Quinta Brunson asked the audience at the 55th annual NAACP Image Awards to keep an eye out for her lost earrings.

The Abbott Elementary The 34-year-old star revealed the fashion faux pas as she took the stage at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 16, to accept the 2024 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series.

“Thank you. It couldn’t be shorter,” Brunson, who is 6 feet tall, said at the beginning of her speech as she tried to adjust the height of the microphone. “Thank you so much. Thanks guys. I lost both of my earrings, so if anyone sees my earrings, can you do…little dangly things. Costs a lot, so when you see them…’

Brunson walked the red carpet in a sparkling white Naeem Khan RE13 dress. The Emmy winner was styled by Jessica Paster with silver rings to match her sparkling dress. However, it appears Brunson’s earrings didn’t make it to the red carpet on Saturday night, indicating they could have been lost before she even arrived at the event.

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Along with Brunson’s win as an actress, Abbott Elementary also took home the Image Award for Best Comedy. (Brunson is the creator and co-executive producer of the critically acclaimed sitcom.)

“Let me thank you very much,” Brunson continued in her speech. ‘It’s such an honor. I love coming to this ceremony and seeing all my friends, and all the people I don’t see every day while we are working. I’m just extremely honored, once again. I am very proud of the work I get to do at Abbott. I’m very proud of my cast. I also want to thank the NAACP, while I’m here, for the award Abbot Best comedy. We really appreciate it. Thank you so much.”

After thanking Warner Bros., ABC and Disney in her speech, Brunson concluded: “Thank you to my family. I hope my mom and dad are watching, and all the black people in my life.

This marked another win for Brunson in a successful awards season Abbot. In January, she took home the trophy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series at the 2023 Emmy Awards.

Brunson made television history with her work on Abbott Elementary as the first black woman to be nominated for Emmys in the categories of acting, writing and outstanding comedy.

“What an honor to be nominated by the Television Academy,” Brunson said in a 2022 statement following her Emmy nominations. “Creating this show has been the greatest gift and to have it recognized in this way is a dream. It’s a joy we can share with the wonderful people who watched our first season.”

Worst Oscars ever — or at least in recent memory.

This is what Hollywood gets for pushing out the likes of Ricky Gervais and Chris Rock: a toothless host in Jimmy Kimmel, warmed-over jokes that landed with a thud, and queasy politics that only hit one target hard.

Trump: End times personified. Hamas? Just misunderstood.

Celebrities including Mark Ruffalo and Billie Eilish walked the red carpet with red ‘ceasefire’ pins, but nobody — not even Jonathan Glazer, the writer/director of ‘The Zone of Interest’, a masterpiece about the Holocaust — would stand up for Israel.

Glazer, in a supreme act of self-loathing, went so far as to renounce his Judaism. Thanking his partners, he said: ‘Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.’

Abhorrent.

The hostages still held by Hamas warranted zero mentions, not even from Steven Spielberg, wheeled out on the 30th anniversary of ‘Schindler’s List’.

Nor were we told why the ceremony, bumped up an hour early for the very first time, began almost ten minutes late.

As it turns out, pro-Palestinian protesters were blocking the route to the ceremony. But referencing them at all was off-limits.

No one had an issue standing up for Ukraine or awarding the documentary ’20 Days in Mariupol’. Nor was the inclusion of Alexei Navalny in the ‘In Memoriam’ segment — otherwise a disaster of terrible camera angles and interpretive dance — remotely controversial.

Israel and the attacks of October 7, however, went unmentioned.

Instead, the Oscars turned into a Barbie-fest, some sort of weird apologia for snubbing (rightly!) star Margot Robbie and director Greta Gerwig, whose ever-supplicant mugging for the camera — as if she just can’t believe she’s allowed in the room — has aged harder than Al Pacino.

‘Barbie’ was terrible. It was a glorified infomercial for Mattel. Yet we have been told incessantly that America Ferrara’s clichéd, hackneyed speech about the would-be terrors of womanhood is a revelation. A soliloquy on par with ‘to be or not to be’.

