The Golden Globes are upon us! I’m gonna be updating this post as the results come in. So, keep on refreshing to know the winners and what I thought about it all. :)

More infos on the movies here.

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Reading Neil Gaiman’s twitter feed (who is attending with Amanda Palmer) has warmed me up nicely for the Golden Globes. I’m ready for them to start now (especially, since I’m sitting through the last minutes of Walking Tall: Lone Justice, which would be an awesome title for a spoof if it wasn’t real). I especially enjoyed this tweet:

We have an escort. We have silicone nipple covers (not for me). It’s go!

It’s two a.m. and Kevin Sorbo is still all manly. Dammit.

Okay, it’s 2:01. Kevin Sorbo just shot the bad guy. I hope it’s over now and that I’m not missing too much.

2:02 Noooooooooooo. An epilogue.

FINALLY!

Ricky Gervais: “You probably know me as the creator of The Office. No, you don’t. You think Steven Carrell did it all.”

lol RG just tried to sell the Office box set.

RG: “Let’s look at all the great work that has been done this year. By plastic surgeons. (…) I’ve had a penis reduction. Just have one now.”

RG: “How could you replace Kiefer Sutherland on 24? (…) Some of the scenes, by the way, were he beats some terrorists to a pulp, they weren’t even in the script.”

RG: “Let’s get on with it before NBC replaces me with Jay Leno.”

People are wearing ribbons in support for Haiti.

Nicole Kidman presents
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Nominees: Penélope Cruz for Nine, Vera Farmiga for Up in the Air, Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air, Mo’Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Julianne Moore for A Single Man
My tip: Vera Farmiga or Penélope Cruz[None of these movies has been released here yet. :(]
Winner: Mo’Nique

Wow! I so didn’t think that would happen! But it’s definitely great.

Mo’Nique looks beautiful. She’s thanking her husband and the director and Gabourey Sidibe. She says, “I dedicate this award to everyone who has ever been touched. You can say it now and it’s okay.”

Matthew Fox and Sofia Vergara present
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Nominees: Toni Collette for United States of Tara, Courteney Cox for Cougar Town, Edie Falco for Nurse Jackie, Tina Fey for 30 Rock, Lea Michele for Glee
My tip: Tina Fey or Lea Michele (I’m totally hoping it’s going to be Edie Falco, though I’m afraid it’s rather unlikely.)
Winner: Toni Collette

Toni Collette looks positively glowing and she doesn’t breathe when she talks.

Lauren Graham and Jim Parsons present
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Nominees: Michael Emerson for Lost, Neil Patrick Harris for How I Met Your Mother, William Hurt for Damages, John Lithgow for Dexter, Jeremy Piven for Entourage
My tip: Neil Patrick Harris [maybe just because I want it to be him…]
Winner: John Lithgow

I’m a little disappointed. Probably because I never got into Dexter. Anyway, he gives a shout out to basically everybody and their dogs.

Paul McCartney presents
Best Animated Film

PM: “Animated movies is not just for kids, but also for adults taking drugs.”

Nominees: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog, Up
My tip: Up or Coraline [It’s been such an amazing year for animated movies… I hope it’s going to be either Coraline or Fantastic Mr. Fox (though I haven’t seen that yet.]
Winner: Up

Great movie. And I was right! :)

They really zip through this show. There’s barely a second wasted on anything.

Kate Hudson presents the clip from Nine.

Ricky Gervais: “We’ve seen some worthy winners and some not so worthy ones. I won’t be mentioning them here. I’ll do that on my blog.”

Now he tries to sell us the DVD to The Invention of Lying.

RG: “You can’t buy a Golden Globe. Officially. Ah, what the hell, I won’t be doing this again anyway. If you were to buy one, though, the man to see would be Philipp Berg.”

