Oh god, woefully unprepared to do this. We put on the television about 15 minutes before this started. The 67th Annual Golden Globes are tonight and yes, the Globes are kind of meaningless and retarded — the Hollywood Foreign press — are notoriously dubious — but whatever. We’re here. Stand by for more.
The live-blogging starts now (yes, you’re really excited, we know): Below.
Here are the winners:
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, DRAMA
WINNER: Mo’nique, “Precious”
Penelope Cruz, “Nine”
Vera Farmiga, “Up in the Air”
Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air”
Julianne Moore, “A Single Man”
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
WINNER: “Up”
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess And The Frog
ORIGINAL SONG
WINNER: “The Weary Kind,” “Crazy Heart”
“Cinema Italiano,” “Nine”
“I Want To Come Home,” “Everybody’s Fine”
“I See You,” “Avatar”
“Winter,” “Brothers”
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
WINNER: Michael Giacchino – “Up”
Marvin Hamlisch – The Informant!
James Horner – Avatar
Abel Korzeniowski – A Single Man
Karen O and Carter Burwell – Where The Wild Things Are
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, COMEDY/MUSICAL
WINNER: Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”
Sandra Bullock, “The Proposal”
Marion Cotillard, “Nine”
Julia Roberts, “Duplicity”
Meryl Streep, “It’s Complicated”
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WINNER: Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner, “Up in the Air”
Neill Blomkampt & Terri Tatchell, “District 9”
Mark Boal, “The Hurt Locker”
Nancy Meyers, “It’s Complicated”
Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
WINNER: “The White Ribbon”
“Baria”
“Broken Embraces”
“The Maid”
“Un Prophete”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, DRAMA
WINNER: Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”
Matt Damon, “Invictus”
Woody Harrelson, “The Messenger”
Christopher Plummer, “The Last Station”
Stanley Tucci, “The Lovely Bones”
BEST DIRECTOR
WINNER: James Cameron, “Avatar”
Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”
Clint Eastwood, “Invictus”
Jason Reitman, “Up in the Air”
Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”
BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA
WINNER: Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side”
Emily Blunt, “The Young Victoria”
Helen Mirren, “The Last Station”
Carey Mulligan, “An Education”
Gabby Sidibe, “Precious”
BEST PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
WINNER: “The Hangover”
“500 Days of Summer”
“It’s Complicated”
“Julie & Julia”
“Nine”
BEST ACTOR, COMEDY/MUSICAL
WINNER: Robert Downey Jr., “Sherlock Holmes”
Matt Damon, “The Informant”
Daniel Day Lewis, “Nine”
Joe Gordon Levitt, “500 Days of Summer”
Michael Stuhlbarg, “A Serious Man”
BEST ACTOR, DRAMA
WINNER: Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”
George Clooney, “Up in the Air”
Colin Firth, “A Single Man”
Morgan Freeman, “Invictus”
Tobey Maguire, “Brothers”
BEST PICTURE, DRAMA
“WINNER: “Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious”
“Up in the Air”
7:58pm: Wow, the girl on the E! red carpet is excruciatingly embarrassing trying to call out for George Clooney. Apparently Tobey Maguire said he knew who was going to reboot “Spider-Man,” but he didn’t say who. Presumably he meant the director and actor? Who knows. The interviewer on red-carpet did not follow-up with any questions.
8:02 pm – Ricky Gervais’ monologue is pretty funny as you might expect. Love the digs about the U.S. version of “The Office” jumping the shark and the penis reduction comments.
8:06: Best Supporting actress is up
8:07: Nicole Kidman says and the winner is, you guessed it, Mo’Nique. We called this from minute one. She’s also going to win the Oscar, no question.
8:09: BTW, she totally deserves this award. She’s the best part of “Precious,” which as you’ve likely heard, we didn’t totally love. Great humble speech from Mo’Nique.
8:10: Matthew Fox? Thank god we’re not gonna bother with the TV awards, though sure, we’ll mention them here. This award is Best Actress for TV. And the winner goes to Toni Collete for “The United States of Tara.” We’re cool with this especially because — no joke — the woman who lives upstairs from Playlist headquarters in Brooklyn is one of the writers of the show (she’s super sweet and a good neighbor).