Please. Ferrera’s trite sentiment is a bumper sticker from 1975.

Not enough that the Oscars opened with a ‘Barbie’ sketch, that we had multiple ‘Barbie’ musical numbers, that co-stars Kate McKinnon and America Ferrera jointly presented an award, that the ‘Barbie’ theme music closed out the ceremony.

No, we had to endure Rita Moreno paying tribute to nominee Ferrera: ‘Your powerful ‘Barbie’ monologue [about] the most impossible standards females must try to live up to galvanized everyone with a pulse’.

Did it, really? Wouldn’t ‘Barbie’ have swept the Oscars if so? It can’t be a feminist movie while treating womanhood as an inexorable burden.

Here’s another unpopular opinion, one not said in polite society: Lily Gladstone was the worst thing about ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’. Just terrible.

Her performance was wooden, one-note, and somnambulant. It lacked the urgency one might expect in portraying a young wife and mother whose husband is slowly poisoning her to death.

Gladstone’s nomination felt more like the Academy congratulating itself for including a Native American actress rather than one based on merit.

As for that self-regard: Could the staging of major categories have been more insufferable?

Out came five actors or actresses, former Oscar winners, who spoke directly to each of the nominees as if they had just cured cancer.

How amazing to hear Charlize Theron, addressing Annette Bening for her titular role in ‘Nyad’, mispronounce the legendary swimmer’s first name not once, but twice, as ‘Diane’.

It’s ‘Diana’. Is that so hard?

Bening watched, stone-faced and unamused, as Emma Stone beat her out for Best Actress and took the stage a breathless, tearful mess.

Stone had no idea what she was doing there, she said, and didn’t know what to say — even though she spent months campaigning for this award.

It called to mind the embarrassing profile of Kate Winslet in the New York Times magazine last week. Here we learned that Winslet isn’t just an actress.

No: If you can believe it — and our far-too-gullible celebrity profiler can — Winslet can hold her breath underwater for more than seven straight minutes, while Navy SEALs can only muster three.

And Winslet is so high-minded, so diffident about her looks, that she claims never to have heard of Ozempic.

‘What is it?’ she asked.

HA! This is a woman who has spent years bitching about Hollywood’s fixation on female bodies and her own weight.

Back to the hyperventilating Stone, who admitted in her speech — again, she had no idea what she was doing there! — that she had nonetheless spent the night before freaking out that she might win. She actually said that her director had to talk her down, telling her to ‘take yourself out of it’.

If only!

That was a note Emily Blunt could have taken, draping herself over every single ‘Oppenheimer’ winner — she herself losing Best Supporting Actress to Da’Vine Joy Randolph — while wearing a bizarre dress with hovering shoulder straps.

Only Greta Gerwig rivaled her in hogging screen time, Gerwig planted front row and singing along to Ryan Gosling’s clearly lip-synched, campy ‘I’m Just Ken’ number — Ken, we were told by presenter Christoph Waltz, as the ’embodiment of human empathy’.

Sorry — isn’t Ken a plastic doll with no genitalia?

Which brings us to flailing Kimmel’s Hail Mary, dragging out a naked John Cena, his nether regions covered by an envelope, looking waxed, plucked, tufted and tanned-up for a sight gag that went on far too long and wasn’t even funny.

As ever, I am no Donald Trump fan, but his Truth Social post during the ceremony — read aloud by Kimmel — was dead-on.

‘Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars’, Trump wrote.

Who here disagrees?

To share yet another unpopular opinion: ‘Oppenheimer’, save the lead performances of winners Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr., is overrated.

It was an excruciatingly long and talky mess. The timeline was hard to follow. The women were underdeveloped – a common critique of Christopher Nolan’s work – and it’s clear that at this point he has zero interest in remedying that.

Furthermore, it retroactively paints President Truman as a MAGA hick who delighted in dropping the atomic bomb on Japanese civilians. There’s a distinct European sneer at America here.

Still, the Oscars was not without its highlights, scant as they were.

