The Golden Globes

Damn, Mickey made me tear up.

Yeah, he was pretty good.

Those lapels are too big for Tom’s suit.

Yay Slumdog!!

Thanks for that extra link JpnDude.
Winners in the order presented (* denotes winner):

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

Amy Adams – Doubt
Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis – Doubt
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
** Kate Winslet – The Reader*

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Best Original Song - Motion Picture

“Down To Earth” – Wall-E
Music By: Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
Lyrics By: Peter Gabriel

“Gran Torino” – Gran Torino
Music By: Clint Eastwood, Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
Lyrics By: Jamie Cullum

“I Thought I Lost You” – Bolt
Music & Lyrics By: Miley Cyrus and Jeffrey Steele

“Once In A Lifetime” – Cadillac Records
Music & Lyrics By: Beyoncé Knowles, Amanda Ghost, Scott McFarmon, Ian Dench,

James Dring and Jody Street

** “The Wrestler” – The Wrestler
Music & Lyrics By: Bruce Springsteen*

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

Neil Patrick Harris – How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
Denis Leary – Recount (HBO)
Jeremy Piven – Entourage (HBO)
Blair Underwood – In Treatment (HBO)
** Tom Wilkinson – John Adams (HBO)*

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

Eileen Atkins – Cranford (PBS)
** Laura Dern – Recount (HBO)*
Melissa George – In Treatment (HBO)
Rachel Griffiths – Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
Dianne Wiest – In Treatment (HBO)

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Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama

** Gabriel Byrne – In Treatment (HBO)*
Michael C. Hall – Dexter (SHOWTIME)
Jon Hamm – Mad Men (AMC)
Hugh Laurie – House (FOX)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers – The Tudors (SHOWTIME)

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Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama

Sally Field – Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
Mariska Hargitay – Law & Order
January Jones – Mad Men (AMC)
** Anna Paquin – True Blood (HBO)*
Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer (TNT)

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Best Animated Feature Film

Bolt
Walt Disney Pictures; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Kung Fu Panda
DreamWorks Animation SKG; Paramount Pictures

** Wall-E
Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures*

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

Rebecca Hall – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
** Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky*
Frances McDormand – Burn After Reading
Meryl Streep – Mamma Mia!
Emma Thompson – Last Chance Harvey

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Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television

A Raisin In The Sun (ABC)
Sony Pictures Television, Storyline Entertainment, and Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment

Bernard And Doris (HBO)
Trigger Street Independent Productions in association with Little Bird and Chicago Films and HBO Films

Cranford (PBS)
A Co-Production of BBC and WGBH Boston.

** John Adams (HBO)
Playtone in association with HBO Films*

Recount (HBO)
Spring Creek/Mirage Productions in association with Trigger Street Productions, Everyman Pictures and HBO Films

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

Tom Cruise – Tropic Thunder
Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
Ralph Fiennes – The Duchess
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
** Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight*

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Best Foreign Language Film

The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
The Country of Germany
(DER BAADER MEINHOF KOMPLEX) Constantin Film Produktion GmbH; Summit Entertainment, LLC

Everlasting Moments (Sweden, Denmark)
The Country of Sweden and The Country of Denmark
(MARIA LARSSONS EVIGA ÖGONBLICK) Final Cut Productions Aps; IFC Films

Gomorrah (Italy)
The Country of Italy
(GOMORRA) Fandango; IFC Films

I’ve Loved You So Long (France)
The Country of France
(IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T’AIME) UGC YM/UGC Images/France 3 Cinema/Integral Film; Sony Pictures Classics

** Waltz With Bashir (Israel)
The Country of Israel
Bridgit Folman Film Gang/Les Films D’Ici/Razor Films/Arte France/ITVS International; Sony Pictures Classics*

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

Judi Dench – Cranford (PBS)
Catherine Keener – An American Crime
** Laura Linney – John Adams (HBO)*
Shirley MacLaine – Coco Chanel
Susan Sarandon – Bernard And Doris (HBO)

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Best Screenplay - Motion Picture

