Lily Gladstone at the 2024 Golden Globes.Photo:CBS
CBS
The 2024Golden Globeshave made history with their winner for best actress in a motion picture - drama.
Lily Gladstone(Killers of the Flower Moon),Carey Mulligan(Maestro), Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall),Annette Bening(Nyad),Greta Lee(Past Lives) andCailee Spaeny(Priscilla) were all in the running for the prize — and Gladstone walked away with the award.
“I love everyone in this room. I don’t have words,” she said. “I just spoke a bit of Blackfeet language, a beautiful community nation that raised me, that encouraged me to keep going, keep doing this here with my mom, who, even though she’s not Blackfeet, worked tirelessly to get our language into our classroom so I had a Blackfeet language teacher growing up.”
Gladstone, 37, continued, “I’m so grateful that I can speak even a little bit of my language, which I’m not fluent in, up here because, in this business, Native actors used to speak their lines in English and then the sound mixers would run them backwards to accomplish Native languages on camera.”
From there, the actress explained: “This [win] is a historic one. It doesn’t belong to just me. I’m holding it right now. I’m holding it with all my beautiful sisters in the film at this table over here and my mother, Tantoo Cardinal, standing on all of your shoulders. Thank you.”
Gladstone then gave thanks to director and co-writerMartin Scorsese, as well as costarsLeonardo DiCaprioandRobert De Niro, for “changing things” in this industry. “Thank you for being such allies. Thank you,” she said.
“So thank you all so much,” she concluded.
Gladstone also starred in this year’sThe Unknown Country, for which she earned aGotham Award, and appeared in episodes ofBillionsandReservation Dogs.
Gladstone was among many dramatic actresses who gave noteworthy performances in 2023, includingMaestro’s Mulligan.
Carey Mulligan in “Maestro”.Jason McDonald/Netflix
Jason McDonald/Netflix
Golden Globe nominators recognized Netflix’sMaestro, theLeonard Bernsteinbiopic from director, co-writer and starBradley Cooper, for best motion picture drama, Cooper’s direction and acting, as well as Mulligan’s performance as Felicia Montealegre Bernstein.
The 38-year-old Oscar nominee also appears in this year’sSaltburn, Golden Globe-nominated for its starsBarry KeoghanandRosamund Pike. This year’s Globes marks Mulligan’s fourth nomination total, after 2010’sAn Education, 2021’sPromising Young Womanand last year’sShe Said.
Sandra Hüller in “Anatomy of a Fall”.Madman Films
Madman Films
Hüller, a newcomer to the Golden Globes, hails from Germany, where she’s led films like 2006’sRequiemand 2016’sToni Erdmann.Anatomy of a Fall, from director and co-writer Justine Triet, is a French courtroom drama in which Hüller, 45, plays a woman who may or may not have murdered her husband at their snowy chalet.
This year the Los Angeles Film Critics Association honored Hüller with their best actress prize — recognizing bothAnatomy of a Falland the Jonathan Glazer Holocaust filmThe Zone of Interest, in which she plays Hedwig Höss, the real-life wife of an Auschwitz concentration camp commandant. (She tied for that honor withEmma StoneofPoor Things.)
Annette Bening in “Nyad”.Liz Parkinson/Netflix
Liz Parkinson/Netflix
The category’s most decorated nominee, Bening, 65, earned her 10th Golden Globe nod forNyad. Of those, she won the best lead actress in a comedy or musical prize twice, for 2005’sBeing Juliaand 2011’sThe Kids Are All Right.
Netflix’sNyad, from directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, retells the real-life story of marathon swimmerDiana Nyad’s attempts to cross the dangerous waters of the Gulf of Mexicofrom Cuba to Florida. It costarsJodie Foster, nominated for supporting actress at the 2024 Golden Globes, as Nyad’s coachBonnie Stoll.
Greta Lee in “Past Lives”.A24
A24
Lee’s first-time Golden Globe recognition for A24’sPast Livesis one of many nominations for theMorning Showactress, 40. In December, she took home a special Critics Choice Association award for her heart-wrenching work as South Korean expat Nora Moon.
Cailee Spaeny in “Priscilla”.Sabrina Lantos/A24
Sabrina Lantos/A24
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