US actress Michelle Williams walked the Golden Globes red carpet with #MeToo movement founder and racial equality activist Tarana Burke in just one of many powerful statements made by Hollywood's leading women.
Emma Stone, Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Emma Watson, Shailene Woodly and Amy Poehler all took a stand in the name of the Time's Up campaign and used the occasion as a statement for women's rights.
Streep - who has come under fire over her denials that she knew about Weinstein's misconduct - brought National Domestic Workers Alliance boss Ai-jen Poo as her plus-one.
Meanwhile All The Money in the World star Williams arrived with Burke, the creator of the 'Me Too' hashtag which has been used by women to share their sexual harassment experiences in the wake of the Weinstein allegations.
Meryl Streep, left, and Ai-jen Poo arrive at the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards Source: AP
Emma Stone and Billie Jean King arrive for the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, USA. Source: AAP
Amy Poehler entered with Restaurant Opportunities Centre United president Saru Jayaraman.
La La Land's Emma Stone brought former tennis champion Billie Jean King, who the actress portrayed in Battle of the Sexes. King was a trailblazer in the fight for women's equal rights, and equal pay in sport and the workforce.
Emma Watson brought Marai Larasi, executive director of the UK-based black-feminist network organisation Imkaan.
Ms Larasi spends her time campaigning to end violence against black, minority ethnic and refugee women and girls.
Actresses also wore black in a show of support. The reasons why black was the chosen colour were detailed by actress-director Amber Tamblyn in her New York Times article.
"Tonight is not a mourning. Tonight is an awakening," Tamblyn wrote in the opinion piece.
Tarana Burke, left, and Michelle Williams arrive at the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018, in Beverly Hills. Source: AAP
"ON SUNDAY WE WEAR BLACK to stand in solidarity with men and women everywhere who have been silenced by discrimination, harassment and abuse," a tweet from the Time's Up initiative, launched by hundreds of prominent women in Tinseltown to shine a light on the issue, said.
Women and men alike strutted into the Beverly Hilton for the gala event in their finest, the wide majority of them in black.
"People are aware now of a power imbalance. It's led to abuse in our industry. (…) It's everywhere," Meryl Streep, who is vying for a Globe for her work in media drama The Post, told E! network on the red carpet.
Indeed the women behind the Time's Up initiative have called special attention to their "sisters" in less glamorous blue-collar jobs.
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Streep, a three-time Oscar winner, said Hollywood's men and women now felt "emboldened to stand together in a thick, black line".
Indeed, the men of Hollywood took some flack ahead of the gala for saying they too would wear black, with some saying they would have worn tuxedos anyway.
But many donned black shirts as well and offered their impassioned support for the movement.
"I don't think this is a silent protest. This is going to make people talk about the issue," David Thewlis, who starred in last year's box office smash Wonder Woman, told AFP on the red carpet.
"As a father, as a husband, why wouldn't you be 100 per cent in support of this?"
