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|  #1 Posted on 14.12.10 1046.48 | The Golden Globes nominations are out. This is the most interested I've been in the Globes, and later the Oscars, in years because so many movies this year have been flat out great. The Best Drama, Best Actor/Actress Drama, Best Director, and even Best Score and Best Screenplay categories are embarrassments of riches. The Best Comedy category, not so much. That almost looks like a list of the Razzies.
Interesting The Town was snubbed for all its buzz back in September, and so was True Grit, though I don't know if enough people have seen the latter.
For the record, I'm rooting for The Social Network for nearly everything except Best Actress for Natalie Portman in Black Swan. But again, the Drama categories are so strong, victories by Black Swan or 127 Hours or Inception or The Fighter, etc. would still please me. It's been a great year for movies.
There's also a television category that I'm not as versed at. Mad Men or The Walking Dead are what I'm rooting for. Parks and Recreation was snubbed, so fuck 'em.
68th Annual GOLDEN GLOBES NOMINATIONS:
MOVIES
Best Picture - Drama
"Black Swan"
"The Fighter"
"Inception"
"The King's Speech"
"The Social Network"
Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
"Alice in Wonderland"
"Burlesque"
"The Kids are Alright"
"Red"
"The Tourist"
Best 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 Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Halle Berry, "Frankie and Alice"
Nicole Kidman, "The Rabbit Hole"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Winter's Bone"
Natalie Portman, "Black Swan"
Michelle Williams, "Blue Valentine"
Best Actor in a Motion Picture - 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 in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Anette Benning, "The Kids Are Alright"
Anne Hathaway, "Love and Other Drugs"
Angelina Jolie, "The Tourist"
Emma Stone, "Easy A"
Julianne Moore, "The Kids Are Alright"
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 Supporting Actor
Christian Bale, "The Fighter"
Michael Douglas, "Wall Street 2"
Andrew Garfield, "The Social Network"
Jeremy Renner, "The Town"
Geoffrey Rush, "The King's Speech"
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
Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, "127 Hours"
"Lisa Cholodenko, "The Kids are Alright"
Christopher Nolan, "Inception"
David Sieber, "The King's Speech"
Aaron Sorkin, "The Social Network"
Best Animated Feature
"Despicable Me"
"Dragon"
"The Illusionist"
"Tangled"
"Toy Story 3"
Best Foreign Language Film
"Biutiful"
"The Concert"
"The Edge"
"I Am Love"
"In a Better World"
Best Original Song
"Bound to You," "Burlesque"
"Coming Home," "Country Song"
"I See the Light," "Tangled"
"There's a Place For Us," "Dawn Treader"
"You Haven't Seen the Last of Me," "Burlesque"
Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat, "The King's Speech"
Danny Elfman, "Alice in Wonderland"
AR Rahman, "127 Hours"
Hans Zimmer, ""Inception"
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, "The Social Network"
TELEVISION
Best Television Series - Drama
"Boardwalk"
"Dexter"
"The Good Wife"
"Mad Men"
"The Walking Dead"
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama
Steve Buscemi, "Boardwalk Empire"
Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"
Michael C. Hall, "Dexter"
Jon Hamm, "Mad Men"
Hugh Laurie, "House"
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama
Julianna Margulies, "The Good Wife"
Elisabeth Moss, "Mad Men"
Piper Perabo, "Covert Affairs"
Katey Sagal, "Sons of Anarchy"
Kyra Sedgwick, "The Closer"
Best Television Series - Comedy
"30 Rock"
"The Big Bang Theory"
"The Big C"
"Glee"
"Modern Family"
"Nurse Jackie"
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Comedy
Toni Collette, "The United States of Tara"
Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie"
Tina Fey, "30 Rock"
Laura Linney, "The Big C"
Lea Michele, "Glee"
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Comedy
Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock"
Steve Carell, "The Office"
Thomas Jane, "Hung"
Matthew Morrison, "Glee"
Jim Parsons, "The Big Bang Theory"
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Scott Caan, "Hawaii Five-0"
Chris Colfer, "Glee"
Chris Noth, "The Good Wife"
Eric Stonestreet, "Modern Family"
David Strathairn, "Temple Grandin"
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Hope Davis, "The Special Relationship"
Jane Lynch, "Gee"
Kelly MacDonald, "Boardwalk Empire"
Julia Stiles, "Dexter"
Sofia Vergara, "Modern Family"
Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
"Carlos"
"The Pacific"
"Pillars of the Earth"
"Temple Grandin"
"You Don't Know Jack"
Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Hayley Atwell, "Pillars of the Earth"
Claire Danes, "Temple Grandin"
Judi Dench, "Return to Cranford"
Romola Garai, "Emma"
Jennifer Love Hewitt, "The Client List"
Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Idris Elba, "Luther"
Ian McShane, "Pillars of the Earth"
Al Pacino, "You Don't Know Jack"
Dennis Quaid, "The Special Relationship"
Edgar Ramirez, "Carlos"
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| #2 Posted on 14.12.10 1200.14 | Instant Rating: 7.88 | I'm pretty sure the most asked question this morning is, "The Tourist is a comedy?"
