The Golden Globes were handed out last night. Let’s talk about the winners (and losers).
A few highlights: Argo won Best Picture (Drama), with Ben Affleck taking Best Director; Les Misérables won Best Picture (Comedy or Musical); Brave won Best Animated Film; Amour won Best Foreign Language Film. Acting wins were unsurprising (but all wholly worthy): Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty), Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln), Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook), Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway (Les Mis), Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained). Quentin Tarantino won Best Screenplay (Django).
See the complete list of nominees and winners at Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
What do you think of the Golden Globe winners (and losers)? Feel free to talk about the TV side as well, if you like…
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Looks like a fairly safe set of choices, going for a middle ground between the crowd-pleasers and the blatant Oscar-bait. Still no love for The Cabin in the Woods, which shouldn’t surprise me, but of all the films I saw last year it was the one that tried most to say something original.
I think, “The Golden Globes happened already? And people actually care about the Golden Globes?”
The Argo awards are interesting, insofar as the film doesn’t seem like an Oscar frontrunner, and AMPAS passed on nominating Affleck’s directing.
I’d already been vacillating between “Hugh Jackman could beat out Daniel Day-Lewis, of all people” and “Hugh Jackman should repeat to himself ‘It’s an honor just to be nominated'”. The way the Golden Globes group together musical and comedy doesn’t help any on that front.
I missed the show but I hear Tina Fey and Amy Poehler were fantastic as hosts. :)
I gave up watching awards shows years ago.
I heard Brave won, which is a bummer. Pixar just has too much sway, even when they don’t deserve it. Frankenweenie was easily the best Animated movie of the year. The second best, Paranorman, wasn’t even nominated. Heck, I think I even liked Wreck-it-Ralph more than Brave. I’m not saying it’s bad. It’s just not an easy, well-deserved, win like most Pixar movies.
What do you think of the Golden Globe winners (and losers)?
Nothing at all. As some have observed, safe choices. Actually, safe roster to choose from. No surprises. Oscars? If the GGs didn’t surprise, Oscar won’t.
“Girls” winning Best Series – Comedy/Musical irked me as well as Lena Dunham’s win for ‘Best Actress’ in the same category. Lena Dunham’s series does nothing for me. It’s not just the fact that I’m a guy, but the show looks drab and feels so far removed from reality. Never mind the fact that Lena’s character and her three BFFs are supposedly poor or living on the fringe, but can afford nice apartments.
And as much as I appreciate the female form in various shapes and sizes, Dunham’s nude scenes made me throw up in my mouth a little. Some folks should keep their clothes ON, even in an HBO series.
I’ve been drawing the human form in life classes since I was 16 years old and find your comment about Dunham’s nude form incredibly provincial and not a little sexist. I get that you do not find her sexually attractive, fair enough; but a woman’s body isn’t always about whether or not you want to schtupp her. I’ve drawn fit young people and the elderly, the obese and the reed-thin; I’ve drawn varicose veins and rippled abs, breasts both pendulous and perky. People’s bodies are *always* interesting, and they should not be ashamed of who they are and what they look like. And frankly a young woman is going to be a sexual being whether or not you find her so. Please adjust your male gaze and try to cultivate a more cosmopolitan attitude about nudity.