Golden Globe-ing It. Live Blog
Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 6:25PM 
6:15 Welcome to the ???nth annual Golden Globes Live Blog. Now with more fever, saltines and ginger ale. I am sick so it is a rare Golden Globes without booze. Which should be illegal. (How to survive the Gervais Smug-a-Thon without a Vodka-Thon?) The first vision that greeted me was George Clooney of whom I am currently bored with (It'll pass), the second vision was Octavia Spencer and Melissa McCarthy gabbing silently. At one point Melissa even cupped her hand to tell Octavia a secret.
I would've voted for you since I wasn't nominated!"
Maybe?
6:31 Jessica Chastain all giggly and Celia-esque while talking to E! reporters. She even did cute little spins and hand flips to demonstrate her Givenchy. But the camera people and booth barkers at E! never ever take their meds. They pan up and down. They shift focus. They put one celeb in a tiny box while another poses. They 360º it. My head spins. And it's not from the sick.
6:39 Sarah Michelle Gellar let her two year old choose her dress. Way to armor yourself against the fashion police reviews. SMG's idea of good date night is IHOP. The more you know!
6:40 Diane Lane looking like a movie star as usual. A movie star without movies, unfortunately.
6:47 My cat is howling. He is not impressed with celebrities or my sweatshirt and sweatpants and ginger ale ensemble. The other day he stopped in his tracks to watch the TV for a full 10 minutes which has not happened since Microcosmos. What paralyzed him with interest? A PBS show Birds of the God - Birds of Paradise.
6:49 And no Monty has not told me what he thought of any of the Oscar movies since Bridesmaids He is like the Haley's comet of Oscar pundits.
6:52 Rooney Mara is truly terrible at being interviewed. But then Ryan Seacrest is asking her whether she kept her "intimate piercings" from Dragon Tattoo so it would take a sassy pro to deflect that and own the situation. She merely says 'some of them. I didn't want to have to repierce'. No no noRooney. You don't answer those questions. You deflect that either sassily, mysteriously, flirtatiously or... if all else fails, a look that could kill. We know you have the latter in your arsenal.
7:07 Bérénice Bejo has not seen The Artist in three months. #uselessredcarpetconfessions.
7:09 Commercial break. Starting to feel a bit better. Having fish for dinner. Cat howling to commence again in 5...4...3...
7:15 Charlize Theron needs to give every young starlet lessons in red carpet banter. She is so excellent at it -- even with laryngitis. MORE with Theron, Moore, Pfeiffer, Streep and the lot of 'em.
Showing real personality makes the enviable luck of massive fame and wealth so much more tolerable! On her laryngitis she said she 'wanted to choose a voice that was right for the dress!'
7:22 Watching Julianne Moore exits a limo was the sexiest thing I have seen yet tonight. The bone structure. The cleavage. The hair. But mostly... that woman.
It's like something out of an Old Hollywood epic or a erotic neo noir... or at least a really really expensive perfume commercial.
7:33 So the camera was showing Kate Winslet (looking amazing) and the reporter was talking to Kate Beckinsale... "so Kate..." Very disorienting to hear Underworld discussed while staring at Kate Winslet. From my knowledge Winslet has never played a death dealing pointy teethed supernatural creature.
7:36 While "interviewing" Michelle Williams Ryan Seacrest said "you essentially BECAME Marilyn" Funny. She still looks like Michelle Williams to me. Wouldn't it be so weird if you did BECOME the person you played in a biopic. Poor Meryl. She'd be Sybil by now. Or even Billy Milligan.
7:42 Lea Michele was just asked what movies she's been watching/loving "My Week With Marilyn, Iron Lady, and We Need To Talk About Kevin"... guess she's boning up on the Best Actress category. Ryan also says (redundantly) "it's like you knew right where the monitor was." Duh Ryan. Have you never met Lea Michele?
7:45 Emma Stone quickly makes herself scarce because Madonna is behind her. Or because she can't suffer Ryan Seacrest a moment longer; claims the former with her mouth but eyes scream the latter.
7:46 Madonna is VERY sassy tonight. She even winked at someone off camera and called Ryan Seacrest's questions "predictable."
7:52 Glenn Close is talking with a reporter about her Best Song nomination instead of her Best Actress nomination. She really has been covering all her bases this year. Get that Oscar... who cares about what's engraved on it. I think Glenn would take a "Best Looping" trophy if they offered them.
