Jeff Bridges (Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA)
Jeff Bridges, who turned 60 last month, has been around making movies since 1970, but despite dozens of well-received performances he'd never won a Golden Globe until last night, for his aging country singer in Crazy Heart. The film also won the best song Golden Globe for "The Weary Kind," written by T-Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham.
Jeff Bridges' previous Golden Globe nominations were for Starman (drama), The Fisher King (comedy/musical), and The Contender (supporting). Bridges has also been nominated for four Oscars, but he has never won. His Academy Award nods were for The Last Picture Show (supporting), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (supporting), Starman (lead), and The Contender (supporting). He's now probably the favorite to take home the best actor Oscar.
Bridges will be next seen in Tron Legacy (he had one of the leads in the 1982 TRON, which turned out to be a box-office disappointment) and later in True Grit, a remake of the 1969 Western that won John Wayne an Oscar. Bridges will probably be much better than Wayne in the role of Rooster Cogburn, though he's looking more and more like Buffalo Bill. Perhaps a remake of Robert Altman-Paul Newman's Buffalo Bill and Indians is in the works?
Meryl Streep's win for Julie & Julia was her seventh win. Her loss for It's Complicated was her 18th. Streep has been nominated for 25 Golden Globes since the late 1970s. She and Sandra Bullock will be battling it out for the best actress Academy Award, though US critics have mostly favored Streep and Carey Mulligan.
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Meryl Streep (Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA)
T-Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham (Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA)