The Golden Globes Post

As I had my job interview this morning, I didn’t watch the globes yesterday night (in Austria, they start at 2 am and go till 5 am). But I taped them and I will watch them now and I will give you my comments anyway, just about 20 hours later. I managed to stay off Globes news, so I don’t know who won yet.Unfortunately, most of the movies aren’t out here yet. Anyway. Have fun! I know I will. :)

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More infos on all the movies here.

Jennifer Lopez wears a nightmare in gold. Nobody listens to her. And who would?
Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture

Nominees: Amy Adams (Doubt), Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler), Viola Davis (Doubt), Kate Winslet (The Reader)
Winner: Kate Winslet
Congrats Kate! Haven’t seen the reader yet, but I like her and she deserves a prize.
“You have to forgive me, I have a habit of not winning things.” *g*

Sting presents
Best Original Song – Motion Picture

Nominees : Wall-E, Gran Torino, I Thought I Lost You, Once in a Lifetime, The Wrestler
Winner: Bruce Springsteen for The Wrestler
Every win for The Wrestler is a good win (without having seen the movie). And Bruce Springsteen is looking good. Shouldn’t he look like 20 years older than he does?
“This is the only time I’m gonna be in competition with Clint Eastwood.” *lol*

Eva Longoria and Simon Baker present Rema Willis. And then
Best Supporting Actor – Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Nominees: Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), Dennis Leary (Recount), Jeremy Piven (Entourage), Blair Underwood (In Treatment), Tom Wilkinson (John Adams)
Winner: Tom Wilkinson
Again, I haven’t seen this, but yay Tom Wilkinson! He’s great! Although I would have liked seeing Neil Patrick Harris win. For Dr. Horrible.

Eva Longoria and Simon Baker present
Best Supporting Actress – Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Nominees: Eileen Atkins (Cranford), Laura Dern (Recount), Melissa George (In Treatment), Rachel Griffiths (Brothers and Sisters), Dianne Wiest (In Treatment)
Winner: Laura Dern
Laura Dern is cool. Other than that, I can’t say a thing.
First political message of the evening.

Don Cheadle (the star of the upcoming “Hotel for Dogs” – what the fuck?) presents Burn After Reading. “The Coen Brothers who incidentally never hired me… (I would have crushed Fargo.)” *rofl*

Eva Mendez presents the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Hayden Panettiere and Zac Efron present
Best Actor – TV Series – Drama

Nominees: Michael C. Hall (Dexter), John Hamm (Mad Men), Hugh Laurie (House MD), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors), Gabriel Byrne (In Treatment)
Winner: Gabriel Byrne
He couldn”t be there.Would have liked to see Jonathan Rhys Meyers, but Gabriel Byrne’s good, too.

Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto present
Best Actress – TV Series – Drama

Nominees: Sally Field (Brothers and Sisters), January Jones (Mad Men), Anna Paquin (True Blood), Kyra Segwick (The Closer), Mariska Hargitay (Law and Order: Special Victims Unit)
Winner: Anna Paquin
YAY! GO ANNA PAQUIN! Go great True Blood theme song! *dances*

Ricky Gervais shushes the audience. *lol* “The trouble with Holocaust movies – there’s never any gag reel on the DVD.” *rofl* “I can’t believe I’m not nominated. What a waste of a campaign. Today is the last time I have sex with 200 middle-age journalists. It was horrible. Really. A lot of them didn’t even speak English. Europeans with wispy beards. The men were worse.”
He presents Happy-Go-Lucky.

The Jonas Brothers (I wrote Bothers first… much more fitting) present
Animated Feature

Nominees: Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, Wall-E
Winner: Wall-E
Honestly, people, that wasn’t even a choice. OF COURSE it’s Wall-E!

Johnny Depp presents
Best Actress – Musical or Comedy

Nominees: Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky), Meryl Streep (Mamma Mia!), Emma Thompson (Last Chance Harvey), Frances McDormand (Burn After Reading)
Winner: Sally Hawkins
Cool. It was such a funny movie and Sally Hawkins was amazing. She can hardly talk now, she’s so touched.