Robert Downey Jr.’s opening line in his acceptance speech was a killer: ‘I’d like to thank my terrible childhood, and the Academy, in that order’.

Also in attendance was Messi, the dog from ‘Anatomy of a Fall’, fake-applauding in the audience.

Talk about a performance! This dog gave an overdose scene to rival Jennifer Connelly in ‘Requiem for a Dream’. This dog knew how to comport himself: No whining, no salivating, no jumping out of his seat to pull focus.

And this dog gave us the most perfect ending to the night. Outside, alone, on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, he lifted his leg and peed on Matt Damon’s star. Perfection.

Best American Roots Song

Allison Russell – The Returner

Billy Strings Featuring Willie Nelson – California Sober

Brandy Clark Featuring Brandi Carlile – Dear Insecurity

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Cast Iron Skillet – WINNER

The War and Treaty – Blank Page

 

Best American Roots Performance 

Allison Russell – Eve Was Black – WINNER

Blind Boys of Alabama – Heaven Help Us All

Jon Batiste – Butterfly

Madison Cunningham – Inventing the Wheel

Rhiannon Giddens – You Louisiana Man

 

 Best Americana Performance

Allison Russell – The Returner

Blind Boys of Alabama – Friendship

Brandy Clark Featuring Brandi Carlile – Dear Insecurity – WINNER

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – King of Oklahoma

Tyler Childers – Help Me Make It Through the Night

 

Best Americana Album

Allison Russell – The Returner

Brandy Clark – Brandy Clark

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes – WINNER

Rodney Crowell – The Chicago Sessions

Rhiannon Giddens – You’re the One

 

Best Bluegrass Album

Billy Strings – Me/And/Dad

Michael Cleveland – Lovin’ of the Game

Mighty Poplar – Mighty Poplar

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway – City of Gold – WINNER

Sam Bush – Radio John: Songs of John Hartford

Willie Nelson – Bluegrass

 

Best Traditional Blues Album

Bobby Rush – All My Love for You – WINNER

Eric Bibb – Ridin’

John Primer – Teardrops for Magic Slim Live at Rosa’s Lounge

Mr. Sipp – The Soul Side of Sipp

Tracy Nelson – Life Don’t Miss Nobody

 

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Bettye LaVette – LaVette!

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram – Live in London

Larkin Poe – Blood Harmony – WINNER

Ruthie Foster – Healing Time

Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton – Death Wish Blues

 

Best Folk Album

Dom Flemons – Traveling Wildfire

Joni Mitchell – Joni Mitchell at Newport (Live) – WINNER

The Milk Carton Kids – I Only See the Moon

Nickel Creek – Celebrants

Old Crow Medicine Show – Jubilee

Paul Simon – Psalms

Rufus Wainwright – Folkocracy

 

Best Regional Roots Music Album

Buckwheat Zydeco Jr. & The Legendary Ils Sont Partis Band – New Beginnings – WINNER (TIE)

Dwayne Dopsie & The Zydeco Hellraisers – Live At The 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Lost Bayou Ramblers & Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra – Live: Orpheum Theater Nola – WINNER (TIE)

New Breed Bass Band – Made in New Orleans

New Orleans Nightcrawlers – Too Much to Hold

The Rumble Feature Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr. – Live at the Maple Leaf

 

Best Reggae Album

Buju Banton – Born for Greatness

Beenie Man – Simma

Burning Spear – No Destroyer

Collie Buddz – Cali Roots Riddim 2023

Julian Marley & Antaeus – Colors of Royal – WINNER

 

Best Global Music Performance

Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer & Shahzad Ismaily – Shadow Forces

Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain Featuring Rakesh Chaurasia – Pashto – WINNER

Burna Boy – Alone

Davido – Feel

Falu & Gaurav Shah (Featuring PM Narendra Modi) – Abundance in Millets

Ibrahim Maalouf Featuring Cimafunk & Tank and the Bangas – Todo Colores

Silvana Estrada – Milagro y Disastre

 

Best African Music Performance

Asake & Olamide – Amapiano

Ayra Starr – Rush

Burna Boy – City Boys

Davido Featuring Musa Keys – Unavailable

Tyla – Water – WINNER

 

Best Global Music Album

Bokanté – History

Burna Boy – I Told Them…

Davido – Timeless

Shakti – This Moment – WINNER

Susana Baca- Epifanías

 

Best Children’s Music Album

Andrew & Polly – Ahhhhh!

