Pose star Mj Rodriguez was among the winners at last night’s subdued and low-key Golden Globes ceremony. Rodriguez, 31, won the award for Best Actress in a Drama Series. In doing so, she became the first trans actress to win a Golden Globe.
Winners were announced online. Reacting to her win, Rodriguez took to social media, posting: “OMG OMGGG!!!! @goldenglobes Wow! You talking about sickening birthday present! Thank you!
“This is the door that is going to open the door for many more young talented individuals. They will see that it is more than possible. They will see that a young Black Latina girl from Newark New Jersey who had a dream, to change the minds others would WITH LOVE. LOVE WINS. To my young LGBTQAI babies WE ARE HERE the door is now open now reach the stars!!!!! @goldenglobes
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Rodriguez also paid tribute to the other nominees in her category: “To the nominees we are Queens. I’m so happy to share space with you! Each and every last one of you women are phenomenal.”
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The Golden Globes is run by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The event, previously regarded as a key component of awards season, was rocked by controversy last year when it emerged it had a severe lack of diversity among its judges. There were also allegations of the HFPA accepting lavish gifts from some of the companies pushing particular nominees.
The ensuing fallout saw stars such as Tom Cruise hand back their awards in protest. Many of the big PR firms that worked with the event stepped back from their involvement, and it was dropped by NBC.
The HFPA has taken steps to address the issues, but the controversy, and the ongoing pandemic, resulted in this year’s event being pared down. Winners were announced at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. There were no celebrity guests, no red carpet, and no TV coverage or live stream. Instead, winners were announced online and via social media.
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The big winners of the night were Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and Jane Campion’s The Power of The Dog.
The former took Best Musical/Comedy, with Rachel Zegler also awarded Best Actress and Ariana DeBose Best Supporting Actress (in a Musical or Comedy).
Power of the Dog took Best Motion Picture, Drama, with Jane Campion picking up Best Director and Kodi Smit-McPhee taking Best Supporting Actor in that category.
Will Smith won Best Actor in a Motion Picture for his role in King Richard, while Nicole Kidman took Best Actress for playing Lucille Ball in Being The Ricardos.
Check out the full list of Golden Globe winners below.
• Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy
“The Great” (Hulu)
“Hacks” (HBO Max) – WINNER
“Only Murders in the Building” (Hulu)
“Reservation Dogs” (FX on Hulu)
“Ted Lasso” (Apple TV Plus)
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Drama
Brian Cox (“Succession”)
Lee Jung-jae (“Squid Game”)
Billy Porter (“Pose”)
Jeremy Strong (“Succession”) – WINNER
Omar Sy (“Lupin)
• Best Performance by an Actress, Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture made for Television
Jessica Chastain (“Scenes From a Marriage”)
Cynthia Erivo (“Genius: Aretha”)
Elizabeth Olsen (“WandaVision“)
Margaret Qualley (“Maid”)
Kate Winslet (“Mare of Easttown”) – WINNER
• Best Director, Motion Picture
Kenneth Branagh (“Belfast”)
Jane Campion (“The Power of the Dog”) – WINNER
Maggie Gyllenhaal (“The Lost Daughter”)
Steven Spielberg (“West Side Story”)
Denis Villeneuve (“Dune”)
