Ryan Gosling thanks ‘sweetheart’ Eva Mendes in touching Golden Globes speech 
 
 CLOSE At Sunday night's 2017 Golden Globes, Ryan Gosling scored a best actor award for his work in La La Land. After accepting his trophy, the actor said, "I would like to try to thank one person properly and say while I was singing and dancing and playing piano and having one of the best experiences I've ever had on a film, my lady was raising our daughter, pregnant with our second, and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer." USA TODAY 
 
 Hey girls, and guys. Ryan Gosling has a Golden Globe statue for best performance by an actor in a motion picture - musical or comedy and a poignant way of words. 
 
 The La La Land star began his acceptance speech with the signature wit, which we swoon over him for. 
 
 “This isn’t the first time I’ve been mistaken for (fellow nominee) Ryan Reynolds, but it’s getting out of hand,” Gosling said. “Ryan, obviously there’s been some kind of mistake, but I’m up here so if you don’t mind? Okay.” 
 
 Congrats to @RyanGosling, who won #GoldenGlobes Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy! pic.twitter.com/KQUy719r5P — Golden Globe Awards (@goldenglobes) January 9, 2017 
 
 The actor’s speech then became more sincere as he articulated his gratitude to his partner, Eva Mendes, who dealt with numerous challenges while Gosling was filming, proving she is quite the Superwoman. 
 
 “You don’t get to be up here without standing on the shoulders of a mountain of people,” he said, “and there’s just no time to thank everyone I just would like to try and thank one person properly and say that while I was singing and dancing and playing piano and having one of the best experiences I’ve ever had on a film, my lady was raising our daughter, pregnant with our second and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer. If she hadn’t have taken all that on so that I could have this experience, it would surely be someone else up here other than me today. So, sweetheart, thank you. To my daughters, Amada and Esmeralda, I love you and if I may I’d like to dedicate this to the memory of her brother, Juan Carlos Mendez.” 
 
 Mendez died last April at the age of 53, Entertainment Tonight and People report. 
 
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 “I just would like to try and thank one person properly, and say that while I was singing and dancing and playing piano and having one the best experiences I’ve ever had on a film, my lady was raising our daughter, pregnant with our second and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer,” Gosling said in his speech. “If she hadn’t taken all that on so that I could have this experience, would surely be someone else up here other than me to today. Sweetheart, thank you.” 
 
 People online swooned over the real-life Feminist Ryan Gosling , with some drawing comparisons to his romantic role in The Notebook . 
 
 Ryan Gosling's speech just blew me away. Attractive, smart & so generous to his partner. What a man. #GoldenGlobes - Maria Shriver (@mariashriver) January 9, 2017 
 
 I just got pregnant listening to Ryan Gosling? - Sam Grittner (@SamGrittner) January 9, 2017 
 
 Ryan Gosling just made my heart explode. #GoldenGlobes - Steacy Curry 💎 (@SteacyC) January 9, 2017 
 
 Ryan Gosling just made my heart burst into a million little love pieces with that speech. 😍😍😍😍 What a great man and hubby! - Jade Tolbert (@jadelizroper) January 9, 2017 
 
 Okay fine I'm a Ryan Gosling girl now I get it I get it I'm IN - Lauren Elizabeth (@LaurenElizabeth) January 9, 2017 
 
 My remaining ovary may have exploded. Thanks Ryan Gosling.#GoldenGlobes 
 
 Guess I need to see #lalaland - Green Hellion (@GreenHellion) January 9, 2017 
 
 Just heard Ryan Gosling's speech. I'm not crying, you're crying. #GoldenGlobes - Brianna (@HeyBriannaShea) January 9, 2017 ||||| ✮✮✮✮ 
 
 Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are going to the Oscars in 2017. And, fingers crossed, they’ll be singing and dancing. 
 
 The two are absolutely dazzling in their latest collaboration, La La Land. A gorgeous and magnificent homage to the golden age of Hollywood musicals in the 1950s, the film has the sheer power to make audiences laugh, weep and feel as if they can float on air. It premiered Monday, September 12, at the Toronto International Film Festival. (The release date is December 2.) 
 
