Natalie Portman Heroically Announces "All-Male" Nominees at the Golden Globes

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear elegant black dresses.

Last night at the Golden Globes, Oprah delivered the incredible speech that everyone’s talking about. But she wasn’t the only one to catch everyone’s attention.

Natalie Portman, with just a few words, called out hypocrisy and showed that she was not even remotely f–king around. See the epic moment below!

The big chatter leading up to Sunday night’s Golden Globes award show, everyone was talking about the black dresses.

Would every woman be wearing a black dress? Was it a visual sign of solidarity or an empty gesture?

(Hint: since these women are doing a lot more than have a matching color scheme, it’s really not an empty gesture)

People also talked about men wearing black in support … but since men are generally dressed in mostly black for these events anyway, would that be significant in any way?

But once people started showing up on the red carpet, talk swiftly turned away from the omnipresent (and gorgeous) black dresses.

Debra Messing (who remains beloved, even though the Will & Grace revival is kind of a mess) called out E! for allegedly not paying Catt Sadler fairly.

The gender pay gap is serious business, folks, and it exists in so many businesses. Sadler quit E! after more than a decade, upon learning that her male costar was allegedly earning twice her salary.

Messing said this on E!‘s red carpet, while being interviewed by Giuliana Rancic.

Eva Longoria, looking pregnant and gorgeous, also called out E! for their alleged pay gap.

The highlight of this Golden Globes night of zero chill was definitely Oprah’s inspiring, powerful speech.

But Oprah wasn’t the only star speaking out or making headlines and waves from that stage.

Natalie Portman and Ron Howard came up on stage for what seemed like it would be a regular, run-of-the-mill presentation of the Best Director category and the announcement of the winner.

But, as you can see here, Natalie Portman announced the nominees by highlighting the fact that every single nominee was male:

“And here are the all-male nominees.”

Honestly? What a great reminder that Natalie Portman was the best possible choice to play Padme Amidala. Sometimes the character and actor match up.

Anyway, this moment did not go unnoticed.

Shonda Rhimes tweeted: “‘And here are the all male nominees.’ Natalie Portman calls it for what it is.”

Sarah Silverman tweeted: “Oh s–t Portman for the win! ‘And here are the all male nominees’ wheeeeWhoooo!!”

We don’t want to give the impression that the Golden Globes were business as usual. They were not.

Oprah was the first black woman in her category.

Sterling K. Brown made history with his award.

Aziz Ansari made history with his award.

But these are long overdue milestones. These are entire demographics of supremely talented actors who have been shut out for years and are only now receiving the recognition that they deserve.

Kind of like plenty of female directors who, many believe, deserved more recognition for their groundbreaking work in 2017.

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CBS President Defends All-Male, Mostly-White Fall Lineup

CBS is the most-watched network on television.

But some folks out there are growing increasingly concerned about just what viewers are watching on The Eye these days.

Or, to be more specific, about just WHO viewers are watching.

For the second year in a row, CBS presented a group of new shows at its Upfront Presentation in New York City this week that was lacking in two departments:

1. Diversity.

2. Boobs.

Indeed, there are six new dramas and sitcoms on the network’s 2017-2018 schedule and five are led by a white male, while the sixth is led by an African-American male.

The new programs and their top-billed stars are:

• SEAL Team, David Boreanaz


•  S.W.A.T., Shemar Moore


• Wisdom of the Crowd, Jeremy Piven


• 9JKL, Mark Feuerstein


• Me, Myself & I, Bobby Moynihan 


• Young Sheldon, Iain Armitage

What the heck, CBS? Where’s the diversity?!?

On Wednesday morning, a reporter asked CBS President Les Moonves whether it was really a sound strategy to not have a single female lead among his new crop of programs.

“We saw this with you guys last year,” the reporter asked, adding:

“Are you concerned, particularly in a medium like television where women watch more than men, that you have such a male-centered [lineup]?”

It’s true.

These were the faces at the forefront of CBS’ new shows a year ago:

Replied Moonves:

“Well, number one, more women watch CBS, percentage-wise, than any other network, so our shows have a lot of female appeal.

“I don’t think we’ve ever had to apologize for having Madam Secretary and Lucy Liu [on Elementary], and The Good Fight [on CBS All Access] and The Good Wife.

“We do a number of pilots, a lot of them have women in starring roles. There are a lot of women on the schedule. The best pilots win at the end of the day.

“And we think our track record is okay.”

As we said, CBS is the most-watched network on television.

So this issue begs the question of whether it has a social responsibility to be more diverse…

… or whether the viewing public should shoulder some blame because, hey, they’re the ones tuning in to CBS in droves. What’s a network to do when it’s obviously fulfilling its goals of putting appealing shows on the air?

But this reporter pressed on.

“We’re at this point in the industry — FX, for example, is trying to make sure half its directors are female. It seems like you guys might be facing in the wrong direction?” she asked.

“I don’t think that’s the case,” Moonves shot back.

He then elaborated as follows:

“Let me put on my CEO hat for a second because I’m not the president of entertainment. When I look at the totality of what CBS is, I look at news, I look at daytime, I look at sports, I look at Showtime, I look at The CW.

“And when you look at the totality of that, I think we’re fine in terms of the amount of women who are behind the camera and in front of the camera. I think we’re doing a very good job.

“I don’t think we’re looking in the wrong direction, on the contrary.”

What do you think of this controversy?

Is it much ado about nothing?

Does a television network have a social responsibility of some kind? Or do they actually have a responsibility to shareholders, which means they should only focus on programs that are popular… and no network does a better job of that than CBS.

Tough questions.

Discuss!

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