Oprah lights up Golden Globes

OPRAH WINFREY gave one of the most iconic speeches of all time at the 2018 Golden Globe Awards when she accepted the Cecil B DeMille Award.

The award was given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for incredible contributions to the entertainment industry.

Actress Reese Witherspoon presented the 63-yearold actress and media mogul with the honour, saying Winfrey’s hugs are “the greatest thing ever”.

Winfrey, who stars in the upcoming movie A Wrinkle In Time, delivered an impassioned monologue talking about racism, sexism and the #MeToo movement and even honoured Rosa Parks and the late civil rights icon Recy Taylor.

“It is not lost on me that, at this moment, there is some little girl watching as I become the first black woman to be given the same award,” Winfrey said in her powerful speech. “It is an honour and it is a privilege to share the evening with all of them.”

She later discussed the importance of women coming forward with their experiences of sexual assault.

“For too long women have not been heard or believed if they dare speak the truth to the power of those men,” Winfrey said. “But their time is up. Their time is up.”

After repeatedly saying “time is up”, Winfrey received a standing ovation from the audience.

The 75th Golden Globe Awards have come and gone, and will be remembered as the first major awards show to take place after Hollywood’s reckoning with sexual assault, spearheaded by the #MeToo movement.

This wasn’t lost on its guests, with many marking the new era of awareness by wearing black, inviting activists to the red carpet, or making brutal, barbed comments about the industry’s disgraced men.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was the big winner of the night. The film took home four awards.

Meanwhile, the HBO show Big Little Lies, starring Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman, also won four awards.

Many women on the red carpet chose to wear black in protest of the toxic masculine culture in Hollywood that was exposed this year.

‘For too long women haven’t been believed if they dare speak the truth’

Picture: NBC AGELESS: Kirk Douglas, 101, and Catherine Zeta Jones were presenters.

Picture: REUTERS HISTORIC: Oprah Winfrey poses backstage with her Cecil B DeMille Award.

Picture: NBC SPREADING THEIR WINGS: Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig, center, with the cast and crew of the film, won for best motion picture comedy or musical at the glitzy awards ceremony.

Picture: EPA-EFE BIG STARS: Laura Dern, Nicole Kidman, Zoe Kravitz, Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley took the award for best television limited series or motion picture made for television for Big Little Lies.

Picture: EPA-EFE PROUD: Michael Zegen, Marin Hinkle, Rachel Brosnahan and Tony Shalhoub won best television series, musical or comedy for The Marvelous Mrs Maisel

Picture: AP BEAMING: Sterling K Brown poses in the press room with the award for best performance by an actor in a television seriesdrama for This Is Us

Picture: REUTERS PRAISE: Guillermo del Toro poses backstage with the award for best director: motion picture for The Shape of Water.

Picture: AP GEARING UP: Media and crew prepare on the red carpet at the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles on Sunday.