He graced the stage as one of the few in-person attendees during the Golden Globe Awards’ first-ever bicoastal ceremony on Sunday evening.
And Ben Stiller looked like the ultimate silver fox as he showed off his salt-and-pepper hair, while presenting the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.
The 55-year-old actor joked that he ‘finally got around to dyeing [his] hair gray,’ before unveiling his quarantine-derived banana bread baking skills.
Silver fox: Ben Stiller looked like the ultimate silver fox as he showed off his salt-and-pepper hair, while presenting the award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Yum! The 55-year-old actor joked that he ‘finally got around to dyeing [his] hair gray,’ before unveiling his quarantine-derived banana bread baking skills
‘Like so many other resilient Americans I learned to bake…,’ began Stiller as he lifted the lid off a plate resting on a podium next to him.
‘…a delicious banana bread in the perfect form of a Golden Globe! Yum!’ he exclaimed.
He then tore off a piece of his homemade banana bread and placed it in his mouth, before reading off the Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy nominees for viewers at home.
Rosamund Pike walked away with the Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy gong, which she graciously accepted via webcam.
The Meet The Parents star jokingly provided the audience with some insight into his other lockdown antics, referencing to the recent surge in ‘crypto currency’ and tackling the chore of getting through a single book.
Lockdown hobby: ‘Like so many other resilient Americans I learned to bake…,’ began Stiller as he lifted the lid off a plate resting on a podium next to him
This year’s ceremony, which usually takes place in early January, was pushed back to February 28 as Hollywood continues to adjust to the coronavirus pandemic and new safety guidelines.
Amy Poehler and Tina Fey return to host for the fourth time. The comedy duo did the honors in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
It is the first ever awards show to be broadcast from two separate coasts.
Fey, 50, is broadcasting from atop New York City’s Rockefeller Center in the Rainbow Room and Poehler, 49, in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where the ceremony is usually held annually.
Nominees will be tuning into the ceremony remotely but presenters have been asked to appear in person.
Chow down: ‘…a delicious banana bread in the perfect form of a Golden Globe! Yum!’ he exclaimed
Jokes on jokes: The Meet The Parents star jokingly provided the audience with some insight into his other lockdown antics, referencing to the recent surge in ‘crypto currency’ and tackling the chore of reading a single book
The impressive list of presenters this year includes; Awkwafina, Cynthia Erivo, Annie Mumolo, Joaquin Phoenix, Kristen Wiig and Renee Zellweger, Kevin Bacon, Sterling K. Brown, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Margot Robbie, Tiffany Haddish, Anthony Anderson, Kate Hudson and Kenan Thompson.
Satchel and Jackson Lee, children of three-time Golden Globe nominated filmmaker Spike Lee and producer/philanthropist Tonya Lewis Lee, are serving as the 2021 Golden Globe Ambassadors.
Jane Fonda, 83, is receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award, an accolade for film. The acting icon has previously won Golden Globes for her roles in Klute, Julia and Coming Home.
Norman Lear will be honored with the Carol Burnett Award, a counterpart to the DeMille Award that focuses on life achievement in television. The writer, director and producer is a six-time Golden Globe winner.
Nominations were announced on February 3 with streaming giant Netflix receiving 42 nominations across film and television.
One more bite: He then tore off a piece of his homemade banana bread and placed it in his mouth, before reading off the Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy nominees for viewers at home
David Fincher’s Mank lead with six nominations across film, while The Crown also topped the TV categories with the same number of nominations.
Netflix smash-hit Emily in Paris found itself as one of the more controversially nominated shows, landing a nomination for best TV series, musical or comedy. The show’s star, Lily Collins, also got a nod for best actress.
Much of the uproar surrounding the nomination stems from the snubbing of Michaela Coel, whose HBO drama I May Destroy You failed to land any nominations.
Deborah Copaken, one of the writers of Emily in Paris, even spoke out to criticize the Hollywood Foreign Press for shunning Coel.
Copaken tweeted that it was ‘just wrong’, and later expanded on her thoughts in an op-ed for the Guardian.
Winner! Rosamund Pike walked away with the Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy gong, which she graciously accepted via webcam
Adjustments: This year’s ceremony, which usually takes place in early January, was pushed back to February 28 as Hollywood continues to adjust to the coronavirus pandemic and new safety guidelines
‘Am I excited that Emily in Paris was nominated? Yes. Of course. I’ve never been remotely close to seeing a Golden Globe statue up close, let alone being nominated for one,’ she wrote.
‘But that excitement is now unfortunately tempered by my rage over Coel’s snub. That I May Destroy You did not get one Golden Globe nod is not only wrong, it’s what is wrong with everything.
‘We need art that reflects all of our colors, not just some. But we also need to give awards to shows (and music and films and plays and musicals) that deserve them, no matter the color of the skin of their creators,’ she went on to write.
Last year’s 77th Golden Globes, hosted by Ricky Gervais, averaged 19.2 million viewers, making it one of the most-watched network telecasts of 2020.