--- title: Gal Gadot Gives Powerful Critics Choice Awards Speech description: While accepting a Critics' Choice Award for her portrayal of Wonder Woman, Gadot spoke out about her superhero's parallels to Hollywood. canonical: https://time.com/5100811/gal-gadot-critics-choice/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-12T16:35:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:44.932Z og:title: Gal Gadot Gave a Powerful Critics Choice Speech About Uniting og:description: She accepted a special prize at the Critics' Choice Awards og:url: https://time.com/5100811/gal-gadot-critics-choice/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Gal Gadot Gave a Powerful Critics Choice Speech About Uniting twitter:description: She accepted a special prize at the Critics' Choice Awards twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Gal Gadot Gives Powerful Speech at Critics Choice Awards About Uniting for Equality > Sponsored content. 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In real life, [Gadot](http://time.com/4870873/comic-con-gal-gadot-comforts-fan/) seems to be following a similar path, speaking out about the importance of standing up for the less empowered. At Thursday night’s Critics’ Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Gadot was honored with the #SeeHer prize “pushing boundaries” and “changing stereotypes” while portraying a character onscreen. Introduced by her _Wonder Woman_ [director Patty Jenkins](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-patty-jenkins-runner-up/), Gadot spoke about the parallels between the world of her superhero character and the role of an actor, tying in the goddess’s mission with that of [more recent events](http://time.com/5083809/times-up-hollywood-sexual-harassment/) in Hollywood. “As artists, and as filmmakers, I believe it’s not only our job to entertain, but our duty to inspire and educate for love and respect,” she said. “In the past weeks and months, we’ve been witnessing a movement in our industry and society, and I want to share this award with all the women and men who stand for what’s right: Standing for those who can’t stand or speak for themselves. My promise and commitment to all of you is that I will never be silenced, and we will continue to band together to make strides, uniting for equality.” _Wonder Woman_ was one of [2017’s top-grossing films](http://time.com/money/4843774/wonder-woman-box-office-worldwide/), and Gadot and Jenkins are already signed on for [the sequel](http://time.com/4874018/wonder-woman-sequel-2019/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5100811/gal-gadot-critics-choice/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5100811/gal-gadot-critics-choice/"},"headline":"Gal Gadot Gives Powerful Speech at Critics Choice Awards About Uniting for Equality","datePublished":"2018-01-12T16:35:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:44.932Z","description":"\"I want to share this award with all the women and men who stand for what's right\"","url":"https://time.com/5100811/gal-gadot-critics-choice/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","celebrities","wonder woman"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5100811/gal-gadot-critics-choice/","name":"Gal Gadot Gives Powerful Speech at Critics Choice Awards About Uniting for Equality"}}]}] ```