The Most Political Golden Globes Moments
Things got political during the 74th Golden Globe Awards, with many of the recipients making bold speeches. Hugh Laurie, who won Best Supporting Actor for The Night Manager, jokingly said, “I suppose it’s made more amazing by the fact that I’ll be able to say I won this at the last-ever Golden Globes. I don’t mean to be gloomy. It’s just that it has the words “Hollywood,” “Foreign,” and “Press” in the title.”
Byron Howard accepted the Best Animated Feature Film award for Zootopia, and said, “We wanted Zootopia to be a film that not only entertained kids but also spoke to adults about embracing diversity, even when there are people in the world who want to divide us by using fear.”
Meryl Streep’s acceptance speech for the Cecil B. DeMille Award was the most politically charged of the night. She spoke out against President-elect Donald Trump’s mocking of a disabled reporter. She said, “The person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter. … It kind of broke my heart when I saw it. I still can’t get it out of my head, because it wasn’t in a movie. It was real life.”
Streep asked the public to condemn hateful acts. She explained, “And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybody’s life, because it kind of gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect. Violence incites violence. And the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.”
The 74th Golden Globe Awards aired on NBC.
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