Lily Gladstone made history at the Golden Globes on Sunday (8), when she became the first person who identifies as indigenous to win the award for Best Actress in a Drama during the ceremony.
Gladstone won for his performance in the Martin Scorsese-directed drama “Killers on Flower Street,” in which he stars alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.
“This is a historic case. It doesn't just belong to me. I’m holding it now, holding it with all my beautiful sisters,” she said during her speech.
Speaking initially in the Blackfeet language, Gladstone went on to say that the Blackfeet Nation is the “beautiful community, nation that raised me and encouraged me to keep going, keep doing this.”
She also paid tribute to her mother, who accompanied her at the ceremony on Sunday, saying, “my mother, although not Blackfeet, worked tirelessly to bring our language into our classrooms, so I had a Blackfeet English teacher growing up.”
Gladstone expressed his gratitude for being able to speak “a little bit” of his language “because in this business, the native actors used to speak their lines in English and then the sound mixers would run them backwards to get the native languages on camera.”
Moving on to mention the Osage Nation, centered in “Flower Moon,” Gladstone ended his speech by saying that this award is for children who “have seen themselves represented in our stories told by ourselves in our own words, with tremendous allies and tremendous trust.” ”
Gladstone grew up on the Blackfeet reservation in northwestern Montana, according to The Guardian, telling the publication in 2017 that he lived on reservation land until he was 11 years old. She has tribal affiliations that include Kainai, Amskapi Piikani and Nimi'ipuu First Nations.
In “Killers on Flower Street,” she plays Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman who is the wife of DiCaprio’s Ernest Burkhart.
This marks Gladstone's first Globe nomination and win.
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