Streep trashes Trump, praises diversity
“La La Land” steamrolled through a Jimmy Fallon-hosted Golden Globes that mixed the expected, Champagne-sipping Hollywood celebration with often-voiced concern over president-elect Donald Trump.
Meryl Streep, the Cecil B. DeMille Award honoree, supplied Sunday evening’s most striking rebuke to Trump. Streep, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention, called the president-elect’s mocking of a disabled reporter the year’s performance that most “stunned her.”
Arguing for the multinational makeup of Hollywood, Streep listed off the far-flung homes of stars from Dev Patel to Ryan Gosling.
“Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if you kick them all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts,” Streep said to loud applause.
Damien Chazelle’s Los Angeles musical “La La Land,” which came in with a leading seven nominations, was winning everything it was nominated for. Chazelle won both best director and best screenplay. Gosling won best actor in a comedy or musical, Emma Stone took home the trophy for best actress in a comedy of musical, and it took best score (Justin Hurwitz) and best song for “City of Stars.”
The Beverly Hilton Hotel ceremony got off to a rocky start, with a broken teleprompter initially froze Fallon. “Cut to Justin Timberlake, please,” implored a desperately improvising Fallon. It was the second fiasco for Globes producer Dick Clark Productions, which presented the infamous Mariah Carey flub on New Year’s Eve.
The “Tonight Show” host started the show with a cold open ode to “La La Land” in a lavish sketch more typical of the Academy Awards than the Globes. Fallon did a version of the film’s opening dance scene, with starry cameos from Timberlake, previous Globes host Tina Fey, Amy Adams and the white Ford Bronco of “The People v. O.J. Simpson.”
In a more truncated monologue, Fallon’s sharpest barbs weren’t directed at the stars in the room, but at president-elect Trump. He compared Trump to the belligerent teenage king Joffrey of “Games of Thrones.” His first line (at least once the teleprompter was up) was introducing the Globes as “one of the few places left where America still honours the popular vote.”
That, though, isn’t quite true. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a collection of 85 members, has its own methods of selecting winners.
Best supporting actress winner Viola Davis, the co-star of Denzel Washington’s August Wilson adaptation “Fences,” alluded to the group’s reputation for being wined and dined.
MOTION PICTURES:
— Director, Motion Picture: Damien Chazelle, "La La Land."
— Actor, Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy: Ryan Gosling, "La La Land."
— Supporting Actor, Motion Picture: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, "Nocturnal Animals."
— Supporting Actress, Motion Picture: Viola Davis, "Fences."
— Animated Film: "Zootopia."
— Screenplay, Motion Picture: Damien Chazelle, "La La Land."
— Foreign Language Film: "Elle."
— Original Score, Motion Picture: Justin Hurwitz, "La La Land."
— Original Song, Motion Picture: "City of Stars," "La La Land."
TELEVISION:
— TV Series, Drama: "The Crown."
— Actor, TV Series, Drama: Billy Bob Thornton, "Goliath."
— Actress, TV Series, Drama: Claire Foy, "The Crown."
— TV Series, Musical or Comedy: "Atlanta."