Chloe Sevigny (Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA)
Chloe Sevigny was the hard-luck story of the evening. Well, sorta. One of the presenters stepped on her dress shortly after the stepped onto the podium. She looked none too pleased, even though she had just won the best supporting actress in a television movie, miniseries, or series, for her role as a Mormon wife (one of Bill Paxton's three or so) in Big Love. This was Sevigny's first Golden Globe win, though she'd been nominated before, for the 1999 drama Boys Don't Cry, in which she plays Hilary Swank's lover, and for which she also earned a best supporting actress Oscar nomination.
Christoph Waltz's win was as expected as the rainy weather in Los Angeles earlier this evening. His mean, multilingual Nazi in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds has earned him numerous accolades from US film critics, in addition to a best actor Cannes win last spring. In addition to his role in The Green Hornet, Waltz will soon be playing Sigmund Freud in The Talking Cure, to be directed by David Cronenberg from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton. Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender have been announced as his co-stars.
In his acceptance speech, Waltz thanked Tarantino for his "gravitational pull," and went on making several analogies between the making of Inglourious Basterds and celestial bodies and constellations. The 53-year-old Vienna-born actor has appeared in nearly 100 features and TV productions since 1977, but only now has he become an international name.
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