Golden Globes Nods for ‘King’s Speech’ and ‘Social Network’ The Social Network should block The King's Speech in Golden Globes clash. A couple of weeks back, I blogged a personal awards-style "nominations" list of the best of the year in various categories and invited a response, vaguely thinking it might be possible to boil down some results. That's probably not workable given the variety of responses from commenters who understandably didn't want to be bound by my suggestions. A broad spread of opinions indicated that the list failed to give due regard to Inception, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Shutter Island and Up in the Air, and that it should moreover have included a best screenplay category.
That last objection is certainly fair and I shall mend my ways in 2011. The real award season has in any case now begun with the announcement of the Golden Globe nominations, which will be presented next year in an influential televised ceremony hosted by Ricky Gervais and closely watched by Academy voters leaving it until the last moment to make up their minds about the Oscars.
Bribery Accusations. The popularity of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and their Golden Globes ceremony has been on a steady decline as it has become more and more evident that they favor the flashy and famous as nominees and winners over the talented and deserving hopefuls each year. Said popularity has taken yet another turn for the worse as new accusations of bribery have come hot on the heels of the announcement of this year’s nominees, which included some fairly reprehensible names and titles as awards contenders. The controversy mainly revolves around two particular films: The Tourist, starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, and Burlesque, which stars Cher and Christina Aguilera. Both of these movies were nominated in the Best Picture Comedy or Musical category, while both also have been overwhelmed with a bombardment of poor critical reception and massive box office failure. In the end, this is only topic made for movie fans like myself to vent and complain about.
[Source: The Independent] 10 Truthful Golden Globe Nominee Reactions. That's it. Play with it...nice and slow. Everyone knows that the Golden Globes are a joke, so why not have some joke quotes to go with them? Here are ten truthful celebrity reactions we’d like to have seen. While I’m honored to be nominated for best actress in a comedy, there’s nothing funny about a film with a $100 million budget taking in only $16.5 million in its opening weekend.
I’d like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for recognizing the importance of a film that allows hipsters to experience the plot of “How I Met Your Mother” without having to subject themselves to network TV. Who thinks I’m Michael Cera now, bitch? I’m nominated for Alice too? I’m honored, but I’m no hero. I’d like to thank my talented writing staff. Who’d I have to sleep with to get a nomination? Oh, good for meeeeeeee! Don’t tell me not to fly, I’ve simply got to! It’s an honor just to be nominated. Comedy in the Least Likely Places. Walt Disney PicturesJohnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in “Alice in Wonderland.” In the post-Golden Globe nominations hangover, the main reaction from awards-season watchers was incredulity at the voters’ grasp of movie genres. “I haven’t seen ‘The Tourist,’ but the fact that the Golden Globes think it is a comedy is funnier than anything that happens in it,” the comedian Doug Benson tweeted.
Added Keith Calder, a film producer in Los Angeles, “The Golden Globes just jumped the shark, and then nominated the shark for best supporting actor in a musical or comedy.” Satisfied? Now that that’s settled, there’s some other Globes news. At Indiewire, Anne Thomspon finds a rare dark cloud in the silver lining of success for “The Fighter”: now Ryan Kavanaugh, a producer, will have to pay for a costly awards race. The Envelope blog has invented some awards the Bagger can get behind. We can only imagine the acceptance speech for that award.
'Glee' gets a high-five from the GG. The Golden Globe Awards gave a nice howdy-do to three freshmen TV series and planted a big ol' wet kiss on Fox's sophomore series "Glee" as it announced nominations Tuesday for its 68th annual trophy show. Fox's high school musical - last year's Golden Globe winner for best comedy or musical series - copped five Globe noms this year. That's the most of any TV program, and No. 4 in the entire Globe nominations pool, behind only three feature films: "The King's Speech," which logged seven nominations, and "The Fighter" and "The Social Network," with six apiece. The Golden Globe Awards, which will be broadcast live on both coasts Jan. 16 on NBC at 8 p.m. EST, is one of few televised trophy shows that showers love over both film and TV programming simultaneously. But this season's crop of freshmen TV series was mostly a bust if Tuesday's Globes nominations are any measure - and they are.
This year, the HFPA seemed largely unimpressed with the new crop of TV series.