Sacha Baron Cohen vs. Trump and Giuliani, Chloé Zhao makes history, Time's Up still ticked: Golden Globes 2021 highs, lows and head-scratchers - Yahoo Entertainment

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler may have wanted to keep the 2021 Golden Globes a politics-free zone.

It didn't help that the night's first winner — Judas and the Black Messiah star Daniel Kaluuya — suffered technical difficulties during his speech that nearly prevented his voice from being heard.

While accepting his award for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical, he cuttingly characterized the former New York mayor as a "fresh new talent" who got more laughs "out of one unzipping" than anyone thought possible.

Shortly after hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler opened the ceremony by mocking the HFPA's notorious lack of diversity (the group has no Black members), a trio of executives — Meher Tatna (chairperson and former president), Ali Sar (president) and Helen Hoehne (vice president) — took the stage.

We must have Black journalists in our organization." However their statements fell flat with viewers and critics.

Chadwick Boseman didn't live to accept his Best Actor, Drama trophy for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

Yentl helmer Barbra Streisand became the first woman to shatter that particular barrier at the 41st Golden Globes in 1984, but it took another 37 years for the "sequel" to arrive in the form of Nomadland's Chloé Zhao.

Fonda gave props to a handful of projects that were overlooked, most centered around people of color, including Minari (which was controversially restricted to the Best Foreign-Language category), the Black-led films Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, One Night in Miami and Judas and the Black Messiah (which were all left out of Best Picture), and HBO's I May Destroy You (which was completely ignored despite being one of the best-reviewed shows of the year).

The Saturday Night Live veterans and longtime friends ably danced around the night’s numerous technical snafus, and didn’t hold back from criticizing their HFPA hosts for the group's questionable nomination choices, as well as its controversial lack of Black members.

In an awards show face plant for the ages, the Globes followed up Fey and Poehler's blistering monologue addressing the lack of diversity in its organization by announcing Daniel Kaluuya as the nights first winner… and then almost didn’t let him speak.

The Judas and the Black Messiah star’s attempts to accept his Best Supporting Actor trophy were marred by technical difficulties that muted his audio.

But after he won the statue for Best Actor in a Comedy — beating out the presumptive favorite, Eugene Levy — the actor's hilariously rambling speech had many wondering if he was under the influence of something other than jet lag.

Both Emma Corrin and Josh O'Connor, who played a young Princess Diana and Prince Charles in the Netflix drama, won their first Golden Globes on Sunday night.

The 2021 Globes proved once again to be Hollywood's most unpredictable awards — and that's not necessarily a compliment.

For starters, the Best Actress, Drama race included three presumptive Oscar contenders in Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom), Frances McDormand (Nomadland) and Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman), yet it was Andra Day who shocked everyone by winning for her lead turn in The United States vs.

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"Were you silent or were you silenced?" Oprah Winfrey asks the Duchess of Sussex during Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special, airing on March 7.

Two advance clips from the special were released on Monday morning.CBS Presents Oprah with Meghan and Harry: A Primetime Special in one week

#OprahMeghanHarry pic.twitter.com/WCyoHDMCaP— CBS (@CBS) March 1, 2021 In one of the new Oprah clips, Harry was seated next to Meghan, 39, with whom he is expecting a second child

“Because I can’t imagine what it must have been like for her [Diana], going through this process by herself all those years ago.“It’s been unbelievably tough for the two of us, but at least we had each other.”In a second clip Winfrey said to Meghan that no subject was off limits and at one point tells the couple “you have said some pretty shocking things here.” Oprah also asks Meghan if she was “silent or silenced.”Winfrey appeared to reference a comment made by Meghan when she said that the trolling she received was “almost unsurvivable.”The conversation was flagged as the first TV interview to be given by the couple since they made California their home last year, but Harry rather spoiled Winfrey’s exclusive when he taped an open air bus-top interview with another old friend, James Corden, which was broadcast last week

Prince Harry Tells Friend James Corden He Left the Royal Family Because It Was Destroying His Mental HealthIn that interview, Harry said he was more concerned about the intrusions of the media into his family’s life than the Netflix show The Crown, which he said was “obviously fiction.” His friend Corden did not ask whether Harry’s sympathetic attitude to the show was influenced by the reported $100m fee the couple have received from Netflix to produce content.Harry told Corden that the British press created a “difficult environment” that was destroying his mental health but insisted he “didn’t walk away” from the royal family