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Lily Gladstone, the female lead of Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” became the first Indigenous nominee in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama, at the Golden Globes.
The winners are set to be announced on CBS on Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.
The film itself received seven nominations: Best Picture (Drama), Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Score. The film’s competitors in the category of Best Picture (Drama) are “Oppenheimer,” “Maestro,” “Past Lives,” “The Zone of Interest” and “Anatomy of a Fall.”
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.
DiCaprio was nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama, for his role as Molly’s villainous husband, Ernest Buckhart, in “Flower Moon.” And De Niro earned a nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture.
The New York Film Critics Circle named “Flower Moon” the Best Film of 2023 and Gladstone, the Best Actress.
“She had a very sharp sense of her own presence before the camera and an extremely unusual trust in simplicity,” said Scorsese about Gladstone in her role as Molly. “That’s a rare thing. You can’t take your eyes off her.”
Gladstone’s nomination echoes the 1995 Golden Globe nomination of Irene Bedard (Alaska Native) for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for her performance in “Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee.”
Osage Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear was quoted in a social media post as saying, “We are excited to see the cast and crew of Killers of the Flower Moon receiving much-deserved recognition with their Golden Globe nominations. Osage Nation saw firsthand the hard work and dedication put into creating this film, and we are proud of our collaborative efforts to ensure the Osage language and culture were properly represented. At Osage Nation, we say ͘, which means ‘do your best.’ Each of these nominees did just that.”
Recently, Gladstone has been showcasing Indigenous glamor on the film’s press tour, alongside fellow “Flower Moon” Indigenous actresses Cara Jade Myers (Anna Brown), JaNae Collins (Reta Smith) and Jillian Dion (Minnie Smith).
From the Blackfeet Reservation in northwestern Montana, Gladstone comes from Kainai (Blood), Amskapi Piikani (Blackfeet) and Niimiipuu (Nez Perce) tribal nations.
Her role in Kelly Reichardt’s “Certain Women” earned her multiple nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the Independent Spirit Awards and Best Breakthrough Actor at the Gotham Awards.
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 her category at the 2023 Golden Globes are Annette Bening (Nyad), Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall), Greta Lee (Past Lives), Carey Mulligan (Maestro) and Cailee Spaeny (Priscilla).
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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