Viral moments from the Golden Globes: Tom Hanks grimaces at Ricky Gervais’ attack on Hollywood
- A few eyebrows were raised after Ricky Gervais lambasted Hollywood for its excess and smugness in his monologue
- When Tom Hanks visibly reacted to Gervais’ comments it sent social media into a frenzy
The 77th Golden Globe Awards may be over, but social media – Twitter, YouTube and Instagram – is still abuzz with reaction to the Sunday event, from the stars and their fans. Here are four of those viral moments.
Awkwafina thanks grandmother
Nora Lum, known professionally by her rapper handle Awkwafina, made history on Sunday becoming the first actress of Asian descent to win a best actress Golden Globe. In her speech, she thanked her family. “I’d like to dedicate this to my dad, Wally. I told you I’d get a job, Dad. [And] to my grandma, my best friend, the woman who raised me.”
The moment for Awkwafina that went viral actually took place after the speech when the actress was snapped FaceTiming her father and showing off her award. We’re not crying, you’re crying.
Ricky Gervais invents the “protest cringe”, somehow still doing this
Having now hosted the Golden Globes for five years running, Ricky Gervais has got his “I’d rather be anywhere else” persona down to an art. That, or as is obviously the case, he would in fact rather be anywhere else. His moral fatigue aside, Gervais did manage to deliver a cringe-inducing indictment of Hollywood excess and smugness posing as an opening monologue that will go down in history. Promising this was the last time he would be hosting, Gervais closed his monologue saying: “if you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world. Most of you spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. So if you win, come up, accept your little award, thank your agent, and your God and f*** off, OK?”