James Cameron, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Julia Roberts (Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA)
James Cameron, who received his best director Golden Globe from neighbor Mel Gibson, said he expected his former wife Kathryn Bigelow to be the winner. Bigelow probably expected that herself, and so did most everyone else. Just on Friday night, Bigelow came out victorious at the Broadcast Film Critics Association's Critics Choice Awards, and she has been winning best director awards just about everywhere you look. But her film, the Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker, grossed less than $15 million at the US box office. Avatar has grossed nearly $500 million.
In the picture above, Cameron is accepting the best picture (drama) Golden Globe for Avatar. By then, there was no longer any suspense as to what movie was going to win the evening's top award. Julia Roberts, who had been nominated in the best actress (comedy or musical) category for the box-office disappointment Duplicity, announced the winner.
Best original score and original song presenter Cher (below, with Christina Aguilera), mangled the name of best score winner Michael Giacchino (for Up), calling him "Michael Giancino," while Felicity Huffman, of both Desperate Housewives and Transamerica, made a funny mess of her Hollywood Foreign Press Association announcement. "This was not at all how it was gonna go," she exclaimed at one point, before telling the audience and the millions of television viewers that the HFPA has donated "$10 million to film-related charities."
Something else that seemed a little messed up was the introduction of screen legend Sophia Loren to the tune of "Three Coins in the Fountain," the theme song from a 1954 romantic comedy-drama of the same title. Though set in Rome, Three Coins in the Fountain doesn't feature Loren anywhere.
Click on the photos to enlarge them.
Cher, Christina Aguilera (Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA)
Felicity Huffman (Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA)