The 2024 Golden Globes are happening tonight. The annual award show celebrates the very best in TV and movies from the past year.
From Succession to Barbie, last year was big for TV and movies, and the Golden Globes makes the first big award show of this awards season.
Over the course of the night, several people won their first Golden Globes, like Christopher Nolan for Best Director, Steven Yeun for Best Performance in a Limited Series, Da'Vine Joy Randolph for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, and more.
And another one of the first-time winners from tonight's Golden Globes was Ayo Edebiri, who won for her incredible work as Sydney Adamu in The Bear.
After hugging her costar Jeremy Allen White, who won his second Golden Globe for his work as Carmy on The Bear, Ayo took the stage and delivered a great acceptance speech.
She started it off by taking in the incredible room she was standing in and how she was among people she's admired for years.
Ayo thanked her family and her The Bear family, saying, "I love you guys so much. It's an honor to work with you and grow alongside you."
But the best part of Ayo's speech was after she realized she might've forgotten to thank some people, she thanked her agents and managers, but emphasized the importance of assistants.
The entire room clapped, with the camera even zooming in on Taylor Swift, who clapped and nodded in agreement.
Then, Ayo added, "Thank you for answering my crazy, crazy emails."
Assistants are honestly the backbone of Hollywood and seem to go unnoticed for all of their tireless hard work, so people were praising Ayo for using her speech to thank hers, especially former assistants:
As a former Hollywood assistant, Ayo Edebiri’s shoutout to assistants is so lovely to hear. #GoldenGlobes
As a former talent manager's assistant.... Ayo shouting out assistants made me love her 100 times more than I already did... she is and always will be one of the GIRLS!!!!!!!!!!!
ayo edebiri thanking the assistants… as a former hollywood assistant, i am crying. i have never heard such a wonderful acknowledgement of how HARD that work is. hollywood assistants are the absolute backbone of this industry #GoldenGlobes#goldenglobes2024
