--- title: Natalie Portman Calls Out Male Directors: Best Reactions description: While presenting the nominees for Best Director at the Golden Globes, Natalie Portman drove home the evening's theme with a sharp rebuke. canonical: https://time.com/5092587/natalie-portman-globes-reactions/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-08T15:19:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:35.411Z og:title: The Internet Loved Natalie Portman's Mic Drop at the Globes og:description: While announcing Best Director nominees, Portman drove home the evening's theme og:url: https://time.com/5092587/natalie-portman-globes-reactions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fd6dea20b071d3a/6988f76a4ee2622b4831066f/natalie-portman-globes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Loved Natalie Portman's Mic Drop at the Globes twitter:description: While announcing Best Director nominees, Portman drove home the evening's theme twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fd6dea20b071d3a/6988f76a4ee2622b4831066f/natalie-portman-globes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Loved Natalie Portman's Scathing Mic Drop at the Golden Globes > Sponsored content. 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America Ferrera, Natalie Portman, Emma Stone and Billie Jean King attend the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 7, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. David Crotty—Patrick McMullan via Getty Image  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jan 8, 2018 3:19 PM UTC [Natalie Portman](http://time.com/5092079/natalie-portman-golden-globes-male-nominees/)‘s upcoming action thriller is called _Annihilation_. But when she was chosen to present the award for Best Director at Sunday night’s Golden Globes, it was the audience that was annihilated with her swift, subtle and wholly uncompromising introduction. Paired with famed director [Ron Howard](http://time.com/4951432/han-solo-clue/), the _Jackie_ actress stepped up to the podium to share the nominated directors for films like _The Shape of Water, The Post_ and [_Dunkirk_](http://time.com/4879919/dunkirk-emoji-movie-box-office-christopher-nolan/). “We are honored … to be here to present the award for best director,” Howard began. “And here are the all-male nominees,” Portman followed up. Her point was well taken: in an evening defined by the aftermath of the [#MeToo movement](http://time.com/5051822/time-person-year-alyssa-milano-tarana-burke/) in Hollywood, including the launch of the [Time’s Up initiative](http://time.com/5083566/reese-witherspoon-shonda-rhimes-anti-harassment-group/) and driven home by [Oprah’s powerful speech](http://time.com/5092249/golden-globes-oprah-speech-transcript/), Portman was not on stage to play. Instead, she pointed out a discordant note in the proceedings, especially given that female directors like [Greta Gerwig](http://time.com/5092235/female-best-director-golden-globes/) had films up for major prizes. (Gerwig’s[ _Lady Bird_](http://time.com/5038968/lady-bird-breaks-rotten-tomatoes-record-best-reviewed-movie/), in fact, took home the evening’s top prize — a rarity without a directorial nomination as well.) And as presenter Barbra Streisand further noted in her opening, Babs herself was the last lady to win for Best Director at the Globes — all the way [back in 1984](http://time.com/5092235/female-best-director-golden-globes/), for _Yentl_. The internet was very much on board with Portman’s apparently ad-libbed call-out. > [](https://twitter.com/ambertamblyn/status/950205716232638464) > [](https://twitter.com/HereIsGina/status/950206617319911424) > [](https://twitter.com/shondarhimes/status/950205601161781248) > [](https://twitter.com/dctrjack/status/950277068197060608) > [](https://twitter.com/emilynussbaum/status/950208131233087489) > [](https://twitter.com/rubinafillion/status/950212810625241088) > [](https://twitter.com/subsahaaron/status/950212645965086722) > [](https://twitter.com/sith%5Fbabe/status/950259316845522946) > [](https://twitter.com/melsil/status/950207431992336384) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5092587/natalie-portman-globes-reactions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5092587/natalie-portman-globes-reactions/"},"headline":"The Internet Loved Natalie Portman's Scathing Mic Drop at the Golden Globes","datePublished":"2018-01-08T15:19:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:35.411Z","description":"While presenting the nominees for Best Director at the Golden Globes, Natalie Portman drove home the evening's theme with a sharp rebuke.","url":"https://time.com/5092587/natalie-portman-globes-reactions/","keywords":["Newsfeed","awards","golden globes","goldenglobes2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fd6dea20b071d3a/6988f76a4ee2622b4831066f/natalie-portman-globes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0fd6dea20b071d3a/6988f76a4ee2622b4831066f/natalie-portman-globes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"75th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals","caption":"75th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Arrivals","creditText":"David Crotty—Patrick McMullan via Getty Image","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5092587/natalie-portman-globes-reactions/","name":"The Internet Loved Natalie Portman's Scathing Mic Drop at the Golden Globes"}}]}] ```