Los Angeles- Meryl Streep took the chance to criticize U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, after receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement.
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“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,” she said.
Concluding her speech, Streep recalled what was once said to her “Take your broken heart, make it into art.”
Streep wasn’t the only one to criticize the deportation policy adopted by Trump. In his turn, Trump tweeted commenting on her “”Hillary lover”.
Streep described how much Hollywood is mixed in the meantime, more than ever. She highlighted how the city housed people of various ethics despite the diversity of political beliefs.
The Golden Globe Awards ceremony represented a stadium for the wide audience of ethics and hobbies: actors and actresses coming from Ethiopia, Britain, Canada, India and France.
In a related matter, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, remarkably, gained much attention. Co-starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, the musical earned the most wins of the night–a total of seven, breaking the record for the most Golden Globes won by a single film. It took winning Best Original Score, Best Screenplay, Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical, Best Picture (Comedy/Musical), Best Director and Best Original Song. Stone and Gosling won best actress and best actor in a musical or comedy, respectively.
Moonlight won Best Motion Picture, Drama. Casey Affleck won Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama for Manchester by the Sea.
Isabelle Huppert won Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama Elle, edging out Amy Adams, Jessica Chastain, Natalie Portman, and Ruth Negga.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson won Best Supporting Actor for his villainous turn in Nocturnal Animals.
On the TV front, Donald Glover’s FX critical juggernaut Atlanta won Best Comedy Series, while Netflix’s The Crown won Best TV Series, Drama.
Finally, Tracy Ellis Ross won Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Comedy for ABC’s Black-ish.