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Marion Cotillard (“Annette”)
Alana Haim (“Licorice Pizza”)
Jennifer Lawrence (“Don’t Look Up”)
Emma Stone (“Cruella”)
Rachel Zegler (“West Side Story”) – WINNER
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Mahershala Ali (“Swan Song”)
Javier Bardem (“Being the Ricardos”)
Benedict Cumberbatch (“The Power of the Dog”)
Will Smith (“King Richard”) – WINNER
Denzel Washington (“The Tragedy of Macbeth”)
• Best Television Series, Drama
“Lupin”
“The Morning Show”
“Post”
“Squid Game”
“Succession” – WINNER
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Drama
Uzo Aduba (“In Treatment”)
Jennifer Aniston (“The Morning Show”)
Christine Baranski (“The Good Fight)
Elisabeth Moss (“The Handmaid’s Tale”)
Mj Rodriguez (“Pose”) – WINNER
• Best Performance by an Actor, Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture made for Television
Paul Bettany (“WandaVision”)
Oscar Isaac (“Scenes From a Marriage”)
Michael Keaton (“Dopesick”) – WINNER
Ewan McGregor (“Halston”)
Tahar Rahim (“The Serpent”)
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Leonardo DiCaprio (“Don’t Look Up”)
Peter Dinklage (“Cyrano”)
Andrew Garfield (“Tick, Tick … Boom!”) – WINNER
Cooper Hoffman (“Licorice Pizza”)
Anthony Ramos (“In the Heights”)
• Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Ben Affleck (“The Tender Bar”)
Jamie Dornan (“Belfast”)
Ciarán Hinds (“Belfast”)
Troy Kotsur (“CODA”)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (“The Power of the Dog”) – WINNER
• Best Original Score, Motion Picture
“The French Dispatch” (Searchlight Pictures) — Alexandre Desplat
“Encanto” (Walt Disney Pictures) — Germaine Franco
“The Power of the Dog” (Netflix) — Jonny Greenwood
“Parallel Mothers” (Sony Pictures Classic) — Alberto Iglesias
“Dune” (Warner Bros.) — Hans Zimmer – WINNER
• Best Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy
Hannah Einbinder (“Hacks”)
Elle Fanning (“The Great”)
Issa Rae (“Insecure”)
Tracee Ellis Ross (“Black-ish”)
Jean Smart (“Hacks”) – WINNER
• Best Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture made for Television
“Dopesick”
“Impeachment: American Crime Story”
“Maid” (Netflix)
“Mare of Easttown” (HBO)
“The Underground Railroad” (Amazon Prime Video) – WINNER
• Best Supporting Actor, Television
Billy Crudup (“The Morning Show”)
Kieran Culkin (“Succession”)
Mark Duplass (“The Morning Show”)
Brett Goldstein (“Ted Lasso”)
Oh Yeong-su (“Squid Game”) – WINNER
• Best Picture, Musical or Comedy
“Cyrano”
“Don’t Look Up” (Netflix)
“Licorice Pizza” (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
“Tick, Tick … Boom!” (Netflix)
“West Side Story” (20th Century Studios) – WINNER
• Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture
Caitríona Balfe (“Belfast”)
Ariana DeBose (“West Side Story”) – WINNER
Kirsten Dunst (“The Power of the Dog”)
Aunjanue Ellis (“King Richard”)
Ruth Negga (“Passing”)
• Best Picture, Foreign Language
“Compartment No. 6”
“Drive My Car” – WINNER
“The Hand of God”
“A Hero”
“Parallel Mothers”
• Best Screenplay, Motion Picture
Paul Thomas Anderson — “Licorice Pizza” (MGM/United Artists Releasing)
Kenneth Branagh — “Belfast” (Focus Features) – WINNER
Jane Campion — “The Power of the Dog” (Netflix)
Adam McKay — “Don’t Look Up” (Netflix)
Aaron Sorkin — “Being the Ricardos”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”)
Olivia Colman (“The Lost Daughter”)
Nicole Kidman (“Being the Ricardos”) – WINNER
Lady Gaga (“House of Gucci”)
Kristen Stewart (“Spencer”)
• Best Motion Picture, Drama
“Belfast” (Focus Features)
“CODA” (Apple)
“Dune” (Warner Bros.)
“King Richard” (Warner Bros.)