8:13: Commercials, a breather, thank god!
8:17: Best Supporting actor for TV. We don’t care, but the winner is John Lithgow for “Dexter.” We’ve never seen the show (or at least I haven’t, but I don’t have time for TV – and I’m always shocked that some film bloggers do have that time and luxury). BTW, we guess Lithgow is great, but man, he’s put in some really terrible performances in his career and we don’t personally love him (or I don’t).”Raising Cain” is still one of the worst movies and performances of all time. DePalma lovers be damned.
8:20: Paul McCartney is presenting Best Animated Feature. Great drug line joke.
8: 21: “Up” wins, the Pixar domination continues.
8:23: Doesn’t Pete Docter look like one of the “Munsters”? He’s very odd looking.
8:24: Thank god for the TV nominations and commercials. My hands are seriously so cold, that it’s hard to type. You learn personal things when we do the rare live blog thing; like the fact that we have terrible circulation in our hands. Wow, aren’t you glad you learned that?
8:28: Kate Hudson is presenting a little preview of the musical “Nine” which is going to basically be overlooked tonight. It cost over $80 million and is currently killing the Weinsteins as it’s barely even taken in over $15 million.
8:30: LOVE Gervais’ comments about “Golden Globes that can’t be bought.” The Hollywood Foreign Press are notoriously susceptible for being swayed by swag, free shit and that typical Hollywood Oscar-goodie bullshit. They love free lunches.
8:31: Felicity Huffman is introducing Phillip Burke, the head of the HFP. Who cares. This guy is wood.
8:34: “Dexter” is cleaning up. Michael C. Hall just won a Best Dramatic Actor award in the TV field. We appreciate these breaks.
8:35: Best Actress for Dramatic TV goes to Julianna Marguiles for “The Good Wife.” Had no clue this show even existed. Apparently it’s her first win of 6 Golden Globe nominations.Good for her. Have seen her around our Brooklyn neighb too.
8:40: God the TV trailer for “Extraordinary Measures” is godawful. What happened to Harrison Ford?
8:41: Lord, why didn’t we just post the nominees with analysis afterwards? This is the worst idea I’ve had in a long time.
8:42: Oh, speaking of Harrison Ford. He’s intro’ing “Up In The Air,” he’s wood and Jesus, he cannot sell a joke. He strikes us as painfully humorless.
8:43: Gervais digs at McCartney, funny. Now “Burlesque” stars Cher and Christina Aguilera are presenting the music category.”Shamelessly” promoting the movie they say. If the “Avatar” song wins I’ll kill someone.
8:46: Yes, the right choice. The winner is “The Weary Kind,” the song from “Crazy Heart” written by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett.
8:48: Michael Giacchino’s “Up” music wins Best Original score. Can’t say we’re surprised, but we would have liked to see Marvin Hamlisch’s “The Informant!” score win. Arguably the best thing about that film. Not that Damon isn’t amazing in it and it’s not entertaining, but just sayin’, it’s exceptionally good.
8:55: “Grey Gardens” just won a TV Movie award. We never saw it, but are very curious as we’re huge fans of the Maysles’ original documentary which this is based off.
8:57: Tom Hanks is introducing the very underrated, “Julie And Julia.” Ok, the ‘Julia’ section with Meryl Streep is much, much better than the Amy Adams section. And we say this as people who love Amy Adams.
8:59: Colin Farrell is presenting Best Actress Comedy/Musical. Streep is up for TWO awards in this category.
9:o1 and the winner is Meryl Streep for “Julie And Julia.” We can’t complain, she deserves it. Also? Who doesn’t love Meryl Streep acceptance speeches? She’s the best. “I wanna name myself T-Bone,” she quipped referring to Burnett.
9:04: Streep addresses Haiti. Urges people to help in her own way. She’s graceful and the best. Though we’ll say, fun Meryl Streep >>> than serious Meryl Streep.
