“Selma” was up for four Golden Globes awards Sunday night and while it claimed only one, for best original song (“Glory”), director Ava DuVernay declared victory even before the ceremony began.
“We’ve already won,” she tweeted ahead of time. “We made a film we believe in, and now it’s out in theaters and moving in the world!”
She was up for best director/motion picture (Richard Linklater won, for “Boyhood”), David Oyelowo was up for best actor/drama for his portrayal of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (Eddie Redmayne won, for “The Theory of Everything”) and the movie was up for best picture/drama (“Boyhood” won).
Still, rapper-actor Common, who with John Legend accepted the best-song trophy, had one of the most inspirational acceptance speeches of the night.
“The first day I stepped on the set of ‘Selma,’ I began to feel like this was bigger than a movie,” said Common, who portrayed James Bevel in the film about the Selma-to-Montgomery march movement, much of which was filmed in metro Atlanta. “As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement I realized, I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote. I am the caring white supporter killed on the front lines of freedom. I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand but instead was given a bullet. I am the two fallen police officers murdered in the line of duty. ‘Selma’ has awakened my humanity.”
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