Demi Moore wins best performance by a female actor in a motion picture (musical or comedy)
Demi Moore won the Golden Globe for best performance by a female actor in a motion picture (musical or comedy) for "The Substance."
This is Moore's first Golden Globe win.
"I'm just in shock right now," Moore said in her speech. "I've been doing this a long time … and this is the first time I've ever won anything as an actor."
"Thirty years ago, I had a producer tell me that I was a popcorn actress, and at that time, I made that mean that this wasn't something I was allowed to have. That I could do movies that were successful, that made a lot of money, but that I couldn't be acknowledged, and I bought in, and I believed that," Moore said. "That corroded me over time, to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it, maybe I was complete, maybe I'd done what I was supposed to do."
"As I was at kind of a low point, I had this magical, bold, courageous, out-of-the-box, absolutely bonkers script come across my desk called 'The Substance,' and the universe told me that you're not done," she continued.
Moore expressed her thanks to her director, Coralie Fargeat, and her co-star, Margaret Qualley, for supporting her on the project.
"I'll just leave you with one thing that I think this movie is imparting. In those moments when we don't think we are smart enough or pretty enough or skinny enough or successful enough or basically just not enough, I had a woman say to me, 'Just know you will never be enough, but you can know the value of your worth if you just put down the measuring stick,'" she said. "So today, I celebrate this as a marker of my wholeness and of the love that is driving me and the gift of doing something I love and being reminded that I do belong. Thank you so much."
Other nominees in the category included Amy Adams for "Nightbitch," Cynthia Erivo for "Wicked," Karla Sofía Gascón for "Emilia Pérez," Mikey Madison for "Anora" and Zendaya for "Challengers."