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Golden Globes 2010: Ricky Gervais to Host Awards Ceremony

Ricky Gervais. Photo: David Eustace / HBO

Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Ricky Gervais, probably best known for his role as David Brent on the BBC version of The Office, will host the 2010 Golden Globe Awards ceremony on Sunday, January 17, 2010, on NBC.
This year’s show will be broadcast live coast-to-coast from 5-8 p.m. (PT) / 8-11 p.m. (ET) from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. This marks the first time the Golden Globes telecast has had a host since 1995.
"Not only is this the biggest Hollywood celebration of the industry which includes both film and TV," Gervais is quoted as saying in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s press release, "but also an environment where [...]

Bea Arthur

Beatrice Arthur, the witty television star in the hit shows Maude and The Golden Girls, and a Tony winner, died today at her Los Angeles home. Arthur, who was suffering from cancer, was 86.
Born Bernice Frankel on May 16, 1922, (1923 according to some sources) in New York City, Arthur — generally known as Bea Arthur — first caught critics’ attention with her performance in the 1954 off-Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera. Also onstage, she originated the role of the matchmaker Yente in Fiddler on the Roof in 1964, and two years later won a Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Mame, in which she plays Mame’s buddy [...]

Golden Globes 2010 Dates

Jorge Camara, the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has announced the timetable for the 2010 Golden Globe Awards to be broadcast in HD Sunday, January 17, 2010, from 5-8 PM (PST) and 8-11 PM (EST) live on NBC from The Beverly Hilton Hotel.
This will mark the first time that the Golden Globes ceremony will be broadcast live all over the United States. In previous years, those on the West Coast watched the Globes on tape delay, after already knowing who’d won, what the stars were wearing, and whose speeches were the most long-winded.
Among the 2009 Golden Globe winners were Slumdog Millionaire (best picture – drama), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (best picture – comedy/musical), Waltz with Bashir (best [...]

Golden Globes 2009: Tom Cruise, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson

Tom Cruise © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Jake Gyllenhaal © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Johnny Depp © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Golden Globes 2009: Beyonce Knowles, Clint Eastwood, Jennifer Lopez

Clint Eastwood, Glenn Close © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Beyonce Knowles © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Jennifer Lopez © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Golden Globes 2009: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Susan Sarandon

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Susan Sarandon © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Amy Adams © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Golden Globes 2009: Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange, Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore, Jessica Lange © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Tom Hanks, Sally Hawkins © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Dev Patel, Freida Pinto © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Golden Globes 2009: Anne Hathaway, Renée Zellweger, Ralph Fiennes

Anne Hathaway © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Ralph Fiennes © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Renée Zellweger © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Golden Globes 2009: Sandra Bullock, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore

Sandra Bullock © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Susan Sarandon, Amy Adams © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Golden Globes 2009: Tom Cruise, Kate Winslet, Penélope Cruz

Kate Winslet, Tom Cruise © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Penélope Cruz © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Golden Globes 2009: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Sally Field

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Kevin Connolly © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Sally Field © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

2009 Golden Globe Winners

Kate Winslet, Leonardio DiCaprio in Revolutionary Road (top); Winslet, David Kross in The Reader (bottom)

There were few surprises among the 2009 Golden Globe winners.
The biggest one was Kate Winslet’s best actress, drama, win for Revolutionary Road. Pundits everywhere — including those in this blog — were predicting either Anne Hathaway or Meryl Streep.
Sally Hawkins‘ best actress, comedy or musical, win may have caught some by surprise — those who were expecting Meryl Streep for the box-office hit Mamma Mia!. But considering that Hawkins has been a critical favorite (New York, Los Angeles, National Society of Film Critics) and that she’s a likely Oscar contender, Golden Globe prognosticators shouldn’t have been too shocked, even though Happy-Go-Lucky is hardly what one would [...]

Golden Globes 2009: Sigourney Weaver, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Sting

Sigourney Weaver © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Sting © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Golden Globes 2009: Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, Zac Efron

Photos: © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Hayden Panettiere, Zac Efron © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Don Cheadle © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Golden Globes 2009: Eva Mendes, Evan Rachel Wood, Simon Baker

Eva Mendes © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Evan Rachel Wood © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Simon Baker © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Golden Globes 2009: Eva Longoria, David Duchovny, Glenn Close

Eva Longoria © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

David Duchovny © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Glenn Close © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Golden Globes 2009

2009 Golden Globes
Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 2009 Golden Globe nominations: December 11, 2008
2009 Golden Globe winners: January 11, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire
 
MOTION PICTURES
Best Motion Picture, Drama
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
* Slumdog Millionaire
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Burn After Reading
In Bruges
Happy-Go-Lucky
Mamma Mia!
* Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Ari Folman – © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
The Baader Meinhof Complex, Germany
Everlasting Moments, Sweden / Denmark
Gomorrah, Italy
I’ve Loved You So Long, France
* Waltz with Bashir, Israel
Best Animated Film
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
* WALL-E
Best Director
* Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Steven Daldry – The Reader
David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
Sam Mendes – Revolutionary Road
Best Actor, Drama
Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary [...]

Anne Hathaway May Not Win the Best Actress (Drama) Golden Globe

Anne Hathaway may not win the best actress, drama, Golden Globe for her performance in Rachel Getting Married, after all.
A technical snafu is the reason for Hathaway’s name having a winner’s star next to it on the Golden Globes’ site last Thursday, on the very day she was sharing a Critics’ Choice Award with Meryl Streep (for Doubt).
Later on, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association issued the following statement:
"In the process of preparing for Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards, a technician working on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s website made a mistake and a name of a nominee was randomly marked as a winner. The mistake was immediately corrected.
"The ballots are tabulated by the accounting firm of [...]

