I’m bored and dismayed after the poor refereeing in a certain NFC Playoff game today. As such I’ve decided to live blog tonight’s Golden Globes. It’s not the most prestigious of awards shows. In fact it has been accused of incredible corruption. There are only 90 some foreign “journalists” who vote for the awards. They are not journalists from reputable publications either. Essentially they like the attention and oftentimes will nominate movies, shows, or actors just to get them to show up. The studio that campaigns and lavishes exclusive interviews on these “journalists” is the one that wins. But, meh, who cares. All awards are political in some way and lots of awards shows make horrible choices. At least the Golden Globes are a fun time. It includes both TV and Film stars and they get very drunk during the show. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are very funny women and I enjoy them as hosts. Show starts at 7pm Central. I might check in on the red carpet show starting at 6 depending on the status of the current playoff game. So here goes nothing …
Also here’s a link for all the nominees: http://www.goldenglobes.com/2015_72nd_Golden_Globes_Nominees
Ok then, here it starts in earnest. Here are some of the red carpet arrivals. Right now they’re skewed a little bit towards beautiful woman, but I’ll try to mix it up later.
The wonderful Rosamund Pike who is one of my favorites in the Best Actress Drama category for Gone Girl.
And here’s Julia Goldani Telles (very interesting name) who was so great in the TV show The Affair. Her effectiveness was part of the reason that show was ultimately so successful as she became part of the central subplot in the second half of the series. The Affair is nominated for Best TV Drama and I’m pulling for it to win.
Next we have a trio in red. Kate Mara’s House of Cards is nominated for Best TV Drama. Anna Kendrick’s Into the Woods is nominated for Best Comedy or Musical Film. Lastly, Taylor Schilling is nominated for Best Actress in a TV Comedy for Orange is the New Black and that series is also nominated for Best Comedy show.
Ok here’s the last red carpet update before the show. Diane Kruger was amazing this year on the sadly cancelled too soon The Bridge and somehow she wasn’t nominated. Neither was Jessica Chastain for Interstellar or A Most Violent Year. I’m no fashion critic by any stretch of the imagination, but for my money it’s my favorite dress. Emily Blunt however is nominated for Into the Woods as Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy. Somehow that movie is getting lots of love here at the Globes. It didn’t look that good, but it had a lot of stars in it so the HFPA wanted them all to show up. Emily Blunt was really good in Edge of Tomorrow, would’ve been fun to have her nominated for that instead.
First award of the night … Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture goes to …
J.K. SIMMONS for Whiplash. No surprise here at all. Hugely deserved. Should win all the awards in existence.
Next is Best Supporting Actress in a Series, TV Series or TV Movie goes to Joanne Froggatt for Downton Abbey. Beating Kathy Bates in any award is a big deal. I love Downton Abbey a lot. A welcome surprise in this category.
The Best Mini-Series or TV Movie is … Fargo. Which I’m not sure how that’s a mini-series. That was a full run cable show.
Next is the Best Actor in a Mini-Series or TV Movie … and the Golden Globe goes to Billy Bob Thornton. Hugely deserved, but a bit of a surprise to outdo Matthew McConaughey in True Detective.
Best Actress in a TV Series – Musical or Comedy is Gina Rodriguez for Jane the Virgin. I’ve never watched the show and probably won’t watch it, but still it’s nice to see a new face win an award. Rare win for a CW show too. You go girl!
Best TV Series, – Musical or Comedy goes to Transparent a show on Amazon Instant Video. I will definitely have to watch this as it features Jeffrey Tambor. Bit of a surprise here as well. Nice to see a show not on traditional TV win and for the transgendered community to be represented.
One of my favorite categories … Best Original Score … winner is Johann Johannsson for The Theory of Everything. He’s an Icelandic composer and did an amazing job for this film. It wasn’t my favorite of the year but still really great.
The award for Best Original Song is “Glory” for Selma. Couldn’t care less about this category, though I suppose it’s cool for John Legend and Common to win. I love their music. I hope to be seeing this film very soon.
Best Supporting Actor in a TV Series or TV Movie is Matt Bomer for The Normal Heart. Didn’t see this TV Movie. Honestly probably won’t watch it. Seems like the TV version of Dallas Buyers Club. Sort of a typical HBO TV Movie.
Gervais is presenting an award and honestly I wish he would host more. It’s my kind of humor. The Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical is … Amy Adams for Big Eyes. This Tim Burton picture was not seen by many people. Supposedly it’s his best and most serious since Ed Wood. This wasn’t that strong of a category and Amy Adams is great in everything so I’m sure she deserved it. I’ll have to see this soon.
