Golden Globes, part 11

[cleolinda]

Y'all, I am going to have to start strength-training for the Oscars if I'm getting tired now.

"Please welcome former Cecil B. DeMille recipient Dustin Hoffman!" Hoffman threatens an Ishtar 2 before presenting a clip from Little Miss Sunshine.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Steven Spielberg!" Yea, he did come down from on high to present Best Director. Clint Eastwood is nominated against himself. Winner: Scorsese. I told you De Niro had placed calls to important associates in Jersey. "This is--this is--oh, my--a heck of a time." He starts talking about restoring Night of the Hunter and Paths of Glory and The Red Shoes, which is so Scorsese for you: America's Film Professor, as someone once said. He mentions the original, "Infernal Affairs, in the great Asian cinema tradition.... third picture together with Leo, Matt Damon, great actor, Mark Wahlberg, amazing... I wanted to make a film in the old tradition of the studio gangster pictures, not Angels with Dirty Faces, Devils with Dirty Faces..." I'm running out of time, but you get the idea. I love him.

Best Actor, Musical or Comedy. Reese Witherspoon in butter yellow (eek). Nominated: Sacha Baron Cohen, Aaron Eckhart, Will Ferrell with an impressive fro, Johnny Depp (not pictured). Sacha Baron Cohen wins. "Warren? Where is he? It's 'Wa wa WEE wa!'" Wonderfully British, Cohen talks about the "dark side of America, by which I mean the anus and testicles of my costar." His costar raises a glass of wine to him, while everyone in the audience howls. His speech, focusing almost exclusively on that scene, ends with, "Kenneth, if it were not for that rancid bubble... I would not be here today. And thank you to all the Americans who have not sued me yet!"

Comments

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I love Scorcese. He could have talked for the rest of the night and I would have been giddy. I bet he'd be a hell of a lot of fun to have at a dinner party.

[luna-k.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy Marty finally won something. It's about fucking time, y'all.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I seriously hope he wins an Oscar this year. The buzz is sounding really good for it and if he wins his very first Oscar this year I'm pretty sure the roof will come down on the theater. Hollywood desperately wants him to win, and I think they're going to give it to him this time around.

[luna-k.livejournal.com]

He just HAS TO WIN this year. HAS TO!!!

[obigrrl.livejournal.com]

your icon has amused me through this entire telecast LOL

what's it from?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It's from the trailer for Meet The Robinsons. (http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/meettherobinsons/) Seriously, the best part of the entire scene is what he says. HEE. :)

[neveth.livejournal.com]

I agree. When I realized he was actually saying things I nearly died of cute.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, for some reason, I think Hollywood has not wanted to give it to him, and I can't figure out why. Who did he piss off, exactly? I mean, they'd rather give it to Roman Polanski, who can't even step foot in the country to accept it? They'd rather give it to Eastwood, who already had at least one at the time? (Keep in mind that I'm running on the assumption that the Oscars do not work on "the best work wins" logic.) I think they've passed him over so many, many times that it's actually getting really embarrassing, particularly after the last two losses, and it's to the point that they don't want Scorsese to lose three times in one decade. Not even "We want him to win," just "It makes us look bad if he loses again." And I cannot for the life of me figure out why--he works tirelessly for film restoration, as far as I know he's a personable, professional, hard-working guy, easy to get along with, enthusiastic, what have you. What have they got against him?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

See, I think it was less that they didn't want him to win as much as they always thought he'd win next time. "We can give it to this person who's never won before -- Scorcese will always get another chance, right?" The problem is they've been shafting him for so long to give awards to others that they've skipped over his best work and are now going to have to give it for work that's not up to his best work. (Of course, Scorcese's worst work is still better than 95% percent of the directors out there, so ... *shrugs*)

I always feel like I have to defend Polanski's win for The Pianist, which is still one of my favorite movies. I mean, okay, he's a scumbag who can't enter the country to accept. That didn't stop that movie from being the best work all year. (I can rant for a good fifteen minutes or more about how it can be possible that a film can have the best director, the best actor, and the best screenplay of the year and NOT be the best picture. C'mon, Academy, who you kiddin'?)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I will agree that Polanski deserved it. But just knowing voter logic, I can't believe they didn't just say, "Well, it's a good year to just give it to Scorsese."

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

I was really impressed with The Pianist when I finally saw it. What struck me was the objectivity. It was so unflinching it was scary.

I think the only Scorsese I've seen is Taxi Driver, which was really good. I was pleased with myself when I read that my favorite shot was HIS favorite shot, too (the pan to the empty hallway after Travis makes a phone call).

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Oh wait! I saw Gangs of New York too and didn't really like it at all. I fell asleep.

[brittastic14.livejournal.com]

yah it was kind of boring not gonna lie.

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

I totally thought that Polanski deserved it for The Pianist, though I love, love, love, love, love Scorsese. Gangs of New York was absolutely god awful - it was way, way, way too uneven. I always thought that the reason he was nominated for that movie was because 1)he totally should have had like 3 Oscars already and 2)it was sort of a tribute to him actually finishing Gangs of New York, which was a huge, huge, huge struggle in and of itself. Quite frankly, prior to The Departed, I thought Scorsese's last great work was GoodFellas. The rest was....painful. The Aviator was good, but I expected a hell of a lot more out of Marty. Had it been done by another, lesser director, it would have been my fav movie of 2004.

