Demi Moore Wins Her First Golden Globe

Demi Moore won her first Golden Globe at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The 62-year-old actress won Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy for her role in the film, “The Substance.”

The Golden Globe Award is the first major acting award won by Demi Moore.

Demi Moore won her first major acting award at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 5

Moore won for her role as Elisabeth Sparkle in the horror/sci-fi flick, “The Substance.” The film stars Moore as a renowned and aging aerobics instructor who gets fired because of her age.

In the film, a desperate Sparkle takes a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better-looking clone who tries to take over her life (played by Margaret Qualley).

The “G.I. Jane” actress was humbled during her acceptance speech and said that she was “in shock,” per CBS.

“Oh, Wow! I really wasn’t expecting that,” said Moore of her historic win. “I’m just in shock right now. I’ve been doing this a long time — like over 45 years, and this is the first time I’ve ever won anything as an actor. And I’m just so humbled and grateful.”

Moore added that thirty years prior, she was told by a producer that she was only a “popcorn” actress, and while she could be successful in the industry and earn a lot of money, she would never be acknowledged.

“I bought in and believed that,” said Moore. “That corroded me over time to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it, maybe I was complete, maybe I had done what I was supposed to do, and I was at kind of a low point. I had this magical, bold, courageous, out-of-the-box, absolutely bonkers script come across my desk called, ‘The Substance.'”

Entertainment Tonight caught up with the actress following her win, and she said that her acceptance speech came from her heart.

“I was in such shock, I have to say,” she said. “I was not expecting it all. I think it just was, like, pouring out.”

The “A Few Good Men” star was shown a clip of her three daughters with ex-husband Bruce Willis — Scout, Tallulah, and Rumer — excitedly reacting to her Golden Globe win.

“Oh my god! They’re a vocal crowd,” she exclaimed. “The reality is, which I realized, there were so many people I didn’t get a chance to thank. And the truth is, everything I do is for them. It’s for my daughters, for my daughter’s daughter. And I hope in that same way that translates out also for all women. I am just so grateful that I get to be a part of paving a new pathway, a new way of women how we can be seen, things that we can do. And I’m not the answer but I get to be a small piece.”

Moore began her career in entertainment on the ABC soap opera, “General Hospital” when she was just 19.

The young actress soon won a role in the film, “Blame It on Rio” before moving on to starring roles in hits such as “No Small Affair” and “St. Elmo’s Fire.” In 1990, Moore starred in “Ghost” with Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg, and she was soon the highest-paid actress in Hollywood.

She went on to star in several more films including “A Few Good Men,” “Indecent Proposal” and “The Juror.”

Moore is currently starring in Paramount’s “Landman” with Billy Bob Thornton.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, most of Moore’s scenes in “The Substance” feature the actress with “no dialogue.”

“The script was such an interesting, out-of-the-box read, the way in which it was exploring the issue of aging,” said Moore. “The thing that grabbed me was the exploration of the violence we can have against ourselves, that way in which we can dissect and criticize. I have found, at least in my own experience in life, that it’s really not what anyone else has ever done to me. The impact has always been on what I do to myself, internalized.”

“So, everything was the kind of odd, intimate moments we have with ourselves, where we are often naked, looking, dissecting, thinking,” she continued. “It was a really interesting challenge to create a full life for her because I didn’t have someone else to feed off of. It was also very technical.”