9:06: Is anyone here? Does anyone care? Terrible idea. No one is reading this nonsense, right? Ok, for the Oscars hopefully we’ll just post the winners as they happen. This is for the birds. Also, we didn’t have time to go run for beer, argh.
9:10: Helen Mirren, a hot +50 woman, introduces “Precious” a movie that should get actor awards, that’s it.
9:11: Kevin Bacon wins for some TV movie that we haven’t seen.
9:13: Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington are presenting Actress for Mini-Series or TV movie and Drew Barrymore has won for “Grey Gardens,” which makes us even more interested in seeing it. We’re kinda surprised, she easily could have blown this role. The Beale girls are iconic.
9:21: Cameron Diaz introduces, “It’s Complicated.” A movie that most of us didn’t see. I surely didn’t, mostly because when I asked over Twitter if I should see it over the holidays I received an overwhelming, “don’t do it!”
9:23: Best Screenplay award goes to Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for “Up In The Air.” No real surprise there though some might have thought Tarntino would win for “Inglourious Basterds.” Notice that Reitman and Turner were not at the same table. Their is controversy between them over credit and notice that Reitman doesn’t use “we” when describing his work on the script.
9:30: When you don’t watch TV commercials are such an odd thing.
9:33: Samuel L. Jackson introduces the “glorious,” “Inglourious Basterds.” As we said earlier today on Twitter, Christoph Waltz is great, but plays it far too queeny for our taste. But he’s prolly gonna win regardless. Sort of wished I loved that movie as much as everyone else. Surely did wanna love it, but it didn’t happen.
9:35: Sophia Loren intro’s the Best Foreign Film. And the winner is Michael Haneke’s “The White Ribbon.” No major surprise here, the film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Can’t say I personally loved it, but many Playlist members seemed to really love it.
9:39: “Mad Men” wins for Best TV Drama. No surprise there (I’ve never seen this show, but obviously know who all the actors are; kinda impossible to not know Christina Hendricks chest, we mean, who she and January Jones are).
9:42: Poor Luke Wilson’s ailing career and these AT&T ads, god.
9:45: Kill all Twihards. Taylor Lautner introduces “500 Days of Summer” which is nominated for Best Comedy/Musical. We’ll admit it, it was a clever, cute film (aside from the few times it annoyed us).
9:47: Chloe Sevigny wins for Best TV Actress for “Big Love.” Apparently she ripped her dress on the way up. She gave a shout-out to a P.A., funny. Never seen it. No love for Bill Paxton in her speech, oops!
9:49: Halle Berry presents Best Supporting Actor. And the winner is Christoph Waltz for “Inglourious Basterds.” No shocker and good for him. Waltz was a total unknown last year. Now, he’s basically got an Oscar win on his hands (or at least in a few weeks he does). He also seems like a pretty good guy. Wish he woulda dialed it down a little bit, but whatever, he’s clearly very talented.
9:57: His two muses Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio present Marty Scorsese with the Cecil B. Demile award. This is pretty funny actually. At least, you don’t really expect DeNiro trying to go with this kinda comedy. Also, pretty amusing that DeNiro kinda hints, “why aren’t you working with me anymore!” Well, all those paycheck gigs and “Fockers” movies are probably the reason, Bob. Kinda love that his work as a film preservationist is getting lots of props too. It’s important. This montage to his work is rather spectacular. And it’s great they used the Stones and Derek and the Dominoes (from the end of “Goodfellas”). Props to my favorite Scorsese films, “Alice Doesn’t Live here Anymore” (arguably the one with the most heart and soul), “After Hours,” and “The King of Comedy” (and yes, “Goodfellas” and “Raging Bull”).
10:05: Marty accepts his speech. Gotta love that he keeps stumping for Powell & Pressburger’s “The Red Shoes.” It’s deserved though that film is a masterpiece. Run, if you haven’t seen it. And just love in general that for Scorsese it’s all about the masters of cinema; the John Fords, the Satyajit Rays, the Akira Kurosawas, etc. Great speech as an excuse to basically discuss the history of cinema.
