Lily Gladstone’s Historic Golden Globes Win Gets Two Standing Ovations

On Sunday night, Lily Gladstone made history, becoming the first Native person to win best actress at the Golden Globes. The Killers of the Flower Moon star, who uses she/they pronouns, earned two standing ovations from the audience in the ballroom—first, upon receiving the award, and then once more after finishing her powerful speech.

Gladstone opened her speech in Blackfeet language to honor “a beautiful community, nation, that raised me and encouraged me to keep going—to keep doing this.” She also acknowledged her mother in the audience, revealing that although she is not Blackfeet, she “worked tirelessly to get our language into our classroom, so I had a Blackfeet language teacher growing up.”

As the New York Times notes, Gladstone is one of only two Native performers to receive an honor at the Golden Globes. The first was Irene Bedard, who received a nomination in 1995 for the TV movie Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee. During their speech, Gladstone noted that the erasure Indigenous people have faced in Hollywood goes far beyond awards shows.

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