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Written by Eric Roth

Doubt
Written by John Patrick Shanley

Frost/Nixon
Written by Peter Morgan

The Reader
Written by David Hare

** Slumdog Millionaire
Written by Simon Beaufoy*

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

** Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock (NBC)*
Steve Carell – The Office (NBC)
Kevin Connolly – Entourage (HBO)
David Duchovny – Californication (SHOWTIME)
Tony Shalhoub – Monk (USA)

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

Ralph Fiennes – Bernard And Doris (HBO)
** Paul Giamatti – John Adams (HBO)*
Kevin Spacey – Recount (HBO)
Kiefer Sutherland – 24 (FOX)
Tom Wilkinson – Recount (HBO)

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Best Television Series - Musical Or Comedy

** 30 Rock (NBC)
Universal Media Studios in association with Broadway Video and Little Stranger Inc.*

Californication (SHOWTIME)
Showtime Presents in association with Aggressive Mediocrity, and Then…, Twilight Time Films

Entourage (HBO)
Leverage and Closest to the Hole Productions in association with HBO Entertainment

The Office (NBC)
Deedle Dee Productions/Reveille/NBC Universal Television Studio; NBC

Weeds (SHOWTIME)
Showtime/Lionsgate Television/Tilted Productions, Inc.; SHOWTIME

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Best Original Score - Motion Picture

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Composed by Alexandre Desplat

Changeling
Composed by Clint Eastwood

Defiance
Composed by James Newton Howard

** Slumdog Millionaire
Composed by A. R. Rahman*

Frost/Nixon
Composed by Hans Zimmer

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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)*
Debra Messing – The Starter Wife (USA)
Mary-Louise Parker – Weeds (SHOWTIME)

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Best Director - Motion Picture

** Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire*
Stephen Daldry – The Reader
David Fincher – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
Sam Mendes – Revolutionary Road

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Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy**

Javier Bardem – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
** Colin Farrell – In Bruges*
James Franco – Pineapple Express
Brendan Gleeson – In Bruges
Dustin Hoffman – Last Chance Harvey

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Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy

Burn After Reading
Working Title/Releasing Company; Focus Features in association with Studio Canal

Happy-Go-Lucky
Summit Entertainment, Film4, Ingenious Film Partners, Miramax Films; Miramax Films

In Bruges
Blueprint Pictures; Focus Features

Mamma Mia!
Relativity Media, Playtone, Littlestar; Universal Pictures

** Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Mediapro; The Weinstein Company*

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Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie – Changeling
Meryl Streep – Doubt
Kristin Scott Thomas – I’ve Loved You So Long
** Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road*

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Best Television Series - Drama**

Dexter (SHOWTIME)

House (FOX)
Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions and Bad Hat Harry Productions in association with Universal Media Studios

In Treatment (HBO)
Sheleg, Closest To The Hole Productions and Leverage in association with HBO Entertainment

** Mad Men (AMC)
Lionsgate*

True Blood (HBO)
Your Face Goes Here Productions in association with HBO Entertainment

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Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

Leonardo DiCaprio – Revolutionary Road
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn – Milk
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
** Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler*

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Best Motion Picture - Drama

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures

Frost/Nixon
Imagine Entertainment, Working Title, Studio Canal; Universal Pictures

The Reader
Mirage Enterprises; The Weinstein Company

Revolutionary Road
An Evamere Entertainment BBC Films Neal Street Production; DreamWorks Pictures in Association with BBC Films and Paramount Vantage

** Slumdog Millionaire
Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros.; Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros.*

I just made tentative but hopefully will-be-solid plans to see Slumdog Millionaire this weekend.

The producer said “Fuck” onstage laugh. It was bleeped on the broadcast but not on the online feed I was watching.
So, Slumdog won 4 Globes: Best Picture - Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Score. I wouldn’t be surprised if it won the same awards at the Oscars.

Mickey’s gracious acceptance speech will earn him points with Oscar voters. He was kindof in the doghouse with some of them (and me too) because he dissed Sean Penn a couple of weeks ago. It was a dickish thing to do, there’s no reason for that (he lied that Penn was one of the most homophobic people he knew). I still hope Sean wins, but this definitely was a great performance from Rourke, so even though it’ll piss me off if Rourke wins, I’ll still be happy for him because it’ll be deserved, and Penn’s already won once.
I’m still grinning from Colin Farrell’s win. Yay In Bruge!

