Another year has passed and tonight, it’s again Golden Globes time. As usual, I’m gonna be liveblogging the whole thing, so keep refreshing this post once the show has started to get updates.

More infos on the movies here. Movies I’ve seen are bold. Winners in red.

Oh man, this waiting for the show to begin really wears me down. But it’s 1.56 am and the wait will be over soon. And why do they always have to play bad action movies before the ceremony? I might fall asleep 2 minutes before it starts.

It is begun!

Ricky Gervais: “It’s gonna be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or as Charlie Sheen calls it ‘breakfast’. (…) It seems like everything this year was 3dimensional. Except the characters in The Tourist. (…) And I’d like to squash this rumor that the only reason it was nominated was because the HFPA wanted to hang out with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. That is not true. They also accept bribes. (…) Talking of The Walking Dead: congratulations to Hugh Hefner. (…) Our first presenter is beautiful, talented and Jewish, apperently. Mel Gibson told me that.”

Scarlett Johansson presents:

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Christian Bale for The Fighter
Michael Douglas for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps [It was so meh I didn’t even review it]
Andrew Garfield for The Social Network
Jeremy Renner for The Town
Geoffrey Rush for The King’s Speech

Dear Christian Bale, please cut your hair. Thanks, Lena

He’s thanking the HFPA: “Never knew who those guys were but now I know how wonderful, wise and perceptive they are.” :)

And he has to be dragged off stage practically.

LL Cool J and ? [Julie Bowen, I think] present

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama

Julianna Margulies for “The Good Wife”
Elisabeth Moss for “Mad Men”
Piper Perabo for “Covert Affairs”
Katey Sagal for “Sons of Anarchy”
Kyra Sedgwick for “The Closer”

Covert Affairs was entertaining, but bad. I’m honestly surprised that this was nominated.

Holy bloody hell, that’s Katey Sagal?

Julianne Moore and Kevin Spacey introduce Ms Golden Globe Gia Montagna and then present

Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Carlos
The Pacific
The Pillars of the Earth
Temple Grandin
You Don’t Know Jack

Even more reason to finally watch it.

Ricky Gervais introduces Bruce Willis as Ashton Kutcher’s dad… Bruce Willis, in turn, introduces Red.

Who the hell are these people [apparently they’re Garrett Hedlund and Leighton Meister]? In any case, they introduce

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Scott Caan for “Hawaii Five-0” [I’ve seen enough of this to judge it, I think. It’s bad]
Chris Colfer for “Glee“
Chris Noth for “The Good Wife”
Eric Stonestreet for “Modern Family”
David Strathairn for Temple Grandin

Chris Colfer deserves this one. And even if he wouldn’t have deserved it, his face was completely worth it. And he does a charming and concise thank you speech. Btw., the whole Glee cast seems to be there, which is really nice.

Michelle Pfeifer introduces Alice in Wonderland.

Eva Longoria introduces the HFPA and its president Philipp Berg. And looks absolutely dashing. Most beautiful dress so far.

Milla Jovovich and Kevin Bacon [with no motivation whatsoever] present

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama

Steve Buscemi for “Boardwalk Empire”
Bryan Cranston for “Breaking Bad”
Michael C. Hall for “Dexter”
Jon Hamm for “Mad Men”
Hugh Laurie for “House M.D.”

As much as I love Hugh Laurie, he should be banned from further nominations for House.

What Kevin Bacon lacks in enthusiasm, Milla more than makes up for.

Steve Buscemi: “I’m gonna try to talk fast before the sad music comes on.”

Btw, how come I missed both Boardwalk Empire and Breaking Bad?

Kevin Bacon and Milla Jovovich continue presenting

Best Television Series – Drama

“Boardwalk Empire”
“Dexter”
“The Good Wife”
“Mad Men”
“The Walking Dead”

It would be awesome if The Walking Dead would win.

Okay, Boardwalk Empire is getting checked out right away.

Andrew Garfield presents The Social Network and gets stuck on the word “inspiring.” Or was it “inspired?”

Alecx Baldwin and Jennifer Lopez (Alec from the Rock and Jenny from the Block) present

Best Original Song – Motion Picture

Burlesque: Samuel Dixon, Christina Aguilera, Sia Furler (“Bound to You”)
Burlesque: Diane Warren (“You Haven’t Seen The Last of Me”)
Country Strong: Bob DiPiero, Tom Douglas, Hillary Lindsey, Troy Verges (“Coming Home”)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: Carrie Underwood, David Hodges, Hillary Lindsey (“There’s A Place For Us”)
Tangled: Alan Menken, Glenn Slater (“I See the Light”)

Since I can’t even remember the Narnia song… but the Tangled song was really sweet.

