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Golden Globes 2010 Predictions: Best Picture – Comedy or Musical

2010 Golden Globes Predictions: Best Picture – Comedy or Musical

The Informant! (above, with Matt Damon), d: Steven Soderbergh; scr: Scott Z. Burns
A pathological liar helps the US government nab a nefarious agribusiness conglomerate.

Julie & Julia (above, with Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci), d & scr: Nora Ephron
Julia Child starts cooking decades ago, while in the early 21st-century blogger Julie Powell decides to boil and broil every single recipe found in Child’s first book.

The Men Who Stare at Goats (above, with Kevin Spacey), d: Grant Heslov; scr: Peter Straughan
US military "intelligence" and its use of paranormal activities.

Nine (above, with Judi Dench, Penélope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Stacy Ferguson, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson), d: Rob Marshall; scr: Michael Tolkin, Anthony [...]

Golden Globes 2010 Predictions: Best Picture – Drama

2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Picture – Drama

The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow; scr: Mark Boal
A US Army elite unit disarms bombs in Iraq.

Invictus (above, with Matt Damon), d: Clint Eastwood; scr: Anthony Peckham
Newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela campaigns to stage the Rugby World Cup in South Africa so as to unite blacks and whites.

The Last Station (above, with Helen Mirren, James McAvoy), d & scr: Michael Hoffman
Leo Tolstoy’s family life is upended by the writer’s radical politics.

The Lovely Bones (above, with Saoirse Ronan), Peter Jackson; scr: Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
A murdered girl sees the world, chiefly her small Pennsylvania town, from up above.

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, d: Lee Daniels; scr: [...]

Golden Globes 2010: Five Best Animated Feature Nominees

Up by Pete Docter

The 2010 Golden Globes will feature five Best Animated Feature contenders, as members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association voted last week to expand this year’s number of nominations for that category.
The amended rule for the Best Animated Feature category now reads: "Eligible films must be feature-length (70 minutes or longer) with no more than 25% live action. If less than eight animated films qualify, the award will not be given, in which case the films would be eligible for Best Picture. If less than twelve animated films qualify, the category will be limited to three nominations per year."
(The Golden Globes press release doesn’t indicate the number of animated-feature submissions this year, but [...]

Golden Globes 2010: Martin Scorsese to Receive Cecil B. DeMille Award

Martin Scorsese will be the next recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Scorsese will be handed out his Cecil B. at the 2010 Golden Globes ceremony on January 17 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Hosted by Ricky Gervais, the show will be broadcast live coast to coast Sunday, January 17 on NBC (5 to 8 pm PT, 8 to 11 pm ET).
The Cecil B. DeMille Award, voted by the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, was announced by Vera Farmiga.
Scorsese has already taken home two Golden Globe Awards for Best Director of a Motion Picture: for Gangs of New York (2002) and The Departed (2006). He has also [...]

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

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Beyonce Knowles © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Jennifer Lopez © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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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
 
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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

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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 [...]

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