Community also got snubbed, but what are you gonna do?
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| #3 Posted on 14.12.10 1203.14 | Instant Rating: 3.16 | Have to say that I'm a bit surprised that there was no love for "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" at all, especially in what looks like a weak field as compared to the Drama category. I would have thought at least the original songs would have gotten a nod (particularly Metric's "Black Sheep"). Bummer.
Yay on the nod for "The Walking Dead"
Ricky Gervais is hosting again so that equals an automatic watch for me.
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| #4 Posted on 14.12.10 1243.12 | Instant Rating: 1.60 | | Katey Sagal for Best Actress, Walking Dead for Series and the Pillars of Earth makes it a great nomination process for me. As per usual I have only seen one of the nominations for Best Picture. As soon as I found out Social Network was as real as Toy Story 3, I opted out of that. A little surprise no love for True Grit since early word that might be a contender. This was not a great year for movies, but the fight for best director looks awesome. | Mike Zeidler
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| #5 Posted on 14.12.10 1245.29 | Instant Rating: 5.35 | Claire Danes deserves any award she gets for Temple Grandin, and based on the mini-series/movies it's up against, I'll call it for Temple Grandin to win the TV best picture award too.
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| #6 Posted on 14.12.10 1742.54 | Instant Rating: 8.62 | Those are all worthy candidates for Best TV drama, but none of them are better than Breaking Bad.
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| #7 Posted on 15.12.10 0844.12 | Instant Rating: 4.95 | | The nomination of that godawful Alice In Wonderland movie (in a category where they could easily have nominated Scott Pilgrim vs The World, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Easy A or even Toy Story 3, all of which were much, much better films) and Johnny Depp's worst performance ever as the Mad Hatter, in which he finally took that final step towards becoming Jim Carrey (in a bad way), has pretty much killed whatever credibility the Golden Globes ever had for me. | Moss
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|  #8 Posted on 17.12.10 1901.40 | Instant Rating: 4.76 | Originally posted by John Orquiola
For the record, I'm rooting for The Social Network for nearly everything except Best Actress for Natalie Portman in Black Swan.
You'd rank Social Network over Inception???
Originally posted by DrewDewce
Have to say that I'm a bit surprised that there was no love for "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" at all, especially in what looks like a weak field as compared to the Drama category. I would have thought at least the original songs would have gotten a nod (particularly Metric's "Black Sheep").
I take it you're not aware the Globes are done by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and not the Twenty-Eight Year Old Nerds Association.
The Globe wins are pretty much all purchased anyways, but the Oscars should join them in separating movie genres.
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| #9 Posted on 17.12.10 2029.22 | Instant Rating: 3.16 | Originally posted by Moss
I take it you're not aware the Globes are done by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and not the Twenty-Eight Year Old Nerds Association.
Be that as it may, the director of the "Nerd Movie" is himself a "Foreigner" and I would have thought he and his movie might have received a little more love that I'm certain it won't get come Oscar time (having perused the list of "Original Songs" who are eligible for Oscars the other day I didn't even see any "Nerd songs" on the list for instance).
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| #10 Posted on 18.12.10 1912.20 | Instant Rating: 0.77 | | The Kids Are All Right is definitely, positively, not-even-close-to-being a Comedy OR a Musical. What the hell were they thinking??? | Mr. Boffo
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| #11 Posted on 18.12.10 2342.50 | Instant Rating: 5.70 | Originally posted by TwisterF5
The Kids Are All Right is definitely, positively, not-even-close-to-being a Comedy OR a Musical. What the hell were they thinking???
I heard Doug Benson talk about this on his latest "Doug Loves Movies" podcast. The Foreign Press has a tendency to list any drama that has a certain amount of humor in it as a comedy.
According to IMDB, the 5 nominess for Best Comedy or Musical are in fact:
* an adventure/family/fantasy movie
* a drama/romance/musical
* a comedy/drama (this is actually "The Kids Are Alright", so I guess IMDB disagrees with you, assuming comedy/drama makes any sense as a genre)
* an action/comedy/crime movie
* an action/drama/thriller
I've heard it said that comedies don't translate as well in foreign languages, so I wonder if that's part of the trouble. Or maybe they just think actual comedies are beneath them. |
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