Sorry...I'm a geeky film student, so I'm all crazy.

[lucky-guess.livejournal.com]

Don't forget Chiwetel Ejiofor for Kinky Boots!

[alliemolloy.livejournal.com]

Loooooooooved that movie!

[notemily.livejournal.com]

Every time they said his name, I was like "Yeah! Woo! Go Chiwetel!" and my mom was like "Chewy-who?"

[lucky-guess.livejournal.com]

I had to IMDB him to make sure I got the spelling right. ;)

And Icon Love!!

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

The irony is that Scorsese is probably finally going to win his Oscar for what is easily his least interesting work in years.

The man should be a three-time Oscar winner by now. Taxi Driver. Raging Bull. GoodFellas. If he wins for this weak fuckin' remake it's very much 'Okay okay, it's your turn, here's the Oscar.'

[riverchild.livejournal.com]

That's what I'm thinking. If awards season hadn't been largely a farce for years by now, I might even get worked up about it.

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

Better than if he'd won for Gangs of New York. That movie was god-awful. I actually cried once it was over because I was so disappointed. I actually think The Departed is better than his recent work. I mean, he really should have 3 Oscars like you said, but I feel like the last great thing he did was GoodFellas. The Departed did make me happy again.

But this is totally going to be a "dude, we fucked up years ago - here's an Oscar on us 'cause you totally deserve it and we're just dumb."

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally don't think he would've deserved it for Gangs, either. I did like Kundun and The Aviator.

Then again, I didn't think Eastwood deserved to win for Million Dollar Baby — the movie he should've won for was Mystic River. Sometimes I think it's all bullshit politics.

[enid-keaner.livejournal.com]

Oh, I liked The Aviator too. But I expected so much more out of Marty, so my perception of it is a bit different, I suppose. If that movie had been made by a lesser director, it would have been my favorite of 2004 - I would have thought of it as a 4 star movie. But it was Marty, whom I respect so much, so I consider it a barely 3 star movie. I think he got way too bogged down in the look of the film and the technology - there were issues with other things. It's like, I knew Marty could do much better than he did.

Eastwood...I...dunno. I saw Mystic River twice and I didn't want it to win the Oscar. I was fond of it and all, but I was quite pleased that Peter Jackson won. Though I hate fantasy film, I thought that Jackson did some extraordinary work with LOTR and I think that in the hands of someone else, those films would have been...horrific to say the least.

I'm a geeky film student, so talking about movies is seriously like my favorite thing to do. It's so bad though. I so need to quit.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Is it just me or are they playing people off stage early this year? That guy from Dreamgirls barely got anything out before the band started up, for crying out loud.

[sorcha-chasdubh.livejournal.com]

Maybe they're trying to make up time from Warren's 3-hour speech.....

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Heh. I don't know ... they always give the Demille Award winner about eight hours worth of leeway in their speech, which leaves everybody else with twenty-seven seconds (according to what they just told Shonda Rhimes). I don't remember who it was a few years ago who finished their Demille Award speech in only a couple of minutes, but I was so freakin' grateful.

[alpheratz.livejournal.com]

Reese Witherspoon's dress is absolutely vile. She must really be upset.

[sorcha-chasdubh.livejournal.com]

She looked pretty thin, too.

[agentsculder.livejournal.com]

As much as I like Scorsese, and wish him all the best for The Departed , I keep figuring somehow the Oscars will find a way to screw him over. I would bet if you were able to count Oscar ballots and see who voted, you'd find actors have voted for him consistently, particularly ones he has worked with. But for whatever reason, the old guard who makes up the lion's share of the Academy voters doesn't like him, and hasn't ever voted for him.

I just don't see them suddenly changing their minds and giving the man his LONG overdue Oscar. They'd rather give Clint Eastwood another one.

[sorcha-chasdubh.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, Gerry.....:)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

This is totally my theory--I just can't figure out why they don't like him.

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

Well, whatever it is, it's pathetic.

This time...

[xander77.livejournal.com]

It's a freaking remake. Lifetime achievment - sure thing. Last movie - naturally. You know what - Gangs of New York had some good moments, if you ignored the lead heroes (as opposed to the lead villain, :love:)

But seriously. Don't give the Oscar to a freaking remake.

[ohsobulletproof.livejournal.com]

Sacha Baron Cohen. licks.

[smilevampy.livejournal.com]

Icon love-age!

[brittastic14.livejournal.com]

I'm sooo glad Sacha Baron Cohen won, I thought that movie was quite funny and had a valid point. It just took me two times at the theatre to get it because the first time I saw it I didn't know how to react.

I also think that Sacha is quite dashing as him regular self, and isnt he an item with the redhead form Wedding Crashers?

[elysian-dreams.livejournal.com]

You forgot to mention the unpronouncable Chiwetel Ejiofor was nominated against Cohen for Kinky Boots, which was an amazing movie! If you haven't seen it you should; a true story about a small town shoe factory in Britain that changes markets to stay in business. They decide to make "boots for women...that are men; Two-and-a-half feet of irresistible tubular sex." A great movie, and Chiwetel was amazing in it, way more so than Cohen, in my opinion, and Chiwetel did it without offending anyone or getting sued!