DJ Willy Wow! – Hip Hope for Kids!

Pierce Freelon & Nnenna Freelon – Ancestars

Uncle Jumbo – Taste the Sky

123 Andrés – We Grow Together Preschool Songs – WINNER

 

Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording

Meryl Streep – Big Tree

Michelle Obama – The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times – WINNER

Rick Rubin – The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Senator Bernie Sanders – It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

William Shatner – Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder

 

Best Spoken Word Poetry Album

Aja Monet – When the Poems Do What They Do

J. Ivy – The Light Inside – WINNER

Kevin Powell – Grocery Shopping With My Mother

Prentice Powell and Shawn William – For Your Consideration ’24

Queen Sheba – A-You’re Not Wrong B-They’re Not Either: The Fukc-It Pill Revisited

 

Best Comedy Album

Chris Rock – Selective Outrage

Dave Chappelle – What’s in a Name? -WINNER

Sarah Silverman – Someone You Love

Trevor Noah – I Wish You Would

Wanda Sykes – I’m An Entertainer

 

Best Musical Theater Album

Kimberly Akimbo

Parade

Shucked

Some Like It Hot – WINNER

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

 

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

Daisy Jones & the Six – Aurora

Various Artists – Barbie The Album – WINNER

Various Artists – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Music From and Inspired By

Various Artists – Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3: Awesome Mix, Vol. 3

“Weird Al” Yankovic – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

 

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media (Includes Film and Television)

John Williams – The Fabelmans

John Williams – Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Ludwig Göransson – Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 

Ludwig Göransson – Oppenheimer – WINNER

Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt – Barbie

 

Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media

Bear McCreary – God of War Ragnarök

Jess Serro, Tripod & Austin Wintory – Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical

Peter Murray, J Scott Rakozy & Chuck E. Myers “Sea” – Hogwarts Legacy

Sarah Schachner – Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare II

Stephen Barton & Gordy Haab – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – WINNER

 

Best Song Written for Visual Media

Billie Eilish – What Was I Made For? [From the Motion Picture “Barbie”] – WINNER

Dua Lipa – Dance the Night (From Barbie the Album)

Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice Featuring Aqua – Barbie World [From Barbie the Album]

Rihanna – Lift Me Up (From Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – Music From and Inspired By)

Ryan Gosling – I’m Just Ken [From “Barbie the Album”]

 

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

Hilario Duran and His Latin Jazz Big Band Featuring Paquito D’Rivera – I Remember Mingus

Just 6 – Angels We Have Heard on High

Ludwig Göransson – Can You Hear the Music

The String Revolution Featuring Tommy Emmanuel – Folsom Prison Blues – WINNER

Wednesday Addams – Paint It Black

 

Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

Cécile McLorin Salvant – Fenestra

Maria Mendes Featuring John Beasley & Metropole Orkest – Com Que Voz (Live)

Patti Austin Featuring Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – April in Paris

Säje Featuring Jacob Collier – In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning – WINNER

Samara Joy – Lush Life

 

Best Recording Package

The Arcs – Eletrophonic Chronic

Brad Breeck – Gravity Falls

Caroline Rose – The Art of Forgetting

Dry Cleaning – Stumpwork – WINNER

Ensemble Cadenza 21’ – Cadenza 21’

Leaf Yeh – Migration

 

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Bo Burnham – Inside: Deluxe Box Set

Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965 – Deluxe Edition

Neutral Milk Hotel – The Collected Works of Neutral Milk Hotel

Ngọt – Gieo

Various Artists – For the Birds: The Birdsong Project – WINNER

 

