admin Though Sunday night’s Governors Awards may have seemed to go down pretty quietly for us non-A-listers, Black excellence made its typical joyful noise on the red carpet. The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences’ 11th Annual Governors Awards was no exception in showing up in our Sunday’s best.
Actresses Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jodie Turner-Smith, Cynthia Erivo, and Academy Award winner Regina King, amongst others, were sights to behold in colored ‘dos and bright makeup. While green, gold, and purple seemed to have been the emphasis in the fashion memo, the red carpet beauty was all about glowing skin. And everyone took heed.
While most of Hollywood’s award season glamour is reserved for the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards, the Governors Awards make for an extremely chic precursor.
As one of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ premier events, the Governors Awards celebrates some of the best people in film—and, as with most high-profile awards ceremonies, plenty of amazing celebrity fashion was involved.
From Dakota Johnson, who made a gorgeous turn in ivory Brandon Maxwell, to Hustlers star Jennifer Lopez, whose silky gold gown almost embodied an Oscar statuette, there were no shortage of flawless red carpet moments from the event.
At the Governors Awards on Sunday 91- year old Wertmuller was honored being the first Oscar-nominated female director. Geena Davis, who tirelessly promoting gender parity in media and movies through her foundation took the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. The first Native American ever to receive an Oscar is Wes Studi. And David Lynch got his long deserved statuette.
Campion came out to emphasize the disparity between men and women in this regard by mentioning that since Wertmuller’s feat only four others including both of them, Sofia Coppola, and the only female directing winner to date Kathryn Bigelow, have been nominated, while Campion methodically counted out well past 300 men. At the upbeat after-party, reaction to the show was thumbs up all the way, as it should have been. As Rubin said, it’s a party without the tension of a billion viewers tuning in, but one of which the Academy can be proud.
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