Golden Globes 2008

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Since the other Golden Globes thread is hopelessly mired down in talk about the strike, I thought I’d start a thread for people who just want to talk about the Golden Globes. The GG party is definitely cancelled, and the winners will be announced via a press conference this Sunday evening. NBC has given up its right to exclusively broadcast the press conference, so anyone can broadcast it. It’ll be, for one, streamed over the Internet by E! Online (yay for me).

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA, the Globes people) were going to give their “Cecil B. DeMille Award” to Steven Spielberg this year, but decided to wait and give it to him at next year’s Golden Globes, which presumably will be telecast.

Here are the nominees for movies and TV. Most of these names from movies will pop up during the Oscar nominations too (on January 22).

I’ve bolded ones I predict will win the Golden Globes.
A * indicates a prediction for an Oscar nomination.
A + indicates a prediction for an Oscar win.

I’ve seen all but 6 of the movies (Elizabeth: The Golden Age, A Mighty Heart, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Persepolis, Grace Is Gone, and Love In The Time Of Cholera).

**BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA **

American Gangster
Atonement *
Eastern Promises
The Great Debaters
Michael Clayton *
No Country For Old Men *+
There Will Be Blood *

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA

George Clooney - Michael Clayton *
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood *+
James McAvoy - Atonement
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises *
Denzel Washington - American Gangster

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA

Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie - Away from Her *+
Jodie Foster - The Brave One
Angelina Jolie - A Mighty Heart *
Keira Knightley - Atonement

BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Across the Universe
Charlie Wilson’s War
Hairspray
Juno *
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street *
Ryan Gosling - Lars And The Real Girl *
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson’s War
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Savages
John C. Reilly - Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Amy Adams - Enchanted *
Nikki Blonsky - Hairspray
Helena Bonham Carter - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
**Marion Cotillard - Môme, La (La Vie En Rose) ** *
Ellen Page - Juno *

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) *
**Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (The Diving Bell And The Butterfly) ** * (possible Best Picture nominee)
The Kite Runner
Se, jie (Lust, Caution)
Persepolis *

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE

Cate Blanchett - I’m Not There *
Julia Roberts - Charlie Wilson’s War
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement *
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone *
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton *+

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE

Casey Affleck - The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford *
Javier Bardem - No Country For Old Men *+
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson’s War *
John Travolta - Hairspray
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton *

BEST DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE

Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen - No Country For Old Men *+
Julian Schnabel - Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (The Diving Bell And The Butterfly) *
Ridley Scott - American Gangster
Joe Wright - Atonement *

**BEST SCREENPLAY - MOTION PICTURE **
(the Golden Globes don’t separate Original from Adapted)

Atonement - Christopher Hampton *
Charlie Wilson’s War - Aaron Sorkin *
Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (The Diving Bell And The Butterfly ) - Ronald Harwood *
Juno - Diablo Cody *+ (Original Screenplay Oscar winner)
No Country For Old Men - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen *+ (Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - MOTION PICTURE

Grace Is Gone - Composed by Clint Eastwood *
The Kite Runner - Composed by Alberto Iglesias
Atonement - Composed by Dario Marianelli *
Eastern Promises - Composed by Howard Shore
Into The Wild - Composed by Michael Brook, Kaki King and Eddie Vedder

BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE

“Despedida” – Love In The Time Of Cholera
Music By: Shakira and Antonio Pinto
Lyrics By: Shakira

“Grace Is Gone” – Grace Is Gone *
Music By: Clint Eastwood
Lyrics By: Carole Bayer Sager

“Guaranteed” – Into The Wild *
Music & Lyrics By: Eddie Vedder

“That’s How You Know” – Enchanted *+
Music By: Alan Menken
Lyrics By: Stephen Schwartz

“Walk Hard” – Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story *
Music & Lyrics By: Marshall Crenshaw, John C. Reilly, Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan
BEST ANIMATED FILM