Best Album Notes

Howdy Glenn – I Can Almost See Houston

Iftin Band – Mogadishu’s Finest: The Al Uruba Sessions

John Coltrane – Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy (Live)

Various Artists – Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971

Various Artists – Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos – WINNER

 

Best Historical Album

Bob Dylan – Fragments – Time Out Of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17

Lou Reed – Words & Music, May 1965 – Deluxe Edition

Various Artists – The Moaninest Moan of Them All: The Jazz Saxophone of Loren McMurray, 1920-1922

Various Artists – Playing for the Man at the Door: Field Recordings from the Collection of Mack McCormick, 1958–1971

Various Artists – Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos – WINNER

 

Songwriter of the Year, Non-Classical

Edgar Barrera

Jessie Jo Dillon

Justin Tranter

Shane McAnally

Theron Thomas – WINNER

 

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Bokanté – History

Boygenius – The Record

Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want to Turn Into You

Feist – Multitudes

Victoria Monét – Jaguar II – WINNER

 

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Daniel Nigro

Dernst “D’Mile” Emile II

Hit-Boy

Jack Antonoff – WINNER

Metro Boomin

 

Best Remixed Recording

Depeche Mode – Wagging Tongue (Wet Leg Remix) – WINNER

Gorillaz Featuring Tame Impala & Bootie Brown – New Gold (Dom Dolla Remix)

Lane 8 – Reviver (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Remix)

Mariah Carey – Workin’ Hard (Terry Hunter Remix)

Turnstile & BadBadNotGood Featuring Blood Orange – Alien Love Call

 

Best Immersive Audio Album

Alicia Keys – The Diary of Alicia Keys – WINNER

Bear McCreary – God of War Ragnarök (Original Soundtrack)

George Strait – Blue Clear Sky

Madison Beer – Silence Between Songs

Ryan Ylyate – Act 3 (Immersive Edition)

 

Best Instrumental Composition

 Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer & Zakir Hussain Featuring Rakesh Chaurasia – Motion

John Williams – Helena’s Theme – WINNER

Lakecia Benjamin Feuringat Angela Davis – Amerikkan Skin

Ludwig Göransson – Can You Hear the Music

Quartet San Francisco Featuring Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band – Cutey and the Dragon

 

Best Engineered Album, Classical

Gustavo Dudamel, Anne Akiko Meyers, Gustavo Castillo & Los Angeles Philharmonic – Fandango

Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Schulhoff: Five Pieces

Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, George Lernis & A Far Cry – Sanlikol: A Gentleman of Istanbul – Symphony for Strings, Percussion, Piano, Oud, Ney & Tenor

Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Contemporary American Composers – WINNER

Shara Nova & A Far Cry – The Blue Hour

 

Producer of the Year, Classical

Brian Pidgeon

David Frost

Dmitriy Lipay

Elaine Martone – WINNER

Morten Lindberg

 

Best Orchestral Performance

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra – Scriabin: Symphony No. 2; The Poem of Ecstasy

Los Angeles Philharmonic – Adès: Dante – WINNER

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra – Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Four Pieces

The Philadelphia Orchestra – Price: Symphony No. 4; Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony

San Francisco Symphony – Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

 

Best Opera Recording

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus – Blanchard: Champion – WINNER

Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Odyssey Opera Chorus – Corigliano: The Lord of Cries

The Dime Museum; Isaura String Quartet – Little: Black Lodge

 

Best Choral Performance

The Clarion Choir – Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil

The Crossing – Carols After a Plague

Miró Quartet; Conspirare – The House of Belonging

San Francisco Symphony Chorus – Ligeti: Lux Aeterna

Uusinta Ensemble; Helsinki Chamber Choir – Saariaho: Reconnaissance – WINNER

 

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Anthony McGill & Pacifica Quartet – American Stories

Catalyst Quartet – Uncovered, Vol. 3: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still & George Walker

Roomful of Teeth – Rough Magic – WINNER

Third Coast Percussion – Between Breaths

Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax & Leonidas Kavakos – Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 6, ‘Pastorale’ and Op. 1, No. 3