Jake Gyllenhaal presents The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore present
Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture – TV

Nominees: A Raisin in the Sun, Bernard and Doris, Cranford, John Adams, Recount
Winner: John Adams
Looks all good, can’t say much about it.

Demi Moore presents
Best Supporting Actor – Movie

Nominees: Tom Cruise (Tropic Thunder), Robert Downey Jr (Tropic Thunder), Ralph Fiennes (The Duchess), Philipp Seymour Hoffman (Doubt), Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
Winner: Heath Ledger
Standing ovations. Tears in my eyes. Chris Nolan accepts on his behalf. Scene of The Dark Knight.
“He will be eternally missed, but he will never be forgotten.”

Tom Brogar presents Frost/Nixon.

Colin Farrell *sniffs*, “I still have a cold … It’s not the other thing that it used to be.”
He presents
Best Foreign Language Film

Nominees: The Baader Meinhoff Complex, Everlasting Moments, Gomorra, I’ve Loved You So Long, Waltz With Bashir
Winner: Waltz With Bashir
Great! Great Movie! Great Documentary! Ari Folman dedicates the prize to the eight production babies. :) And hopes that when they grow up, the film will look like an ancient video game that has nothing to do with their lives.

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Aaron Eckhart present
Best Actress in Mini Series or TV Movie

Nominees: Catherine Keener (An American Crime), Laura Linney (John Adams), Shirley MacLaine (Coco Chanel), Susan Sarandon (Bernard and Doris), Judi Dench (Cranford)
Winner: Laura Linney
Laura Linney’s cool. But wears an ugly dress.

Gerard Butler (the handsome star of The Ugly Truth) presents In Bruges.

Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogen present
Best Screenplay – Movie

Nominees: Simon Beaufoy(Slumdog Millionaire), Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon), Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), John Patrick Shanley (Doubt), David Hare (The Reader)
Winner: Simon Beaufoy

Amy Poehler and Patrick Dempsey present
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Nominees: Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Steve Carell (The Office), Kevin Connolly (The Entourage), David Duchovny (Californication), Toni Shaloub (Monk)
Winner: Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin totally rocks in 30 Rock.

Renée Zellweger presents The Reader. [Does she have a nest on her head?]

Terrence Howard and someone I don’t know and didn’t catch the name of present
Best Actor in Mini Series or TV Movie

Nominees: Ralph Fiennes (Bernard and Doris), Paul Giamatti (John Adams), Kiefer Sutherland (24: Redemption), Tom Wilkinson (Recount), Kevin Spacey (Recount)
Winner: Paul Giamatti
“It seems like there were thousands of people who saved my ass every day.”

Glenn Close and Lawrence Fishburne present
Best TV Series – Musical or Comedy

Nominees: 30 Rock, Californication, Entourage, The Office, Weeds
Winner: 30 Rock
Yay! This show just plain rocks! Tracy Morgan makes the speech, “I made this agreement with Tina Fey: Since Barack Obama won, I’m gonna talk for the show now. Welcome to post-racial America. Yeah, that’s post-racial America, deal with it, Cate Blanchett!” *rofl*

Pierce Brosnan presents Mamma Mia!

Sean Combs and Kate Bekinsale present
Best Original Score

Nominees: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Alexandre Desplat), Changeling (Clint Eastwood), Defiance (James Newton Howard), Slumdog Millionaire (a. R. Rahman), Frost/Nixon (Hans Zimmer)
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire

David Duchovny and Jane Krakowski present
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Nominees: Christina Applegate (Samantha Who), America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), Tina Fey (30 Rock), Debra Messing (The Starter Wife), Mary Louise Parker (Weeds)
Winner: Tina Fey
The third Globe this evening for 30 Rock. Do you need more proof that Tina Fey is great?
“I love the Hollywood Foreign Press. As a kid, I had all the Hollywood Foreign Press action figures.”
“If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the internet. And you can find a lot of people there who don’t like you. I’d like to address some of them now. Babs in La Crosse, you can suck it. Diane-fan, you can suck it. Cougar-letter, you can really suck it.”

Martin Scorsese presents the Cecil B. DeMille award to Steven Spielberg. I didn’t know Spielberg directed a Columbo episode… Interesting. Cecil B. DeMille inspired Steven Spielberg to shoot his first film.

Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman present
Best Director

Nominees: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), Stephen Daldry (The Reader), David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon), Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road)
Winner: Danny Boyle
I’m getting more and more excited to finally see this movie…

Sigourney Weaver presents Revolutionary Road.

Sandra Bullock presents
Best Actor in a Movie – Musical or Comedy

Nominees: Javier Bardem (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell (In Bruges), Dustin Hoffman (Last Chance Harvey), James Franco (Pineapple Express)
Winner: Colin Farrell
He really was exceptionally good in In Bruges and it’s an exceptionally funny movie.

Salma Hayek, who looks wonderful, as usual, presents Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

Sasha Baron Cohen – It’s funny to hear him talk without a fake accent. But what he says is funny, too. “Madonna has had to get rid of one of her personal assistants. Our thoughts go out to you, Guy Ritchie.”
Best Movie – Mursical or Comedy

Nominees: In Bruges, Mamma Mia!, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Happy-Go-Lucky, Burn After Reading
Winner: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
I’ve actually seen all these movies. Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Mamma Mia! would have been the two movies I would have ruled out.

Sharuk Khan and Freida Pinto present Slumdog Millionaire.

Cameron Diaz and Mark Wahlberg present
Best Actress in a Movie -Drama

Nominees: Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married), Angelina Jolie (Changeling), Meryl Streep (Doubt), Kristin Scott Thomas (I’ve Loved You So Long), Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road)
Winner: Kate Winslet – again!
Congrats Kate! You finally got them and you deserve it.
“Please wrap up? You have no idea how much I’m not going to wrap up.”
“Leo, you don’t know how much I love you, how much I loved you for thirteen years. Sam, my husband, thank you for directing this film.”

Rainn Wilson and Blake Lively, “Hello, we’re TV actors.”
Best TV Series  – Drama

Nominees: Dexter, House, In Treatment, Mad Men, True Blood
Winner: Mad Men

Susan Sarandon presents
Best Actor in a Movie -Drama

Nominees: Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road), Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon), Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Sean Penn (Milk), Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
Winner: Mickey Rourke
It’s cool that Mickey Rourke is back on his feet and it’s good for Darren Arronfsky as well. Great.
Wow, Mickey Rourke is allowed to say Son of a Bitch on TV? And he says thank you to his dogs? Interesting.

Tom Cruise presents
Best Motion Picture – Drama

Nominees: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, The Reader, Revolutionary Road, Slumdog Millionaire
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire
Why do all these films come out so late in Austria?

Great stuff, in any case.

There’s a cool collection of quotes from the ceremony on the Guardian.

7 comments

  1. Slumdog is totally worth a watch, I hope you get to see it soon. And I know he’s won before but, aww, Hugh Laurie didn’t win? Or the show, for that matter.

  2. We’ll probably get it here in March… Maybe I can at least see it before the Oscars.

    Hugh Laurie can’t keep winning all the Golden Globes, can he? :) I mean, he’s great, but there’s other great people as well.

  3. bwahaha kate winslet war sehr lustig, als sie angelina jolies namen vergessen hat u angelina sah so angepisst aus. herrlich.

    im uebrigens glaub ich, dass sean penn den oscar fuer milk bekommen wird. nicht mickey rourke. glaub ich.

    und was mit dem wrap up von winslet versteh ich nicht. mag mir mal eben jemand uebersetzen, bitte?

  4. Kate Winslet war super, aber ich glaube, ihr wird’s furchtbar peinlich sein, wenn sie sich mal erholt hat. :)

    Ich kann mir gut vorstellen, dass Sean Penn den Oscar bekommt. Aber ich kann’s mir eigentlich bei allen GG-Nominierten vorstellen. Aber ich bin mal gespannt, ob’s wirklich die gleichen Nominierungen sein werden. Irgendwie ist es ja heuer so, als hätt’s die ganze Zeit nur 5 Filme gegeben. Maximal 6.

    Kate Winslet hat die Regieanweisung bekommen, ihre Dankesrede abzuschließen. Darauf sagte sie: “Abschließen? Du hast keine Ahnung wie sehr ich NICHT abschließen werde.”

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