Jeff Bridges (Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA)
“You're really screwing up my under-appreciated status here," said 40-year film veteran Jeff Bridges as he accepted his Golden Globe for best actor (drama) of the year. In Scott Cooper's Crazy Heart, Bridges plays an aging, troubled country singer who has a "healing" affair with a much younger journalist (Maggie Gyllenhaal).
Although he's been mentioned as a favorite for the Oscars — a sort of career achievement award for the four-time nominated actor — the Golden Globe was expected to go to George Clooney for his corporate-downsizing expert in Up in the Air. After all, the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association are well known for their love of big movie stars. Additionally, Clooney has won most best actor awards from critics' groups in the United States (though that could be because many of them haven't watched the much smaller Crazy Heart, yet).
Kate Hudson's Nine, the expensive Rob Marshall-directed musical in which she plays one of the many women in Daniel Day-Lewis' life, failed to win a single Golden Globe. Nine, a movie version of the Broadway show that itself was a musicalized adaptation of Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, received mostly mediocre reviews and did poor business. Oscar chances are iffy, but since Oscarexpert Harvey Weinstein is pushing Nine don't be too surprised if it ends up getting a whole array of Oscar nominations — including best picture — and perhaps even a statuette or two.
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