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Felix Clary
ICT + Tulsa World
Lily Gladstone – the female lead of Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” – continued making history Sunday, becoming the first Native woman to win the Golden Globe award for best actress in a dramatic film.
In December, Gladstone became the first Native woman nominated for the award for her role in “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The awards were announced Sunday night at the Golden Globe award ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles.
In a recent People’s article, Gladstone is quoted saying she prefers she/they pronouns. ICT will use she/they interchangeably to refer to Gladstone.
In her speech, Gladstone spoke some of her Blackfeet language and thanked those that helped her reach this moment.
“I’m so grateful that I can speak even a little bit of my language, which I’m not fluent enough up here. Because in this business, Native actors used to speak their lines in English and then the sound mixers would run them backwards to accomplish Native languages on camera,” Gladstone said. “This is an historic win, it doesn’t belong to just me. I’m holding it right now I’m holding it with all of my beautiful sisters.”
“And this is for every little rez kid, every little urban kid, every little Native kid out there who has a dream, who is seeing themselves represented in our stories, told by ourselves, in our own words, with tremendous allies and tremendous trust,” Gladstone added.
From the Blackfeet Reservation in northwestern Montana, Gladstone comes from Kainai (Blood), Amskapi Piikani (Blackfeet) and Niimiipuu (Nez Perce) tribal nations.
At the Globes, Gladstone wore a white strapless Valentino gown with a black opera coat and earrings from Blackfeet designer Lenise Omeaso of Antelope Women Designs, according to InStyle.
Starring next to Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, Gladstone plays Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman in 1920s Oklahoma who suffers a series of murders of her close Osage Nation friends and family members after oil is discovered on their lands.
“Killers of the Flower Moon” received seven nominations: Best Picture (Drama), Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Score. It only won in the Best Actress category, overshadowed by Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” which won five awards for Best Picture (Drama), Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Score.
DiCaprio was nominated for best actor in a dramatic film for his role as Molly’s villainous husband Ernest Buckhart in “Flower Moon.” And De Niro earned a nomination for best supporting actor.
In 2022, Gladstone appeared in “The Unknown Country,” “Quantum Cowboys,” “The Last Manhunt,” “Fancy Dance,” six episodes on the TV series “Billions,” and two “Reservation Dogs” episodes.
The competitors in Gladstone’s category at the 2023 Golden Globes were Annette Bening (“Nyad”), Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”), Greta Lee (“Past Lives”), Carey Mulligan (“Maestro”) and Cailee Spaeny (“Priscilla”).
“Killers of the Flower Moon” nominations:
Best Motion Picture Drama
Best Performance Female Actor in Motion Picture Drama | Lily Gladstone
Best Performance Male Actor in Motion Picture Drama | Leonardo DiCaprio
Best Director Motion Picture | Martin Scorsese
Best Original Score Motion Picture | Robbie Robertson
Best Supporting Male Actor in any Motion Picture | Robert De Niro
Best Screenplay Motion Picture | Eric Roth, Martin Scorsese
This story is co-published by the Tulsa World and ICT, a news partnership that covers Indigenous communities in the Oklahoma area.
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