Last night, the 74th Golden Globe Awards premiered, bringing together Hollywood's best in film and television for a night of celebration and recognition. In order to honor one of show business's most important nights, let's take a look back at some of the most iconic and unforgettable Golden Globe moments of all-time!
1.) Julia Roberts unhinges her enormous jaw and sticks Richard Gere’s entire head in there.
Who can forget this classic moment from 1990? While the Pretty Womanduo were presenting the award for Best Motion Picture, Julia Roberts paused and looked at her co-star Richard Gere just before unhinging her enormous jaw and sticking his entire head in there. After the award show, Gere told reporters it was totally unplanned, saying “I did not know she was just gonna sort of detach her lower jaw and stick my whole head in her mouth. I don’t know how you could predict something like that.”
2.) Meryl Streep vows to murder Natalie Portman, who then disappears and is Replaced by Keira Knightley while everyone pretends not to notice.
2002 was a big year for film—the Golden Globes ballot included greats such as Hotel Rwanda, Million Dollar Baby, and The Aviator—but no one took the award ceremony more personally than Meryl Streep that year. After losing to Natalie Portman for Best Supporting Actress, Meryl followed her up to the stage, grabbed her arm and whispered in her ear “You little f*cking sh*t, I didn’t win the last two f*cking years in a row to lose to f*cking Queen Amidala. I didn’t even see your piece of sh*t movie, but I know it’s the absolute worst pile of sh*t that anyone has ever f*cking created. I am Sophie. Sophie's f*cking Choice Sophie. This movie will be your last, because I swear to God, and I mean this with absolutely no f*cking jest or exaggeration, I am going to f*cking murder you, Natalie Portman.” Meryl made good on her promise—after that night, Natalie was never seen again, and Hollywood quietly began casting Keira Knightley in roles under the name “Natalie Portman”, while everyone has pretended to not know the difference.
3.) Julianne Moore gets up to talk about her side-pony in boogie nights before accepting an award on Kim Basinger’s behalf, who was actually there.
In 1998, Julianne Moore was up for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the iconic Boogie Nights. After losing to Kim Basinger, Julianne went up to the stage and began making this unforgettable speech: “Hi guys, it’s me, Julianne Moore. I know I didn’t win! But that’s not why I’m up here. I’m up here because I want to talk about my side-ponytail hairstyle in Boogie Nights. There was this one scene where I had my hair in this kind of, like, half ponytail, half not-ponytail hairstyle. And it was on the side of my head! And I guess I just don’t really know how they did it, because there were lots of pins or something in my hair, but they were all in the back of my hair, which I couldn’t see. I just thought that was kind of cool, like what’s going on back there? How are you guys doing this wacky thing with my hair? Also, I’m accepting this award on Kim’s behalf, she is honored and says thanks to everyone who worked on L.A. Confidential, and also she says a big thanks to the guys who did my hair because seriously, it was sort of confusing! But also cool. Thank you!” As it turned out, Kim Basinger actually was there, but because she was so taken with Julianne's speech, she let her keep the award for herself.
4.) Tom Hanks publicly ridicules his son, and no one really blames him for some reason.
Tom Hanks, regarded as one of the best actors of all time, won his fourth Golden Globe in 2000 for his role in the hit movie Cast Away. During his acceptance speech, he really let his son have it: “I’d like to start out by thanking everyone who worked on this movie, the amazing cast and crew, without whom none of this would be possible. To my parents, for always encouraging me to follow my dreams as a child, to my beautiful wife Rita, but oh my God, and this part is extra important, not my f*cking son, Colin Hanks. I’m up here, winning my fourth Golden Globe, sitting on millions of dollars…like, just a few weeks ago, TIME called me one of the world’s most successful actors of all time. OF ALL TIME. I mean, my movies have made billions. I have a beautiful wife, I own multiple houses in these beautiful locations, I have everything a man could want…and then you have a kid and you think, wow, this is going to be just the thing to really complete me, to really give my life the most meaning. Well, egg on my f*cking face, because I am telling you, I really can’t stand that guy. I mean, not like there’s anything horribly wrong with him. Something about him really gets on my f*cking nerves though. There is one thing, he pees sitting down. What’s that even about? Nobody does that. I don’t know. I just look at his face sometimes and want to absolutely smash it in. Like, take a frying pan and absolutely wail on him, on his face specifically, like you’d really have to have someone strong pull me off of him because I think I’d really lose myself in something like that. He’s not even a mean guy, I just. I don’t know. I want to say it's the weird peeing thing but honestly, it feels deeper than that. Anyway. Thanks for letting me vent, you guys. It’s truly an honor to be here tonight!” Tom’s son Colin clapped politely at the end of his father’s speech, confirming everyone’s unfounded but shared suspicion that he truly is the absolute worst.
