10 shocking Golden Globes moments
FROM Jodie Foster’s bizarre ‘coming out’ speech to drunk presenters and red carpet gropes, here are some of the weirdest things ever to happen at the Golden Globes.
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As Hollywood prepares to cut loose for the annual festival of wackiness known as the Golden Globes, here’s a look back at the 10 most memorable moments from previous telecasts.
1996: Brad Pitt narrowly avoids pooping his pants.
Winning best supporting actor for Twelve Monkeys, Pitt said, “I’d like to think the members of, actually the members of Kaopectate. They’ve done a great service for their fellow man. Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press for this moment of absolute terror.”
1998: Christine Lahti’s ill-timed rest stop.
Lahti was in the ladies’ room when she won the best actress award for her work in Chicago Hope. Presenter Michael J. Fox stalled, and Robin Williams hijacked the mike to kill time before a mortified Lahti finally took the stage. “I was just flushing the toilet and someone said, ‘You won,’ ” she said.
1998: Ving Rhames re-gifts his Globe.
After winning best actor in a TV movie for Don King: Only in America, tough-guy Rhames choked up with tears, then invited Jack Lemmon onstage and gave the award to his fellow nominee, who starred that year in Twelve Angry Men. “I feel that being an artist is about giving,” Rhames said, “and I’d like to give this to you, Mr. Jack Lemmon.”
2001: Elizabeth Taylor loses her focus.
When she was supposed to read off the list of nominees for best picture of 2000, Taylor began opening the envelope with the name of the winner instead. “Whaaa? I don’t open this? I’m new at this.” Producer Dick Clark had to come out and gently advise her to read the nominees first.
2005: Jamie Foxx gives a singing lesson.
Winning best actor in a musical or comedy for Ray, Foxx led the audience in an impromptu singalong, then gave a brilliant acceptance speech, saying, “I wish I could take what I’m feeling right now and put it in the water systems and everybody could drink it and we would all love each other a whole lot more.”
2006: Isaac Mizrahi gropes Scarlett Johansson.
Interviewing the star on the red carpet for E!, designer Mizrahi grabbed ScarJo’s breast, then bragged, “I touched Scarlett’s boobs.” Straight men everywhere wondered, “How many bullets would strike me if I did that? And would it be worth it?”
2010-2012: Ricky Gervais unloads on everybody.
During a spectacularly nasty three-year reign as host, Gervais steered away from the usual mild jokes, opting for straight-up Hollywood insult comedy and saying things like, “I like a drink as much as the next man. Unless the next man is Mel Gibson,” introducing Bruce Willis as “Ashton Kutcher’s dad” and joking in 2011 about Robert Downey Jr.’s rehab and prison stint.
Downey responded with, “Aside from the fact that it’s been hugely mean-spirited with mildly sinister undertones, I’d say the vibe of the show is pretty good so far.”
2011: Robert De Niro bites the hand that feeds him.
De Niro, smarting from the reviews of Little Fockers, apparently confused his hosts, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, with actual critics. As he accepted the honorary Cecil B. De Mille award, he said, “Thank you for this extraordinary honour. I was very, very moved and gratified when you made the announcement two months ago — well, before you had a chance to review Little Fockers. Yeah, I saw those. It’s okay. We all have our jobs to do.”
He continued, “I’m sorry more members of the Foreign Press aren’t with us tonight, but many of them were deported right before the show, along with most of the waiters and Javier Bardem.”
2013: Jodie Foster stumbles out of the closet.
Previously closeted gay actress Foster received the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement award, then gave a strange, rambling speech in which she claimed, weirdly, “I hope you guys weren’t hoping this would be a big coming out speech tonight, because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.”
2014: Emma Thompson kicks up her heels.
Last year, a barefoot Thompson took to the stage with her Louboutins in one hand (“This red? It’s my blood”) and her martini in the other. “Stop it,” she told the applauding audience. Realising she didn’t have a hand free to hold the envelope, she tossed her heels over her shoulder as someone delivered it to her.
Originally published as 10 shocking Golden Globes moments