The Best Animated Film is How to Train Your Dragon 2 which is a big, big let down. The Lego Movie was far and away the best animated film. Even Big Hero 6 should’ve won over this. I was actually writing up how much I enjoyed The Lego Movie until the awfully dressed Kevin Hart screeched out this winner. Disappointed.
Best Supporting Actress is another of my favorite categories. The winner is Patricia Arquette for Boyhood. I was really cheering for her. Love this win and her performance. She was the emotional heart of the film.
Best Screenplay is next. They don’t split up Original versus Adapted in this show, there will be double the amount of nominees at the Oscars. The Golden Globe goes to Birdman and Alejandro Gonzalex Innaritu and crew. Would’ve liked to see Gillian Flynn win for Gone Girl. They both can win at the Oscars as they’ll be in different categories.
The Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical TV Series is Jeffrey Tambor for Transparent. This just solidifies my comments above about the show. I really must watch it now.
The Best Foreign Language Film goes to … Leviathan. This is supposed to be a tour de force from Russia. It’ll be playing here in Milwaukee in February and I’ll be sure to be there the first day.
Maggie Gyllenhaal wins Best Actress in a TV Miniseries or TV Movie for The Honorable Woman. This is on Netflix right now and I’ve just added it to my queue. I have a lot of catching up to do. Perhaps her brother can snag an award later as well.
Big category here! Best TV Series Drama. Winner is … The Affair. Huge win! Was really pulling for this to win. If you haven’t seen it you need to watch it immediately. I’ve posted about it here now a few times.
The Best Actor in a TV Series Drama is Kevin Spacey for House of Cards. His is a virtuoso. His performance as Frank Underwood has entered the culture by now. And he loves his character, he gets into it so much and even does it for interviews. Very deserved. I was wanting Clive Owen to win for The Knick, but maybe next year.
George Clooney is getting a lifetime achievement award. He’s too young for this award. This is just so desperate by the HFPA to try and gain viewers it’s sad. I think someday Clooney will be deserving of this, but not at age 53. But he’s getting the Cecil B. DeMille Award regardless. He’s one of the most influential actors today and one of the last movie stars that can carry just about anything he’s in and he was great on TV in his early years too. So here’s to George.
Best Director goes to … Richard Linklater! Boyhood is a special once a decade movie event. It has to be seen by everyone. Linklater is a master of the craft and it showed in Boyhood. HUGELY deserved.
The Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama Series is Ruth Wilson for The Affair. I typed that out before the award was given. I’m just that good. But no, seriously, it wasn’t that hard to see that the HFPA has much love for The Affair. She was terrific in this show. Nice to see her get an award.
Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical goes to Michael Keaton for Birdman. No surprise here. He might be the only one in this category to make the jump to being nominated for an Oscar. We find out those nominations early Thursday morning.
CUMBERBATCH PHOTOBOMB!!!
BEST MOTION PICTURE COMEDY OR MUSICAL. Only Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel will be nominated for an Oscar most likely. Sorry to the others. They were great films but not good enough this year. The Grand Budapest Hotel steals a big, big win away from Birdman. With the Best Screenplay and Best Actor already going to the film it was a huge surprise to see it not win this. The Grand Budapest Hotel came out early in the year and managed to stay in the consciousness of the voters with terrific production design, editing, storytelling and great characters. Funny acceptance speech too.
Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama belongs to Julianne Moore for Still Alice. This will be a popular pick because of the tough subject matter of the film. I think she was terrific, but she’s always terrific. I would’ve like to seed Rosamund Pike or Felicity Jones win. Sidenote: Kristen Stewart was really great in Still Alice as well.
Best Actor in a Drama goes to Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything. I like to think he won this award because I said, after walking out of an early screening and telling the Focus Features representative, that he should win. So you’re welcome Eddie. It was my vote that put you over the top. Very competitive category here. Really it could’ve went to any of these fine gentlemen, but his performance as Stephen Hawking was transformative. A big tribute to one of the greatest minds of our time.
The last award of the night, of course, is for Best Motion Picture Drama. There are great choices here with two films about titans of science, another about an American hero, MLK. Despite all that there really is only one film here that should win: Boyhood. And the winner is …. BOYHOOD!! YES!! Really happy for this. Best film of the year by far.
And that’s it folks. Show’s over. Thanks for coming along for the ride. It was a fun night!
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