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FROM the plus ones that made a political statement to
the stars that took socially conscious dressing one step further than
the black colour palette, here are the moments that defined the Golden Globes 2018.
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Eight actresses arrived with eight activistsMichelle Williams, Emma Watson, Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep, Shailene Woodley, Amy Poehler and Emma Stone made political statements with their plus ones. Each actress, and member of the Time’s Up initiative, was accompanied by an activist for gender and racial justice, including #MeToo founder Tarana Burke, and Billie Jean King, the tennis champion who founded the Women’s Tennis Association.In a joint statement, the eight activists said they hoped that by attending the Golden Globes, they would redirect attention from abusers to survivors: “We believe we are nearing a tipping point in transforming the culture of violence in the countries where we live and work,” the group said. “It’s a moment to transform both the written and unwritten rules that devalue the lives and experiences of women.”
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The red carpet was a sea of black as women and men rallied to support the Time’s Up movement in gowns that were about not sex, but strength, and suits that showed that this time round women really were wearing the trousers. While many gowns had to be recommissioned in black prior to the ceremony, actress Issa Rae took the dress code one step further than red-carpet solidarity and collaborated with Prabal Gurung on a liquid chiffon gown that would see portions of the sales going to the Time’s Up fund.Taking to Instagram to explain the gown choice, Gurung said: “There’s a new resolve, and it feels like even with the action points that we have with the legal defence fund, and making agencies employ more women in positions of power, that it feels like this can actually get done. So it’s more than just a colour. It’s more than just wearing black. We’re about that action.”
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Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Meher Tatna turned heads in a red gown and overcoat with striking gold embroidery – the polar opposite to the dark colour palette the rest of Hollywood adopted. “It’s a cultural thing,” the Indian journalist told Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet. “When you have a celebration, you don’t wear black.” Tatna also shared that she had chosen the ensemble with her mother, who would be watching the Golden Globes in Mumbai. “She would be appalled if I were to [have] worn black. And so this is for my mum.”
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E! came under fireCelebrities were quick to remind E! presenters Giuliana Rancic and Ryan Seacrest of the gender pay gap the satellite television channel practices, and the way it had treated Catt Sadler, the longtime host of the entertainment channel’s E! News, who left the show in December after she discovered that her male co-host, Jason Kennedy had “made close to double my salary for the past several years.”“Time is up,” Debra Messing said to Rancic. “We want diversity, we want intersectional gender parity [and] we want equal pay. I was so shocked to hear that E! doesn’t believe in paying their female co-host the same as their male co-host... I miss Catt Sadler. So we stand with her. And that’s something that can change tomorrow. We want people to start having this conversation that women are just as valuable as men.” Eva Longoria and Sarah Jessica Parker also swerved E!’s red-carpet questions to show support for Sadler.
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Oprah Winfrey accepted the Cecil B DeMille Award for lifetime achievement and delivered a rousing speech that brought the audience to their feet. "For too long women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men. But their time is up," she said to cheers.Earning her second of three ovations, the entertainment mogul continued: "I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when that new day finally dawns it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say, 'Me too' again."
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Outside the Beverly Hilton hotel, a group of women moonlighted as handmaids from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale. Holding a sign with the message “Silent No Longer” emblazoned across it, #hollywoodhandmaids soon started trending on Twitter alongside #TIMESUP.It’s not the first time women have dressed up as Atwood’s repressed characters to campaign for gender equality – in June women staged a protest outside the United States Capitol to protest a Republican health care bill that sought to defund Planned Parenthood – but the costumes were a loaded choice in comparison with the highly embellished gowns inside the ceremony.
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Portman introduced the contenders for the Best Director category with the line, "And here are the all-male nominees,” and a knowing smile. Simple, but so effective. Cue memes of the men nominated looking on awkwardly. Ouch, Portman knows how to pack a punch.
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