Bee Movie *
Ratatouille *+
The Simpsons Movie

Here are the TV nominees. I haven’t seen a one of these so I have no idea what to predict.
Best Television Series - Drama

Big Love (HBO)
Damages (FX NETWORK)
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
House (FOX)
Mad Men (AMC)
The Tudors (SHOWTIME)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama

Patricia Arquette – Medium (NBC)
Glenn Close – Damages (FX NETWORK)
Minnie Driver – The Riches (FX NETWORK)
Edie Falco – The Sopranos (HBO)
Sally Field – Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
Holly Hunter – Saving Grace (TNT)
Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer (TNT)

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama

Michael C. Hall – Dexter (SHOWTIME)
Jon Hamm – Mad Men (AMC)
Hugh Laurie – House (FOX)
Bill Paxton – Big Love (HBO)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers – The Tudors (SHOWTIME)

Best Television Series - Musical Or Comedy

30 Rock (NBC)
Californication (SHOWTIME)
Entourage (HBO)
Extras (HBO)
Pushing Daisies (ABC)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy

Christina Applegate – Samantha Who? (ABC)
America Ferrera – Ugly Betty (ABC)
Tina Fey – 30 Rock (NBC)
Anna Friel – Pushing Daisies (ABC)
Mary-Louise Parker – Weeds (SHOWTIME)

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy

Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock (NBC)
Steve Carell – The Office (NBC)
David Duchovny – Californication (SHOWTIME)
Ricky Gervais – Extras (HBO)
Lee Pace – Pushing Daisies (ABC)

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (HBO)
The Company (TNT)
Five Days (HBO)
Longford (HBO)
The State Within (BBC)

Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Bryce Dallas Howard – As You Like It (HBO)
Queen Latifah – Life Support (HBO)
Debra Messing – The Starter Wife (USA)
Sissy Spacek – Pictures Of Hollis Woods (CBS)
Ruth Wilson – Jane Eyre (PBS)

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

Adam Beach – Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (HBO)
Ernest Borgnine – A Grandpa For Christmas
Jim Broadbent – Longford (HBO)
Jason Isaacs – The State Within (BBC)
James Nesbitt – Jekyll (BBC)

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

Rose Byrne – Damages (FX NETWORK)
Rachel Griffiths – Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
Katherine Heigl – Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
Samantha Morton – Longford (HBO)
Anna Paquin – Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (HBO)
Jaime Pressly – My Name Is Earl (NBC)

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

Ted Danson – Damages (FX NETWORK)
Kevin Dillon – Entourage (HBO)
Jeremy Piven – Entourage (HBO)
Andy Serkis – Longford (HBO)
William Shatner – Boston Legal (ABC)
Donald Sutherland – Dirty Sexy Money (ABC)

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Golden Globe winners

Ack, I suck at predictions. I missed Best Picture-Drama, Best Picture-Comedy, Best Actress in a Drama, Director, and Song.

***BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA ***
***Atonement ****

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
*Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood +

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
Julie Christie - Away from Her *+

BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY
***Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street ****

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY
***Marion Cotillard - Môme, La (La Vie En Rose) ****

***BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM ***
***Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (The Diving Bell And The Butterfly) **** (possible Best Picture nominee)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
***Cate Blanchett - I’m Not There ****

***BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE ***
*Javier Bardem - No Country For Old Men +

BEST DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE
Julian Schnabel - Scaphandre et le papillon, Le (The Diving Bell And The Butterfly) *

***BEST SCREENPLAY - MOTION PICTURE ***
***No Country For Old Men - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen ****+ (Adapted Screenplay Oscar winner)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - MOTION PICTURE
***Atonement - Composed by Dario Marianelli ****

BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE
“Guaranteed” – Into The Wild *
Music & Lyrics By: Eddie Vedder

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Ratatouille *+
I didn’t pay attention to the TV winners except that I heard Samantha Morton won for something, yay!

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Woohoo, props to Sweeney Todd! Too bad **Pushing Daisies **didn’t win anything though, it’s my favorite new show.

