The Golden Globes honor the best in film and American television of 2016 and the 74th aired this year on January 8. This year’s Golden Globes, hosted by Jimmy Fallon, held a lot of messages about recent events we as a country have experienced, as well as more to come. To recap the events of the Golden Globes, a speech was given followed by a heavy discussion as it indirectly targeted president-elect Donald Trump.
Meryl Streep gave a speech following after her win for the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes to call out the president-elect for mocking a disabled New York Times reporter back in 2015. Many critics and commentators criticized Meryl Streep’s decision to bring politics into the award show, but the audience disagreed and applauded her for her speech.
For those of you who didn’t have a chance to hear her speech during the Golden Globes, here is Meryl Streep’s speech:
Please sit down. Thank you. I love you all. You’ll have to forgive me. I’ve lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this weekend. And I have lost my mind sometime earlier this year, so I have to read.
Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh Laurie said: You and all of us in this room really belong to the most vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it: Hollywood, foreigners and the press.
But who are we, and what is Hollywood anyway? It’s just a bunch of people from other places. I was born and raised and educated in the public schools of New Jersey..
Viola was born in a sharecropper’s cabin in South Carolina, came up in Central Falls, Rhode Island; Sarah Paulson was born in Florida, raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica Parker was one of seven or eight kids in Ohio. Amy Adams was born in Vicenza, Italy. And Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, raised in London — no, in Ireland I do believe, and she’s here nominated for playing a girl in small-town Virginia.
Ryan Gosling, like all of the nicest people, is Canadian, and Dev Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, and is here playing an Indian raised in Tasmania. So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. And if we kick them all out you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.