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Daniel Kaluuya overcomes the first hiccup of the night.
Feb. 28, 2021, 8:47 p.m. ET
Daniel Kaluuya experienced the first glitch of the night when the time came to accept his best supporting actor win — the first Golden Globe Award of his career — for playing the radical leader Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah.”
Though it briefly looked like he wouldn’t get the chance to deliver his acceptance speech when he started speaking, but a bad connection left him without sound.
“As you can see, we unfortunately have a bad connection,” Laura Dern, who was presenting the award, said.
But the issue was soon resolved, and viewers got to hear him after all.
“You did me dirty!” he said, once the issue was fixed. He then thanked the film’s director, Shaka King, “for your inspiration,” and paid tribute to Fred Hampton.
“I hope generations after this can see how brilliantly he thought, how brilliantly he spoke and how brilliantly he loved,” Kaluuya said.
Audio glitches have been a season-long awards show issue, and the Gotham Awards in January were filled with glitches when it came to winners’ acceptance speeches.
Kaluuya beat out Sacha Baron Cohen (“The Trial of the Chicago 7”), Jared Leto (“The Little Things”), Bill Murray (“On the Rocks”) and Leslie Odom Jr. (“One Night in Miami”).
In his review of the film, The New York Times co-chief film critic A.O. Scott wrote that Kaluuya presents Hampton “as something more than a simple saint or hero.” He noted that the actor “finds inflections of Southernness in his voice and manner — undertones of humor and courtliness, an appreciation of the expressive possibilities of language.”
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Source: Movies - nytimes.com