 "La La Land" has a double meaning here, serving as both the oft-used nickname for the palm-tree and movie-star oasis that is Los Angeles and a usage of musical notes. Yes, this is a city of angels, in which people break into song as a natural reflex. Writer-director Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) sets the tone in the opening scene as L.A. residents stuck in traffic on the freeway perform in a smashing, smiling number. 
 
 Close up on Mia (Stone), a barista on the Warner Bros. studio lot and aspiring actress. Every day, she looks out on the set once used in Casablanca and dreams of receiving that “You got the part!” phone call. She just can’t catch a break. (Though that “Dangerous Minds meets The O.C.” TV show callback seems promising, maybe?) She finds her equal in Sebastian (Gosling), an underachieving musician who longs to open up his own jazz club. He wants everyone to appreciate the dying musical genre as much as he does. 
 
 Mia and Sebastian have a few chance encounters before an official meet-cute at a party. They share an instant chemistry. One thing leads to another and the two fall in … in 99 percent of other movies, the rest of that sentence would be “bed.” In this kind of special film, they express their mutual attraction by flirtatiously tap dancing — as the city glows in the background. A loving, supportive romance follows, as does a hilarious Kenny G reference. 
 
 Just on looks and sound alone, the film could air on Turner Classic Movies tomorrow and not seem out of place. The production design is stunning, as a sea of bright colors bursts in every frame. In one early number, Mia and her female roommates each wear a bright hue as they prepare for a night on the town. (Stone opts for blue.) The visual of the girls dancing on the street together is striking, while the music is instantly hummable. 
 
 The talented Chazelle doesn’t settle for a breezy story in which his two leads waltz their way into the California sunset. He steeps his characters in real life, and in real life, things aren’t always as fantastical as they appear in the movies. Mia and Sebastian are both pursuing lifelong artistic endeavors, though they’re well aware that big success will probably doom the relationship. Even as they push each other creatively and cheer for each other (Sebastian inspires Mia to write a one-woman show; Mia devises a name for Sebastian’s club), they grapple with the give-and-take dynamic. 
 
 With Gosling and Stone in the lead roles, the couple’s chemistry takes on magical proportions. They don’t re-create that Dirty Dancing lift from Crazy Stupid Love — only the best scene in that whole movie — but they do move with that same light comedic touch. (Their duets are so charming that the actor’s less-than-stellar vocal stylings are forgiven.) Both stars, with four Oscar nominations between them, excel in their tender moments as well. Stone, in particular, is a revelation. Moonlighting on Broadway in Cabaret a few years back has paid off big time: She lights up the screen, notably in a heartbreaking solo number during one of her auditions. As she gazes at Gosling with those vivid big eyes, she truly embodies the look of an old-school starlet. 
 
 Hollywood doesn’t make these kinds of movies anymore. But now that franchise sequels-and-spinoff fatigue has set in, here’s hoping more original charmers are on the way. If so, that would be music to everyone’s ears. 
 
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– Ryan Gosling is getting a lot of love for his Golden Globes acceptance speech, in which he delivered an emotional tribute to "sweetheart" Eva Mendes. Gosling, who won Best Actor in a Comedy Film for his performance in La La Land, joked about being mistaken for Ryan Reynolds and then got serious, USA Today reports. "You don’t get to be up here without standing on the shoulders of a mountain of people," he said. "While I was singing and dancing and playing piano and having one the best experiences I've ever had on a film, my lady was raising our daughter, pregnant with our second, and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer." "If she hadn't taken all that on so that I could have this experience, it would surely be someone else up here other than me today," Gosling continued. "Sweetheart, thank you." He dedicated his prize to the memory of Mendes' brother, who died of cancer in April last year at the age of 53. Time reports that admirers swooned over the real-life version of the Feminist Ryan Gosling meme. "Ryan Gosling just made my heart burst into a million little love pieces with the speech," tweeted Jade Tolbert. "What a great man and hubby!" (A lot of other Twitter users were busy mocking Michael Keaton's unfortunate mix-up.)