Teyana Taylor’s Golden Globes Speech singled out as awards-season model

At the Golden Globes on Sunday, Teyana Taylor won the supporting actress prize for her work in "One Battle After Another" and delivered what a Times columnist called the night’s most compelling acceptance speech.

Taylor opened with a joke about her diamond-encrusted thong, balanced spontaneity with a prepared text, moved from teary-eyed to resolute onstage and dedicated her win to “the little brown girls watching tonight,” turning roughly two minutes into a showcase for her craft.

The columnist, Kyle Buchanan, compares Taylor’s moment to Demi Moore’s galvanizing Globes speech last year, in which Moore — who later lost the best actress Oscar to Mikey Madison — framed a career arc with the line “I do belong.” Buchanan lays out four guidelines for nominees: find your career’s emotional arc; make the names you thank meaningful; if you sweep the season, don’t overstuff speeches; and plan a clear exit. He cites Paul Thomas Anderson’s measured handling of multiple wins this season and Adrien Brody’s overly long Oscar speech as contrasting examples.

Buchanan suggests Taylor’s acceptance may endear her to Oscar voters eager to see a similar moment on that stage, and he frames these examples as lessons for nominees still appearing across the remainder of awards season.

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