By Samantha Nikkol Bertis
Outstanding awards with outstanding recipients. That was what the Golden Globes Awards Ceremony was about, but it took itself even further above its heights this year to present it to many amazing women.
To start, the Golden Globes has never seen this many women as recipients of so many awards before, no less women of color. The list was different and diverse from what many people expected, and they shocked many with the results. Award winners like Lily Gladstone, who won Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, were showcased, and many celebrated her win since she was the first Native American and Indigenous person to win at the Golden Globes.
There were, of course, more winners, like Ayo Edebiri, who won Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy, and Ali Wong, who won Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television. They have been highlighted and talked about ever since the Golden Globes Awards Ceremony, and people have been waiting for even more of their works.
But despite all the winners bringing home trophies this year, others cannot forget the nominees. It is even more delightful to know that, despite not winning, it is important to highlight and talk about the performances of the nominees this year. From Margot Robbie, who was nominated for Best Performance in a Motion Picture—Musical or Comedy—to Danielle Brooks, who was nominated for Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture.
Many more women received such accolades and awards this year, not only in the Golden Globes but also in more award shows and ceremonies. And because of them, the experiences shown on screen seem to reflect our ways of living much more. It leads more people to be inspired and do the same. It occurs to some who fall in love with the stories of the award winners that there can be more to almost anything.
When so many wonderful performances and works are done within a year by so many talented women, it becomes apparent that care is put into so many of the things that we love on TV. It becomes clear to us that the performances that reach our hearts and the effort put into the stories that we consume are made by people who look like more of us.
It shows the untold side of so many women who wish to know that there are people like them, who speak like them, who eat like them, and who do so many things as they do on such a big screen. It speaks for those who do not have voices and those who cannot articulate their own. It has taught others that it is important that we know others exist and live in the same world as them but are different from them in every single aspect. Because that is what makes us innately human from the very start.