2007 Golden Globes Articles

Everything — at least as far as the winners were concerned — went according to plan at the 2007 Golden Globe awards ceremony. That is, until the very last winner of the evening was announced: Babel. Babel?? Set in multiple countries, in multiple time frames, and with dialogue in multiple languages, Babel (above, with Rinko Kikuchi) was a multiple Golden Globe nominee (7 nods in [...]

© HFPA 64th Golden Globe® Awards FILM Best Motion Picture – Drama * Babel Bobby The Departed Little Children The Queen Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan The Devil Wears Prada * Dreamgirls Little Miss Sunshine Thank You for Smoking Best Foreign Language Film Apocalypto (USA) * Letters from Iwo Jima (USA/Japan) [...]

Penélope Cruz in Volver (top); Martina Gedeck in The Lives of Others (middle); Pan's Labyrinth (bottom) The American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will present all five foreign-language films nominated for the 2007 Golden Globe Awards at The Aero's Max Palevsky Theatre in Santa Monica. The five nominees are: Apocalypto (U.S.) El laberinto del fauno / Pan's Labyrinth (Spain / Mexico / U.S.) [...]

Following the announcement of the 2007 Golden Globe nominations early yesterday morning, I watched three entertainment "journalists" discussing the choices of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) as if they meant significantly more than the outcome of good marketing tools. In all fairness, the same can be said about nearly every other group, no matter how self-important, that gives out film awards. After all, their [...]