Jane Fonda, 83, accepts the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes with a powerful speech

Jane Fonda accepted a prestigious lifetime achievement award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, at the Golden Globes on Sunday night.

The legendary actress, 83, used her acceptance speech to issue a powerful plea to Hollywood to acknowledge the ’emerging diversity’ of the industry. 

She centered her speech around the importance of storytelling, praising major film releases of the past year, before calling for better representation in the industry so that everyone’s story is ‘seen and heard’.

Icon: Jane Fonda accepted a prestigious lifetime achievement award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, at the Golden Globes on Sunday night and called for Hollywood to acknowledge ’emerging diversity’

The longtime activist made a thinly veiled reference to the lack of diversity in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

The group has attracted a wave of criticism this week as it was recently revealed by the Los Angeles Times that none of the association’s 87 members were Black.

In her speech, she said the industry needs to make an effort to expand ‘the groups that decide… who wins awards’.

Honoured: The legendary actress, 83, used her acceptance speech to issue a powerful plea to Hollywood to acknowledge the ’emerging diversity’ of the industry

Stylish: She centered her speech around the importance of storytelling, praising major film releases of the past year, before calling for better representation in the industry so that everyone’s story is ‘seen and heard’

She said: ‘But there’s a story we’ve been afraid to see and hear about ourselves in this industry. A story about which voices we respect and elevate – and which we tune out.

‘A story about who’s offered a seat at the table and who is kept out of the rooms where decisions are made.

‘So let’s all of us – including all the groups that decide who gets hired and what gets made and who wins awards – let’s all of us make an effort to expand that tent.’  

Plea: The longtime activist made a thinly veiled reference to the lack of diversity in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Diversity: In her speech, she said the industry needs to make an effort to expand ‘the groups that decide… who wins awards’

The Grace and Frankie actress referenced the hit BBC show I May Destroy You in her speech, after it was snubbed in the Golden Globes nominations list.

She said: ‘I May Destroy You’ has taught me to consider sexual violence in a whole new way.’

The 12-part series follows London-based writer Arabella as she comes to terms with a sexual assault after her drink was spiked at a nightclub, and was one of the summer’s most critically-acclaimed shows around the world when it aired on BBC One and HBO.

Snub: The Grace and Frankie actress also referenced the hit BBC show I May Destroy You in her speech, after it was snubbed in the Golden Globes nominations list saying it taught her to consider sexual violence ‘in a whole new way’

Jane concluded her speech calling for better leadership in order for Hollywood to lead the way in promoting diversity. 

She said: ‘I mean, doing this simply means acknowledging what’s true. 

‘Being in step with the emerging diversity that’s happening because of all those who marched and fought in the past and those who’ve picked up the baton today.

‘After all, art has always been not just in step with history, but has led the way.

‘So, let’s be leaders, OK?’

Leaders: Jane concluded her speech calling for better leadership in order for Hollywood to lead the way in promoting diversity saying: ‘After all, art has always been not just in step with history, but has led the way’

Jane Fonda’s Cecil B. DeMille Award acceptance speech in full

‘Thank you all the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. I’m — I’m so moved to receive this honor. Thank you.

‘You know, we are a community of storytellers, aren’t we? And in turbulent, crisis-torn times like these, storytelling has always been essential.

‘You see, stories have a way to… they can change our hearts and our minds. They can help us see each other in a new light. To have empathy. To recognize that, for all our diversity, we are humans first, right?

Speech: Jane Fonda accepts the Cecil B. DeMille Award onstage at the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards

‘You know, I’ve seen a lot of diversity in my long life and at times I’ve been challenged to understand some of the people I’ve met.

‘But inevitably, if my heart is open, and I look beneath the surface, I feel kinship.

‘That’s why all of the great conduits of perception – Buddha, Mohammed, Jesus, Laotzi – all of them spoke to us in stories and poetry and metaphor.

‘Because the nonlinear, non-cerebral forms that are art, speak on a different frequency.

‘They generate a new energy that can jolt us open and penetrate our defenses so that we can see and hear what we may have been afraid of seeing and hearing.

‘Just this year, ‘Nomadland’ helped me feel love for the wanderers among us. And ‘Minari’ opened my eyes to the experience of immigrants dealing with the realities of life in a new land.

‘And ‘Judas and the Black Messiah,’ ‘Small Acts,’ ‘US vs. Billie Holiday,’ ‘Ma Rainey,’ ‘One Night in Miami’ and others have deepened my empathy for what being Black has meant.

‘Ramy’ helped me feel what it means to be Muslim American.

‘I May Destroy You’ has taught me to consider sexual violence in a whole new way.

‘The documentary ‘All In’ reminds us how fragile our democracy is and inspires us to fight to preserve it.

‘And ‘A Life on Our Planet’ shows us how fragile our small blue planet is and inspires us to save it and ourselves.

‘Stories: They really, they really can change people.