Now on to...
THE SHOW
"So where was I? Nervous? Don't be. This isn't about you."
8:05 "The Golden Globes are just like all the Oscar only without all the esteem." This is a pretty funny opening monologue though Elton John did not seem to like the Jodie Foster's Beaver joke. To Jodie's credit she played along well. She's A OK. [there's supposed to be a Jodie Foster visual here. Humor me.]
8:07 Of course they have Johnny Depp introduce Hugo. You couldn't have him presenting a film that didn't have some sort of glossy twee overlay. Johnny we're sorry. won't you come on home. we worry. please come on home. ♫
8:09 SUPPORTING ACTOR goes to... CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER, The Beginners
Lovely speech again though more verbose than that BFCA win. "Religiously full martini" What a description. There's also a shout out to Ewan McGregor as a scene stealer. This is funny in a sly way since Ewan McGregor is a ridiculously generous co-star and other people are always benefitting from just that.
8:13 TV ACTRESS COMEDY goes to... LAURA DERN, Enlightened.
Yes! I only saw the pilot but it suggested that more brilliance would surely follow. Laura Dern is in sparkly green. She looks like a skinny Christmas tree with THE FACE up top.
8:17 MISS GOLDEN GLOBE
I love this moment so much every year for its sheer nepotistic ridiculousness. Here's Julianne Moore's face calling Andie MacDowell's daughter "talented."
TALENTED!
To prove it Miss Golden Globe stands and smiles nervously at the crowd while Mama Ageless Andie blows a kiss.
8:27 BEST MINISERIES to Downton Abbey
BEST ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES to Kate Winslet in Mildred Pierce
A lot of "me" in Kate Winslet's speech again but I think people are over resenting her awards-hunger, aren't they? I think we're back at still waters after the backlash and the backlash against he backlash. Then the great settling came again.
But notice they played music over the end of her speech. The "talk as long as you want pass" always comes with an expiration date. Kate's was Spring 2009. Speed it up a bit!
8:35 Supposedly during the boring part where the HFPA talks about themselves they had closeups of like three of my favorite women. That either happened or it didn't and the Boyfriend is just giving me a hard time about my divided attentions (tv. laptop in perpetual tug of war)
8:37 BEST ACTOR IN SOMETHING Kelsey Grammar in Boss.
BEST TV SERIES DRAMA goes to... Homeland
One of my only correct guesses there, Homeland winning.
8:45 BEST SCORE TO LUDOVIC BOURCE for The Artist
"I'm sorry I'm French..." (as speech kickoff). I think that might come back to haunt him when he returns to the Mother Land.
8:49 BEST SONG to MADONNA for "Masterpiece" from W.E.
Nick wrote the funniest thing about this song earlier today and while it's true it's not her finest moment as a songwriter or lyricist at least we got Madonna on stage. This is why the Globes will always be better than the BFCA: they don't care about predicting the Oscars (Madonna is not even eligible) so they get to have their own personality. Yes, it's a starfucking personality. But it's a personality!
9:02 Oops uh. Where were we?
9:02 IDIS ELBRA won for Luther
9:03 BEST ACTRESS IN A HILARIOUS COMEDY, Michelle Williams for My Week With Marilyn
She thanks lots of people and especially her daughter for listening to bedtime stories in Marilyn's voice. Sweet.
This speech prompted both my vote for tweet of the night from Aaron Fullerton...
teehee. And a new poll.
POLL QUESTION via Michelle Williams
9:10 BEST ACTOR IN A TV SOMETHING... Peter Dinklage in Game of Thrones
He's so great.
9:15 ANIMATED FILM to Steve Spielberg for The Adventures of Tintin
But people should really not win prizes for hiding Jamie Bell's light (face) under a bushel (cgi)
9:16 commercials.
9:25 BEST ACTRESS IN A TV SOMETHING for Jessica Lange in American Horror Story.
Which I did predict since as she stated in her acceptance speech, the HFPA have always been generous with her. And most awards bodies have in point of fact. She's magnetized for trophies hence all that protective black dress armor. Trophies flying at her every time she works!
