The Best Moments at the 2023 Golden Globes
After a year off due to various controversies, the Golden Globes made their glamorous return last night. Hosted by comedian Jerrod Carmichael, who did not hold back in his opening monologue, the show proceeded with business as normal.
Here were T&C's five favorite moments of the 2023 Golden Globes.
1. Michelle Yeoh's entire acceptance speech
Our September 2022 cover star Michelle Yeoh had the best speech of the night when she won for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy.
Yeoh began, "I’m just going to stand here and take this all in. Forty years, not letting go of this."
She started to speak about her career, "As time went by — I turned 60 last year. And I think all of you women understand this as the days, the years, and the numbers get bigger, it seems like opportunities start to get smaller as well... Then along came the best gift, Everything Everywhere All at Once."
As music started to play Yeoh her off, she said to the piano player, "Shut up, please. I can beat you up." She thanked her co-stars and directors the Daniels (a.k.a. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), before ending, "This is also for all the shoulders that I stand on, all who came before me who looks like me, and all who are going on this journey with me forward. So thank you for believing in us. Thank you. Thank you so much."
2. Ke Huy Quan's emotional speech
Yoeh's costar, Ke Huy Quan, also gave a beautiful speech, kicking off the evening. Quan said, "When I started my career as a child actor in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, I felt so very lucky to have been chosen. As I grew older, I started to wonder if that was it, if that was just luck. For so many years, I was afraid I had nothing more to offer. No matter what I did, I would never surpass what I achieved as a kid."
He continued, "Thankfully more than 30 years later, two guys thought of me. They remembered that kid, and they gave me an opportunity to try again. Everything that has happened since has been unbelievable."
2. The Banshees of Inisherin's Jenny the Donkey gets major shoutouts
Colin Farell won Best Actor in a Musical Comedy for his role in dark Irish comedy The Banshees of Inisherin. "To work on this film, I never expect films to work or to find an audience and when they do, it's shocking to me," Farrell said. "I'm horrified by what's happened around Banshees over the last couple of months, in a thrilling kind of way."
A highlight of his speech? His shoutout to co-star Jenny the donkey. "Lastly, Jenny the donkey who is having an early retirement because fuck the the film business!" Farrell said. (In an earlier interview, Farrell joked to Empire "Jenny was tricky. It was her first film, but she acted like it was her 100th. She was kind of over it. Kind of jaded.")
Later in the evening, when Martin McDonagh won for Best Screenplay, he, too, thanked Jenny the donkey (and Minnie the horse), beginning his speech talking about her. "I was hoping Jenny might have been nominated tonight, but she’s a female donkey and it’s the Globes, so..." he jokes.
3. Rihanna appears!
After skipping the red carpet, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky quietly snuck into the ceremony ahead of the Best Original Song category. (Rihanna lost to RRR smash "Naatu Naatu.") Yet, Rihanna is Rihanna and her appearance—her first major event since the Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever red carpet in October.
Rihanna wore a custom Schiaparelli gown and jewelry from Cartier and Reza, and though she wasn't on the carpet, she absolutely made our best dressed list. She is set to perform at the Super Bowl Halftime show in just under a month.
4. Jerrod Carmichael's outfit changes
Host Jerrod Carmichael wore not one, not two, but seven different looks throughout the course of the evening. And he looked fantastic in all of them.
Never let them tell you men's fashion is boring.
5. Jennifer Coolidge, queen of Monaco, thanks Mike White, who gets emotional and drunk
The White Lotus star had two speeches during the evening—during a presentation of an award, and during her acceptance speech. Both were rambling and wonderful, full of little tidbits and Coolidge's clear joy at the evening and gratitude to Mike White.
In her acceptance speech, she talks about thinking she was going to be Queen of Monaco (Monaco has no queen, only a reigning prince and princess: Prince Albert and Princess Charlene), and how her neighbors are talking to her again.
Though she may not be in season three of The White Lotus, she is definitely having her moment now.
When Mike White appeared, he shared he was too drunk to give his speech in Italian—and so emotional over Jennifer Coolidge's speech, so it was brief and funny. He told the audience, "I know you all passed on this show so it's very gratifying to have this moment." Go Mike White!
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