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Why does The Wire never get any love in these things??

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Didn’t they skip last season? Maybe it just seems that way…

At any rate, I sort of liked this year - quick results without 1000 commercials and they simply said who won and got it over with in short order.

As I am sure most of you know, the Golden Globes are chosen by about 65 old-fart, foreign correspondents who have cushy jobs in the US reviewing films and television shows for their home countries. They have a different slant as to what is good and bad.

Granted, they sometimes can see above the hype and pick winners that deserve an award, but often they pick winners based upon who they think their home country would consider the best. Nothing wrong with that, but hardly representative of the US populace.

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Mad Men (AMC) W00t!

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I hated it. This year’s winners were great, and it would have been nice to see the winners get up on stage and give a speech. Julian Schnabel won director! I can’t get over that! I’m a huge Coen Brothers and Paul Thomas Anderson fan, but I loved The Diving Bell and the Butterfly so I was thrilled for him. I would like to have seen his shock and surprise at winning. I wanted to see Marion Cotillard up there. Javier Bardem, Cate Blanchett, Daniel Day-Lewis, Johnny Depp, Brad Bird, Tim Burton (if he accepted for Sweeney Todd), anyone from Atonement because that win was NOT expected and their reaction would have been cute, so I wanted to see them. It’s such a shame.

I just really really REALLY hope that something is worked out for the Oscars. This is a great year for movies, and a lot of great movies/people are going to be nominated, and many of the best ones are frontrunners, for once.

People who bitch and complain about the (usual) length of these things are perfectly free to not watch them, and read the results on the internet or in the next day’s newspaper.

Not just sometimes. Often. They generally have pretty good taste. Not that I’ve always agreed with them, or that they always pick the absolute best of the year, but I have agreed with or at least understood their choices more often than not. Last night I would like to have seen There Will Be Blood or No Country For Old Men win, but Atonement won, and that’s ok. It’s an excellent movie, and I understand perfectly why they chose it. At least TWBB and No Country were nominated. That’s pretty cool in itself.

What does it matter what the US populace thinks, in regards to the Golden Globes? It’s not their awards. It the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s awards. The Oscars aren’t representative of the US populace either (thank god). The US populace has an awards ceremony of their own, it was held last week. It’s called the People’s Choice Awards (here are the winners).

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THis is a revelation as to how far out of touch I have become. I have seen none of the movies on this list and only two of the televisions shows.

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Congrats to Johnny Depp, Atonement and Mad Men. Excellent choices.

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Yay for Johnny Depp, for “Sweeney Todd” and “Atonement”. I’m glad “Juno” and Ellen Page are getting recognition. It is indeed a good year for movies.

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Meh, I thought Atonement was a good but not great movie. It isn’t anywhere near the same class as either There Will Be Blood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, or No Country for Old Men. I hardly understand most of the choices that The Golden Globes make?

The best director win was a surprise but I’m fine with that; the movie was great. I’m a Coen fan though so I’m always going to be pulling for them.

Has there ever been a bigger lock for Best Actor though? I’m glad Depp was in a different category, that’s for sure. Daniel Day Lewis is gonna kill anyone he comes up against for here on in.

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Interestingly, a few of the winners were the same ones who one the “Critics Choice Award”, so we have seen speeches from the likes of Bardem, Schnabel & Bird, for example (plus Depp, Blanchett, etc. have won Globes before, too). Plus, if the Oscars follow the same path, there’s some comfort to be known that several of the big likely winners (Day-Lewis, Christie, the Coens) have won Oscars before, so someone enterprising might put up the YouTubes of those. :wink:

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I think DMark’s comments about the makeup of the HFPA carries some specific weight here–of all the films nominated, Atonement has the most international cache–it’s the most “epic” and the most European. Do despite being the worst of the lot (I would say by a large margin; I don’t think it comes anywhere to resembling “good”), it’s exactly the type of film the Globes eat up (note that Babel won the Globe over The Departed last year).