I can’t believe that anything about Burlesque was good enough to get nominated at all, never mind winning. Diane Warren is so nervous, it’s cute.

Alec Baldwin and Jennifer Lopez continue with

Best Original Score – Motion Picture

127 Hours: A.R. Rahman
Alice in Wonderland: Danny Elfman
Inception: Hans Zimmer
The King’s Speech: Alexandre Desplat
The Social Network: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

That’s surprising. I thought that Hans Zimmer would win. But it’s a good choice.

[Ugh, German preview for 300. That’s grating. Dubbing sucks, especially when you’re used to the original version.]

Justin Bieber and Haley Steinfeld [or something like that] present

Best Animated Film

Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
L’illusionniste
Tangled
Toy Story 3

Tough category.

Lee Unkrich to Bieber and Steinfeldt: “Were you even born when Toy Story 1 came out?”

Robert Downey Jr. (introduced by Ricky Gervais with only movies that sound like porn titles): “I don’t know if an actress can do her best work before having slept with me.” and with that [and much more] he presents

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

Annette Bening for The Kids Are All Right
Anne Hathaway for Love and Other Drugs
Angelina Jolie for The Tourist
Julianne Moore for The Kids Are All Right
Emma Stone for Easy A

I think that Emma Stone will score. Though Annette Bening and Julianne Moore would be more deserving.

Perfect choice with Annette Bening. And she looks great, with all that crazy-ass hair.

Ricky Gervais introduces Sylvester Stalone, who displays “great acting versatility: He played a boxer and Rambo.” He presents The Fighter.

Geoffrey Rush and Tilda Swinton present

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Idris Elba for “Luther”
Ian McShane for “The Pillars of the Earth”
Al Pacino for You Don’t Know Jack
Dennis Quaid for The Special Relationship
Édgar Ramírez for “Carlos”

Al Pacino kinda gets special treatment: Nobody dares to interrupt his speech. ;)

Tilda Swinton and Geoffrey Rush continue with

Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

Hayley Atwell for “The Pillars of the Earth”
Claire Danes for Temple Grandin
Judi Dench for “Cranford”
Romola Garai for “Emma”
Jennifer Love Hewitt for The Client List

Claire Danes must be one of five people in the world able to pull off this color.

She gives a shout-out to Temple Grandin herself, who’s there as well, which is pretty cool.

[Since there was just a Bruno Mars feature here: can somebody explain to me why he’s handled as the new Elvis? Other than both of them making music, I really don’t know what they have in common.]

[And is it me, or did the commercial breaks get much longer?]

Zac Efron [with short hair he looks almost like an adult] presents The Kids Are All Right.

Ricky Gervais presents Tina Fey and Steve Carrell [“he’s now leaving The Office and killing a cash cow for both of us”] who in turn present

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

127 Hours: Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
Inception: Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right: Stuart Blumberg, Lisa Cholodenko
The King’s Speech: David Seidler
The Social Network: Aaron Sorkin

Between Christopher Nolan and Aaron Sorkin it’s a tough call. But since Aaron Sorkin is way overdue, I’m more than happy with that decision.

“Elite is not a bad word, it’s an aspirational one.” Hell yeah.
“Smart girls have more fun.” Hell yeah.

Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans present

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Hope Davis for The Special Relationship
Jane Lynch for “Glee“
Kelly Macdonald for “Boardwalk Empire”
Julia Stiles for “Dexter”
Sofía Vergara for “Modern Family”

Jane Lynch is the best thing about Glee and she deserves everything. It’s wonderful that she finally gets recognition, especially for a character like Sue Silvester.

Olivia Wilde and Robert Pattinson present

Best Foreign Language Film

Biutiful (Mexico/Spain)
Le concert (France)
Kray (Russia)
Io sono l’amore (Italy)
Hævnen (Denmark)

I’m sad to say that I hadn’t even heard about the film before.

Helen Mirren compliments the women there, when she should compliment herself… Anyway, she presents The King’s Speech.

Vanessa Williams and Blair Underwood present

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Toni Collette for “United States of Tara”
Edie Falco for “Nurse Jackie”
Tina Fey for “30 Rock”
Laura Linney for “The Big C”
Lea Michele for “Glee”

Edie Falco is brilliant and would have been my pick. But Laura Linney’s good, too. She’s not there, though.

Jane Fonda presents Burlesque, seems really nervous and has a very good plastic surgeon. You can still see that things have been done – but it doesn’t look bad.

