Statements of a political nature were dialed back as well. (The win also suggests that everyone in the HFPA was high when they voted in that category. (Regina King, who won a Globe for her excellent work in If Beale Street Could Talk, made a commitment in her acceptance speech to push for male-female parity in all of her future projects.) The fact that the top film honor of the night went to Bohemian Rhapsody - which credits Bryan Singer, who has faced allegations of rape and sexual misconduct, as director even though he was fired before production was complete - suggests that Hollywood has not made nearly as much #MeToo progress as last year implied it might. But the drumbeat around the movement was, perhaps inevitably, a bit more muted, albeit not entirely quiet. The Time’s Up movement was represented - a number of red-carpet walkers sported ribbons or bracelets that said “Time’s Up x 2,” a reference to the organization’s effort to double the number of women in leadership positions and other roles where they are underrepresented.
Still: It didn’t make for the kind of moment everyone would be talking about the next day. Last year gave us the #MeToo Golden Globes, when the launch of the Time’s Up movement took center stage and Oprah Winfrey’s impassioned DeMille Award remarks kick-started a conversation about her potentially running for president.īy contrast, this year’s DeMille speech was delivered by Jeff Bridges, who, to be very clear, is a national treasure, but who also rambled endearingly and aimlessly for several minutes, which is the reason why everyone loves Jeff Bridges. DeMille Award acceptance speech from Meryl Streep, who closed by quoting the late Carrie Fisher and encouraging her colleagues to take their broken hearts and make them into art. In 2017, we witnessed the first post-Trump-election Golden Globes and a barn burner of a Cecil B. The 2019 Globes were certainly a comedown from the previous two years. But for 75 percent of the ceremony’s three-hour-plus run time, brought to you as usual by Dick Clark Productions and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, it was mainly just boring.
The 76th annual Golden Globes Awards broadcast started out wobbly and ended with a shocker of a Best Motion Picture Drama win for Bohemian Rhapsody that sent film buffs - including, okay, me - into fits of hysterical outrage on social media. Photo: Handout/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
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