“The Power of the Dog” (Netflix) – WINNER
• Best Television Actor, Musical / Comedy Series
Anthony Anderson (“Black-ish”)
Nicholas Hoult (“The Great”)
Steve Martin (“Only Murders in the Building”)
Martin Short (“Only Murders in the Building”)
Jason Sudeikis (“Ted Lasso”) – WINNER
Best Supporting Actress, Television
Jennifer Coolidge (“White Lotus”)
Kaitlyn Dever (“Dopesick”)
Andie MacDowell (“Maid”)
Sarah Snook (“Succession”) – WINNER
Hannah Waddingham (“Ted Lasso”)
• Best Original Song, Motion Picture
“Be Alive” from “King Richard” (Warner Bros.) — Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Dixson
“Dos Orugitas” from “Encanto” (Walt Disney Pictures) — Lin-Manuel Miranda
“Down to Joy” from “Belfast” (Focus Features) — Van Morrison
“Here I Am (Singing My Way Home)” from “Respect” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) — Jamie Alexander Hartman, Jennifer Hudson, Carole King
“No Time to Die” from “No Time to Die” (MGM/United Artists Releasing) — Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell – WINNER
• Best Motion Picture, Animated
“Encanto” (Walt Disney Pictures) – WINNER
“Flee” (Neon)
“Luca” (Pixar)
“My Sunny Maad”
“Raya and the Last Dragon”
Cam
Awwww, I see one of JK Rowling’s little troll bots is here to cry.
Cam
Congratulations, well deserved!
cliche guevara
Are you a woman?
London_resistance
No, I am not a woman
Neither is this MJ Rodriguez
We’re both men
cliche guevara
Ohh,.,, So you are not a woman but you have designated yourself spokesperson for woman. I guess you don’t feel that women can speak or advocate for themselves and you have to be their male savior. Presumably you are billing yourself as an ally but an ally has to align with the people they are helping. None of the other actresses in the running have voiced any objection whatsoever. So you, a man, have decided what women should think and have taken upon yourself to speak for them. Thanks for exposing the misogyny that drives transphobia.
kish
I love when bigots excuse their hatred by stating their respect for cis women! Lol, yeah you’re all about equality. You’re the ones that criticize how women look and act. Call them sluts or c*nts.
But please trans women! Do not erase cis women! We need to attack them as well.
ciasteczek
I hope that we are all awere that she won only because GG wanted to make history giving the award to “first trans person of color ever”. Her acting, live the hole show in on the same level as Bold and Beautiful is. Basic soap opera with no depth, just better lightning. Nothing to be proud of here.
Cam
As opposed to previoius years when people only got nominated because they were white and straight.
cliche guevara
“Her acting, live the hole show”
Seriously, you wrote that and are critiquing another person’s talent?
Kangol2
Are you using Google translator from Russian?: “Her acting, live [sic] the hole [sic] show in [sic] on the same level as Bold and Beautiful is.”
ciasteczek
@cliche guevara when you have no valid arguments you nitpicking about spelling. Get a life boo :*
jcool
nobody is nitpicking spelling. you don’t know words or english grammar. upgrade to a better google translate, clown.
cliche guevara
The problem isn’t spelling, the words are spelled correctly. The sentence makes no sense.
bsg1967
Her performance over the shows run was awesome and well deserved.
Oso Coqui
So can we see your performance since you believe you can do better? Too bad GG doesn’t have an award for Best Troll, I’m sure you would accept from whatever hole you’re living.
ryepie2222
I kinda have to agree with Ciasteczek. I have to reiterate that her acting is horrible. Horrrrible. That might have to do with the horrible writing but nonetheless, her acting is bad. Uzo, Jennifer, Christine, and Elizabeth are seasoned, professional actors – MJ isn’t and it shows and she shouldn’t have been awarded for it
Cam
What a shock, the right wing troll account switches screenames to come in and defend its other post.
cliche guevara
@cam
It’s funny how a troll that is too lazy to change its word choice between accounts is now an expert on acting.
Oso Coqui
The role of Cybil has already been filled. I’m sure you have other personalities deep down but then again you might want to learn how to act in the different roles.
Cam
@cliche guevara
LOL!
Cam
Sweetie, you, under all of your screenames are SO obsessed with Trans people, you sound just like those homphobes that turn out to be self hating closet cases. Sounds like you have some unresolved gender issues and are obsessed with transpeople because they’re doing what you dream of doing.
That said, your troll game is sad and weak.
Me2
I would point out the fact that MJ isn’t a good actress and there’s nothing noteworthy about her acting. But, these awards are rarely given to actual talents. That being said, congratulations… I guess.
cliche guevara
I’d point out that mediocre men are often threatened by the accomplishments of women.
bsg1967
Who hurt you?
