Best Picture – Comedy or Musical
It's Complicated
None of the five nominees in the best picture (comedy or musical) category has a matching best director nomination. Only one of them has a matching best screenplay nod, It's Complicated. That shouldn't be enough for this Nancy Meyers comedy to win, but this may well be the Year of the Woman at the Golden Globes. A romantic comedy directed by a woman wins, Kathryn Bigelow wins as best director, Dame Meryl Streep wins (again) for Julie & Julia, Top Box Office Star Sandra Bullock wins for The Blind Side, Big Bad Mama Mo'Nique wins as best supporting actress for Precious. Who cares about the men?
Well, Meryl Streep's character in It's Complicated clearly does, as she's torn between two of them — Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. There's romance, laughter, being true to oneself, an ensemble cast that includes John Krasinski, Mary Kay Place, and Hunter Parrish, and big buck$s at the domestic box office. Better yet, It's Complicated is still playing. It's fresh, it's happening, it's out there.
Another one that's out there is Rob Marshall's Nine, but that one is just limping along after mostly poor reviews and audience indifference. According to various reports, the film will lose either Relativity or The Weinstein Co. — or both — millions. If Hollywood Foreign Press Association voters want to cozy up with the Weinstein Co. folks, they may pick Nine as their top choice. But we believe that a nomination for the musical extravaganza was more than enough cozying up if the HFPA wants to be taken at all seriously.
The other nominees are Marc Webb's (500) Days of Summer, Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia, and Todd Phillips' The Hangover.