Lily Gladstone made history on Saturday night, being named the winner in the outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role category at Saturday’s SAG Awards in Los Angeles.
She is the first Indigenous performer to win a SAG Award in that category. She began her acceptance speech with a brief intro in her native Blackfoot language.
Gladstone was the breakout star from Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon. She portrayed Osage woman Mollie Kyle, the wife of Ernest Burkhart (played by Leonardo DiCaprio).
The film tells the story of the Osage murders at the hands of crime boss William Hale (portrayed by Robert De Niro). “My friends, fellow actors, I feel the good in what you have done — what you do,” Gladstone followed in English in her acceptance. “This has been a hard year for all of us.
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