<p>Demi Moore won her first acting award in a career spanning five decades on Sunday, scooping a Golden Globe for the body-horror film <em>The Substance</em>.</p><p>The 62-year-old beat Amy Adams, Cynthia Erivo, Mikey Madison, Karla Sofia Gascon and Zendaya to win best actress in a musical or comedy film, a category that had been considered very competitive.</p><p>"I'm just in shock right now," Moore said in her acceptance speech. "I've been doing this a long time, over 45 years. This is the first time I've ever won anything as an actor and I'm just so humbled and so grateful."</p><p>Moore, who began her acting career in the early 1980s, is known for films like <em>St. Elmo's Fire</em>, <em>Ghost</em>, <em>Indecent Proposal</em> and <em>Striptease</em>.</p><p>Visibly surprised by her win, she said she had once been told by a producer 30 years ago that she was a "popcorn actress".</p>.Demi Moore and the subversive politics of the naked body.<p>"At that time, I made that mean that this wasn't something that I was allowed to have, that I could do movies that were successful, that made a lot of money, but that I couldn't be acknowledged," Moore said.</p><p>"I bought in and I believed that; and that corroded me over time to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it, maybe I was complete, maybe I've done what I was supposed to do."</p><p>Moore, who was twice nominated for a Golden Globe in the 1990s, said she received the script for "The Substance" when she was at "a low point".</p><p>"And the universe told me that you're not done," she said, adding her thanks to writer-director Coralie Fargeat and co-star Margaret Qualley.</p><p>In the movie, Moore plays an ageing TV fitness instructor who signs up for a mysterious medical regime that promises to create the perfect version of herself.</p>
<p>Demi Moore won her first acting award in a career spanning five decades on Sunday, scooping a Golden Globe for the body-horror film <em>The Substance</em>.</p><p>The 62-year-old beat Amy Adams, Cynthia Erivo, Mikey Madison, Karla Sofia Gascon and Zendaya to win best actress in a musical or comedy film, a category that had been considered very competitive.</p><p>"I'm just in shock right now," Moore said in her acceptance speech. "I've been doing this a long time, over 45 years. This is the first time I've ever won anything as an actor and I'm just so humbled and so grateful."</p><p>Moore, who began her acting career in the early 1980s, is known for films like <em>St. Elmo's Fire</em>, <em>Ghost</em>, <em>Indecent Proposal</em> and <em>Striptease</em>.</p><p>Visibly surprised by her win, she said she had once been told by a producer 30 years ago that she was a "popcorn actress".</p>.Demi Moore and the subversive politics of the naked body.<p>"At that time, I made that mean that this wasn't something that I was allowed to have, that I could do movies that were successful, that made a lot of money, but that I couldn't be acknowledged," Moore said.</p><p>"I bought in and I believed that; and that corroded me over time to the point where I thought a few years ago that maybe this was it, maybe I was complete, maybe I've done what I was supposed to do."</p><p>Moore, who was twice nominated for a Golden Globe in the 1990s, said she received the script for "The Substance" when she was at "a low point".</p><p>"And the universe told me that you're not done," she said, adding her thanks to writer-director Coralie Fargeat and co-star Margaret Qualley.</p><p>In the movie, Moore plays an ageing TV fitness instructor who signs up for a mysterious medical regime that promises to create the perfect version of herself.</p>