Press coverage of the event largely focused on Meryl Streep's remarks and the responses to them, and this also dominated popular responses, generating what the BBC characterized as a "firestorm on Twitter".[23][24]Donald Trump responded to Streep's comments on Twitter, describing her as "one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood" and a "Hillary flunky", and stating, "For the 100th time, I never 'mocked' a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him 'groveling' when he totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to make me look bad. Just more very dishonest media!"[20][25]
Lorenzo Soria, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) which runs the annual Golden Globes ceremony, wrote on Twitter on January 10: "As an organisation of journalists, the HFPA stands by your defence of free expression and we reject any calls for censorship".[26]Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, responded to Streep's reference to mixed martial arts (MMA), defending the sport as an art, and saying that "the last thing I expect is for an uppity 80-year-old lady to be in our demographic and love mixed martial arts".[22]Scott Coker, president of Bellator MMA, also defended MMA as an art, and highlighted the sport's diversity; he invited Streep to attend an event.[22]
Richard Lawson, reviewing the ceremony in Vanity Fair, stated that Jimmy Fallon's opening homage to La La Land began as "a fun, starry sampling of this year's nominees", but had "worn out its welcome" before the end.[18] Lawson described Fallon as an "oddly tone-deaf" host, and criticized his opening speech: "The jokes were stale and wheezy and Fallon's lovable-cute shtick was more wearying than it was charming." He praised Kristen Wiig and Steve Carell's introduction of the Best Animated Feature Film award as "hilarious [...] weird, inspired, clever without smirking".[18]
The ceremony averaged a Nielsen 5.6 ratings/18 share,[29] and was watched by 20.02 million viewers.[30] The ratings was an eight percent increase from the previous year's ceremony's viewership of 18.5 million, becoming the third highest in a decade.[31]
In Memoriam
No "In Memoriam" section was broadcast on television during the ceremony. The HFPA included a slideshow on their website including the following names:[32]
74th Regiment 74th Reconnaissance Squadron 74th Street (Manhattan) 74th Division 74th Fighter Squadron 74th meridian 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot The Forum at 343 East 74th Street 74th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment 74th (Yeomanry) Division 74th parallel East 74th Street Theater 74th Reconnaissance Group 74th Indiana Infantry Regiment 74th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade 74th Academy Awards 74th United States Congress 74th Illinois Infantry Regiment 74th Group Army 74th New York Infantry Regiment 74th Regiment of Foot (disambiguation) 74th Ohio Infantry Regiment 74th Air Refueling Squa…
dron 74th Troop Command (United States) Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street station 74th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment List of submissions to the 74th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film List of United States senators in the 74th Congress CMLL 74th Anniversary Show 74th Punjabis 74th Flying Training Wing (U.S. Army Air Forces) 74th Golden Globe Awards 74th Venice International Film Festival List of members of the United States House of Representatives in the 74th Congress by seniority California's 74th State Assembly district 74th Regiment of (Highland) Foot List of acts of the 74th United States Congress 74th Battalion, CEF 74th Regiment of Foot New York's 74th State Assembly district 74th Infantry Regiment (United States) 74th meridian east 74 Engineer Regiment (United Kingdom) 74th Brigade (United Kingdom) Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 74 74th Primetime Emmy Awards 74th meridian west 74th Regiment of Foot (Invalids) 24th Tactical Missile Squadron Casa 74 70th Motorized Infantry Brigade (People's Republic of China) 74th Directors Guild of America Awards Wisconsin's 74th Assembly district 74th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht) 74th Delaware Genera