Golden Globes liveblog #6

[cleolinda]

The trailer for the Shopaholic movie makes me sad for feminism, much the way that Bride Wars did.

Jake Gyllenhaal! He's here to present the clip for Benjamin Button. I don't know that he actually was, but the way the show's cut together, it kind of looks like Tom Cruise shot Gyllenhaal an appreciative look. Hey, I'm with you, man. Oh, Alexandre Desplat did the score? I want to hear this now. (I haven't gotten to see the movie yet, sadly.)

Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore from--oh, I forgot, they are doing Grey Gardens, aren't they? Barrymore: "Good evening!" Barrymore and Lange: "AHAHAHAHA!" Yeah.

BEST MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

"Cranford"
"Bernard & Doris"
"John Adams"
"A Raisin in the Sun"
"Recount"

Diddy Sean Combs (A Raisin in the Sun) winks at the camera. I kept meaning to see Bernard and Doris and didn't and I'm pretty sure I have to now, if Ralph Fiennes is really playing a gay butler there. Denis Leary attempts to explain the plural of "hanging chad" to Kevin Spacey in the Recount clip. John Adams wins and Tom Hanks (whoa! Someone's looking rough there) accepts.

Here's Demi Moore in white (damn, y'all) expressing motherly pride for "Rue" ("Don't hunch! Shoulders back!").

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Tom Cruise, "Tropic Thunder"
Robert Downey Jr., "Tropic Thunder"
Ralph Fiennes, "The Duchess"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Doubt"
Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"

Big cheers for Tom Cruise, HUGE cheers for Robert Downey Jr. Hey, there's Ralph Fiennes! He has no hair! Must be filming Voldemort again. Heath Ledger wins. Both Cruise and RDJ look v. srs. Christopher Nolan gets up to accept in the face of a standing ovation. "In case he won, a brief scene was prepared of his amazing work," explains Moore. The audience laughs uneasily at "You complete me" (about ten seconds of the interrogation scene). I really wanted Heath Ledger to win, and to keep winning because I genuinely think he deserves it, and I was surprised by how affected I was by his death last year, and yet... the whole endless publicity cycle of Will He Win This Time? How Do You Feel, Beleaguered Costar #15? is making me really cynical. I don't know.

Comments

[mycenae.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or did RDJ look kinda pissed?

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

He mostly looked like he had just climbed out of a gutter.

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he did a little (and I have to say I wanted RDJ to win). But it could be from the fact in some cases Heath is going to win because he's dead. Which kinda pisses me off too, because I want him to win because he gave a brilliant performance not because Hollywood feels guilty.

[mycenae.livejournal.com]

Well, RDJ had his chance to tragically die young and win a posthumous award...

[kijikun.livejournal.com]

I'm glad he didn't.

I guess I'm just cynical. If I knew for sure that Heath's getting the awards because he deserved them (which hell yeah he did, the guy was brilliant) and not because of Hollywood's tendency to get a massive guilt attack when they didn't award them enough when they were alive.

[mycenae.livejournal.com]

I think you're overestimating the integrity of the Golden Globes in the first place.

[havocs-roman.livejournal.com]

LOL!

*snort* Sorry. Please carry on.

[serafina20.livejournal.com]

That's kind of what I was thinking. I'd forgotten he was nominated,but as soon as his name was called, I knew he was going to win no matter what because it's the Golden Globes. I think an Oscar isn't quite as certain as a GG, which was a gimmie.

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

I thought he seemed very twitchy all evening. A little hyperactive. Is he always like that? I'm a bit new to the RDJ bandwagon.

[gracefallson-me.livejournal.com]

i teared up and shed some. Heath was a REAL talent and its a shame he left us so soon.

[onthetide.livejournal.com]

Not gonna lie, I cried when Heath won.

[visceralvamp.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[onthetide.livejournal.com]

Is Colin drunk?

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

I think he's supposed to have cleaned up now.

[onthetide.livejournal.com]

So just a little nuts, then. ;)

[callmesyd.livejournal.com]

I hear you on the cynicism. At this point, the media's made such a huge deal out of it that whenever he does get awarded, it feels like they're just doing it because they're expecting a riot if they don't. Or like they're afraid they'll be viewed as horrible people if they don't. Something.

Not to say he wasn't motherfucking amazing in The Dark Knight, mind you, and he absolutely earned every single nod he ever gets, but... yeah.

[queenfaithie.livejournal.com]

Congrats for Heath, he deserved it.

[katzies.livejournal.com]

Loved Tom Cruise's "Yea, I don't know either" look!

[meatbridge.livejournal.com]

When Jake came out I thought he was going to present for Best Supporting Actor and I thought it would be sweet and heartfelt if he did. But, hey, Heath still won.

[gracefallson-me.livejournal.com]

i really like Maggie's gown.

[cassildra.livejournal.com]

I totally hear you on Ledger. I'm sad he died, but the whole cult status he's attaining is a little... idk, frightening I guess. Granted, I just saw TDK yesterday for the first time, and Ledger made me speechless, but--he's just an actor, y'all.