 

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Andy Akiho – Akiho: Cylinders

Curtis Stewart – Of Love

Louisville Orchestra – The American Project – WINNER

Robert Black – Adams, John Luther: Darkness and Scattered Light

Seth Parker Woods – Difficult Grace

 

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Reginald Mobley, soloist; Baptiste Trotignon, pianist – Because

Julia Bullock, soloist; Christian Reif, conductor (Philharmonia Orchestra) – Walking in the Dark – WINNER

Karim Sulayman, soloist; Sean Shibe, accompanist – Broken Branches

Laura Strickling, soloist; Daniel Schlosberg, pianist – 40@40

Lawrence Brownlee, soloist; Kevin J. Miller, pianist – Rising

 

Best Classical Compendium

Aaron Diehl & The Knights – Zodiac Suite

Andy Akiho, Omaha Symphony & Ankush Kumar Bahl – Sculptures

Chick Corea & Orchestra da Camera della Sardegna – Sardinia

Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel, Anne Akiko Meyers & Gustavo Castillo – Fandango

Peter Herresthal, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, James Gaffigan, Arctic Philharmonic & Tim Weiss – Missy Mazzoli: Dark With Excessive Bright

Various Artists – Passion for Bach and Coltrane – WINNER

Wild Up & Christopher Rountree – Julius Eastman Vol. 3: If You’re so Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?

 

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Andy Akiho, Ankush Kumar Bahl & Omaha Symphony – Akiho: In That Space, at That Time

Awadagin Pratt, A Far Cry & Roomful of Teeth – Montgomery: Rounds – WINNER

Gustavo Dudamel & Los Angeles Philharmonic – Adès: Dante

Peter Herresthal, James Gaffigan & Bergen Philharmonic – Mazzoli: Dark With Excessive Bright

Roomful of Teeth – Brittelle: Psychedelics

 

Ryan Gosling gave a sweet cry Eva Mendes while accepting the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Saturday, January 13.

“The most important thing is that I met the girl of my dreams, Eva Mendes, and had two dream children,” the Barbie star, 43, said in his acceptance speech. “I dreamed of making films one day, and now films have turned my life into a dream. So as I see it, in no way have I contributed half as much to cinema as cinema has contributed to me, but the idea that I might have given back to the thing that has given me so much is too big an idea . honor for me to express.”

Mendes, 49, and Gosling share daughters Esmeralda, 9, and Amada, 7, and have been together since 2011. They are “just as in love now as the first year they were together,” an insider exclusively shared We weekly in May 2023.

“She is his biggest fan and loves it when he gets to make big movies like Barbie,” a source continued. “Ryan also supports Eva in all her endeavors and adores her.”

While accepting his honor at SBIFF on Saturday, Gosling also honored his mother, Donnawhich he called “very instrumental” in helping him achieve success and realize his deep love for films.

“When I was in third grade, I had a swearing problem. “I didn't think it was a problem, but my teachers did,” he said. “My mother said it was almost impossible to get me to quit, but I remember the night she found out. We were sitting at the table and she said, “If you swear again, you won't be able to watch movies tonight.” And I thought that was extreme, so I used extreme language. She said, “Okay, now you can't watch movies for a week.”

Gosling was angry with his mother. “Well, since she raised the bar, so did I. I hit her with a quick attack of my favorites and then I dropped an F-bomb just for good measure,” he recalled. “She said, 'Okay, now you can't watch movies for a month.' It wasn't until that moment that I realized how much films meant to me. It was the worst moment of my young life at that time.”

He revealed that his mother had also found a way to encourage him to watch more movies while also making sure he sharpened his reading skills.

“She found my weak spot. She knew, and soon after, she took me out of school and homeschooled me for a year. You know, with all the swearing and the fact that she couldn't read and write very well, I thought she couldn't do much worse,” he joked. “So part of her curriculum involved weekly visits to the library to pick out books I wasn't planning on reading. She also had a solution for that. The library had a collection of films and they made an agreement with me that I could rent a film for every book I read.”

