Parts of the Golden Globes ceremony Sunday night seemed like a happy montage of what change in Hollywood looks like.

I said yes to the fear of being on this stage tonight because I wanted to be here to look out into this audience and witness this moment of change, co-host Sandra Oh said at the end of her opening monologue with Andy Samberg. Im not fooling myself. Next year could be different. It probably will be. But right now, this moment is real. Trust me, it is real. Because I see you, and I see you. All of these faces of change. And now, so will everyone else.

But Ohs cautious optimism proved prophetic that very night. The ceremony started with a number of moments that signaled progress in the industry; winners including Oh and If Beale Street Could Talk star Regina King spoke about the significance of their victories while pushing for more racial and gender equality, and presenters referenced the diverse casts in nominated films such as Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians.

But the ceremony ended with the major film awards going to Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody anodyne movies that are fraught with oversimplifications about race and identity and drop-kick nuance in favor of neat and tidy endings.

Compared to the rest of the night, it was a jarring conclusion.

Up until that point, the Killing Eve stars monologue set a different tone, with jokes about disapproving Asian mothers and remedies for Asian flush making Asians feel seen for perhaps the first time during a major award show. Oh pulled no punches when skewering Hollywoods history of whitewashing , quipping that Best Comedy nominee Crazy Rich Asians was the first studio film with an Asian-American lead since Ghost in the Shell and Aloha.

It prompted one of the nights most memorable moments: Emma Stone, who inexplicably played a Hawaiian and Chinese character in the widely panned Aloha, shouted: Im sorry!

Several winners who took the stage to deliver powerful speeches acknowledged the significance of their triumphs, too.

King told If Beale Street Could Talk director Barry Jenkins that after seeing the James Baldwin adaptation, her son remarked it was the first time that he really saw himself. She also pledged that everything she produced would be 50 percent women, a nod to a new initiative from the Times Up movement that pushes all industries to fill half their leadership roles with women.

When Oh won in her category , she thanked her Korean immigrant parents in their native tongue.

Later, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story star Darren Criss dedicated his Best Actor in a Limited Series award to his mother, a firecracker Filipina woman.

When that limited series won in its category, executive producer Brad Simpson paid homage to the series subject, slain fashion designer Gianni Versace. Simpson said Versace had been an openly gay man during a time of intense fear and hate, warned that those forces of hate are still with us, and called on artists to fight back by representing those not represented and by providing a space for people for new voices to tell stories that havent been told.

So as the evening wore on, the Hollywood Foreign Press Associations apparent ardor for Bohemian Rhapsody and Green Book felt like a slap in the face.