Cam
Thank you for exposing your new troll screename so obviously. 🙂
felixthegato
How is hate speech allowed in the comments of this site with no option to block or report users?
inbama
Gay rights would never have been won without freedom of speech.
Ask the gay kids in Russia what it’s like where it’s illegal to even discuss our issues.
cliche guevara
Inbama –
Free speech isn’t the same as a right to a platform or audience. The people that had their comments removed have still have the right to speak their bigoted hearts out. Queerty, as privately owned entity, doesn’t owe the platform from which to do it nor can they be compelled to allow it. Maybe learn the basics of how all this free speech business works before embarrassing yourself.
Cam
@inbama
What a shock, one of the right wing troll screenames comes in to defend hate speech.
ProfessorDave
I’m saddened by the fact that Queerty has not suspended the accounts of all the trans-exclusonary radical feminists who are complaining about the Golden Globes award of best actress, television drama, to MJ Rodriguez, who out-acted all the other women in Pose, because she used to be a man. I’m surprised none of you TERFs deadnamed her.
cliche guevara
It’s not a particularly bright bunch so unless her deadname was in the article they aren’t going to figure out what it is.
inbama
I’m disappointed to hear Marxists passing themselves off as professors who pretend it’s American to ban gays and lesbians from a Queer blog on account of their political opinions.
cliche guevara
Nothing unAmerican about it. In fact there is a reason the founders of this country provided a free press. It’s so the press can call out the bs.
Tallskin
Professor, took me a while there to work out what you did! Very good!
However, irony is lost on this lot, they’re all americans
Cam
@inbama
How interesting that the right wing troll account keeps exposing itself has an old and probably foreign troll.
Throwing around “Marxism” as a boogeyman because somebody calls out your bigotry? LOL!!!! Let me guess, next you’ll tell us all about how Los Angeles was once all orange trees until the hippies ruined everything.
BigJohnSF
She’s got a part in Tick Tick Boom as well. Glad to see her acting career is happening – she really is a good actress. I think people who think she is not are just uncomfortable with the fact that she is transgender.
powersthatbe
Well deserved in my book. The whole cast deserves a standing ovation. Big, bold, beautiful, ferocious queen’s every last one. Chef’s kiss. Mwah.
powersthatbe
*queens
skyboy63
Tallskin4 you’re statement lets me know you are a transphobic a$$hole.
Tallskin
Skyboy63, I know, i know
But so much is transphobic
Reality is transphobic
Biology is transphobic
Not recognising some guy’s delusions is transphobic
It’s really hard to avoid transphobia, cos you tend to trip over it as you step out of your house every morning
Cam
@Tallskin
We get it, you’re a closeted transperson who hates people who are open about who they are, just like the right wing bigots who attack gay men and then are caught with male prostitutes.
You don’t fool anybody.
cliche guevara
@cam is tallskin4 the same as tallskin? TS4 used a voice that sounded like an SNL parody of and English person. TS doesn’t use the same voice but London_resistance does. We need a diagram to sort out this troll situation. The one thing they all have in common is just not being good at trolling.
IWantAFullBeard
Good for her. Made me smile. It’s probably very exciting to get all dressed up and done up and having everyone congratulating you. I imagine for many people who are transgendered this helps immensely at feeling comfortable in your own skin. Probably projecting myself, but I imagine in her head she is saying “I never ever thought this would happen.” Congratulations.
Hank31
I thought that transgenders use filters on Insta to conceal the truth. You can totally tell that this “actress” is male.
Cam
How many of your screenames are you going to use on this thread?
Oso Coqui
BRAVA! Well deserved. She has worked her way from being in Rent, in the films Saturday Church, Tick Tick… Boom, Adam, and other productions. She has paid her dues and earned her moment while being who she is and proving herself at every moment.
jackscott
Let people have their moment after being recognized. True, the GG are not known for awarding “talent” as much as placing a spotlight on a popular person or trying to be the first to award a show or person. That being said, POSE was an enjoyable show and MJ grew in her role. I think she did a solid job in the last season, so nice to see her recognized.