Felicity Huffman presents, a little stammering (“Wow, this was not at all how it was supposed to go. I, like Ricky Gervais, will never be asked to do this again.”), Philipp Berg, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Jane Krakowski and Neil Patrick Harris present
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Nominees: Simon Baker for The Mentalist, Michael C. Hall for Dexter, Jon Hamm for Mad Men, Hugh Laurie for House M.D., Bill Paxton for Big Love
My tip: Bill Paxton maybe.
Winner: Michael C. Hall

To be incredibly cynic for a moment, I didn’t know that he had/has? cancer – makes it incredibly clear that he was going to win.

Anyway, Jane and Neil continue with
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama

Nominees: Glenn Close for Damages, January Jones for Mad Men, Julianna Margulies for The Good Wife, Anna Paquin for True Blood, Kyra Sedgwick for The Closer
My tip: Glenn Close [but I think all of them are very deserving]
Winner: Julianna Margulies

She wears a beautiful dress. And – as deadra pointed out to me rightly – at last a new show that wins.

Harrison Ford presents Up in the Air.

Ricky Gervais makes fun of Paul McCartney. Is anybody allowed to do that?

Cher and Christina Aguilera present
Best Original Song – Motion Picture

Nominees: Avatar: James Horner, Simon Franglen, Kuk Harrell (“I See You”); Brothers: U2, Bono (“Winter”); Crazy Heart: T-Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham (“The Weary Kind”); Everybody’s Fine: Paul McCartney (“(I Want To) Come Home”); Nine: Maury Yeston (“Cinema Italiano”)
My tip: Crazy Heart or Nine [There was a song in Avatar?]
Winner: The Weary Kind, Crazy Heart

AND RIGHT AGAIN!

and Cher and Christina Aguilera go on with
Best Original Score – Motion Picture

Nominees: Avatar: James Horner; The Informant!: Marvin Hamlisch; A Single Man: Abel Korzeniowski; Up: Michael Giacchino; Where the Wild Things Are: Carter Burwell, Karen Orzolek
My tip: James Horner [But it should rightfully be Where the Wild Things Are because for whatever reason that’s the only nomination it got…]
Winner: Michael Giacchino

The Up score was really nice. But but but that means that Where the Wild Things Are won’t get anything. :(

And the score for A Single Man sounds really nice, at least the bit I heard just now.

Amy Adams and Josh Brolin present
Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees: Georgia O’Keeffe, Grey Gardens, Into the Storm, Little Dorrit, Taking Chance
My tip: ? [Rooting for Grey Gardens, just because.]
Winner: Grey Gardens

Woot! So many women on stage…

Tom Hanks presents Julie & Julia. [“This isn’t the movie where Meryl Streep ends up in bed with Alec Baldwin, but with Stanley Tucci. By all measures, a huge step up.”]

RG: “One stereotype I hate is that all Irish men are drunk and making trouble. Ladies and Gentlemen, Colin Farrell.”

Colin Farrell: “Oh, to be a stereotype… When I heard that Ricky had specifically asked to introduce me, I just thought ‘Oh, balls…'”

Colin Farell presents
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Nominees: Sandra Bullock for The Proposal, Marion Cotillard for Nine, Julia Roberts for Duplicity, Meryl Streep for It’s Complicated, Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia
My tip: Meryl Streep
Winner: Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)

Meryl Streep: “I wanna change my name to T-Bone. T-Bone Streep. Sounds great. (…) Damn, I forgot what I wanted to say… Yeah, I love Norah. (…) In my long career I’ve played so many extraordinary women that I’m mistaken for one.”

Oh, and btw. RIGHT AGAIN!

Meryl Streep pays tribute to her mother.

Helen Mirren (BEAUTIFUL DRESS, beautiful in general) presents Precious.

Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington present
Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Nominees: Kevin Bacon for Taking Chance, Kenneth Branagh for Wallander, Chiwetel Ejiofor for Endgame, Brendan Gleeson for Into the Storm, Jeremy Irons for Georgia O’Keeffe
My tip: No idea. Maybe Kevin Bacon (because he’s usually awesome in everything he does).
Winner: Kevin Bacon

I’m an on a ROLL. :)

Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington continue to present
Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Nominees: Joan Allen for Georgia O’Keeffe, Drew Barrymore for Grey Gardens, Jessica Lange for Grey Gardens, Anna Paquin for The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler, Sigourney Weaver for Prayers for Bobby
My tip: Don’t know, either.
Winner: Drew Barrymore

Cool Grey Gardens raking up prizes like that.

Drew Barrymore is approaching a nervous breakdown. Breathe, girl, breathe.

But she does a nice speech and if I hadn’t liked her already, I would now.

Cameron Diaz presents It’s Complicated.

Ricky Gervais: “This next category is a bit of a downer: It’s for writing. (…) Please welcome Rachel from Friends and that bloke from 300.”

Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston present
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

Nominees: District 9: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell; The Hurt Locker: Mark Boal; Inglourious Basterds: Quentin Tarantino; It’s Complicated: Nancy Meyers; Up in the Air: Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner
My tip: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell [who I don’t want to win because I didn’t think District 9 was good. But then again, go SciFi.]
Winner: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Jason Reitman: “Quentin, I’m still waiting for them to say your name. I’m so confused right now. (…) People like the way I write women – that would never have been possible without my wife. You’re my creative fuel.”

Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Garner present
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Nominees: Alec Baldwin for 30 Rock, Steve Carell for The Office, David Duchovny for Californication, Thomas Jane for Hung, Matthew Morrison for Glee
My tip: Alec Baldwin
Winner: Alec Baldwin

Right again. And also, he isn’t here, so…

Maggie Gyllenhaal reminds everyone to keep donating.

Samuel L. Jackson presents Inglorious Basterds.

Sophia Loren gets standing ovations and presents
Best Foreign Language Film

Nominees: Los abrazos rotos, Baarìa, Das weisse Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte, La nana, Un prophète
My tip: Das weisse Band [Los abrazos rotos doesn’t deserve it. Das weisse Band would be fine with me.]
Winner: Das weisse Band

Oh, I’m getting really good with these predictions.

Quoting deadra: In English, he sounds even more Austrian than in German.

Amy Poehler and Zachary Levi present
Best Television Series – Drama

Nominees: Big Love, Dexter, House M.D., Mad Men, True Blood
My tip: No idea [Isn’t it sad that the newest of these shows is True Blood, which is going in its 3rd season?]
Winner: Mad Men

Goodness, I love the Mad Men theme.

Taylor Lautner presents (500) Days of Summer. [And he looks good in a suit, too, not only without a shirt.]

Chase Crawford and Kristen Bell present
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Nominees: Jane Adams for Hung, Rose Byrne for Damages, Jane Lynch for Glee, Janet McTeer for Into the Storm, Chloë Sevigny for Big Love
My tip: Jane Lynch [she rocks]
Winner: Chloë Sevigny

Oh, poor Jane Lynch. She would have deserved this.

Ricky Gervais: “Our next presenter is a woman of many powers. In James Bond she used her power of seduction, (…) in Cat Woman she used her power to wash herself all over. Please welcome the very clean Halle Berry.”

Halle Berry presents
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Nominees: Matt Damon for Invictus, Woody Harrelson for The Messenger, Christopher Plummer for The Last Station, Stanley Tucci for The Lovely Bones, Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds
My tip: Christoph Waltz [It would be great if there was some recognition for The Messenger but Christoph Waltz was great, too.]
Winner: Christoph Waltz

Finally someone who is not recognisable as an Austrian from the first word. And at least, he constructs grammatically sound sentences.

Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio present the Cecil B. DeMille Award to Martin Scorsese. [Robert DeNiro basically describes Martin Scorsese having sex with a film reel.]

Martin Scorsese talked approximately forever.