9:29 I should note that that prize was preceded by sung banter about "it's an honor to be nominated blah blah blah by Felicity Huffman (looking smashing) and William H Macy. And there was a reaction shot of Michelle Pfeiffer while Jessica Lange talked about the difficulties of finding good scripts. Hmmmm.
9:31 Madonna, presenting makes a funny about Ricky Gervais that I would share with you if my fingers could move swiftly enough. In a well timed edited he ran across the stage to escape her. Madonna gives them another moment. BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM to A Separation. YES.
9:35 BEST ACTRESS TV DRAMA for ... Claire Danes Homeland
I just watched the first two episodes of this today -- cramming for the Globes -- and wowie. She's very very strong in it with a fascinating (so far) character. But you knew this already. I'm always behind the curve with those damn pay cable shows. I only have so many hours in the day and I don't even see enough movies!
9:42 Emily Blunt introduces Bridesmaids. I feel like the whole world wants her to be in another comedy classic. Am I right? That career is just wasting away. Not what we thought it would be post Prada.
9:44 BEST ACTOR COMEDY for Matt LeBlanc for Episodes
He's playing himself. Tina Fey makes a joke about being nothing like Liz Lemon "I can't think of any examples right now". Oh, Tina. We love.
9:48 SUPPORTING ACTRESS Octavia Spencer for The Help
Table ten! "OCTAVIIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" someone shouts as she makes this cute little girl hunched downward glance, receiving the applause. Melissa McCarthy seems very very very happy about this win which brings us full circle to that first sentence. Maybe Melissa would've voted for her if she was an HFPA member!
9:55 Sidney Poiteir takes the stage which means it's time for the Cecil B DeMille prize. Poitier is making every word sentence length. He knows we need a bathroom break.
10:00 The Golden Globes are asking a lot of me with all this Driving Miss Daisy up in my living room. Michelle Pfeiffer is right there in that room people. Show some fucking respect. Robbed she was. Robbed!
10:04 Oh, I see what Sidney Poitier was doing. He was playing Morgan Freeman in a biopic on the stage. big spaces between words.
10:05 Thankfully he's now sped back up to normal speed.
10:11 I wasted that entire long commercial break scanning Twitter for lolz.
10:12 ANGELINA JOLIE ON STAGE. She's dressed like a superhero.
10:14 Best Director goes to Martin Scorsese, Hugo.
I mean this with all respect but when are the lifetime achievement awards for Marty Scorsese going to end? He's like the fucking Cher of awards season. This farewell tour will go on and on.
10:20 Best Comedy goes to... MODERN FAMILY
The speech is in two languages with Sofia delighting the crowd with her Spanish. Reaction shots indicate that everyone is now drunk and ready for the afterparties by there are still 40 minutes of this left.
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That she introduced War Horse, I probably kinda deserved. The Globes are keeping me real.
And also this happened: Best Comedy Actor Jean Dujardin who was told that he would never make it onscreen because his face was too big and expressive. Um? That was the dumbest agent of all time. All the biggest movie stars have giant expressive faces. If you're child's head is abnormally large, particularly in the eyes and the mouth region, enroll them in acting classes right quick like.
He can't help it that his eyebrows are independent!
10:33 "Please welcome the evil Colin Firth" Ricky Gervais says he punches blind kitten. okayyyyy.
10:36 BEST ACTRESS Meryl Streep for The Iron Lady
They just bleeped out Meryl Streep because she said the naughty brown word. As per usual Meryl aces her acceptance speech with a generosity so few people can muster. I mean shout outs to Adepere Oduye AND Mia Wasikowska? Meryl is god.
10:59 Sorry I disappeared. I'm not sure what happened other than that my heart sank when George Clooney took another huge stride towards Oscar #2 when Brad doesn't even have #1 and Brad was better than Clooney TWICE this year. Sigh. Best Actor for George Clooney in The Descendants. He has a few beautiful moments but even the voiceover is just playing it safe tossed off.
And finally BEST PICTURE Drama to The Descendants. Boo.
11:05 Finally as I say goodnight -- I'm sick so I really should turn in though WE'LL DISCUSS ALL THIS TOMORROW AGAIN.
But in closing I must say that Miss Golden Globe, i.e. Andie Macdowell Jr., really seemed to be taking her role seriously. TALENTED. Did you see the way she was guiding the stars on the stage with her arms? There was no mistaking where she wanted them to go and sometimes those Miss Golden Globes are just glassy-eyed zombies. Direct that stage traffic, Andie Jr.!