‘But there’s a story we’ve been afraid to see and hear about ourselves in this industry. A story about which voices we respect and elevate – and which we tune out.

‘A story about who’s offered a seat at the table and who is kept out of the rooms where decisions are made.

‘So let’s all of us – including all the groups that decide who gets hired and what gets made and who wins awards – let’s all of us make an effort to expand that tent. So that everyone rises and everyone’s story has a chance to be seen and heard.

‘I mean, doing this simply means acknowledging what’s true. Being in step with the emerging diversity that’s happening because of all those who marched and fought in the past and those who’ve picked up the baton today.

‘After all, art has always been not just in step with history, but has led the way.

‘So, let’s be leaders, OK?

‘Thank you, thank you so much.’

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Jane looked incredible as she arrived at the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award for her lifetime of achievement.

The iconic star, 83, showed up in a tailored white pantsuit and a pair of silver heels that she pulled from her closet and still managed to win the style stakes.

Fonda had explained in an interview with daytime chat show host Ellen DeGeneres last week that she had decided to embrace her real hair colour.

Legendary: She’s stopped coloring her hair and she’s recycling her outfits – and on Sunday, Jane Fonda looked incredible as she arrived at the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills

‘I tell you, I’m so happy I let it go gray,’ she said.

‘Enough already with so much time wasted, so much money spent, so many chemicals – I’m through with that,’ she added. 

As for her fashion choice, it was a result of her pledge in 2019 to not buy any more new clothes as part of her commitment to raising awareness of climate change. 

Fabulous: The Hollywood star showed up in a tailored white pantsuit and a pair of silver heels that she pulled from her closet and still managed to win the style stakes

Natural look: Fonda explained in an interview with Ellen DeGeneres last week that she had decided to embrace her real hair color. ‘I tell you, I’m so happy I let it go gray,’ she said

She previously recycled an outfit when she attended the 2020 Academy Awards. 

Fonda told DeGeneres: ‘We spend too much money, we buy too many things, and then we get rid of them. We try to develop our identity by shopping, right? We gotta stop that – stop all this consumerism.’

She explained that for the Golden Globes, she ‘had to go through my closet and find out something that still fit me and I have worn before, And I found something. I’m all set.’

No more waste: As for her fashion choice, it was a result of her pledge in 2019 to not buy any more new clothes as part of her commitment to raising awareness of climate change

Fonda shared a behind-the-scenes look as she watched the live telecast on a screen backstage that also had a large camera attached for her Zoom appearance

This year’s Golden Globes ceremony, which usually takes place in early January, was pushed back to February 28 as Hollywood continues to adjust to the coronavirus pandemic and new safety guidelines. 

Amy Poehler and Tina Fey returned to host for the fourth time and for the first time, the Globes are being broadcast from two separate coasts. 

Fey, 50, is broadcasting from atop New York City’s Rockefeller Center in the Rainbow Room and Poehler, 49, in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the ceremony is usually held annually.

Nominees will be tuning into the ceremony remotely but presenters have been asked to appear in person.

Two venues: For the first time, the Globes will be broadcast from two separate coasts. Tina Fey is broadcasting from New York City’s Rockefeller Center and Amy Poehler from Beverly Hills  at the Beverly Hilton Hotel (pictured) where the ceremony is usually held annually

Trophy: The Golden Globe Awards are handed out to movies and television nominees by the 87-member Hollywood Foreign Press Association

The impressive list of presenters this year includes; Awkwafina, Cynthia Erivo, Annie Mumolo, Joaquin Phoenix, Kristen Wiig and Renee Zellweger, Kevin Bacon, Sterling K. Brown, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Margot Robbie, Tiffany Haddish, Anthony Anderson, Kate Hudson and Kenan Thompson.

Satchel and Jackson Lee, children of three-time Golden Globe nominated filmmaker Spike Lee and producer/philanthropist Tonya Lewis Lee, are serving as the 2021 Golden Globe Ambassadors. 

Norman Lear will be honored with the Carol Burnett Award, a counterpart to the DeMille Award that focuses on life achievement in television. The writer, director and producer is a six-time Golden Globe winner.  

Last year’s 77th Golden Globes, hosted by Ricky Gervais, averaged 19.2 million viewers, making it one of the most-watched network telecasts of 2020.

