‘Our new North Star’ lights up the stage
Drama and inspiration unfold minute by minute
The 75th Golden Globe Awards begin the race to the Oscars March 4, with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association honoring 2017’s best in movies and TV.
Here’s a minute-by-minute breakdown (ET) of Sunday night’s festivities in Beverly Hills, hosted by Seth Meyers. 10:27: Shocking no one, HBO’s Big
Little Lies takes home best limited series — its fourth Globe win of the night. “This show is so much about the life that we present to the world could be very different than the life we live behind closed doors. I want to thank everyone who broke their silence this year and spoke up about abuse and harassment,” says star and producer Reese Witherspoon. “People out there who are feeling silenced by harassment discrimination (and) abuse, time is up. We see you, we hear you and we will tell your stories.”
10:18: Presenter Natalie Portman throws some shade by pointing out that the best-director field is all men, and Guillermo del Toro wins for The Shape of
Water. “Since childhood, I have been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters I believe are patron saints of our blissful imperfection,” the tearful filmmaker says. “For 25 years I have crafted very strange little tales of emotion, color, life and shadow, and in three precise instances, these fables have saved my life.” He won’t be played off, though: “It’s taken 25 years. Give me a minute,” del Toro says, laughing. “I thank you, my monsters thank you, and somewhere Lon Chaney is smiling upon all of us.”
10:03: Witherspoon introduces Oprah Winfrey, recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award and “the only person whose name is a verb, an adjective and a feeling.” After a standing ovation, Winfrey tells of being a child in 1964 watching Anne Bancroft presenting at the Academy Awards and Sidney Poitier winning an Oscar. “I had never seen a black man being celebrated like that,” she says. “It is not lost on me that there are some little girls” watching her win the same award as Poitier. She points out the value of a free press: “More than ever before as we try to navigate these complicated times, what I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we have.” Winfrey also mentions the sexual harassment problem as one that “transcends” culture, geography and the workplace: “All the women who’ve endured years of abuse, they like my mother had children to feed, bills to pay and dreams to pursue.” Her message to male abusers of power? “Their time is up.”
9:57: Aziz Ansari wins best actor in a TV comedy or musical for Master of
None: “I’m glad we won this one. It would have sucked to lose two in a row. The only reason I’m good in that show is everyone holds me up all the time.” 9:54: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is named best TV comedy or musical. Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino thanks “her murderer’s row” of actors and star Rachel Brosnahan, “half human and half Tolkien character.”
9:46: Ewan McGregor takes home best actor in a limited series for Fargo. “I’ve always loved being an actor and loved hanging out with actors,” he says, mentioning co-stars Carrie Coon, David Thewlis and Michael Stuhlbarg.
9:41: The German movie In the Fade wins the Globe for best foreign language
film. Director Fatih Akin kisses his actress Diane Kruger’s cheek and says, “This is yours.” 9:35: Three Billboards Outside Ebb
ing, Missouri wins best screenplay for writer/director Martin McDonagh. “It’s my mother’s birthday tomorrow, and she likes this sort of thing,” he says. “Even though I think she wanted Lady
Bird to win.”
9:28: I, Tonya standout Allison Janney pulls off a major win over Laurie Metcalf for best supporting actress in a film. She says co-star Margot Robbie “set the bar for everyone” and thanks Tonya Harding, who’s in the audience, “for sharing her story.”
9:21: Pixar’s Coco wins for best animated movie, and director Lee Unkrich pays tribute to the film’s inspirations, the holiday of Dia de los Muertos and the “beautiful people of Mexico.”
9:17: Laura Dern gets the third win for HBO’s Big Little Lies, nabbing supporting actress in a limited series. She connects her “terrified” mother character, who’s worried about a bullied daughter, to women’s struggles with harassment. “Many of us were taught not to tattle. It was a culture of silence, and it was normalized. May we teach our children that speaking out without the fear of retribution is our new North Star.” 9:08: The Disaster Artist star James Franco wins best actor in a comedy or musical and calls up the man he plays in the movie, The Room filmmaker Tommy Wiseau. “I’m very happy to share this moment with him,” Franco says, also calling out his brother/co-star Dave: “I love him more than anything. Thank you to my mother for giving him to me.”