Hours later,Conclaveand Straughan were honored when the film was awarded Best Screenplay at the Globes.

That’s always been a difficult balance and it has to constantly go through this."

I stand by it, as an admittedly lapsed Catholic."

Peter Straughan attends the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 05, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California, Ralph Fiennes stars as Cardinal Lawrence in director Edward Berger’s CONCLAVE, Megyn Kelly visits SiriusXM Studios on February 29, 2024 in New York City

Peter Straughan; Ralph Fiennes in ‘Conclave’; and Megyn Kelly.Credit:Kevin Mazur/Getty; Courtesy of Focus Features; Dia Dipasupil/Getty

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“It wasn’t sentimental.

It showed fallibility; it showed doubt; it showed the humanness,” Fiennes observed.

Peter Straughan accepts the award for Screenplay - Motion Picture at the 82nd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 05, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California

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The big question is: Who is worthy?

Who is the right person to become Pope?

Who will have the spiritual foundation and integrity to hold that position?"

(L to R) Ralph Fiennes as Cardinal Lawrence and Stanley Tucci as Cardinal Bellini in director Edward Berger’s CONCLAVE, a Focus Features release.

Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci.Courtesy of Focus Features

“I am just one pure ball of gratitude squeezed into a borrowed tux,” he began.

“Thank you to Robert Harris for writing a gift of a book.

A third of this is yours.

Edward Berger, dream director, you get a third of this.

Holding up the statuette, he joked, “you could borrow this any weekend you want.”