Golden Globes 2009: Presenters

Below is the list of guest presenters at the 2009 Golden Globe Awards.
In the US, the awards ceremony will be telecast live on NBC Sunday, January 11 (8 – 11 p.m. EST) at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills.
The Golden Globes 2009 presenters are:
Zac Efron, Susan Sarandon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Salma Hayek, Pierce Brosnan, Sandra Bullock, Jessica Lange, Don Cheadle, Emma Thompson, Demi Moore, Renee Zellweger, Dustin Hoffman, and Sigourney Weaver.
Also, Simon Baker, Drew Barrymore, Glenn Close, Shah Rukh Khan, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gerard Butler, upcoming Star Trek movie leads Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, Martin Scorsese, Rainn Wilson, Johnny Depp, David Duchovny, and Megan Fox.
And Eva Longoria, Eva Mendes, Jane Krakowski, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sting, [...]

Golden Globes 2009: Foreign-Language Nominees Screenings

The American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will be screening all five Golden Globe nominees in the best foreign-language film category from Jan. 7-9 at the Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre in Santa Monica.
The nominated films are: The Baader-Meinhof Complex (Germany), National Society of Film Critics‘ winner Waltz with Bashir (Israel), European Film Academy Award winner Gomorrah (Italy), Swedish Film Institute’s Guldbagge nominee Everlasting Moments (Sweden), and I’ve Loved You So Long (France), starring European Academy Award best actress winner Kristin Scott Thomas.
On Sunday, Jan. 10, the Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood will present a panel discussion featuring the directors of the five nominated films. Screen International’s Mike Goodridge’s will act as moderator for Uli Edel, Jan Troell, Ari [...]

2009 Golden Globe Nominations

Golden Globe record holder Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia! (top) and in Doubt (bottom)

The biggest surprise in the 2008 Golden Globe nominations’ list is that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association didn’t dig a spot for Nicole Kidman in Australia (which was totally shut out), especially considering that Kidman’s former husband Tom Cruise did garner a best supporting actor nod for Tropic Thunder. (Cruise’s nomination, by the way, elicited laughter from journalists present at the Golden Globes announcement ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Laughter also greeted James Franco’s nomination — not for Milk, mind you, but as best actor in a comedy or musical for Pineapple Express.)
Among other Golden Globe oddities was the fact that Milk [...]

2008 Golden Globes Ceremony II

2008 Golden Globes Ceremony: Part I
Among the predictable winners were Julie Christie as best actress in a drama for her performance as a woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease in Sarah Polley’s Away from Her (right, with Gordon Pinsent); Daniel Day-Lewis as best actor in a drama for his star turn as a greedy oil baron in Paul Thomas Anderson’s widely praised There Will Be Blood; and Johnny Depp as best actor in a comedy or musical for his singing serial-killing barber in Sweeney Todd. (Depp was the only American actor to win in the feature-film categories.)
Also, Brad Bird’s Ratatouille, the story of a French rat with gourmet inclinations, as best animated film; and best supporting actor Javier Bardem for his [...]

Golden Globes 2008: Surprises at the Un-Ceremony

Keira Knightley, James McAvoy in Atonement

The smaller, shorter, subdueder 2008 Golden Globes "news show" — a result of the ongoing WGA strike, now entering its tenth week — ended not too long ago. There was no red carpet, no dress parade, no dumb questions from journalists, no mind-numbing speeches, no godawful jokes, no poorly staged musical numbers, no toilet paper stuck on anyone’s shoe.
Many have lamented this year’s loss of glamour, glitz, and tasteless jokes. But personally, I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Much to the contrary. I find the vast majority of those glitzy and glamorous — and tasteless and phony — award shows all but unwatchable, and the Golden Globes ceremony is one of the tackiest [...]

Golden Globes 2008: Television

Golden Globes 2008: Features
TELEVISION
Best Television Series – Drama
Big Love (HBO), Anima Sola and Playtone Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
Damages (FX NETWORK), FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television
Grey’s Anatomy (ABC), ABC Studios
House (FOX), Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions and Bad Hat Harry Productions in association with Universal Media Studios
* Mad Men (AMC), Lionsgate Television
The Tudors (SHOWTIME), Showtime/Peace Arch Entertainment/Working Title/Reveille Productions Limited/An Ireland-Canada Co-Production
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Patricia Arquette — Medium (NBC)
* Glenn Close — Damages (FX NETWORK)
Minnie Driver — The Riches
Edie Falco — The Sopranos (HBO)
Sally Field — Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
Holly Hunter — Saving Grace
Kyra Sedgwick — The Closer (TNT)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Michael [...]

Golden Globes 2008

2008 Golden Globes
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 2008 Golden Globe nominations: December 13, 2007
2008 Golden Globe Award winners: January 13, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Keira Knightley, James McAvoy in Atonement
 

MOTION PICTURES
Best Motion Picture – Drama
American Gangster, Imagine Entertainment/Scott Free Productions; Universal Pictures
* Atonement, Working Title Productions; Focus Features
Eastern Promises, Kudos Pictures — UK Serendipity Point Films — Canada A UK/Canada Co-Production; Focus Features
The Great Debaters, Harpo Films; The Weinstein Company/MGM
Michael Clayton, Clayton Productions LLC; Warner Bros. Pictures
No Country for Old Men, A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production; Miramax/Paramount Vantage
There Will Be Blood, A Joanne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production; Paramount Vantage and Miramax Films
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Across The Universe, Revolution Studios International; Sony Pictures Releasing
Charlie Wilson’s War, [...]

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