After receiving 14 Golden Globes nominations, Apple TV+ notched just one win Sunday — but it was a big one. Lily Gladstone became the first Indigenous winner of a best-actress Golden Globe for her performance in Martin Scorsese’s historical epic Killers of the Flower Moon.
So, while Apple TV+ remains the only streamer to win an Oscar — 2022’s Best Picture for CODA — it didn’t exactly clean up this year at the Globes, which tend to foreshadow the Academy Awards.
With Killers of the Flower Moon win, Lily Gladstone becomes first Indigenous woman to get a best-actress Golden Globe
In December 2023, Apple TV+ received 14 Golden Globes nominations for half a dozen titles, including seven for Scorsese’s movie, plus Ted Lasso, Slow Horses, The Morning Show, Lessons in Chemistry and Shrinking.
But only Killers of the Flower Moon won a Golden Globe, namely Best Performance by a Female Actor — Motion Picture, Drama for Gladstone, who plays wealthy Osage woman Mollie Burkhart in the film.
She defeated other nominees in the category — Carey Mulligan, Sandra Huller, Annette Bening, Greta Lee and Cailee Spaeny. Also nominated for Killers was Leonardo DiCaprio as best actor (male), but Cillian Murphy took that category for Oppenheimer.
‘For every little rez kid’
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Read Gladstone’s acceptance speech, which she opened with a few words in the native Blackfeet language:
I love everyone in this room right now, thank you. I don’t have words. I just spoke a bit of Blackfeet language, the beautiful community nation that raised me, that encouraged me to keep going, keep doing this. To my mom, who even though she’s not Blackfeet worked tirelessly to get our language into our classroom, so I had a Blackfeet language teacher growing up.
I’m so grateful that I can speak even a little bit of my language, which I’m not fluent enough 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. This is an historic one. It doesn’t belong to just me. I’m holding it right now, I’m holding it with all my beautiful sisters in the film and my mother [in the film], Tantoo Cardinal.
Thank you, thank you Marty, thank you Leo, thank you Bob. You are all changing things. Thank you for being such allies. Thank you, Eric [Roth, the co-screenwriter], thank you Chief Standing Bear … and the Osage Nation.
This is for every little rez kid, every little urban kid, every little Native kid who has a dream, who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves in our own words with tremendous allies and tremendous trust with and from each other.
A hit at the box office and with critics
Gladstone’s movie is based on Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, the 2017 nonfiction book by journalist David Grann. Cult of Mac‘s critic gave the movie five stars, calling it “grueling but important.”
The much-anticipated, $250 million film hit theaters worldwide in October. Despite its 3.5-hour runtime and heavy subject matter — the “Reign of Terror” in which Osage Nation people were murdered for their oil wealth starting in the 1920s — it proved to be a box-office hit as well as a darling of critics.
Watch it on Apple TV+
Apple TV+ subscribers can watch Killers of the Flower Moon when it starts streaming there on Friday (January 12).
Apple TV+ is available by subscription for $9.99 with a seven-day free trial. You can also get it via any tier of the Apple One subscription bundle. For a limited time, customers who purchase and activate a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch can enjoy three months of Apple TV+ for free.
After first airing in November 2019, “Apple TV+ became the first all-original streaming service to launch around the world, and has premiered more original hits and received more award recognitions faster than any other streaming service. To date, Apple Original films, documentaries and series have been honored with 299 wins and 1,451 award nominations and counting,” the service said.
In addition to award-winning movies and TV shows (including breakout soccer comedy Ted Lasso), Apple TV+ offers a variety of documentaries, dramas, comedies, kids shows and more.
