The 2023 Golden Globe Awards were held on Sunday January 10th. The Stunning Angela Basset best known for her roles in Black Panther, 9-1-1, What’s Love Got To Do With It, The Rosa Parks Story, American Horror Story and much more is no stranger to the Globes. Her presence has been felt in theatres, cinemas and on Television screens.
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Basset won her first Golden Globe in 1994 for her performance as Tina Turner in the biopic “What’s Love Got To Do With It (1993), on February 10th 2023 she made history at the 2023 Golden Globes by winning the first major acting award ever for a Marvel Studios movie, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. She is the first Marvel actor to win a Golden Globe. She took home the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture even beating out Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All At Once) and Carey Mulligan (She Said).
In an emotional acceptance speech, Basset paid tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman and thanked the fans for their support.
She starts by recalling the time she accepted her first Golden Globe Award, “January 22, 1994, I stood on this stage and accepted the Golden Globe for What’s Love Got To Do With It?” and the crowd rightly starts cheering for her.
She moves on to quote the late Tony Morrison by saying “Your life is already a miracle of chance, just waiting for you to order its destiny. But in order for that destiny to manifest, I think it requires courage to have faith. It requires patience, as we just heard, and it requires a true sense of yourself. It’s not easy because the past is circuitous and it has many unexpected detours.” A fitting quote to start her speech.
After thanking the HFPA, “I stand here grateful to the Hollywood Foreign Press for giving me this honor along with Wakanda Forever, her team, her family, Kevin Feige, the great Ryan Coogler, director of Black Panther and the cast and crew of Wakanda Forever, “I love you from the depths of my heart,” she said.
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Angela paid tribute to the beloved Chadwick Boseman with these beautifully inspiring words “To my Marvel Disney family, weeping may come in the evening, but joy comes in the morning. We embarked on this journey together with love. We mourned, we loved, we healed, and we were surrounded each and every day by the light and the spirit of Chadwick Boseman,” she said. “We have joy in knowing that, well, with this historic ‘Black Panther’ series, it is a part of his legacy that he helped to lead us to.”
In speaking of the impact Black Panther has had on the black community and on cinema she said “We showed the world what Black unity, leadership and love looks like beyond, behind and in front of the camera.”
After an emotional moment, she goes on to thank the Marvel fans for their support “And to the Marvel fans, thank you for embracing these characters and showing us so much love. We just made history with this nomination and with this award. It belongs to all of you, all of us.”
From the moments fans watched Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, one thing was for sure, Angela Basset was brilliant as Queen Ramonda, she delivered a powerful performance, one that completely blew audiences away and one that was definitely award worthy, and that was something we could all agree on.
Watch her full speech here, Angela Bassett, a true queen indeed. She is a force when it comes to the entertainment industry.
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