Best Moments from the 2021 Golden Globe Awards
Last night's half-virtual, half-regular Golden Globes were filled with technical gaffes, historic wins, and awkward moments, but throughout the chaos, your favorite celebrities showed up, both digitally and in-person, to celebrate 2020's best of film and television in their chicest red carpet glamour. To recap the evening, L'OFFICIEL takes you through some of the show's best fashion creations, as well as some of the sweetest, saddest, and funniest moments of the night.
Starting off the evening, hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler came right out of the gate taking shots at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and their absence of black journalists, as well as nominated shows like Emily in Paris—which has come under fire recently for giving HFPA members a free luxury trip to Paris to visit the set—and Sia's controversial film Music. The comedians didn't hold back, nor were they deterred from pointing out Don Cheadle's hurrying along of a hoodie-clad Jason Sudeikis during his long speech for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series (Musical or Comedy).
Some exciting, light-hearted moments of the night included Jamie Lee Curtis calling Jodie Foster her "bestie" when announcing her win for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture for The Mauritanian. In her speech, she thanked NFL star Aaron Rodgers, following the media frenzy over him thanking her in his acceptance speech for his NFL MVP award. Other comedic moments included Kenan Thompson and Maya Rudolph's bit as a fake music duo and Tracey Morgan mispronouncing Soul as "Sal" when annonucing the winner of Best Motion Picture (Animated).
As for the big wins, Chloe Zhao and her film Nomadland won the awards for Best Director and Best Motion Picture (Drama). She first Asian-American woman to win the Golden Globe for Best Director, and only the second woman to ever win the award after Barbra Streisand's win for Yentl. Josh O'Connor and Emma Corrin both won for their roles as Prince Charles and Princess Diana in The Crown, while Anya Taylor-Joy and The Queen's Gambit also snagged awards in the show's two nominated categories.
Near the end of the evening, Chadwick Boseman's widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, accepted his posthumous award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama) for his role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. In her emotional speech, she thanked his cast and crew while trying to honor her late husband's memory. She said, "[Chadwick] would say something beautiful. Something inspiring. Something that would amplify that little voice inside of us that tells you you can, that tells you to keep going, that calls you back to what you are meant to be doing at this moment in history.”