Jodie Foster (who looks absolutely dashing) presents The Hurt Locker.

Ricky Gervais: “I like a drink as much as the next man. Unless the next man is Mel Gibson.”

Mel Gibson presents
Best Director – Motion Picture

Nominees: Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker, James Cameron for Avatar, Clint Eastwood for Invictus, Jason Reitman for Up in the Air, Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds
My tip: I totally don’t know. But I’m rooting for Kathryn Bigelow.
Winner: James Cameron

What the flying fucking crap? People, THIS MOVIE SUCKED! Really.

James Cameron: “I thought Kathryn was gonna get this.” And she should have. She should have.

Oh, shut up already.

Olivia Wilde and Kiefer Sutherland present
Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Nominees: Entourage, Glee, Modern Family, The Office, 30 Rock
My tip: Glee
Winner: Glee

RIGHT AGAIN!

Seems the whole cast is on stage now.

Bradley Cooper, Mike Tyson, Ed Helms and Justin Bartha present The Hangover. [Apparently nobody else wanted to so they had to do it themselves.]

Reese Whitherspoon (in a beautiful dress) presents
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Nominees: (500) Days of Summer, The Hangover, It’s Complicated, Julie & Julia, Nine
My tip: Nine (I don’t even know who to root for in this category…)
Winner: The Hangover

Seriously? I mean SERIOUSLY? I was already surprised they got nominated, but the win? S-E-R-I-O-U-S-L-Y??????

Arnold Schwarzenegger presents Avatar. [The way he pronounces Avatar it sounds like Abadar. And he points out Avatar’s fantastic plot. Oy vay.]

Mickey Rourke presents
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

Nominees: Emily Blunt for The Young Victoria, Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side, Helen Mirren for The Last Station, Carey Mulligan for An Education, Gabourey Sidibe for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
My tip: Sandra Bullock [None of these movies has been released here yet. :( Still, I’m hoping for Gabourey Sidibe, just because.]
Winner: Sandra Bullock

Right again. I don’t think I’ve ever been this good with my predictions. :)

Sandra Bullock: “Please don’t let Ricky Gervais be right: Do I need to thank to whoever bought this for me?”

Sally Hawkins presents
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Nominees: Matt Damon for The Informant!, Daniel Day-Lewis for Nine, Robert Downey Jr. for Sherlock Holmes, Joseph Gordon-Levitt for (500) Days of Summer, Michael Stuhlbarg for A Serious Man
My tip: Daniel Day-Lewis or Michael Stuhlbarg [Rooting for Joseph Gordon-Levitt, because he deserves recognition.]
Winner: Robert Downey Jr.

Wouldn’t have thought so, but great nevertheless.

Robert Downey Jr.: “If you start playing violins, I’m gonna tear this joint apart. (…) I have nobody to thank. (…)” Best speech so far, definitely.

Kate Winslet (who is stunning as usual) presents
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Nominees: Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart, George Clooney for Up in the Air, Colin Firth for A Single Man, Morgan Freeman for Invictus, Tobey Maguire for Brothers
My tip: George Clooney [None of these movies has been released here yet. :(]
Winner: Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges: “You’re really screwing up my underappreciated status here.”

Julia Roberts [“If you want attention, sit next to Paul McCartney. I’ve never received so many texts in my life.”] presents
Best Motion Picture – Drama

Nominees: Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Up in the Air
My tip: Up in the Air has certainly raked up the most press. But I’ll be happy about any of these movies so long as it’s not Avatar.
Winner: Avatar

*goes to sob in a corner*

People, I don’t know what to say. Yeah, it looks good, but it’s got a crappy story, mediocre acting and the score is so-so. This movie does not deserve this win.

And the Oscars will be just like it and I’m going to hate them for it.

Final words by Ricky Gervais, who plugs himself again. And that’s it.

I’ll go to bed now since I have to get up in 90 minutes (time zones, how I hate you sometimes).