Matthew Bomer and Kaley Cuoco present

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy

Alec Baldwin for “30 Rock”
Steve Carell for “The Office”
Thomas Jane for “Hung”
Matthew Morrison for “Glee”
Jim Parsons for “The Big Bang Theory“

Jim Parsons needs to win this one. And thank goodness he did!

Jeremy Irons presents [with about 5 times more gravitas than actually necessary]

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Amy Adams for The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter for The King’s Speech
Mila Kunis for Black Swan
Melissa Leo for The Fighter
Jacki Weaver for Animal Kingdom

Melissa Leo starts, “Oh my god, all of that and kissed by JEREMY IRONS!”

Matt Damon presents the Cecil B. DeMille Award to Robert De Niro. [“And who could forget Taxi Driver, where he was literally unrecognisable as a blond, 13-year-old hooker. He just disappears.”]

Robert De Niro doesn’t really get a word in for all the clapping. Ah, here we go:

“Thank you [the HFPA] for announcing your decision two months ago, well before you had a chance to review Little Fockers. (…) I’m sorry that not more members of the HFPA could be here tonight, but most of them got deported right before the show, along with most of the waiters and Javier Bardem.”

[All the commercial breaks are filled with ads for the TV station and its program. It’s amazing how much crappy TV there is…]

Megan Fox introduces The Tourist.

Annette Bening is back! And presents

Best Director – Motion Picture

Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
David Fincher for The Social Network
Tom Hooper for The King’s Speech
Christopher Nolan for Inception
David O. Russell for The Fighter

With all due respect to everybody else, but this has to go to Christopher Nolan and we all know it.
Seriously, people, David Fincher is awesome and everything, but this decision is wrong.

Anyway, let’s not dwell. He is a great director after all.

Jimmy Fallon and January Jones present

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

“The Big Bang Theory”
“The Big C”
“Glee”
“Modern Family”
“Nurse Jackie”
“30 Rock”

The Big Bang Theory or Nurse Jackie should win. But it’s probably going to be Glee.
[Called it. :)]

That really is the whole cast…

Alicia Keyes presents Black Swan. [Which will finally be released in Austria next week.]

Halle Berry presents

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

Johnny Depp for The Tourist
Johnny Depp for Alice in Wonderland
Paul Giamatti for Barney’s Version
Jake Gyllenhaal for Love and Other Drugs
Kevin Spacey for Casino Jack

Johnny Depp is nominated twice, and I don’t think he deserves either…

Paul Giamatti doesn’t get over the fact that he just kissed Halle Berry…

Joseph Gordon-Levitt quotes Bette Davies and presents Inception.

Jeff Bridges presents

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

Halle Berry for Frankie and Alice
Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence for Winter’s Bone
Natalie Portman for Black Swan
Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine

Release dates suck. But its wonderful Natalie Portman won. Even though her dress is pretty much horrible. She’s completely adorable.

Ricky Gervais is back. I was wondering if he was still here. :) He introduces Tim Allen and Tom Hanks who present

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Alice in Wonderland
Burlesque
The Kids Are All Right
Red
The Tourist

A very weak category this year. The best film was Red, imo. But I’m guessing that The Kids Are All Right will get it.
Nailed it. :)

It’s a pretty strong year for women filmmakers. Very cool.

Ricky Gervais introduces Sandra Bullock who presents

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Jesse Eisenberg for The Social Network
Colin Firth for The King’s Speech
James Franco for 127 Hours
Ryan Gosling for Blue Valentine
Mark Wahlberg for The Fighter

Every win for Ryan Gosling would be awesome. My guess is on Colin Firth, though.
I’m getting so good at predicting these things. :) Maybe next year, I won’t even watch anymore.

Colin Firth just described his relationship with Tom Hooper and Geoffrey Rush as a surprisingly robust triangle of man-love. And shows a wonderful dedication to his wife (girlfriend?).

[This last commercial break is the definition of unnecessary. If they’d at least show different commercials…]

Michael Douglas gets standing ovations that take about forever [which he comments with “there’s gotta be an easier way to get a standing ovation”] and presents

Best Motion Picture – Drama

Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network

It’s extremely frustrating that three of these five films haven’t been released yet in Austria. Because I want to see them all.

Hang on – that means Inception didn’t get anything? That’s not right.

Anyway. The Social Network was fantastic. At least, it deserves the win. :)

Ricky Gervais says good-bye with “And thank you to God for making me an atheist.”

And that’s me signing off. That way I’ll catch another 2 hours of sleep before I have to go to work.