The Seven Best Ladies of the Globes
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 8:00AM Chris here with a post-Globes actress love hangover. Sorry boys, but unless your name was Denzel, you didn't do much during the ceremony to win our attention. Here are the seven women who won the evening (and we're not even talking best dressed yet. In no particular order, except for this golden girl.
Let's hear it for Brie Larson! After earning accolades for Room and keeping her social media game on point, she's finally got a big prize to set her apart from tough competition. Add in a charming speech where she credited the Room team above and below the line (including best friend Jacob Tremblay), and we've got the once-supposed frontrunner securing that status for real.
Oh and speaking of that winning speech...
Team Experience waits patiently by the mailbox.
And on to "Cookie" because The Globes aren't only about the booze.
Taraji P. Henson made sure everyone had a little treat to go along with their toast of her Best Actress win for her flamboyant role as Empire's Cookie Lyon. She filled time in that long walk from the TV tables by passing out... cookies, natch! Once on stage, she defied the teleprompter.
I waited twenty years for this. You gon' wait."
Yes, ma'am!
The evening had it's share of surprise wins, kicking off early with a Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture win for Kate Winslet in Steve Jobs. The ebulliently surprised actress wasn't the last one to be clearly overwhelmed by an unexpected win: Crazy Ex'Girlfriend's Rachel Bloom delightfully blew the roof off the Hollywood Hilton and Lady Gaga was having a moment when she won for American Horror Story: Hotel and sincerely expressed her gratitude. Maura Tierney however kept her chill.
Throughout the night, though, Jane Fonda was all of us:
Or.... maybe the guy next to her was all of us.
Regardless, goddess Fonda was there to do three things, none of which were to give a shit. Three things:
- Have champagne.
- Be nominated.
- Be flawless.
Of course, our favorite galpals gave good gif.
Jennifer walked away with the Best Leading Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical/Comedy, but the real winners of the night were anyone seated at A Schu and J Law's table.
And at the end of the evening, God arrived to give an award to somebody or other though Her presence is reward enough
Reader Comments (25)
* orson welles furiously clapping gif *
this post is everything i most love about TFE. thank you, good sir.
The guy sitting next to Fonda looks an awful lot like Lawrence Weingarten, a producer who received an Honorary Oscar in 1974. But the guy died in 1977! He was presented with his Oscar by Katharine Hepburn: her only appearance ever at the Academy Awards. Does anyone know for sure who the gentlemanwith Fonda guy is?
I don't think it is the dead guy. Has to be somebody else hopefully. I hope that helped
Jane's beau if Richard Perry, music producer. FONDA IS FLAWLESS!
Lol I love that pose by Taraji
I was living for Fonda's Pagliacci realness.
I'm happy for Brie but sad that Julianne is no longer the reigning best actress. She still got that Oscar reign going though.
Ugh, Amy Schumer. No coronation there, thank God.
Why can't everyone win like Brie Larson, forever and ever amen?
As I can't watch any awards ceremony myself, I am very thankful for every single article about them. And when they are so fantastic as this one, I don't miss watching it myself at all. Thank you!
"The real winners of the night were anyone seated at A Schu and J Law's table."
You could not pay me enough to endure that torture. They were both totally obnoxious on stage, and Lawrence continued her classlessness after receiving her award. I'm sick of both of them getting lavished with praise every time they leave the house.
I really wish that vulgarity would stop being mistaken for humor and wit.
Do you think Taraji's cookies were leftover from the Emmys?
Vulgarity? Classlessness? Wow.
Er, just to be clear, the "Lynn" who just posted above is NOT me (Lynn Lee).
Those are appropriate words, paco, as in the opposite of "tasteful" and "classy," whether one likes the self-presentation of the two BFF stars or not.
YASSS BRIE!
I hope the speeches are more polished for the Oscars, though.
Can Fonda break into the S/Actress line up.
So happy for Brie L. Loved A Schu and J Law double act. An audition for hosting duties? The big winner of the night for me was dresses with pockets. Yes!!
Jane should have been up there presenting. And why the hell has she not won the DeMille Award yet? UGH.
Love Brie. She was glamorous and fairly natural. Agree with Lynn about Lawrence and Schumer. There is something about them together that is very off-putting. I don't find them funny or even vaguely interesting anymore.
Am I the only one who felt Henson' speech was indulgent and entitled? If she was a veteran like Jane Fonda or Lily Tomlin, she could say that she deserved to talk over the music, but all I was thinking was Gervais' comment from earlier: "This award doesn't mean as much to anyone else as it does to you".
I was so thankful fr the dignity, poise, sincerity and empathy of Brie Larson.
The fact that I love Schumer and J-Law doesn't prevent me from acknowledging they're quite vulgar. It's ok. Variety is good.
I thought Taraji was OTT, but I totally agreed with her.
I'm not a huge Jlaw fan, but I don't think there was anything "classless" about her speech after she won?? She was pretty gracious.
peggy sue -- agreed. i love me some amy schumer and it aint cuz she's "classy"
travis -- but Taraji is a veteran. i mean not an *old* veteran but she's been working regularly, without much in the way of honors (though there was that errant oscar nomination), for nearly 20 years without this kind of recognition.
Taraji is ratchet as usual.