Jan 8, 2018

#MeToo takes center stage at Golden Globes

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Photo of actresses at the Golden Globes wearing all black. — Activist Tarana Burke, actor Michelle Williams, actor America Ferrera, actor Jessica Chastain, actor Amy Poehler, actor Meryl Streep, actor Kerry Washington (front, L-R) actor Natalie Portman, activist Ai-jen Poo. Photo Frazer Harrison / Getty Images

"[W]omen take center stage at the Golden Globes ... the first major awards show of Hollywood’s #MeToo movement," by L.A. Times' Glenn Whipp:

"The procession of black dresses that began at the Beverly Hilton’s red carpet moved to the winner’s podium as films and television shows driven by women — 'Lady Bird,' 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,' 'The Handmaid’s Tale,' 'Big Little Lies' and 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' — prevailed at a ceremony marked mostly by serious speeches focusing on months of allegations and admissions of sexual harassment within Hollywood."

Host Seth Meyers: “There’s a new era underway ... and I can tell, because it’s been years since a white man was this nervous in Hollywood.”
"The evening, long marketed as the looser, less inhibited answer to the stodgy Oscars, actually felt a lot like the Academy Awards with plenty of effusive and heartfelt acceptance speeches."

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