{Awards Season 2016} Hollywood Film Awards
Here are the former young actresses who attended the 19th Annual Hollywood Film Awards, held November on 1 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and hosted by James Corden. The show wasn't televised due to last year's poor ratings.
Saoirse Ronan, 21, received the New Hollywood Award for Brooklyn. The award was presented by Ryan Gosling, who directed Saoirse in Lost River. Is another Oscar nomination in the near future for her? She's keeping her fingers crossed! Saoirse read her (rather lengthy) acceptance speech for the teleprompter, but I don't think the fact that it was obviously prepared made it any less touching.
"Thank you so much. Um, thank you to the Hollywood Film Awards, to Carlos who organized the whole thing, and to my pal Ryan The Gos [presenter Ryan Gosling] for giving me this award. [audience laughs] Um, The Gos himself is here. I'm gonna stick to auto-cue because I'll cry otherwise. Um, I get quite nervous doin' these things. Here we go.
Ah, Brooklyn gave more to me than I could ever give to it. It continues to help me grow, to give me perspective. I think of it every time I have to say goodbye to my mum and get on a plane to go somewhere that isn't home. This film is still teaching me more than I ever thought it would. Maybe on some level, I knew the effect that it would have on me. When my mother and my father weren't much older than Eilis, they made the journey from Dublin to Ire - to New York. They worked there for ten years, and while they were there, they had me. I'm a Bronx girl, obviously. [audience laughs] Me and J-Lo are like that -- very close, very tight.
Ah, nothing will ever prepare for you for the feeling you get when you leave home for the first time. You're fine one moment. The freedom of being young in a new place where not everyone knows your auntie is exciting. The next moment, you can barely see in front of you because all you want to do is go back. But you can't. You've taken that step outside your mum and dad's front door into the big world, and now it's done, and you know that, and it's scary.
Brooklyn came along just when I needed it to. I went into it not feeling ready, not feeling good enough to do the story justice. I was scared. All of a sudden, I was shooting in a town half away - half an hour away from where I grew up. We were making a film at home about home, while I was homesick. But as the days went on, the pressure lifted off me, little by little. Nick and Colm's writing reminded me every day that I was not alone. John's unwavering focus and belief in this story made me pull myself together and work for a film that I knew meant a lot to all of us. Our crews worked so bloody hard, the first to arrive and usually the last to leave. The other actors breathed such life into this world, and because they were all so good, they helped me push myself further. To play a character that goes through her fair share of grief, of sadness and heartbreak, who falls in love, who misses home and her dear sister Rose, and who comes out the other side ready and able to make a choice that is right for her, was an honor, as an actor and as a young woman.
I couldn't be more grateful, me bein' the Bronx-meets-Ireland kid that I am, that this little film called Brooklyn was made, and that I got to be a part of it. So thanks to everyone who helped make the film, and thanks to everyone here for lettin' me go off on one for the last couple of minutes.
Although she skipped the red carpet, Selena Gomez, 23, presented the Comedy Award to Amy Schumer for Trainwreck.
Reese Witherspoon, 39, presented the Supporting Actor Award to Benicio Del Toro for Sicario.
Also attending the show were Thora Birch, now 33, and Danica McKellar, 40.
Previous posts on the Hollywood Film Awards: 2014.
Saoirse Ronan, 21, received the New Hollywood Award for Brooklyn. The award was presented by Ryan Gosling, who directed Saoirse in Lost River. Is another Oscar nomination in the near future for her? She's keeping her fingers crossed! Saoirse read her (rather lengthy) acceptance speech for the teleprompter, but I don't think the fact that it was obviously prepared made it any less touching.
"Thank you so much. Um, thank you to the Hollywood Film Awards, to Carlos who organized the whole thing, and to my pal Ryan The Gos [presenter Ryan Gosling] for giving me this award. [audience laughs] Um, The Gos himself is here. I'm gonna stick to auto-cue because I'll cry otherwise. Um, I get quite nervous doin' these things. Here we go.
Ah, Brooklyn gave more to me than I could ever give to it. It continues to help me grow, to give me perspective. I think of it every time I have to say goodbye to my mum and get on a plane to go somewhere that isn't home. This film is still teaching me more than I ever thought it would. Maybe on some level, I knew the effect that it would have on me. When my mother and my father weren't much older than Eilis, they made the journey from Dublin to Ire - to New York. They worked there for ten years, and while they were there, they had me. I'm a Bronx girl, obviously. [audience laughs] Me and J-Lo are like that -- very close, very tight.
Ah, nothing will ever prepare for you for the feeling you get when you leave home for the first time. You're fine one moment. The freedom of being young in a new place where not everyone knows your auntie is exciting. The next moment, you can barely see in front of you because all you want to do is go back. But you can't. You've taken that step outside your mum and dad's front door into the big world, and now it's done, and you know that, and it's scary.
Brooklyn came along just when I needed it to. I went into it not feeling ready, not feeling good enough to do the story justice. I was scared. All of a sudden, I was shooting in a town half away - half an hour away from where I grew up. We were making a film at home about home, while I was homesick. But as the days went on, the pressure lifted off me, little by little. Nick and Colm's writing reminded me every day that I was not alone. John's unwavering focus and belief in this story made me pull myself together and work for a film that I knew meant a lot to all of us. Our crews worked so bloody hard, the first to arrive and usually the last to leave. The other actors breathed such life into this world, and because they were all so good, they helped me push myself further. To play a character that goes through her fair share of grief, of sadness and heartbreak, who falls in love, who misses home and her dear sister Rose, and who comes out the other side ready and able to make a choice that is right for her, was an honor, as an actor and as a young woman.
I couldn't be more grateful, me bein' the Bronx-meets-Ireland kid that I am, that this little film called Brooklyn was made, and that I got to be a part of it. So thanks to everyone who helped make the film, and thanks to everyone here for lettin' me go off on one for the last couple of minutes.
Although she skipped the red carpet, Selena Gomez, 23, presented the Comedy Award to Amy Schumer for Trainwreck.
Reese Witherspoon, 39, presented the Supporting Actor Award to Benicio Del Toro for Sicario.
Also attending the show were Thora Birch, now 33, and Danica McKellar, 40.
Previous posts on the Hollywood Film Awards: 2014.