The Golden Globes Announced
I live in a “Celebrity Spokestool Billy Bush Free” zone so I didn’t watch the awards announcement, but it looks like there were a number of surprises both good and bad:
Julien Schnabel beating the Coen Brothers for Best Director, Sweeney Todd beating Juno for best Musical or Comedy and Atonement beating No Country for Old Men for Best Drama spring to mind.
What does it all mean? Awards jockeys will disagree, but to me it means nothing beyond getting some extra attention for some movies I happen to love. Hopefully some of you slackers will now be convinced to have a look at the likes of Atonement, Sweeney Todd, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men and I’m Not There. Also, be sure to check out Away From Her, La vie en rose and Ratatouille on DVD.
Here are the complete movie results:
Drama: Atonement
Comedy/Musical: Sweeney Todd
Director: Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell & The Butterfly
Actor Drama: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Actor Comedy/Musical: Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Actress Drama: Julie Christie, Away From Her
Actress Comedy/Musical: Marion Cotillard, La vie en rose
Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Animation: Ratatouille
Writer: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Original Score: Dario Marianelli, Atonement
Original Song: ”Guaranteed” - Eddie Veder, Into The Wild
Filed under: Awards
Although the win for Atonement won’t help it get nominated, it might help if it is nominated. But with a screenplay win at the Globes — not to mention a Globes jinx — No Country seems headed for Best Picture. Schnabel’s win here can be easily enough explained — though he’ll still be strong competition for the Coens at the Oscars, I’d wager.
Cotillard’s win may help her. An Oscar nod is expected, so a win here adds a hair or two to her chances against Christie (and Page).
Saying this may sound like a travesty, but in a way the announcement telecast was better — it was easier, although Billy Bush makes my hair stand on end sometimes. Having Dave Karger there was entertaining.
What I was trying to say above about the Globes jinx is that No Country won’t be jinxed (like Babel, Bugsy or Sense and Sensibility, for example) going into the Oscars.
I keep hearing about this Globes jinx, Pierre. Someone was saying that Sweeney is going to suffer the comedy/musical win Globes jinx. Is that because of Dreamgirls?
That said, HFPA is the Hollywood FOREIGN press, so I would expect that their choices will be different in some cases than the Oscars.
These results won’t change any AMPAS voters’ minds about nominations, because it’s too late for that. Polls closed yesterday. But, as you say, it may give an edge to the nominees. We’ll see what happens.
I’m very happy Atonement at least got some acknowledgement, both for BP Drama and musical score. And, as has already been made clear, I’m thrilled about the love for Diving Bell and Julian Schnabel.
“Although the win for Atonement won’t help it get nominated, it might help if it is nominated.”
Pierre, I’m not sure I follow this logic. Don’t the chances of a nomination and a win remain equally unchanged? Both are determined by behavior that preceded the GG winner announcements. And there is no overlap in membership between the groups so one will not necessarily simply reflect the other.
I’m very happy for the Atonement win. The film now has major award recognition worthy of its quality irrespective of what happens with the oscars. I still think No Country is sitting pretty for the biggest prize. Really happy too for DDL.
I am, too, sartre. This is DDL’s first Golden Globe win.
It used to be that the Oscar ballots were due AFTER the GG winners were announced. With the date change, the ballots were due yesterday, before these results were announced. What that means is that the GG’s can no longer influence a voter to change his or her mind.
However, for the films, actors, etc. who are nominated, the GG win may or may not give them an edge when the voters make their final single choice of who they think should win.
I hope this explanation isn’t TOO convoluted. :-)
Sorry for the lack of comment replies today, but I’ve been busy and now I’m writing.
I know it won’t make any difference for the nominations since the ballots are already in, but I think the Globes loss will help No Country. Had it won, I think it would’ve tainted the movie in the eyes of Academy snobs who look down their noses at the HFPA (pure speculation on my part I might add, I dont’ know the first thing about how academy members think).
Well considering the Golden Globes are awarded by a small, select, oddball group of individuals, it’s no wonder that they are looked down upon to some extent. Then again, the Academy itself is a small, select, oddball group of individuals so we can’t really be pointing any fingers there, AMPAS!
Man, I can’t believe I’m honestly admitting this but I really hope to god that the Oscars actually happen on a stage with a host and folks accepting awards. That GG press conference was absolutely awful. I sat through 10 minutes of it and went straight to the internet to find out who won. Out of all the things that were bad about it, my favorite part was them placing the award winner’s image (formatted for a standard definition TV screen) on the front of the podium (which is tall, not wide). Since the image was cropped and formatted incorrectly for the podium’s shape, each winner’s face was stretched and distorted to fill the image area. Talk about appallingly disrespectful to the winners.
That and Billy Bush dismissing Cate Blanchett’s Best Supporting Actress win because she played a man. It’s called acting, dipshit. Look it up.
My apologies to anyone that is a fan of Access Hollywood, but that was bad.
Congrats to the winners. I’m sure Alison is having a great night. Glad to see Ratatouille win. Glad to see the Coens and Bardem win awards.
