The Golden Globes – a legitimately credible award show or just a laughing stock? Probably the latter for me, but it’s been like that for a while – live streaming the Globes just to see all these ridiculously young looking actors and actresses gobsmacked when they take to the stage, thanking their manager, family and friends with a little tear in their eye. And of course, God for making it all happen (well, at least the schmaltzy ‘Hollywood’ of it all is more endearing and a welcome pat-on-the-back-at-least-you-tried than the boredom that is the BAFTAs). Now that the nominees for the 68th Globes have been announced, what were we expecting? Pretty much exactly what we got in most categories – minus the likes of Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours and the Coen Brothers’ True Grit – but the real ‘WTF’ moment comes in the shape of the comedy/musical section.
According to the Globes, we should be commending the likes of Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp’s thriller caper The Tourist and the all-singing Burlesque. Mind-numbing night out popcorn movies they may be, but are they really award worthy, even by the Globes standards?
Though I was probably the only person in the world that had a good time with Alice in Wonderland (shoot me now, if you must) it is definitely not award worthy (costume design and the like, yes,) but the Globes have never been one for commending the behind-the-scenes folk unless it’s to do with the music or writing (seriously, what’s up with that?).
What is most odd about this crap-tastic category is that none of them, as far as I am aware, are actually comedies or musicals (minus Burlesque and maybe The Kids Are All Right, which I have yet to see). I’ve never liked the idea of categorizing films into genres – if it’s a good enough film it’ll make waves whatever genre it is, – but Globes, if you’re still going to carry on that old-timer tradition, actually put films that FIT the genre. Jeez.
What this year’s Globe nominees have showed us is what all cinephiles have been thinking for far too long – who cares about award shows anymore? Sure, you get the dedicated fans that watch each award season religiously and everyone, including myself, likes to make their own predictions to who is going to take home those gongs come Oscar time (as that’s the one that is really going to catapult you to fame a la The Hurt Locker) but for years now, award shows have been a pitifully shambolic affair. From the snubbing of The Dark Knight and Wall-E at 2008s Oscars for Best Picture, to The Blind Side actually being nominated for anything other than a Razzie, it’s hard to take Hollywood awards seriously.
Being handed that prized golden statue in February shouldn’t mean anything to the recipients, it’s more a sure fire cash-in for the said film, and after all, isn’t that what the film industry is – a business? Well, at least there are the after parties.
Golden Globe nomination highlights…
Best Motion Picture – Drama
Black Swan, The Fighter, Inception, The King’s Speech, The Social Network
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Halle Berry (Frankie and Alice), Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole), Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone), Natalie Portman (Black Swan), Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – 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 Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Alice in Wonderland, Burlesque, The Kids Are All Right, Red, The Tourist
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
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 Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
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 Director – Motion Picture
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 – Motion Picture
Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy (127 Hours), Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right), Christopher Nolan (Inception), David Seidler (The King’s Speech), Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Amy Adams (The Fighter), Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech), Mila Kunis (Black Swan), Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Christian Bale (The Fighter), Michael Douglas (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps), Andrew Garfield (The Social Network), Jeremy Renner (The Town), Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech)
Best Animated Feature Film
Despicable Me, How To Train Your Dragon, The Illusionist, Tangled, Toy Story 3
Best Foreign Language Film
Biutiful, The Concert, The Edge, I Am Love, In A Better World
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