"All the world's a stage, and the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts."

- William Shakespeare

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Globes of Gold


Well, I'm going to miss the actual event which is a bit disappointing, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to follow every other aspect of the Golden Globes. I'd have more of an invested interest if Avatar was nominated in more categories. As you can see from my last post, I'm kind of in love with it. But despite my bias, the nominees are:

For best motion picture, drama:

Avatar (woot woot!)
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
Up in the Air

For best motion picture, musical or drama: (I like that they have categories within categories)

(500) Days of Summer (great movie)
The Hangover (I never stopped laughing)
It's Complicated (I have no interest in seeing it, but maybe it's just a generation thing)
Julie & Julia
Nine (my money's on this for the win)

For best director:

Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
James Cameron, Avatar (he deserves this and more)
Clint Eastwood, Invictus
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

For best animated feature:

Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox (it kinda made 2009 for me)
Up
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Princess and the Frog

For best actor in a motion picture, drama:

Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus (if it's anything like the Oscars, he'll win just 'cause he played a real person)
Tobey Maguire, Brothers

For best actress in a motion picture, drama:

Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe, Precious

For best performance by an actor in a musical or comedy:

Matt Damon, The Informant!
Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine
Robert Downey Jr, Sherlock Holmes (he's got my vote!)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer (he's was pretty dern awesome)
Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man

For Best performance by an actress in a musical or comedy:

Sandra Bullock, The Proposal (well, she was funny...)
Marion Cotillard, Nine
Julia Roberts, Duplicity (that was a comedy? it felt more like a train wreck...)
Meryl Streep, It's Complicated
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

For best supporting actor:

Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

For best supporting actress:

Penelope Cruz, Nine (hey, remember when she an Tom Cruise were an item? weird...)
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air (power to the youngin's!)
Mo'Nique, Precious
Julianne Moore, A Single Man

For best foreign film:

Broken Embraces
The White Ribbon
The Maid
A Prophet
Baaria

For best screenplay:

District 9, Neil Blomkap, Terri Tatchell
The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
It's Complicated, Nancy Meyers
Up in the Air, Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

For best original song:

Crazy Heart
Everybody's Fine
Nine
Brothers
Avatar

And finally, for best original score:

The Informant!, Marvin Hamlisch
Up, Michael Giacchino
Where the Wild Things Are, Carter Burwell, Karen Orzolek
Avatar, James Horner
A Single Man, Abel Korzenioski

My thoughts:
The actors of Avatar didn't get nominated, they deserve a lot more recognition than they're getting; Wes Anderson's name should definitely be appearing under best director for his amazing work on Fantastic Mr. Fox and I'm sure Sherlock Holmes will have more nominations at the Academy Awards since they have more categories (art direction, costume design, etc).

Little known fact to most people, I think: Carter Burwell (nominated for best original score for Where the Wild Things Are) also worked on the music for the movie Twilight. So for those of you who hate the likes of Twilight but loved Where the Wild Things Are: Ha! They have more in common than you think! :P

Anyway, stay tuned for the list of winners or check other websites for it, whatever. Either way, you won't get my opinions anywhere else. And I'm sure with this line up, I'll have quite a few opinions to share after tomorrow night.

Keep it real!

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