Julia Roberts received a resounding standing ovation at Sunday’s Golden Globes.
The actress, 58, returned to the awards show for the first time in five years. When she strode onto the stage to present the honors for best motion picture for musical or comedy, the packed ballroom rose to its feet. She garnered laughs and more applause as she encouraged the whole room to stand and cheer.
“I’m gonna be impossible for at least a week. I appreciate that,” she joked.
Clad in a classic black gown with a plunging neckline, Roberts paired the dress with a chunky, bedazzled strawberry pendant and ring. Her signature curly locks stayed on the strawberry theme, died a red-tinged blonde.
Roberts used her presentation time to shout out Eva Victor’s performance in “Sorry Baby” and thank Kevin Hart, seated just below the stage, for staying until the end of the show.
The actress, nominated for her performance in “After the Hunt,” revealed that she had asked the comedian to stay after she lost.
The “Pretty Woman” star was beaten out in the best female actor in a drama category by Jessie Buckley, who won for her performance in the Shakespearean reimagining, “Hamnet.”
Love for Roberts still ran thick in the air Jan. 11, as the night drew to a close and Hollywood’s finest seemed thrilled to see one of their own back on the Golden Globes stage.
For “After the Hunt,” a psychological thriller that sparked debate, Roberts played Alma Imhoff, a Yale philosophy professor aiming to get tenure. The film follows her as her young protégé Maggie (Ayo Edebiri) accuses Hank (Andrew Garfield), Alma’s close friend and fellow professor, of sexual assault. She’s torn between loyalties; plus there’s the fact that a secret she has been keeping for years could see the light of day.