Millie Bobby Brown, Tiffany Haddish, And Everyone Else Who Really Won This Awards Season
Millie Bobby Brown, Tiffany Haddish, And Everyone Else Who Really Won This Awards Season
Every awards season there really are winners and losers, and some days the stars who walk away with the heavy hardware aren't the ones you would have awarded if given the power.
With red-carpet season officially over (for right now, we're taking a look at the celebs who won us over with their charisma, talent, and grace — from exuberant newcomers like Tiffany Haddish and Timothée Chalamet to real-life Hollywood heroines like Natalie Portman, Greta Gerwig, and Gal Gadot. Here are this year's awards season superlatives:
Best Acceptance Speech: Tiffany Haddish
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Tiffany Haddish's scene-stealing efficiency in Girls Trip may have been failed to notice by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Academy, nevertheless their loss was the New York Film Critics Circle Awards' increase. In January, Haddish accepted the film critic award for best supporting actress and — with a cocktail in hand — went on to give a rapturous 17-minute acceptance speech.
She thanked God ("I hope to thank God, because without god my mom and daddy wouldn’t have put their two uglies with each other and made me"); film critics ("The only critics I knew before this were Siskel and Ebert and if they passed I was like 'Oh well'"); and the Keanu crew members who sent her the Girls Trip script ("My agent was like ‘Ah, they only wish to be able to see names,’ and I was like, ‘You tell them I’ve had a name since 1979'"). Obviously, she had each person — critics and celebrities — in stitches. And she even landed director Paul Thomas Anderson's digits at the end of the night.
Best Swagger: Millie Bobby Brown
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Awards season is routinely outfitted in a series of expertly modified tuxedos, extravagant gowns, and blister-inducing stilettos — nevertheless Millie Bobby Brown wagged her finger at that notion with a resounding, “Nuh-uh!”
Showing off her incredible Swagger at the SAG Awards on January 21, the Stranger Things star — who was nominated for Outstanding Efficiency by A lady Actor in a Drama Series — waltzed the red carpet in a light pink sequined Calvin Klein 205W39NYC high/low gown paired with fresh white Converse low tops. She crowned herself with Princess Leia-esque double buns, because nothing — not even a stray hair — was going to get in the way of her good time. "I routinely dance," Brown told E! News host Giuliana Rancic. "Losing or winning — you routinely dance at the SAG Awards."
Life of the Party: Stranger Things kids
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Wherever they go, a party routinely appears to follow the Stranger Things kids. Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Finn Wolfhard, Sadie Sink, and Noah Schnapp turned the Golden Globes red carpet into a good time by huddling with each other for pictures before heading indoor, where Dakota Johnson was caught ogling their table and sending pictures to her companions. That same night, Brown joined her companions at the Netflix soon after party, where each kid posed for photographs with their biggest fan, Drake, and took a boatload of goofy selfies.
The seasonal party didn’t stop there. At the SAG Awards soon after party, the categorize, as well as new companions This Is Us’s Lonnie Chavis and Black-ish’s Marsai Martin, Miles Brown, and Marcus Scribner, were in the center of an epic dance party.
Most Likely To Succeed: Timothée Chalamet
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per year ago, nobody who or what a Timothée Chalamet was. Right now, his photographs are adorning the walls of teen bedrooms and Tumblr dashboards around the world. His mesmerizing efficiency in Luca Guadagnino's sumptuous queer drama, Call Me By Your Name, scored him rave reviews and his first Oscar nomination, making him the youngest actor to have obtained a Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in 80 years. Then, he appeared in Greta Gerwig's extraordinary solo directing debut, Lady Bird, as an arrogant teen with long hair and bad-boy charisma. Next, he'll take on drug addiction in Felix Van Groeningen's drama, Beautiful Boy, and an entire monarchy in David Michôd's The King.
Chalamet might not directly have walked away with a Oscar this awards season, yet he did win the hard-earned respect of his peers and the internet's complete adoration. Cinephiles admire him for his immense talent at such a young age, music fans find his love of hip-hop endearing, style folks are obsessed with his effortlessly cool fashion, and each person else likes him because he's, well, adorable. He's People's Champ, in the event you will — a trustworthy young actor who loves cinema as much as he loves Kid Cudi. And he has a long career ahead of him.
Cutest Couple: David Harbour and Joe Keery
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the passion Stranger Things stars David Harbour and Joe Keery have for each other is aware no bounds. Soon after all, Harbour's Instagram account is a still a "Joe Keery fan page.") So, once Harbour scored a well-deserved Golden Globe nomination for his scene-stealing supporting efficiency in Stranger Things 2, Keery took his obsession a step also far and promised that if Harbour won the Globe, he'd let show creators Matt and Ross Duffer shave Steve's cute chestnut locks. Lucky for us, Harbour wasn't actually going to let that happen. (Steve Harrington's hair is just also precious.)
Once asked about his off-screen bromance with Harbour, Keery told MTV News, "I just think David's so sick... He is a very educated guy, not in a fresh way — like as soon as your mom says you're being an educated guy — however like a wizard." (Hey, every Gandalf needs a Bilbo — and Keery certainly has the hair for it.) Here's hoping Harbour and Keery make things red-carpet official next awards season as the world wide web desperately needs those pictures.