[katzies.livejournal.com]

I'm kinda torn. He was great in TDK and a talented actor so I'm thinking that now while they have the chance, throw everything they have at him. But it sometimes seems like people think he's just getting attention because he died.

[tiffanynichelle.livejournal.com]

Ok I'm glad I'm not the only one who wanted Heath to win because he actually deserved it. I hate the whole, he'll only win because he died. It completely ignores the work he died.

[bleakwinters.livejournal.com]

I want him to win. Badly. I want him to sweep every possible award. Unfortunately, you do think, 'how much is guilt trip?' because the year Crash won Best Picture, Brokeback Mountain didn't. Is this Hollywood going 'oh shit, fix fix fix'? =/

And yes, he deserved it entirely.

[efyyness.livejournal.com]

oh heath... :/

has anyone seen him in the movie Candy? he's really good. drug-addict...ya know.

i'm totally not watching the golden globes right now. my only source of who's winning n everything are your commentaries. haha. :D

[onthetide.livejournal.com]

He was fucking amazing in that movie. I had just seen it and fell in love with him as an actor when he died. :(

[artemis-archer.livejournal.com]

I'm really happy that Christopher Nolan accepted Heath's award. I don't understand what all the fuss was over who might accept it, Nolan was the most appropriate choice and I thought he made a really nice speech. Tbh I choked up at the standing ovation, it always gets me when people do that

[kellyrfineman.livejournal.com]

Drew and Jessica seem like they've become very, very good friends. Or lovers. I dunno.

Ralph Fiennes was excellent in Bernard & Doris. Can't recall if he was actually gay, but he definitely took to wearing Doris's clothes and makeup. Plus, he drank a lot.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

That's it, I'm seeing it NOW.

[caitlen.livejournal.com]

I completely agree re: Heath Ledger. Although I can't really say if he deserves to win because I haven't seen it. HOWEVER from what everyone else says, it's a really brilliant performance, but MAN, I'm getting cynical about it all. I mean, is he just consistently winning it because he died and the performance was thrust into the spotlight?

(And this from an Aussie, and a girl from Perth, Heath's home town. Sheesh.)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I actually saw a number of predictions that he would be nominated late in 2007--that is to say, before he died. So I don't think it's unreasonable that he's being nominated now; I think he would have been anyway, but it would have been a lot more lighthearted, kind of like when Johnny Depp was nominated for POTC. And now, we'll never know why people voted for him--because they thought he deserved it, or because they felt obligated.

[caitlen.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's completely unreasonable that he's being nominated, but I do agree that we'll never know why people voted for him. And even if he was nominated, would he have won as much as he had, therefore spurring on more nominations and gathering more momentum for more wins? Because we don't often see a comic book character portrayal being nominated as much as we've seen here, nor winning as much. Could be that good a performance though.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, having seen the movie, I really think it is. I really felt like I was watching the Joker instead of someone playing the Joker.

[symmetry.livejournal.com]

I really wanted Heath Ledger to win, and to keep winning because I genuinely think he deserves it, and I was surprised by how affected I was by his death last year, and yet... the whole endless publicity cycle of Will He Win This Time? How Do You Feel, Beleaguered Costar #15? is making me really cynical. I don't know.

This sums up how I feel about the situation exactly. Him winning this awards don't have the same impact anymore since the media has completely run the topic into the ground lately. And that was the weirdest clip for them to show!

[bindabites.livejournal.com]

ITA with your statement about the movies Shopaholic and Bride Wars making you sad for feminism. good to know i'm not the only girl who feels that way.

[shocolate.livejournal.com]

Ralph Fiennes is bald for Oedipus at teh National Theatre...

[sherrilina.livejournal.com]

I'm still so disappointed that they ruined yet another book to film adaptation from the outset by American-izing "Shopaholic"--it makes no sense, especially since they already had the precedent of Bridget Jones Diary to show that quirky British comedies can sell! *rolleyes*

"Feminist" movies in hollywood

[katchin.livejournal.com]

"The trailer for the Shopaholic movie makes me sad for feminism, much the way that Bride Wars did."

Yep, and the trailer for "He's just not that into you." Apparently us women like to shoe shop and wait around for boys to call us. Then when we "finally" get married, we turn into catty bridezillas. Glad to know hollywood thinks so highly of women.

[anolinde.livejournal.com]

the whole endless publicity cycle of Will He Win This Time? How Do You Feel, Beleaguered Costar #15? is making me really cynical.

I'm really glad Heath Ledger won the award, because let's face it - he fucking owned the summer of 2008, but I totally agree with you about the Beleaguered Costars. I can definitely see his fellow Batman actors, not to mention awards committees, getting tired of Ledger because He Has To Win. I feel like he's going to get an Oscar nom, because otherwise the Academy will look bad, but in retaliation the rest of The Dark Knight might be snubbed.