GOOD NIGHT.
Reader Comments (147)
Oh, dear god, Mary Louise...
SO frumpy!
She is owning that stage though. Stupid music cue ruined everything though.
Should "I'm Meryl Fucking Streep" and theyll turn off the music.
Did Meryl Streep just say something about giving money to birds?
How totally amazing does Jane Fonda look!!!! Get back to work and share your brilliance with the world.
Whoa, whose best drama actress speech was more embarrassing: Meryl's or Natalie's?
Nat, why don't you think Scorsese deserve the award? That's the problem of being the greatest American filmmaker: if you win anything, it's lifetime achievement. Of course the other directors were also good, but it's impossible not to measure a person's history. Maybe for the golden globes, it was something positive. For you, it is negative. Either way, the present work (namely HUGO) is hardly being considered. I'm not entirely disagreeing with you, I just want to understand your opinion better.
Remembering Mia? That's classy. Too bad the dress was awful.
Ugh. Viola Davis should have won!
Can't believe Clooney just mentioned Fassy's cock on his speech!
The shout-out in Meryl's speech to Adepere Oduye and especially Clooney's amazing tribute to Fassbender have been the highlights for me recently.
Nat, why no mention of Woody's win and Nicole Kidman presenting it? Kidman looked gorgeous *phew* NK should be in Woody's next film, not the one he is currently shooting but the one after.
Brad :(
The HFPA spread the wealth around for the Oscar sweepstakes.
On the movies I guessed better than Nathaniel!!!
The Descendants wins. Major blah, really hope it doesn't repeat. Payne, what the fuck happened to you, man? Shit, your ass used to be beautiful! >:(
All these trailers and ads and commercials for SMASH better pay the fuck off! It better be amazing for hounding me so hard all night.
Poor Glenn Close
Viola you'll make a comeback at SAG
Lange is awesome, too bad it was for TV, while Streep looked on at her old rival
Meryl rightfully deserved this Lead Actress award. Such a class act, all those thoughtful shout outs. Onward to Oscar. Streep rocks so bad!
Although I'm sad that Viola didn't win, I am still happy for Meryl. And although that was the messiest speech I've ever seen her give, and it didn't help her Oscar chances much (which I know she could tell since she got upset when she couldn't read off her paper - "Damn, Viola's speech was so good!"), I loved the shout outs she gave to the Pariah actress and Mia. That was so nice.
Viola has the Critics Choice Award, and Meryl and Michelle both have Globes now. Who will get the SAG? I think Viola will. We'll see. Definitely made things interesting though.
But ugh @ Brad losing. I'm so sad. So so sad. Pretty sure he's not getting the Oscar now.
Clooney's work in The Descendants is some of his weakest in a decade. I'm not kidding. I never bought him in that role. Pitt or Fassy should have had that in the BAG.
Denny -- right? Felicity won me over there and I have been notoriously resistant to her charms.
Mark -- i'm really starting to be annoyed with SMASH. I want it so hard and it just never comes on. I feel like it's been saying "come watch me" for a year now with NO airing. boo.
Not going to comment on Clooney because *gulp* I actually like him...
But can I just say, I was reallllly hoping for a Janet McTeer surprise win and was probably the only person disappointed when Spencer won? I thought she was good, yeah, but no where near as good as McTeer, who I think is divine.
I thought Meryl's speech was a little awkward; Helen Mirren was wonderful as always and looked GORGEOUS; Loved the little kick Colin Firth (swoon) gave Ricky G; and the Modern Family speech cracked me up.
Meryl has the drama Globe and a standing ovation! She has the NYFCC as well. I believe this could be it. She has Harvey as well. Well, she's simply overdue and the true lead in a baity role. Whoever says the film's not well-liked, it has better metacritic scores than Bullock's The Blind Side and it has Meryl finally winning drama actress again! BTW, last time Meryl won this was for SOPHIE'S CHOCIE! And I think Meryl has the SAG as well. The Help will get its wins - Octavia and ensemble. I think it's time for Meryl!!!!
Wow- tonight's wins were deeply unsatisfying. Terrible speeches and tons of sucking up to Harvey Weinsten. I say scrap the lot-- Brad, Viola, ____, and Jessica for the win at the Oscars.
