DWTS Choreographer Mandy Moore Choreographs Golden Globes Opening Number, Thanked By Winners Of “La La Land”
Give it up to Dancing With The Stars choreographer Many Moore! Not only was she thanked a multiple of times by the Golden Globe winners for her work in “La La Land”, she also choreographed the opening number (see below). What a night for her and “La La Land” who won 7 awards. Below is more from Hollywood Reporter.
Choreographer Mandy Moore was thanked multiple times at the 2017 Golden Globe Awards.
The La La Land Golden Globe award winners repeatedly thanked their film’s choreographer, Mandy Moore, in their acceptance speeches, leading casual viewers at home to wonder if singer-actress Mandy Moore, who stars in and was nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in NBC’s This Is Us also choreographed the Damien Chazelle musical.
She didn’t. The La La Land choreographer is a different person who has the same name as the This Is Us actress.
La La Land’s Moore choreographed the opening of the awards show on Sunday, hosted by Jimmy Fallon. In addition to La La Land, she has worked on Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, Joy and such reality shows as So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing With the Stars.
It truly was a spectacular movie (I’ve seen it twice)! Congrats to Mandy and the rest of the cast!
Love love the movie but I freaked when city of stars won the most. That opening though….perfection
I’ve gained a lot more respect for her recently. I feel like she’s stepped up her game on DWTS last season choreographically and this movie was absolutely spectacular. I’m sure producers force her to choreograph ultra sexy routines but she’s proven that she can do elegance and class as well. Hopefully the awards keep piling in.
Weeell, I felt the opening for La La Land was really quite simplistic,though a fun conceit, and the rest of the choreography for the show was even worse. She can do a really moving contemporary made for real dancers (as we’ve seen on SYTYCD) but I feel she’s looked to be completely out of her wheelhouse with every other style of dance I’ve seen from her. She gets dancers to jump around and wave their arms above their heads. Woo hoo. But total non-dancers who were just learning would of course think their only experience with a choreographer would be thank-worthy… If Mandy Moore gets an Emmy nomination for La La Land it’ll be for the same reasons that Crazy Ex-Girlfriend won – to encourage the genre.
Mandy isn’t eligible for an Emmy – those are only for TV. As far as I know, there is no movie equivalent.