Last year it was Mery Streep who left an intense speech on the stage of the Golden Globes, in which he directly alluded to American President Donald Trump. This year, the vindication challenge has been left by the television presenter and businesswoman Ophra Winfrey, when she collected the Cecil B. DeMille award, which was awarded to her at the 75th edition of the awards given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Winfrey started with a couple of personal anecdotes: "In 1964, I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my mother's house in Milwaukee watching Anne Bancroft present the Oscar for best actor at the 36th Academy Awards. She opened the envelope and said five words that literally made history: "The winner is Sidney Poitier." The most elegant man I have ever remembered came on stage. His tie was white, his skin was black, and they were celebrating him. a black man being celebrated like that. I tried many, many times to explain what a moment like that means to a little girl, a boy watching from the cheap seats as my mother walked in the door tired of cleaning other people's houses."
From that story, she jumped to how she became, in 1982, the first black woman to receive that same award. And he highlighted: "It is a privilege to share the evening with the incredible men and women who inspired me, who challenged me, who sustained me and made my journey to this stage possible."
However, after these allusions to his own life, he gave way directly to several demands, the first to the press:
"I want to say that I value the press more than ever as we try to navigate these complicated times, which brings me to this: What I know for sure is that telling the truth is the most powerful tool we have."
From there, Winfrey entered fully into the topic that has marked the last few months in Hollywood: sexual abuse and the multiple female voices that have come out to tell their stories and fight so that it is not repeated.
In that sense, the presenter pointed out:
"I am especially proud and inspired by all the women who have felt strong enough and empowered enough to speak out and share their personal stories."
He also stressed that cinema is not the only sector in which these abuses occur, and paid tribute to those women "whose names we will never know."
He also emphasized: "For too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak the truth. But the time has come. Their time is up."
Finally he sentenced:
“In my career, what I've always tried to do is talk about how men and women really behave, how we experience shame, how we love and how we get angry, how we fail, how we withdraw, how we persevere and how we get over it... I've interviewed and portrayed people who have endured some of the ugliest things life can dish out, but the one quality they all seem to share is the ability to maintain hope for a brighter tomorrow, even in our darkest nights. So I want all the girls watching here, now, to know that a new day is beginning on the horizon! And when that new day finally dawns, it will be thanks to many magnificent women, many of whom are here in this room tonight, and some phenomenal men, fighting hard to ensure that they become the leaders who take us to that moment in time. that no one has to say 'Me Too' again."
Many media outlets described her speech as "devastating" on Monday, and there are even those who say that she should run as a candidate for the White House.
To the awards, which were held last Sunday night, many actresses attended dressed in black in order to promote a campaign against sexual harassment in Hollywood.
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