Watch: Brad Pitt to Leo—I would have shared the raftEllen DeGeneres and the power of televisionWas there anything better than Kate McKinnon introducing the Carol Burnett Award to Ellen DeGeneres? Sure, modern audiences know the daytime talk show host as the funny lady that she is, but back in 1997, she made some history when she played the first gay lead on television and McKinnon thanked her for paving the way: "I would've gone on thinking that I was an alien and that maybe I didn't even have a right to be here, so thank you Ellen for giving me a shot."Brad Pitt just called DiCaprio “LDC,” made a Titanic door joke, gave double fingerguns, took off using a jet pack and crashed into the cocktail shrimp bar. #GoldenGlobes
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"All I ever wanted to do was make people feel good and laugh and there's no greater feeling than when someone tells me I've made their day better with my show or that I've helped them get through a sickness or a hard time with their lives," DeGeneres said during her moving acceptance speech."The power of television for me is not that people watch my show, but that they watch my show and then they're inspired to go out and do the same thing in their own lives. They make people laugh or be kind or help someone that's less fortunate than themselves and that is the power of television and I'm so, so grateful to be a part of it."Watch: Ellen DeGeneres receives the Carol Burnettt TV Achievement AwardTom Hanks is everyone’s dadGuys, even Charlize Theron thinks Tom Hanks is her dad. When she presented him with his Cecil B. deMille Award, she told a story of freaking out during an audition for him back in the day for That Think You Do!. Instead of calling her out, he pretended that he needed five minutes so that she could compose herself, something she’s never forgotten.Even better than that introduction though was the amazing clip package some genius editor put together featuring all of Hanks’ best roles. Seriously, that thing could have been a movie in and of itself. It was enough to make Hanks tear up as he did the most DAD thing ever and used his platform to basically thank everyone for showing up and doing their job..@TheEllenShow winning the #CarolBurnett award is perfect and #KateMcKinnon’s intro was so lovely. @goldenglobes
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[video_embed id='1869379']RELATED: Tom Hanks gets emotional during his Cecil B. DeMille Award speech[/video_embed]Michelle Williams gave voice to feminismWhen Michelle Williams walked the red carpet with fiancé and baby daddy Thomas Kail earlier in the evening we were pretty obsessed. But then Williams won Outstanding Actress in a miniseries for her work on Fosse/Verdon and made a pretty darn amazing speech, as she is wont to do, and our hearts grew in size.“Women, vote in your own self-interest,” she urged. “It's what men have been doing for years. It's why the world looks so much like them.”I'm a simple human being, I see tom hanks crying I cry pic.twitter.com/LTVw7uQE4O
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Let’s just say Busy Phillips wasn’t the only Williams fan tearing up over those spot-on words.Watch: Michelle Williams appreciates a woman's choiceRocketman rode sky-highThe critics may have been skeptical about another musical biopic taking home top honours at the awards this year, but the Globes proved them all wrong when it celebrated Rocketman in style. Taron Egerton won a Best Actor award while Sir Elton John and his longtime collaborator Bernie Taupin got some hardware for “(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again.”“It’s the first time I won an award with him. Ever,” John said from the podium. “We never won a Grammy, we never did win anything together except for this and I’m so happy, thank you very much.”Watch: I'm Gonna Love Me wins the Golden GlobeAwkwafina made historyUm, did we need another reason to love Awkwafina? No, not really. But now that she’s made history as the first woman of Asian descent to win the award for Lead Actress in a Comedy/Musical at the Globes we got one anyhow. Also, her genuinely down-to-earth speech where she gave a shout-out to her dad Wally was pretty perfect.Watch: Awkwafina is proud to prove her dad wrong[video_embed id='1869372']RELATED: Awkwafina makes history at the Globes, but she's starstruck by these Canadians[/video_embed]Quentin Tarantino thanks himselfYup, that really happened.“Normally the thing is when I win a writing award, I kind of don’t have anyone to thank. I did it,” he #humblebragged.Yup, okay. It’s probably a good thing that the director decided NOT to speak when the movie also won the best musical or comedy of the year. When even Lorelei Gilmore isn’t impressed you know things are bad.Watch: Quentin Tarantino actually has people to thankJoaquin shouts out the plant-based menuWas anyone really surprised at Joaquin Phoenix’s win for Joker? Well, no. But we were tickled at his exceptionally long acceptance speech, which was slightly jumbled and made us wonder if he enjoyed a few too many sips of champagne or if that's just his regular MO. We mean, we get it—it is a long night, but when you start thanking the catering and need to be played off stage because the show is already over time, it means you should start fine-tuning that acceptance speech before the Oscars.What a speech by #MichelleWilliams! Thank you for being a champion of women, you are an inspiration ?? #GoldenGIobes https://t.co/J72vlv9Si0
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Watch: Joaquin is going to rock the f******g boatStars. They really aren’t like us at all, but that’s why we love them.Fill in the blank...#GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/doINGrWwoB
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