Ricky Gervais is back again this year (somewhat surprisingly) to host the annual awards handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press. Quite honestly the main reason to watch is for Gervais lightly pushing some boundaries in his commentary (especially with the nuttiness of the categories this year). Still, The Golden Globes are a kind of warm-up party for Oscar night and simply put, I like awards shows and watching the stars show up and have a good time with one another. They call this one Hollywood’s biggest party so it’s fun to see all the stars just having a good time. It isn’t quite as loose as the Spirit Awards, but I’ll take it for now.
We’ll be highlighting the winners tonight as they are announced, so drop by frequently for updates and commentary…
(we’re not posting the television awards – if you’d like to see those nominees, they are here.
Best Picture — Drama
- Black Swan
- The Fighter
- Inception
- The King’s Speech
- The Social Network
Best Picture — Musical or Comedy
- Alice in Wonderland
- Burlesque
- The Kids Are All Right
- Red
- The Tourist
Best Actor — Drama
- Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
- Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
- James Franco, 127 Hours
- Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine
- Mark Wahlberg, The Fighter
Best Actress — Drama
- Halle Berry, Frankie and Alice
- Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
- Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
- Natalie Portman, Black Swan
- Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
Best Actor — Musical or Comedy
- Johnny Depp, Alice in Wonderland
- Johnny Depp, The Tourist
- Paul Giamatti, Barney’s Version
- Jake Gyllenhaal, Love and Other Drugs
- Kevin Spacey, Casino Jack
Best Actress — Musical or Comedy
- Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
- Anne Hathaway, Love and Other Drugs
- Angelina Jolie, The Tourist
- Julianne Moore, The Kids Are All Right
- Emma Stone, Easy A
Best Supporting Actor
- Christian Bale, The Fighter
- Michael Douglas, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
The Social Network - Jeremy Renner, The Town
- Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech
Best Supporting Actress
- Amy Adams, The Fighter
- Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech
- Mila Kunis, Black Swan
- Melissa Leo, The Fighter
- Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
Best Director
- Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
- David Fincher, The Social Network
- Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
- Christopher Nolan, Inception
- David O. Russell, The Fighter
Best Screenplay
- 127 Hours, Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
- Inception, Christopher Nolan
- The Kids Are All Right, Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
- The King’s Speech, David Seidler
- The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin
Best Original Score
- Inception, Hans Zimmer
- The King’s Speech, Alexandre Desplat
- The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
- Alice in Wonderland, Danny Elfman
- 127 Hours, A.R. Rahman
Best Original Song
- “Bound to You,” Burlesque
- “Coming Home,” Country Strong
- “I See the Light,” Tangled
- “There’s a Place For Us,” The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me Yet,” Burlesque
Best Foreign Language Film
- Biutiful
- The Concert
- The Edge
- I Am Love
- In a Better World
Best Animated Feature
- Despicable Me
- How to Train Your Dragon
- The Illusionist
- Tangled
- Toy Story 3
If you want to check out the television nominations, you can see the list at the Golden Globes website.
since i no longer have cable, anyone know if this is streaming anywhere?
Not sure where you might see it. I checked Hulu and didn’t see anything.
Steve Buscemi = first class guy.h
PS – Had some coding issues. Got it resolved now I think. Updates will come in real time.
DeNiro trying to be funny is always weird.
He actually had a couple of moments, but yeah… he’s just brutal for the most part.
So anticlimactic. This will be how the Oscars turned out too.
Thoughts on Gervais?
“Thank you to God… for making me an atheist.”
I only saw the last hour or so. I enjoyed Gervais
The monologue:
http://tv.gawker.com/5735192/watch-ricky-gervais-extremely-uncomfortable-golden-globes-monologue
The Tourist: “it must be good because its nominated”
Look at Johnny Depp… he knows the joke is true, just look at his face
“Thank you to God… for making me an atheist.”
Very original.. oh wait, Luis Bunuel wasn’t the host?
What an elitist, prick. Doesn’t understand the difference between comedy and acting like a twat.
people are such pussies. The reality is the majority of his material is not much different than you’d hear on late night TV. I love Gervais but he’s getting credit for things a lot of comedians normally say and to wild applause, but just not with those same people in the room.
They didn’t get shown over here unfortunately. Looks like they were fairly predictable. I’ve not heard of the Best Foreign Language winner though. Anyone seen it?
Oh and shameless self-promotion: the BAFTA nominations are announced tomorrow morning at 7.40am (GMT) and the short I edited and our company produced is in the final shortlist!! So fingers crossed people. I think I’ll wet myself a little bit if it gets nominated
Watch the announcement here live if anyone’s awake: http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/2011-film-awards-nominations-announcement,1607,BA.html
The HFPA member who said this though, is a massive twat:
“”Ricky will not be invited back to host the show next year, for sure,” the HFPA member said. “For sure any movie he makes he can forget about getting nominated. He humiliated the organization last night and went too far with several celebrities whose representatives have already called to complain.”"
Once again showing the HFPA has nothing to do with actual quality. As the Tourist and countless other noms show, all they exist for is to celeb hob nob and get pictures taken.
Damn I really wish I saw it now. Was he that harsh? Or is it just the HFPA being way over the top.
It’s a little bit of both. But mostly it’s a bunch of snobby celebs and execs that are used to having praise lavished upon them and last night Gervais gave them a little elbow to the ribs. I echo Goon’s sentiments: “Pussies.”
Take out Gervais and last night’s show would’ve been the most predictable snooze-fest imaginable.
Gervais was the only reason the show was entertaining
No BAFTA nomination for us. Boo!
Sorry man. Nice to at least be on the short list though eh?
Foreign language winner was my favorite movie of last year, so check it out if you can. Fantastic.
I watched Gervais’ monologue and I thought it was awesome. Who cares about “For sure any movie he makes he can forget about getting nominated. He humiliated the organization last night and went too far with several celebrities whose representatives have already called to complain.” when you can have a laugh instead. I’ll take the laugh.
Cheers, yeah it’s still pretty awesome to get that close.
are we gonna play ‘guess the 10 oscar nominees for best picture’ again this year?
my early guess:
Black Swan
True Grit
Inception
Kings Speech
Toy Story 3
The Fighter
The Kids Are All Right
Social Network
127 Hours
10th spot: undecided, Blue Valentine, Rabbit Hole, The Town Winter’s Bone all feel possible