10: 13: Jodie Foster introduces “The Hurt Locker.” “This is intense filmmaking at its best,” she says. Amen.
10:15: Wow, Gervais drops the HAMMER on Mel Gibson with a drinking quip, amazing. Gibson is presenting Best Director.
10:16: And the winner of Best Director is, god, James Cameron for “Avatar,” gross. Reitman looked pissed! Blech, the Hollywood Foreign Press’ populist taste rears its head. He said he was going to keep this short, but you knew he wouldn’t. At least he admitted that he thought Kathryn Bigelow (his ex-wife), would win for “The Hurt Locker.” Shame it didn’t.
10:20: “Glee” wins some kinda award. My buddy says, “this country is fucked.” LOL, I don’t even know what that means as I’ve never seen it, but it cracks me up.
10:26: “The Hangover” cast sans Zach Galifinakis introduce… “The Hangover” with Mike Tyson standing in lieu.
10:27: Reese Witherspoon is presenting the Best Comedy/Musical. And the Globe goes to “The Hangover,” we suppose that’s not a major surprise considering how many gazillion dollars it made. “Now I’m gonna get into a fight with Harvey Weinstein,” Todd Phillips quipped, but of course he has Tyson in his corner. It’s nice to see Phillips, a comedy god that was lost in the woods there for a minute (“Old School” is genius), back on top. It is a pretty major blow to “Nine,” which we kinda expected. We anticipated it all year, but it shit the bed and was not good (sue us, “Chicago” is great). But man TWC is in trouble. Probably more trouble that they’ve ever been in. At least ‘Inglourious’ made a shit ton, but their first release of the year, “Piranha 3D” is now set for August? That does not bode well for their ongoing existence.
10:34: The Governator introduces “Avatar.” God, please go away for good. Apparently according to Arnold “Avadard” as he pronounces it, has a “fantastic” plot. Uh… also that reminds us when Cameron quoted some of the Na’vi language, we cracked up.
10:35 Mickey Rourke is up and intro’ing Best Actress. Carey Mulligan better win. And the winner is, Sandra Bullock for the “Blindside”! Whaat??? Oh God, HFP populist taste. Don’t worry, the Globes don’t matter. Of course they’re cuing her to leave with music, she doesn’t matter and she won’t get near Oscar.
10:39: Really want Matt Damon to win this. Sally Hawkins presents Best Actor for Comedy/Musical. And the winner is… Robert Downey Jr. for “Sherlock Holmes.” Uhh, ok, if you say so. Love the comment that his wife said, “Damon is gonna win this don’t bother with an acceptance speech.” Ok, RDJ is undeniably funny and charming and ‘Holmes’ was a surprisingly entertaining film, but Best Actor? Really?
10:47: Kate Winslet present Best Actor, Drama. And the winner goes to… Jeff Bridges for “Crazy Heart.” Can’t say we’re against that. It’s his year, his time. How can you tell? He gets a standing ovation. Not for his work in the film, it’s not like it’s the best performance ever, like many awards, this is a Best Career Achievement award. He’s been nominated for four Oscars and never won. So yeah, he’s due. Not that he doesn’t deserve this award, he’s great in the film, but just’ sayin’. Good speech though.
10:53: One more award left. The biggie, Best Drama. If you stuck around for this thing — this live blogging — we think you need help and or your own Golden Globe.
10: 55: Julia Roberts presents Best Picture. At this point, it’s probably “Avatard,” gross.
10: 56: And the Best Picture goes to… “Avatar.” Ugh, figures. Not a terrible movie, but certainly not a great one. Man, what a cheeseball, but it’s funny that Cameron acknowledges that the Golden Globes and the HFP is entertainment based, not about the art.
10:59: OK, we’re done. Meh. Just remember the Golden Globes don’t mean jackshit for the Oscars no matter how much every year someone says, “Will the Globes matter this year?” No.
11:02: Again, if you tuned in, thanks… we guess. Putting this down at the bottom because who really cares… Thank god for wine…