The Golden Globes Winners and Reactions

The Golden Globes are not my favorite awards, or even the most important in Hollywood, but they’re always quite fun. I had a good amount of fun watching these awards over my lovely dinner prepared by my lovely grandmother, and I hope everyone else enjoyed them as well.

First off, the television nominations were a hot mess, but the winners made up for it. I have no clue as to why Glee was nominated for anything or won anything, the show used to be fantastic, but it just isn’t anymore. Boardwalk Empire won big! I’m so excited for that show and I hope more people will watch it.

I abused my Twitter account during the telecast:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(if you dare to look me up on Twitter: @brittany_darby)

So basically, this award show went as I expected it to. The Social Network took Best Director, Best Picture-Drama, Best Score, and Best Screenplay. I’m so happy Aaron Sorkin won that award because he is the most deserving screenwriter of the year. Though, I’m glad that The Academy Awards separates the writing awards to Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Screenplay, because that means that both Christopher Nolan and Aaron Sorkin could win Oscars this year, a thought that comforts me. I’m unhappy that Inception didn’t win a thing, but The Academy Awards are more important and in a month, so I’m taking additional comfort in the fact that Inception can win big there.

(I believe in both The Social Network and Inception so much, so its really a conflict for these two movies to both be nominated this year against each other. Though it may not seem like it, I’m genuinely happy for The Social Network to be winning so many awards because its such a great film.)

Annette Benning won Best Actress for her role in The Kids Are All Right, that film also won Best Picture-Musical or Comedy. Two things I’m very, very happy with.

The Golden Globes telecast was entertaining, and I’m happy for all the winners. (complete winner list here.)

Award season is not over yet though! Next up: The Producer’s Guild of America presents awards on January 22nd, The Director’s Guild of America presents awards on January 29th, and The Screen Actor’s Guild presents awards on January 30th. I’m looking forward to all of those!

The Golden Globes Nominations are out!

The full nomination list is here.

I’m really excited these came out today, I don’t follow the Golden Globes as closely as I follow the Academy Awards and they always tend to sneak up on me. The GGs tend to be very different from the Oscars in who they nominate and give awards to, so I always treat them differently and I don’t usually jump to Oscar conclusions based on the GGs and I wouldn’t advise anyone else to.

Some of the nomination choices are very interesting, and I will list the categories I find the most interesting.

Robert de Niro is getting the Cecil B DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award which is much deserved.

Best Picture, Drama:

• Black Swan
• The Figher
• Inception
• The Social Network
• The King’s Speech

Oh this category… probably the hardest category of the year. I really think that the Golden Globes will give this to Black Swan, but I really, really want this to go to Inception or even The Social Network. I really think that this year, all of the films may deserve it, but Inception deserves it the most. This year, the big studios dealt America out some shitty movies and they usually do all summer, but Warner Bros and Christopher Nolan did something amazing with Inception and it deserves a bunch of recognition. So, Inception really needs to win.

Best Actress:

• Halle Berry for Frankie and Alice
• Jennifer Laurence for Winter’s Bone
• Natalie Portman for Black Swan
• Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole
• Michelle Williams for Blue Valentine

I’ve only seen 2/5 of these, but already my vote is for Jennifer Laurence. Her performance in Winter’s Bone is amazing and I really would like to see her get the Golden Globe for it. I love Halle Berry and I can’t wait to see her tear the screen up in Frankie and Alice and I loved Natalie Portman in Black Swan. But this year, I really think Jennifer Laurence deserves the recognition here. Halle or Natalie can have the Oscar, but give Jennifer the GG.

Best Picture, Musical or Comedy:

• Alice in Wonderland
• The Kids Are All Right
• Red
• Burlesque
• The Tourist

This is really one of the times that I want to call up the Hollywood Foreign Press and say “what the fuck?” The Tourist and Burlesque got nominated… I mean… what? Though I loved Burlesque, I’d hardly give it a GG. The clear winner here is The Kids Are All Right. Red was so much fun to watch, but I would’t vote for it over The Kids Are All Right.

The television nominations were such a hot mess. Glee got a bunch of nominations for some reason, and I really would like someone to tell me that reason, because I don’t get it. Toni Collette got nominated again for Best Actress for The United States of Tara and I’m really excited for her and I hope she gets it. I’m not happy about the snubbing of Grey’s Anatomy, How I Met Your Mother, and the rest of the United States of Tara cast. The GG’s didn’t get the TV noms right this year, but hopefully the Emmys will.

Every single Inception actor got snubbed, and its ridiculous. At the very least, Marion Colliard deserves a Best Supporting Actress award somewhere. And if she doesn’t get one somewhere, I’ll be really upset.

I’m curious to see who will win, and I will be watching the telecast all by myself (which I prefer and I’ll explain that later when award season starts airing its shows).

The Golden Globes will be on January 16th on NBC.