What if you held a social protest and an awards show broke out? That’s what happened tonight at the 75th annual Golden Globe awards. The pre-show red carpet was a somber affair as women chose the moment to share with a global audience the unprecedented awakening of a decades-old pattern of sexual assault and harassment perpetrated against women in the film and TV business. The theme carried over to the Globes the way #OscarsSoWhite did two years ago during the Academy Awards, with mentions throughout of the #MeToo movement and female empowerment, from ad-libs to forceful speeches from Cecil B. DeMille Award winner Oprah Winfrey and more.
Here’s how we called the action Sunday:
Deadline’s Golden Globes Live Blog: How It All Went Down
By Nellie Andreeva, Mike Fleming Jr, Dominic Patten
What if you held a social protest and an awards show broke out? That’s what happened tonight at the 75th annual Golden Globe awards. The pre-show red carpet was a somber affair as women chose the moment to share with a global audience the unprecedented awakening of a decades-old pattern of sexual assault and harassment perpetrated against women in the film and TV business. The theme carried over to the Globes the way #OscarsSoWhite did two years ago during the Academy Awards, with mentions throughout of the #MeToo movement and female empowerment, from ad-libs to forceful speeches from Cecil B. DeMille Award winner Oprah Winfrey and more.
Here’s how we called the action Sunday:
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