viernes, febrero 14

Lily Gladstone becomes the first Indigenous person to win the Golden Globe for Best Actress

In a historic triumph, Lily Gladstone became the first Indigenous person to win the Golden Globe for best actress, a spokesperson for the awards organization said.

Gladstone played Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman whose family members are murdered as part of a plot to take their fortune, in Martin Scorsese’s «Killers of the Flower Moon.» Gladstone, whose heritage is Blackfeet and Nez Perce, is only the second Indigenous actress to receive recognition at the Globes: Irene Bedard was nominated in 1995 for “Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee,” a TV movie.

After an ovation, Gladstone, overwhelmed, pronounced a few lines in the language of the Blackfeet, “the beautiful national community that raised me, that encouraged me to continue, to continue doing this,” he said. she explained in English. She also thanked her director and co-stars, including Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, then dedicated the award to «every little kid on the ground floor» who had a dream.

Here is his speech:

“I love everyone in this room right now, thank you. I have no words. I just spoke a little of the language of the Blackfeet, the beautiful national community that raised me, that encouraged me to continue, to continue doing this. To my mother, who, although not Blackfoot, worked tirelessly to introduce our language into our classroom. So I had a Blackfoot language teacher growing up.

“…I’m so grateful to be able to speak even a little bit of my language, which I don’t speak fluently enough here, because in this business the indigenous actors would say their lines in English and the sound mixers would do them turn upside down. to perform indigenous languages ​​on camera. This is a historical question. It doesn’t just belong to me. I’m holding him right now, holding him with all my step sisters from the movie and my mom (in the movie), Tantoo Cardinal.

“…Thank you, thank you Marty, thank you Leo, thank you Bob. You all change things. Thank you for being such allies. Thank you, Eric (Roth, the co-writer), thank you to Chief Standing Bear…and to the Osage Nation.

“…It’s for every little rural child, every little urban child, every little indigenous child who has a dream, who sees themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves in our own words with amazing allies and a immense trust with each other. . Thank you all.

It is unclear whether Gladstone is the first Indigenous person to win a Globe overall. Singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, who says she was born to an Indigenous woman, won a Golden Globe in 1983 for the song «Up Where We Belong» from the film «An Officer and a Gentleman.» But his legacy has recently been challenged.