A Golden Globes Recap

Award season is upon us! It all started with last night's Golden Globes ceremony, which featured a snooze of a host, lovely tributes to Tom Hanks and Ellen, a Brad and Jen reunion (that one was just in my head...) and very few drunk speeches. Here's a rundown of some of the most noteworthy moments of the night:

How do you solve a problem like Ricky?: We could just not invite him to host things? Has anyone considered that? Instead of providing any sort of commentary about how Ricky Gervais' boring, IDGAF energy made this year's Globes drag, I’m going to compile a list of people already in the audience who would have done a better job: Tiffany Haddish, Kate McKinnon, Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Eddie Murphy to name a few…

”I’m about that women’s choice!”: An enthusiastic response from the wonderful Tiffany Haddish, after award winner Michelle Williams used her time onstage to give a powerful speech about how a woman’s right to choose allowed her to make the best decisions for her life. Busy sat in the audience and wept, as any good best friend would.

Speaking of tears...: Kate McKinnon made me cry in her touching tribute to Ellen Degeneres, who was given the Carol Burnett Award at last night’s ceremony. Tom Hanks, who received the Cecil B. DeMille Award, got choked up several times while thanking his family and the crowd for their support and then made a very Tom Hanks speech about the importance of the acting trade and showing up on time.

Celebrities, they’re just like us: Brian Cox’s wife had her cell phone out to record her husband’s speech at the ceremony, and it was the cutest thing in the world.

Nobody puts Beyoncé in the corner!: Someone tricked Beyoncé into coming to this award show. As soon as she entered the room, the camera continued to cut to her for a reaction shot to everything, and then she lost her award category and didn’t even get to present??

Short & sweet: In one of the most succinct and meaningful speeches of the evening, Parasite writer and director Bong Joon Ho made a pitch for foreign language films: “Once you overcome the one inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.”

Required Reading

As women were missing from the Best Directors category yet again at this year's Golden Globes ceremony, it's important to recognize that while award shows might now always recognize the work of female directors, their presence is still growing. According to a new study from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, the number of top-grossing films directed by women reached new highs in 2019. Some of the reason for this success? According to a Variety article about the study, "Female filmmakers have been getting more chances to screen their work at prominent festivals, such as Sundance, and have been given more opportunities to work on television and on streaming services such as Netflix. That’s raising their profiles and making it harder for big studios to claim, as they have in the past, that there aren’t as many female filmmakers with the resumes needed to tackle big-budget narrative features." To keep the empowerment going Bustle put together a look at the women who pioneered the film industry, highlighting the work of Maria Williams, Alice Guy-Blaché and others for breaking barriers in Hollywood. Now it would be great if we could make sure we're actually recognizing women for their work...