Gosling concluded his 15-minute speech with another shout-out to his mother: “Thank you to the Santa Barbara Film Festival for this very special honor and for letting me say all this – and I did it all without swearing. Not once. So I think my mom was the big winner tonight.

Mark Ronson takes his Golden Globes loss with a grain of salt.

“Gucci on the globes with my one and only ,” Ronson, 48, wrote via Instagram on Monday, January 8, alongside a series of photos from the 2024 awards ceremony.

Ronson started his slideshow with a photo of him and his wife, Grace Gummer, at the ceremony on Sunday, January 7, where the couple rocked all-black Gucci looks. He also included a video taken from the red carpet of him and Gummer, 37, smiling at each other.

While Ronson’s post started out as a nice recap of his date night, things seemingly took a turn on the third slide when he shared a photo of his trash can with what appeared to be his acceptance speech. The paper was torn while on the top of the container.

Ronson was nominated for Best Original Song for both Barbie film tracks “Dance the Night” and “I’m Just Ken” sung by Dua Lipa And Ryan Goslingrespectively. After posting the ripped-up speech, fans quickly took to the comments to give the songwriter some support following his loss.

“Aww, Mark!! I keep telling everyone I know that Mark Robson is getting an Oscar this year! I can just feel it in my bones!!,” one user wrote, while another replied: “You don’t need Golden Globes when you’ve proven to every listener all the spectacular work you and your team did on the film’s score, congratulations champion.”

Although Ronson didn’t take home the Golden Globe, another one Barbie song did. Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneaswon for their ballad “What Was I Made For?”

“I didn’t expect this,” 22-year-old Eilish said during her acceptance speech. “Thank you to my brother, Finneas. You are the reason I am who I am. I want to thank Greta [Gerwig] And Noah [Baumbach] for making this incredible film. I want to thank Margot [Robbie] because we are the Margot we know and love.”

When the Golden Globes announced the nominees in December 2023, Lipa, 28, talked about how great an experience it was to work on “Dance the Night” and how she “couldn’t be more grateful” just to be nominated. (Lipa also appeared in the film as Mermaid Barbie.)

“Having the opportunity to write a song for a movie was so special,” the singer said in a statement. “Figuring out how to soundtrack this critical moment in the film was like a big jigsaw puzzle that Mark, Andrew, Caroline and I had to put together. The whole experience was completely different from writing one of my own songs, and it is one I will never forget.”

Although Ronson missed out on a Golden Globe, he still has a chance to potentially take home several other awards for his songs. Ronson is in the running for two Grammy Awards for his work on Barbie including Song of the Year and Best Visual Media Soundtrack. Many believe ‘Dance the Night’ and ‘I’m Just Ken’ will get Oscar nods. (The Oscar nominations have yet to be announced; they will be revealed on January 23, with the ceremony taking place on March 10.)

Ronson previously won a Golden Globe and Oscar in 2019 for his work on the hit from the 2018 remake of A star is born of Lady Gaga for their song ‘Shallow’.

Best Feature Film – Drama

Anatomy of a fall

Killers of the Flower Moon

Master

Oppenheimer

Past lives

The zone of interest

Best Film – Animated

The Boy and the Heron – WINNER

Elementary

Spider-Man: About the Spider-Verse

Suzume

The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Wish

Best Film – Non-English Language

Anatomy of a Fall – WINNER

Fallen leaves

Io Capitano

Past lives

Association of the Snow

The zone of interest

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Andrew Scott – All of us strangers

Barry Keoghan-Saltburn

Bradley Cooper Maestro

Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer – WINNER

Colman Domingo – Rustin

Leonardo DiCaprio – Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Jeffrey Wright – American fiction

Joaquin Phoenix – Beau is scared

Matt Damon – Air

Nicolas Cage – Dream scenario

Paul Giamatti – The Remains

Timothée Chalamet-Wonka

Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Charles Melton – May December