First, Alison — You’re comments about the Globes jinx are well taken. I don’t include that factor as a valid precursor factor.
sartre — I think it’s possible that some Academy members will change their minds post-nominations. One could liken it to political races before the field of party nominees is narrowed down. That’s also why polls measure how a nominee from one party might fare against various nominees from another party.
Since the Golden Globes began in 1943, only 3 films have won best drama and NOT gone on to get an Oscar nomination for best picture: The Cardinal, Spartacus and East of Eden. With The Cardinal being the most recent example of this statistic (1963), one might argue that Atonement will get nominated for best picture.
I understand that the new, shorter awards schedule of the recent past may render this piece of data less accurate as a predictor, but we’ve theorized all along that Atonement was a potential Oscar contender because of its pedigree.
So what would the lineup be under an ”Atonement scenario”?
Atonement
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Into the Wild
and either Juno, Michael Clayton, or Diving Bell
Under the above scenario — for the moment at least — I’d guess Michael Clayton would be the 5th nominee over Juno or Diving Bell primarily on the basis of precursor attention. Keeping Juno out of the best picture pack would place the lion’s share of focus on Diablo Cody — where it has been all along — and also on Ellen Page (both of whom will no doubt be nominated).
The surprise factor here, though, has to do with Diving Bell’s status as a foreign-language film — lack of head-to-head competition with other best-picture contenders muddies the reliability of the predictors as much as its foreign-language status may hurt its chances.
*still victory dancing in a green Cecilia dress*
Oh, yes, LORD, YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Put me down as one of the people that loathed Billy Bush. WTF is that doofus doing on TV anyway? This is one of the reasons (like joel) that I turned the telecast off fairly early on. It was giving me a blasted headache.
So, yeah. It sucks that there was no ceremony.
But the winners…
These were all my #1 choices, everything & everyone that I WANTED to win: Atonement (!!!!!!!!!), Julie, DDL, Marion (YEAH…), Johnny & Dario Marianelli. I’m higher than a kite over Javier. Not jazzed about the performance particularly. But I do love that man.
So…nearly perfect & much, much MORE than I ever expected.
Carry on, boys & girls….
Always nice when you have a night of folks you were pulling for ending up winners, Serena. Truly, there were a lot of great films and performances that won tonight. It’s hard to be disappointed with the results. It’s just too bad the winners didn’t get to make their acceptance speeches.
I know, joel. But I know that SOME of those people (unless I’m very, very wrong) will get to make most impressive speeches.
Oh…in about a month or so, say…
I am unable to copy and paste from my post over at A-D but suffice to say my main observations are (a) wow, that was fast; (b) Larry King is senile and should retire… then again, it’s not like he has an important job or anything and he has to pay alimony in about fifteen different directions, so I guess I can tolerate his existence; (c) I feel genuine pity for those who suffered through Billy Bush and the bloated NBC telecast; (d) Atonement’s win, while doubtless making Serena overjoyed–which can only be a positive development in the world–ultimately will have no impact in its being nominated or not, *but*… (e) if Atonement *does* become nominated for Best Picture, suddenly this win could become a big deal, as Pierre notes above; (f) the split field in lead acting categories dillutes the importance of the winners’, um, winning (how shocking that Christie/Cotillard and Depp/Day-Lewis *all won*!); (g) I want to believe Juno’s momentum has been permanently stalled despite realistically knowing that this event probably plays no part in its Oscar chances beyond Original Screenplay; (h) the Coens, despite winning for their brilliant adaptation, were nonetheless screwed twice over but like Craig this actually makes me feel more hopeful about their chances come Oscar night for this, that and the other inexplicable reason; (i) I’m surprised I had eight different main thoughts about this event (which may go down as the night the Globes became truly irrelevant, as others are saying elsewhere), including a ninth, which was the recognition of surprise about having eight different thoughts… Oh, I have to stop chasing the mice inside my head while hoping the writers quit striking because I don’t know how to quit the big, bloated Oscar extravaganza, without which winter will never become spring, otherwise the Oscars in six weeks will be no better than a bastard in a basket, and is there a difference between a cop or a criminal, and is that my daughter in there, or should I just call it goodnight and goodluck, friendos? Sometimes my thoughts just CRASH right into each other. (Okay, with that last one I really went too far…)
I caught about 47 seconds of Bush and as soon as he launched into a prescripted, half-assed analysis of one of the winners, I was nearly overcome by the urge to jump in front of a bus. That was enough for me.
I’m glad for Alison and Serena that their favorites got wins. This for me is what the Globes are about more than anything…Getting attention for your faves. I have no friggin’ idea who the people are that even pick them and until they started having their show on NBC, no one gave a shit.
Thanks, Craig.
Alexander, post of the year – & it’s brand new. LOL
“Atonement’s win, while doubtless making Serena overjoyed – which can only be a positive development in the world”…
What a little charmer you are.
Brilliant insights. Much truth there IMO. Plus absolutely, hysterically funny.
If they gave a Nobel prize for blog posts, they’d be calling you right now. Friendo.