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Here is the Official Golden Globes site where you can click to follow any favorite category on twitter and preview all the nominations and categories. Ricky Gervais will be hosting the festivities.
Tonight the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will present the Golden Globes to the nominees announced this past December. At the top of the roll is the Cecil B. DeMille award to Robert DeNiro.
There are few silver screen luminaries as bright as DeNiro. At age 67 he has won 8 Golden Globes awards, two Academy Awards and the Kennedy Center Honor. The DeMille award recognizes contribution to entertainment and past winners include: Martin Scorsese, Barbra Streisand, Al Pacino and Michael Douglas. The winners will be announced tonight and we know there can only be one winner in each category. But we can also talk about how and why that winner was chosen. I think that only you can decide who was snubbed. Let’s begin with a rundown of the top awards:
Best Motion Picture–Drama nominees: Black Swan, The Fighter. Inception, The King’s Speech and The Social Network.
The winner: The Social Network
Best Performance Dramatic–actress: Halle Berry – Frankie and Alice; Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole; Jennifer Lawrence – Winter’s Bone; Natalie Portman – Black Swan; Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine.
The winner: Natalie Portman
The Golden Globe for best actor, comedy or musical goes to Paul Giamatti in “Barney’s Version”
Best Performance Dramatic–actor: Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network; Colin Firth – The King’s Speech; James Franco – 127 Hours; Ryan Gosling – Blue Valentine; Mark Wahlberg – The Fighter.
The winner: Colin Firth for The King’s Speech
The winner: The Kids Are All Right…no surprise there. It was a good movie saw it on DVD.
Best performance actress in a comedy or musical: Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right; Anne Hathaway – Love & Other Drugs; Angelina Jolie – The Tourist; Julianne Moore – The Kids Are All Right; Emma Stone – Easy A
Winner: Annette Bening — Heloise predicted it with “The Buzz is with Bening”
Best performance by an actor–comedy or musical: Johnny Depp – Alice in Wonderland; Johnny Depp – The Tourist; Paul Giamatti – Barney’s Version; Jake Gyllenhaal – Love & Other Drugs; Kevin Spacey – Casino Jack
Winner: Paul Giamatti
Best Director: Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan; David Fincher – The Social Network; Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech; Christopher Nolan – Inception; David O. Russell – The Fighter.
Winner: David Fincher The Social Network
Best supporting actor: Christian Bale The Fighter.
Winner: TBA
Best Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, Danny Boyle – 127 Hours; Christopher Nolan Inception; Stuart Blumberg, Lisa Cholodenko – The Kids Are All Right; David Seidler – The King’s Speech; Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network.
Winner: Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network
Best original score: Alexandre Desplat – The King’s Speech; Danny Elfman – Alice in Wonderland; A. R. Rahman – 127 Hours;Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Social Network; Hans Zimmer – Inception.
Winner:
Best supporting actor TV series: Chris Colfer in Glee.
Best Television series: Boardwalk Empire (HBO); Dexter (SHOWTIME); The Good Wife (CBS); Mad Men (AMC); The Walking Dead (AMC).
Winner: Boardwalk Empire
Best Performance by actress in television series: Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife (CBS); Elisabeth Moss – Mad Men (AMC); Piper Perabo – Covert Affairs; Katey Sagal – Sons Of Anarchy; Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer (TNT).
Winner: Katey Sagal
Best Performance by actor in television series: Steve Buscemi – Boardwalk Empire (HBO); Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad; Michael C. Hall –Dexter (SHOWTIME); Jon Hamm – Mad Men (AMC); Hugh Laurie –House (FOX).
Winner: Steve Buscemi
Best song: You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me from Burlesque. The only good thing about this film. Cher sang it too.
Best Foreign language film: In A Better World (Denmark)
Best animated featured film: Winner Toy Story 3
Best actor in a TV movie or mini series: Al Pacino for “You Don’t Know Jack” as he portrayed Jack Kavorkian. He was bad ass for real.
Claire Danes for “Temple Grandin” as best actress in a mini series or TV movie.
Best supporting actress in a TV miniseries winner: Jane Lynch for Glee
Jim Parsons best actor in a TV series or musical or comedy in his role in The Big Bang Theory (never watch it)
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Golden Globe Red Carpet: Will it be what was she wearing or what was she thinking? Before the show there will be an hour-long red carpet special. You can add your comments here. What you like, what worked, who worked it and how the hotties keep it hot. We want to hear from you. The look this awards season is the off-the-shoulder long gown, pastel color. It works well for most figures and faces. In my comments below I’ve noted the “what was she thinking” candidates. Jesse Eisenberg just pulled up in the limo. He was also in Holy Rollers this year. He played an orthodox Jew who does some illegal and orthodox drug running using other orthodox Jews. Strategy: customs will never suspect the religious. Good film, no Network but worth a look on streaming Netflix.
Shock and awe? The mention of The Tourist in category for best musical or comedy is shocking IMO. But it did not come out of the blue but out of the mind of director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. After a pre-screening others agreed that the film was preposterous enough for billing as a comedy. The critics were not so kind and it barely garnered one star/five. They talked me out of seeing it.
Halle Berry’s inclusion as nominee for best actress in a drama might be seen as either awe or awful idea. Her film Frankie and Alice had a limited release at the end of 2010 and will be widely released February 2011. That’s why it made the 2010 cut. However, some blacks are already razzed-up about the mere thought that another award could come for a movie that “exposes” Miss Berry. The woman she portrays is mentally unbalanced and works as a stripper, so Halle bares T&A naturally.
Any sweep predictions? That may be hard to divine. Best bet: The King’s Speech might leave the audience speechless. The Oscar buzz begins tonight. So in that sense there are no losers. Because the Golden Globe nods will put them on the Academy’s red carpet win or lose.