BEVERLY HILLS: Demi Moore won her first acting award in a career spanning five decades on Sunday, scooping a Golden Globe for the body-horror film `The Substance`.

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.

`Pm just in shock right now,` Moore said in her acceptance speech. `Pve been doing this a long time, over 45 years. This is the first time Pye ever won anything as an actor and Pm just so humbled and so grateful.` Moore, who began her acting career in the early 1980s, is known for films like `St. Elmo`s Fire`, `Ghost`, `Indecent Proposal` and `Striptease`.

Visibly surprised by her win, she said she had once been told by a producer 30 years ago that she was a `popcorn actress`.

`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.

`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 Pye done what I was supposed to do.` Moore, who was twice nominated for a Golden Globe in the 1990s, said shereceived the script for `The Substance` when she was at `a low point`.

`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.

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.-Reuters