Best Reunion: Ansel Elgort & Shailene Woodley
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Their fates may have been sealed in The Fault In Our Stars, yet in real life, Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley’s love for each other is alive and well. Both nominated for Golden Globes this year — Elgort for Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Woodley for Golden Globe Award for Best Efficiency by a Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television — the two saw evening because the ideal possibility to stage a Gus and Hazel reunion, and we agree. OK? OK.
Best Runners Up: Greta Gerwig, Saoirse Ronan, and Laurie Metcalf
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Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, Lady Bird, was praised by moms and daughters everywhere for its heart-wrenching, funny, and trustworthy portrayal of two females concurrently entering new stages in their lives: Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan), a girl eager to break into womanhood, and her mom (Laurie Metcalf), a woman terrified of breaking out of motherhood.
Metcalf’s nuanced efficiency as a mother struggling to completely connect with her daughter captures the complex emotions beyond a least 90 percent of fights between mothers and daughters, while Ronan’s reactionary teenager grasping for something bigger than the modest small-town life her parents gave her, only to realize the true value of that gift immediately after she’d moved on, portrayed the length of emotions young girls experience while in that scary transition between high school and college.
Gerwig, frequently nominated both for her screenplay and directing during the season, was only able to snag The ideal Screenplay award at the Spirit Awards, repeatedly falling in line beyond Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water and Jordan Peele for Get Out. Metcalfe’s acting was regularly overshadowed by Allison Janney’s much flashier mom role in I, Tonya this awards season, while Ronan was able to match Three Billboards Outdoor Ebbing, Missouri’s Frances McDormand only at the Golden Globes — where the females also celebrated their only Best Picture win.
Best Zinger: Natalie Portman
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As an outspoken Time’s Up advocate, perhaps the Hollywood Foreign Press Association knew what were getting into as soon as they asked Natalie Portman, alongside Ron Howard, to display showcase the Golden Globe for Best Director, Motion Picture. “And here are the all male nominees,” Portman, clad in all black as piece of the red carpet blackout, mentioned. Howard reflexively let out a chuckle and stars in the audience cheered as Portman, not missing a beat, continued introducing the nominees.
The Annihilation actress’s call-out was so powerful that two actresses followed suit at the Oscars. On stage to exhibit Best Cinematography, Sandra Bullock casually mentioned, “Here are the four males and the one trailblazing woman who are nominated for achievement in cinematography.” Identically, presenting Best Director, Emma Stone reported, "These four gentlemen and Greta Gerwig created their own masterpieces this year." (This year, Rachel Morrison became the opening woman to ever be nominated for a cinematography Oscar, while Gerwig was only the fifth female director to ever be nominated.)
History-Maker: Jordan Peele
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Once Jordan Peele took residence The perfect Original Screenplay Oscar for Get Out, he became the opening black person to ever win in the category. Making things even sweeter, the writer/director almost didn't even finish writing his film, for fear that the social commentary would never visualize the light of screen, and right now, the script that almost didn't get written is a historic Oscar-winner.
"I almost never became a director, because there was such a shortage of role models. We had Spike, we had John Singleton, we had the Peebles, we had the Hughes brothers, although they felt like the exception to the rule," Peele said backstage at the Oscars. I'm so delighted to be a piece of a time of the starting of a movement where I feel like the perfect films in each genre are being brought to me by my fellow black directors."
Honorable say for this category goes to This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown, who also made history this awards season — twice! — By becoming the opening black man to ever win a Golden Globe in The perfect Actor in a Drama TV Series category, and the initial black man to ever win a SAG Award for Outstanding Efficiency by A gentleman Actor in a Drama Series.
Role Model: Gal Gadot
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Despite being among the largest movies of 2017, Wonder Woman was shut out from both Golden Globe and Oscar nominations, however that didn’t stop Gal Gadot from saving awards season. Holding her head high the actress graciously reacted to the snubs in the most levelheaded way possible and accepted the honor of attending both ceremonies as a presenter.
Taking things one step further into Role Model-dom, Gadot speedily grabbed a hot dog cannon and joined Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel any time while he stepped out of the ceremony to surprise a movie theater full of common people with snacks and stars, so not only is she a badass and humble, yet she’s down for a good time, too!
Overachievers: Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
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In just 54 weeks, songwriting duo and University of Michigan alums Pasek and Paul won a Oscar (for La La Land), a Tony (for Dear Evan Hansen), plus a Grammy (for the aforementioned Hansen), speedily racking up the GOT to the inevitable EGOT in their future. The only thing separating them from becoming the youngest pair to EGOT is a Emmy, which they feasibly could win this year for Fox's A Christmas Story Live!
Meanwhile, Pasek and Paul had the possibility to add another Oscar to their shelves with the anthemic "This Is Me" from The Greatest Showman, yet they lost out to Coco duo Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. (With that Oscar win, Robert Lopez has actually achieved something no other person has before: a double EGOT.)
Most Changed: Daniel Kaluuya
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Do you remember as soon as Daniel Kaluuya was best known for playing Posh Kenneth in the British teen series Skins? Kaluuya's been acting and writing (he was a writer on Skins as well) since his teens, however the 28-year-old scored his breakout role in Peele's Get Out, a timely social thriller that earned Kaluuya his first Oscar nomination, a BAFTA award, and, for his mom's
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