Mark Ruffalo – Poor things

Robert De Niro – Killers of the Flower Moon

Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer – WINNER

Ryan Gosling Barbie

Willem Dafoe – Poor things

Best Screenplay – Film

Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach – Barbie

Tony McNamara – Poor things

Christopher Nolan-Oppenheimer

Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese – Killers of the Flower Moon

Celine Song – Past Lives

Justine Triet and Arthur Harari – Anatomy of a fall – WINNER

Best Original Song – Film

Addicted to Romance – She Came to Me – Bruce Springsteen

Dance the night – Barbie – Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt, Dua Lipa, Caroline Ailin

I’m just Ken – Barbie – Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt

Peaches – The Super Mario Bros. Movie – Jack Black, Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Eric Osmond, John Spiker

Road to Freedom – Rustin – Lenny Kravitz

What was I made for? – Barbie – Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell – WINNER

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Abbott Elementary

Barry

The bear

Jury duty

Only murders in the building

Ted Lasso

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Bella Ramsey – The Last of Us

Emma Stone – The Curse

Helen Mirren – 1923

Imelda Staunton-De Kroon

Keri Russell – The diplomat

Sarah Snook – Succession

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Ayo Edebiri – De Beer – WINNER

Elle Fanning – The big one

Natasha Lyonne – Poker Face

Quinta Brunson – Abbott Elementary

Rachel Brosnahan – The beautiful Mrs. Maisel

Selena Gomez – Only murders in the building

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Ali Wong – Beef – WINNER

Brie Larson – Chemistry Lessons

Elizabeth Olsen – Love and Death

Juno Temple – Fargo

Rachel Weisz – Dead Ringers

Riley Keough – Daisy Jones and the Six

Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role on Television

Abby Elliott-The bear

Christina Ricci – Yellowjackets

Elizabeth Debicki – The Crown – WINNER

Hannah Waddingham – Ted Lasso

J. Smith-Cameron – Succession

Meryl Streep – Only murders in the building

Best Performance in Stand-Up Comedy on Television

Amy Schumer: Emergency Contact

Chris Rock: Selective outrage

Ricky Gervais: Armageddon – WINNER

Sarah Silverman: someone you love

Trevor Noah: Where was I

Wanda Sykes: I’m an entertainer

Charlize Theron joined the queens on the RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16 premiere, where she revealed how the contestants inspired her parenting style.

“I do [my kids] to grow up in a world where they know what it means to accept what is not you, what is different and to love that, to not be afraid of that, and to embrace it, and that is my job as mother,” Theron, 48, said during Drag race‘Unhidden’ aftershow on Friday January 5. “I feel like we live in a time where our words can so easily be weaponized against us.”

She continued, “I worry about us as people and what we can do to each other, and how powerful it is when you love and how powerful it is when you hate. One destroys and one builds.”

The actress is a mother of two children. She adopted daughter Jackson in 2012, three years before adopting youngest daughter August.

“[I hope] to be like my mother. Honest, tough and supportive,” Theron said British Vogue in a 2015 profile, noting that she “always” wanted to have a family. “Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and my own independence.”

Theron has since made sure that Jackson and August learn their own skills to grow as individuals.

“For me, kindness is very important,” she said We weekly and other reporters in October 2019. “We kind of live by our religion, which [says]“Do unto others as you would have done unto you.” We value respect and think of others first before we think of ourselves.”

Respecting others is one of the reasons Theron signed on as a guest judge Drag race.

“Given the climate in our country right now, there’s a lot of energy being put into the community that doesn’t exist,” Theron told participants in the episode, referring to anti-tow legislation being drafted across the country. “I truly believe this all comes from fear. The beauty of what your community brings and the truth of who you are and represent will shine through. Do not give up.”

Theron has long been a vocal ally of the LGBTQIA+ community, especially when it comes to her children.

“My daughter’s story is truly her story, and one day, if she wants to, she will tell her story,” she previously said Proud source in December 2019 when asked if Jackson would come out as transgender. “I feel like it was important for me, as her mother, to let the world know that I would appreciate it if they used the correct pronouns for her.”

RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16 airs on MTV Fridays at 8pm ET