The lifetime achievement awards handed out by the Golden Globes honored a pair of legendary artists in Norman Lear and Jane Fonda on Sunday.
Lear, 98, accepted the Carol Burnett Award for a career that spans nearly the whole of the television era, from the Colgate Comedy Hour with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in the ’50s to such iconic ’70s shows as “All In The Family,” “Maude,” and “The Jeffersons,” to the recent reboot of his own “One Day at a Time.”
“Thank you for this wonderful night,” Lear said. “It knocks me out to be introduced by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey and to accept an award in the name of Carol Burnett.
“I am convinced that laughter adds time to one’s life, and nobody has made me laugh harder, nobody I owe more time to, than Carol Burnett.”
Lear thanked many of his collaborators across his career who’d contributed to the success for which he was honored on Sunday, as well as his wife, children and extended family.
“Close to 99, I can tell you that I’ve never lived alone, I’ve never laughed alone, and that has as much with me being here today as anything I know,” he said.
And then, once more, he thanked Burnett, in whose name the award was established two years ago.
“As I think about you and laughter and the joy of our parallels together, so glad we had this time together,” Lear said, tugging his ear as Burnett did at the end of each of her shows and using her signature sign-off to say goodnight.
Fonda, 83, arrived on stage at the Beverly Hilton to accept the Cecil B. DeMille Award, a recognition of her long, acclaimed career in film later in the program.
In a warm, open-hearted speech, she spoke about the power of film and television, among arts in general, to nurture empathy and understanding among diverse peoples.
“We are a community of storytellers, aren’t we?” Fonda said. “And in turbulent, crisis-torn times like these, stories have always been essential. They can help us see each other in a new light. To have empathy. To recognize that for all our diversity we are humans first.
“If my heart is open and I look beneath the surface, I feel kinship,” she said.
Fonda listed the ways in which recent movies and television series affected her. “Nomadland” gave her a new understanding of the wanderers in society. “One Night in Miami,” “Little Axe,” and “Judas and the Black Messiah” gave her connections to the Black experience in the United States.
“Stories, they really can change people,” Fonda said, making a segue to speak of diversity in the industry. “But there’s a story that we’ve been afraid to see and hear in our industry. A story about who’s offered a seat at the table and who’s kept out of the room where decisions are made.
“Let’s all of us make an effort to expand that tent, so that everyone rises, and everyone’s story has a chance to be seen and be heard.”
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