Film

Your Drunk Dad Quentin Tarantino Is Getting Destroyed Over A Racial Gaffe At The Golden Globes

"Quentin Tarantino is the human form of anxiety."

by Meg Watson  11 January 2016

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You may have been tipped off by the fact Ricky Gervais’ edgy jokes and gormless smirk have flooded the internet for the first time since 2008, but the Golden Globes are well under way in the US right now.

Now a few hours in, Inside Out has rightfully taken out Best Animated Film, Jon Hamm has earned himself a final nod for Best Actor for the iconic Don Draper in Mad Men and Sylvester Stallone has scored what’s inexplicably his first-ever major award for a supporting role in Creed. But alongside all this generally lovely acknowledgement of people’s craft and expertise, is the other stuff — the mistakes, strange rambles and pure cringe that you hang out for during any awards ceremony. And this year Quentin Tarantino has delivered spectacularly.

After taking the stage to accept the Best Original Score award on behalf of The Hateful Eight composer Ennio Morricone, the divisive and recently extremely politically-engaged director made a fair few gaffes.

“Do you realise that Ennio Morricone … has never won an award for any one individual movie that he has done,” Tarantino said.

“[He’s] my favourite composer. When I say composer, I don’t mean movie composer — that ghetto — I’m talking Mozart, I’m talking Beethoven, I’m talking Schubert,” he continued.

Then, mere seconds later, he let this gif escape into the untamed wilds of the internet.

You can watch the full thing here:

Tarantino’s use of the word “ghetto” in particular has sparked considerable backlash with many pointing out the derogatory racial implications of its usage in this context — a fact that is made more troubling when coupled with the director’s love of a certain other racially-charged term.

The reaction to this was instantaneous with many people of colour in the venue visibly recoiling from his statement. American Crime actress Regina King (pictured above) was filmed looking wildly unimpressed in a sea of white faces laughing and the matter was quickly addressed by the award’s presenter and former Django Unchained star Jamie Foxx. “…Ghetto,” he said into the mic with a straight face when Tarantino left the stage (at 3.03 in the above clip).

This has all led to a number of grateful messages towards Foxx online and the exact opposite for Tarantino.

In fact, the flood of character assessments for the latter really seem like they’ve been a long time coming.

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