Last night's Globes set a new record, by giving La La Land a clean 7 for 7 sweep, making it the biggest Golden Globes winning movie of all time. Get that, folks? OF ALL TIME. This movie is so great, nothing else deserves to beat it in any category! That's complete bullshit of course, since it's a movie I think we'll be talking about five years from now about as much as anyone talks about 2011's The Artist these days, but forget all that. It doesn't really matter. What matters is the incredible speech that Meryl Streep gave when she accepted her Cecil B. DeMille award for lifetime achievement. It mattered because SHE knows what really matters in the midst of this crazy awards season, and that's the national tragedy that took place and the horror show we will all be facing in just a matter of days. Taking the pile of human garbage to task without ever saying his name, she gave a passionate defense of the arts, of empathy, of basic human decency in the face of a man who has none. And of course he took the bait, commenting within hours and tweeting about her "attacks" in the early morning as per usual. But this is how we need to all stand up and resist. Use your public platform for what matters. And don't be fooled by people calling out "liberal Hollywood elites" or whatever nonsense they spew- that argument doesn't work when you voted for reality TV star who's OBSESSED with celebrity to be the leader of the free world, does it? For shame.
2016 Golden Globe Winners:
- Best Drama: Moonlight
- Best Actress in a Drama: Isabelle Huppert, Elle
- Best Actor in a Drama: Casey Affleck, Manchester By the Sea
- Best Comedy/Musical: La La Land
- Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical: Emma Stone, La La Land
- Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical: Ryan Gosling, La La Land
- Best Supporting Actor: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals
- Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, Fences
- Best Director: Damian Chazelle, La La Land
- Best Screenplay: La La Land
- Best Score: La La Land
- Best Song: “City of Stars,” La La Land
- Best Animated Film: Zootopia
- Best Foreign-Language Film: Elle
Meryl's speech:
