'La La Land' breaks Golden Globes record with 7 wins

Meryl Streep accepts Cecil B. DeMille Award during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, Jan. 8, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. [Photo/VCG]

After its Golden Globes haul, "La La Land" has great prospects at the upcoming Academy Awards; but it has a major rival, too – Barry Jenkins's indie drama "Moonlight," which explores the subjects of race and homosexuality. The latter, though taking home only one, won the most important award at Golden Globes: best drama.

But the highlight of the evening was when Meryl Streep, the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement, came on stage to give an anti-Donald Trump speech.

"There was one performance this year that stung me," she said, referring to Trump's mocking of a disabled reporter. "I still can't get it out of my head, because it wasn't in a movie."

"Disrespect invites disrespect," she continued. "When the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose."

"Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if you kick them all out, you'll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts," Streep said to loud applause.

She ended with a tribute to the Carrie Fisher, quoting advice the late actress had given her: "Take your broken heart; turn it into art."

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a collection of 85 members, selected the winners for the Globes. Hollywood stars gathered for it in Beverly Hills on Sunday to celebrate the best of television and film releases of the last year.