There’s no doubt about it: this awards season is going to go down in history.
Thanks to the current climate of retribution and reckoning for all the shit women have had to put up with in Hollywood and beyond, we’ve had the exhilarating Time’s Up movement that brought nearly everyone to the Golden Globes wearing black, we’ve had none other than Barbra Streisand going the fuck in on the award establishment’s total disregard for amazing female talent, and we’ve got Natalie Portman executing the closest thing to a mic-drop any stuffy Hollywood gala’s ever gonna see.
Watch this:
Natalie Portman called out the fact that no women were nominated for Best Director tonight pic.twitter.com/mswFBaTg4r
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) January 8, 2018
Ahh, yep, that’s Portman using the preamble to introducing the nominees for Best Director to point out – clearly off-script – that they are all men.
Girl knew exactly what she was doing, and pretty much the entire internet is now doing this:
Seriously. Dropping that in when the structure of the presentation meant that the producers had no choice but to cut to the all-male nominee list? Genius.
Natalie Portman on best director: “And Here are the all male nominees.”
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DEAD— Listening in the Dark ✨ Amber Tamblyn (@ambertamblyn) January 8, 2018
I couldn’t believe someone had to immediately follow Oprah and then Natalie Portman comes through with that 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
— Jenn Kaytin Robinson (@JennKaytin) January 8, 2018
Natalie: Here are all the male nominees
All the women: pic.twitter.com/y0ASx4gSnk
— IG: honeyflavoredbabe (@totalbabe_) January 8, 2018
I know the night’s not over, but for me, Portman’s was the climactic moment. Different from a Red Carpet statement or even one of the great speeches—a challenge to the etiquette of the whole occasion.
— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) January 8, 2018
“And here are the all male nominees.” Natalie Portman being savage is everything I need in life. She’s perfect.
— this is joshua (@joshuacwhite) January 8, 2018
https://www.instagram.com/p/BdrWktfg3jf/?taken-by=clambistro
tonight my boyfriend and i are going to roleplay as Natalie Portman and the ashamed look on every Best Director nominee
— Sam H. Escobar (@myhairisblue) January 8, 2018
https://twitter.com/HereIsGina/status/950206617319911424
https://twitter.com/vestafresh/status/950206248296775680
Natalie Portman presenting Best Director pic.twitter.com/0MkjhMwG2w
— Mike Ryan (@mikeryan) January 8, 2018
Bring on the Oscars, I say. This year is gonna be WILD.