Golden Globes 2017: 7 Ups & 6 Downs

1. Meryl Streep

Golden Globes 2017 Meryl Streep
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Meryl Streep may not have won in the Best Actress category, but she still got the chance to get up on stage, thanks to being awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award.

Streep delivered a fantastic, poignant, and powerful speech that served as both a takedown of 2016's most detestable performance, that of Donald Trump mocking a disable person, and also champion her fellow performers, and the three individual components of the Hollywood Foreign Press. She topped it all off by quoting Carrie Fisher, saying: “As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia said to me once, 'Take your broken heart, make it into art.'”

Streep 2020.

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