GOLDEN GLOBES 2021: THE WINNERS

 MOVIES 

Best Motion Picture, Drama

The Father

Mank

Nomadland – WINNER

Promising Young Woman

The Trial of the Chicago 7

On the road again: Nomadland won the top honor in film Best Motion Picture, Drama

 

Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm – WINNER

Hamilton

Music

Palm Springs

The Prom

 

Best Director

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman

David Fincher – Mank

Regina King – One Night in Miami

Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland – WINNER

Trailblazing: Chloe Zhao became just the second woman to win for directing in 78 years

 

Best Screenplay

Emerald Fennell – Promising Young Woman

Jack Fincher – Mank

Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller – The Father

Aaron Sorkin – The Trial of the Chicago 7 – WINNER

Chloé Zhao – Nomadland

Best Foreign Language Picture

Another Round

La Llorona

The Life Ahead

Minari – WINNER

Two of Us

 

Best Animated Picture

The Croods: A New Age

Onward

Over the Moon

Soul – WINNER

Wolfwalkers

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama

Viola Davis – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Andra Day – The United States vs Billie Holiday – WINNER

Vanessa Kirby – Pieces of a Woman

Frances McDormand – Nomadland

Carey Mulligan – Promising Young Woman

Big moment: Andra Day was the surprise winner in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama category

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama

Riz Ahmed – Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – WINNER

Anthony Hopkins – The Father

Gary Oldman – Mank

Tahar Rahim – The Mauritanian

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical

Maria Bakalova – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Kate Hudson – Music

Michelle Pfeiffer – French Exit

Rosamund Pike – I Care a Lot – WINNER

Anya Taylor-Joy – Emma

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical

Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat Subsequent Moviefilm – WINNER

James Corden – The Prom

Lin-Manuel Miranda – Hamilton

Dev Patel – The Personal History of David Copperfield

Andy Samberg – Palm Springs

Winner! Sacha Baron Cohen’s politically-charged sequel Borat Subsequent Moviefilm earned two awards

 

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

Glenn Close – Hilbilly Elegy

Jodie Foster – The Mauritanian – WINNER

Olivia Colman – The Father

Amanda Seyfried – Mank

Helena Zengel – News of the World

 

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Sacha Baron Cohen – The Trial of the Chicago 7

Daniel Kaluuya – Judas and the Black Messiah – WINNER

Jared Leto – The Little Things

Bill Murray – On the Rocks

Leslie Odom Jr – One Night in Miami

 

Best Original Score in a Motion Picture

The Midnight Sky

Tenet

News of the World

Mank

Soul – WINNER

 

Best Original Song in a Motion Picture

Judas and the Black Messiah

The Life Ahead – WINNER

One Night in Miami

The Trial of the Chicago 7

The United States vs Billie Holiday

TELEVISION 

Best Television Series, Drama

The Crown – WINNER

Lovecraft Country

The Mandalorian

Ozark

Ratched

Triumphant: The Crown nearly swept all of the dramatic television categories including Best Television Series, Drama as creator Peter Morgan accepted the award

 

Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical

Emily in Paris

The Flight Attendant

The Great

Schitt’s Creek – WINNER

Ted Lasso

 

Best Limited Series, Anthology or TV Movie

Normal People

The Queen’s Gambit – WINNER

Small Axe

The Undoing

Unorthodox

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Drama

Olivia Colman – The Crown

Jodie Comer – Killing Eve

Emma Corrin – The Crown – WINNER

Laura Linney – Ozark

Sarah Paulson – Ratched

Crowning achievement: Emma Corrin beat out her The Crown co-star Olivia Colman (Queen Elizabeth II) in the Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Drama category 

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a TV Series, Drama

Jason Bateman – Ozark

Josh O’Connor – The Crown – WINNER

Bob Odenkirk – Better Call Saul

Al Pacino – Hunters

Matthew Rhys– Perry Mason

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Comedy or Musical

Lily Collins – Emily in Paris

Kaley Cuoco – The Flight Attendant

Elle Fanning – The Great

Jane Levy – Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist

Catherine O’Hara – Schitt’s Creek – WINNER

Legend: Catherine O’Hara earned the win in the Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Comedy or Musical for her role in Schitt’s Creek

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a TV series, Comedy or Musical

Don Cheadle – Black Monday

Nicholas Hoult – The Great

Eugene Levy – Schitt’s Creek

Jason Sudeikis – Ted Lasso – WINNER

Ramy Youssef – Ramy

 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology or TV Movie

Cate Blanchett – Mrs America

Daisy Edgar-Jones – Normal People

Shira Haas – Unorthodox

Nicole Kidman – The Undoing

Anya Taylor-Joy – The Queen’s Gambit – WINNER

Checkmate: It was also a big night for Anya Taylor-Joy as she won Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology or TV Movie for The Queen’s Gambit

 

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology or TV Movie

Bryan Cranston – Your Honour

Jeff Daniels – The Comey Rule

Hugh Grant – The Undoing

Ethan Hawke – The Good Lord Bird

Mark Ruffalo – I Know This Much Is True – WINNER

 

Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series

Gillian Anderson – The Crown – WINNER

Helena Bonham Carter – The Crown

Julia Garner – Ozark

Annie Murphy – Schitt’s Creek

Cynthia Nixon – Ratched

 

Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series

John Boyega – Small Axe, “Red, White and Blue” – WINNER

Daniel Levy – Schitt’s Creek

Brendan Gleeson – The Comey Rule

Jim Parsons – Hollywood

Donald Sutherland – The Undoing

No axe to grind: The second award of the night went to John Boyega in the Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series category for his role in Small Axe “Red, White and Blue”

 

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