‘Thank God’: Celebs Honor Faith, Family in Critics Choice Award Speeches
By Movieguide® Staff
From Angela Bassett to Jeff Bridges, several celebrities took the time to honor God and family during the Jan. 15, Critics Choice Awards.
Bassett won Best Supporting Actress and shared her prayer: “We showed the world that we could create and lead a billion-dollar box-office success. And my prayer is that that door remains open and the sky is the limit …”
She also thanked God in her speech.
Bridges won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 28th annual Critics Choice Awards and used the opportunity to honor his father.
“It’s my dad’s birthday today, January 15. I’m wearing his cuff links. I wouldn’t be up here without my dad,” said Bridges. “No, he’s the reason that I’m up here. I can remember him loving showbiz so much, loving acting so much, and as a kid I said, ‘You know, Dad, I’m not sure I wanna be an actor.’ He goes, ‘What are you talkin’ about?’ I said, ‘I wanna do painting maybe, music.’ He said, ‘Jeff, don’t be ridiculous. Being an actor, they’re gonna call on you to do all of those things you’re interested in. And besides that, you’re gonna get to tell all these wonderful stories from all these different perspectives of people that are alive. This is a wonderful profession.’ ”
Actress Sheryl Lee Ralph also said that God brought her to her role.
“Every mistake, every back break, every ‘No’, every rejection in an industry that when I was 19 years old was quick to tell me there was no place for me,” Ralph said. “Sidney Poitier looked at me and said, ‘You’re a … good actress.’
“That God could lead me to a moment when a young woman by the name of Quinta Brunson would look at me and say, ‘Ms. Ralph, I’m not sleeping on your talent,'” the actress said.
Ralph also thanked her family, saying, “If you get a husband like mine in your corner, if you get children like mine in your corner, and if you’ve got friends like everybody who voted for me, cheered for me, loved me, thank you! Thank you! Thank you!”
Amanda Seyfried expressed gratitude to her family.
“And last but not least, [thank you to] my family,” Seyfried said. “Hi, bubs, you gotta go to bed now, but thanks! Thank you to my family, my mom, my husband, my dad and my kids, and my dog, Finn.”
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