{"id":645,"date":"2012-01-17T21:30:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T21:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/?p=645"},"modified":"2012-01-17T21:57:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T21:57:59","slug":"golden-globes-go-to-octavia-spencer-idris-elba-morgan-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Golden Globes Go to Octavia Spencer, Idris Elba &#038; Morgan Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_160475\"><a title=\"octavia spencer\" rel=\"lightbox[160473]\" href=\"http:\/\/cdn.eurweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/octavia_spencer2012-hand-to-head-med-big.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"octavia spencer\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.eurweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/octavia_spencer2012-hand-to-head-med-big.jpg\" alt=\"octavia spencer\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a> Octavia Spencer won best supporting actress for her role as Minnie in &#8216;The Help&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>*The 2012 Golden Globes were given out Sunday night in Hollywood. Among the many winners were Octavia Spencer, Idris Elba and Morgan Freeman.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer won best supporting actress for her role as a brassy housekeeper joining other black maids to share stories about life with their white employers in the 1960s Deep South tale \u201cThe Help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith regard to domestics in this country, now and then, I think Dr. King said it best: \u2018All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance.\u2019 And I thank you for recognizing that with our film,\u201d Spencer said.<\/p>\n<p>Idris Elba of \u201cLuther\u201d won the Golden Globe award for actor in a series, miniseries or motion picture made for television.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Freeman, awarded this year\u2019s Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes, is well aware of how influential movies and the film industry can be on its audiences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the more effective avenues for learning American history is movies. I was always a big reader when I was a kid, but movies -\u2013 they\u2019re so impactive,\u201d Freeman told reporters backstage at the Globes on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Since Meryl Streep won the Golden Globe for best actress in a drama for her turn as Margaret Thatcher in \u201cThe Iron Lady,\u201d that means Viola Davis didn\u2019t win for her lead role as Aibileen in \u201cThe Help.\u201d That could portend things to come for Davis as some see the Globes as a key step to winning an Oscar.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_160474\"><a title=\"idris elba\" rel=\"lightbox[160473]\" href=\"http:\/\/cdn.eurweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/idris_elba2012-golden-globes-wide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"idris elba\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.eurweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/idris_elba2012-golden-globes-wide.jpg\" alt=\"idris elba\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Octavia Spencer won best supporting actress for her role as Minnie in &#8216;The Help&#8217; *The 2012 Golden Globes were given out Sunday night in Hollywood. Among the many winners were Octavia Spencer, Idris Elba and Morgan Freeman. Spencer won best supporting actress for her role as a brassy housekeeper joining other black maids to share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}