Gary Oldman is being called this year’s Casey Affleck at the 2018 Golden Globes
Last year, Casey Affleck won the Golden Globe for his leading role in Manchester By The Sea. His win caused upset due to the two reports of sexual harassment made against him in the months prior to his win. This year, many are calling Gary Oldman the Casey Affleck of the 2018 Golden Globes. Oldman won for Best Drama Actor at tonight’s January 7th, 2018 Golden Globes for playing Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.
Like Affleck, Oldman also has a muddied past — a past that has some people questioning the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for their Best Actor choice. In 2001, Donya Fiorentino, Oldman’s then-wife, claimed that he assaulted her with a telephone in front of their two children.
According to The Daily Beast, Fiorentino filed papers in Los Angeles Superior Court against Oldman, stating that he had choked her and then hit her in the face with the telephone.
"As I picked up the phone to call the police, Gary put his hand on my neck and squeezed," Fiorentino told The New York Daily News in 2001. "I backed away, with the phone receiver in my hand. I tried to dial 911. Gary grabbed the phone receiver from my hand, and hit me in the face with the telephone receiver three or four times. Both of the children were crying."
A massive congratulations to Gary Oldman for being awarded the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama award for his role in @DarkestHour! #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/YyPfI7iBNl
— Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes) January 8, 2018
In a 2014 interview with Playboy, Oldman complained about how some men can joke about abuse and use offensive slurs and others can’t. (Sure Jan, Gary.) He said,
"Well, if I called Nancy Pelosi a cunt — and I’ll go one better, a fucking useless cunt — I can’t really say that. But Bill Maher and Jon Stewart can, and nobody’s going to stop them from working because of it."
Celebrating people like Kirk Douglas and Gary Oldman on stage feels like it totally defeats the purpose of tonight. pic.twitter.com/MXdLKaGFjW
— Calvin (@calvinstowell) January 8, 2018
He also defended Mel Gibson’s rage-filled anti-Semitic tirade, stating that “[Gibson] got drunk and said a few things, but we’ve all said those things.” Oldman questioned whether or not the policeman that arrested Gibson had ever used the n-word or called someone “that fucking Jew.” false
So once again, we’re left shaking our heads at Hollywood tonight. In light of the #MeToo movement, after so many women shared their stories of abuse and harassment — and even after witnessing the backlash the Golden Globes received after applauding Casey Affleck in 2017 — giving Gary Oldman a Golden Globe makes us think that Hollywood is too stuck in its ways to be on the right side of history.
