motion picture made for television.

This is the anthology series' fourth Golden Globe nomination; it won in 2015.

Jonathan Bailey as Tim Laughlin and Matt Bomer as Hawkins Fuller in FELLOW TRAVELERS
Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer in Fellow Travelers.

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Adapted from Thomas Mallon's novel of the same name, Fellow Travelers follows Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey's characters and their decades-long love affair.

The timeline spans from the 1950s Joseph McCarthy communist trials to the 1980s AIDS crisis — a project Bailey previously told PEOPLE was a "no-brainer" for him to do.

The limited series premiered on Showtime in October.

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Brie Larson and Lewis Pullman in Lessons in Chemistry.

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Based on the New York Times bestselling debut novel from Bonnie Garmus, Apple TV+'s Lessons in Chemistry stars Brie Larson as Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant scientist in the early 1950s who reluctantly accepts a job as a TV cooking show host after being fired from her job, all the while refusing to give up on her dream of working in a lab.

Larson, 34, who was an executive producer on the series, also received a Golden Globe nomination for best performance by a female actor in a limited series, anthology series or a motion picture made for television.

See PEOPLE's full coverage of the 81st annual Golden Globes as they're broadcasting live from The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on CBS and Paramount+.

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