Man, if Kate Winslet gets the Oscar she’s going to have a complete breakdown on stage. :slight_smile: I love her to death (what was the deal with her leaving out Anne Hathaway’s name, though?)

Major cheers for Colin Farrell–he absolutely deserves it.

Is it just me, or did half the nominees not show up and half the presenters show up totally drunk/stoned? Everyone in that hall looked incredibly uncomfortable…

I didn’t think Sacha Baron Cohen would bomb that badly.

I was shocked that Kate was so nervous, but she’s been nominated several times times over the years and has never won. That goes for Globes and Oscars. She was genuinely shocked, especially at the second win. No one expected that. I’m sure she apologized profusely to Anne later.

Everybody gets drunk at the Golden Globes. That’s part of the fun. It’s not staid and stuffy like the Oscars.

But yeah, I was disappointed with Cohen, and also Ricky Gervais and Rainn Wilson. None of them were as funny as they should/could have been. Gervais was the best of the three, bitching about not getting nominated for Ghost Town (which I quite liked) even though he slept with 200 members of the HFPA (Hollywood Foreign Press Association).

I meant to thank you for this post. I never can remember how to spell his first name, even though I’ve seen several of his films (including Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, just a couple of weeks ago), and I was going to go to IMDB to look it up because I didn’t want to mangle it, but you beat me to it.

I hope he gets a chance to do a decent Hollywood movie someday, or that one of his Indian films crosses over. He really is the biggest movie star in the world, but most Americans have never heard of him.

Shahrukh Khan’s IMDB page.

I thought that Sting looked disgusting and Ricky Gervais was the best part!

I agree on both counts. I went and saw The Police this summer and Sting had gray hair and a gray beard and he looked quite fetching!

I think everybody started crying when Heath won. I felt a little misty, too.

And I stand corrected on my incorrect assumption that Slumdog doesn’t stand a chance at the Oscars (posted in the Slumdog thread). Certainly makes a nomination a given, and a better shot at actually winning.

Sorry Streep didn’t win for Doubt.

I thought the audience was pretty rude throughout the show…practically ignoring the presenters and having to be shh-ed almost every time.

Then again, I have been to enough Hollywood parties to know not to expect anything less than rudeness when you have a room full of celebrities, agents, managers and entourages. Doubt there wasn’t a single person leaving that ballroom without a brown nose.

Spielberg and Scorsese, probably. So that’s two.

No, they just left with a warm, slightly damn feeling on their asses.

Just wanted to pop in and say…

Sasha Baron Cohen’s line about Madonna was the line of the night! I laughed for about 5 minutes after that one.

Some of my favorite parts:

•Sally Hawkins’ acceptance speech (how adorable)
•Ricky Gervais (but he could totally suck and I’d love him anyway)
•The guy who played the game show host in Slumdog being so over the moon and animated that he was the one you saw first sometimes when cameras cut to their tables (and he was the first actor on the stage practically when the movie won)
•Dev Patel being moved to tears after seeing the Slumdog clip introduced by his co-star
•Tina Fey’s speech
•Kate Winslet, in her Revolutionary Rd speech, thanking four of the five other nominees and saying “Oh God, who’s the other one…Angelina!” and the camera cutting to Jolie who put on a good face (but I wonder what she might’ve been thinking)
•Leo DiCaprio in tears at her speech
•Mickey Rourke thanking his dogs, past and present, saying that when you’re alone, sometimes your dogs are all you have (gah- that killed me)

I like it when everybody reacted with “how dare he” and he gave a little shrug as if it say “Get a sense of humor, you fucks.”

Is it me or was Mickey Rourke a semi-walking parody of himself?

I don’t think I’ve ever heard Rourke speak when he wasn’t in character, but has he always had a hick accent?

If you aren’t a well-known or established artist, I think it is perfectly natural to give a teary acceptance speech, no doubt thinking all the while, “just think how much this is going to boost my next picture salary!” But if you’re Kate Winslet, a huge star with more than she could ever want, it’s just annoying. Big deal, a bunch of dumb-ass movie critics think you did a good job. Who the f*** cares??