@zooey- Meryl fans say that every year and every year she looses. I'm only calling a Meryl win if she takes the BAFTA. If she misses there the Oscar will probably be Davis's
I don't think Glenn could've looked more devastated
I do think that it will be Clooney, Streep, Plummer and Spencer come Oscar time. But I hope to be proved wrong. I like first-timers, with at lest 1 repeater winning. But that's just me.
Though, I do hope that if Meryl finally wins another Oscar, the Academy do cool it with nominating her every year for a few years at least.. She's a great actress, but still.......
At the very least Jessica Tandy was on par with Pffeifer that year.
I was happy about Marty's win. If the director of The Artist had won it would have been silly as he said at the BCFA.
zoo Streep isn't winning SAG
So, so happy for Meryl. She was right, though---that was a tough category and there were SO many incredible female performances this year...so generous and sweet she acknowledged Mia and Adepero (sp?)...really classy.
...I will agree that her speech was a little manic. She seemed a bit drunk, lol. But she is always charming, even if she is a bit inebriated.
Streep was disoriented because she didn't have her glasses and couldn't read the speech she had prepared. Otherwise I think she would have thank the director and Jim Broadbent specifically.
Nate, you can see the first episode of SMASH online beginning January 16.
I know they're pushing Katharine McPhee and don't mention she was second place on American Idol but why do I want to root for Megan Hilty instead who I guess is supposed to be the evil competitor of McPhee on the show? The thing is McPhee was a stuck up prima donna on American Idol and I've disliked her since then.
best choices are ( in order)
1. best lead drama actress to dear meryl( best actress ever ) .her performances is astonshing, a must- see
2. best foreign language film to a separation( as an iranian i am so proud of award) ive been in love with this movie scince last febuary(2011)
3.best comedy-musical actress to michelle willams she is best actress of her generation
I love how Michelle Williams always takes Busy Phillips to these things, and gave her a shout out too :)
Oh, by the way, Octavia said that Melissa McCarthy is one of her best friends, so that explains that.
(Which is super cute.) :P
"Jessica Biel-We have a winner for least becoming dress, that thing actually made it look like she has three breasts."
@joel6 - The announcer did say she'll be seen next in the Total Recall remake; maybe she's playing that Martian hooker with three tits!
Harvey Weinstein makes me ill. (Unctuous doesn't even begin to describe that Machiavelli.)
"A lot of "me" in Kate Winslet's speech again but I think people are over resenting her awards-hunger, aren't they? I think we're back at still waters after the backlash and the backlash against he backlash."
Why on earth should Kate Winslet be condemned for wanting an award? She is no different than any other person who shows up at these award shows? Why focus on her? Because the British was nasty over her Oscar win, a few years ago?
Why on earth was "DOWNTON ABBEY" nominated for Best Miniseries? It's a television series. Once again, "MILDRED PIERCE" was robbed.
OMG, I don't want Clooney to win! SAG better give it to Brad...I'm hoping Oscar isn't that in love with the movie and goes more for Moneyball.
Nathaniel -- Speaking of Clooney, do you remember if someone who didn't win the Best Actor award from NY, LA or NSFC went on to win the Best Actor Oscar the same year?
Ell-agreed. If she somehow makes it past the notoriously clique-y music branch, I think she wins Best Song-the actors branch is going to come out full force for her, and I'm starting to feel bad for her. I'm hoping she makes it over Swinton for the fifth slot.
Soooo happy for Meryl Streep!
8 Golden Globes boys! Chapeau!
Still waiting for Oscar, though... and let's be clear, GG doesn't mean much... I mean, she has won 7 before and she's still at Oscar #2 so... last word is not said, but of course this helps! =)
She was drunk, wasn't she? And she was the worst dressed. As ever I's say....
But c'mon she's Meryl Streep and we forgive her... ahaha
Great speech, though... not one of her best, but I've loved it anyway! So funny, generous and real! Go Meryl!
Ps. Loved Tilda's hairstyle!
Ps2. Clooney??? Really??? Wasn't it Brad's year? Finger crossed for Sag and Oscars..
Rosie -- i believe that DOWNTON ABBEY got away with that classificaiton because it was a) short and b) not necessarily intended for a second season as i recall...
but it was such a monster success it is now just a tv series obviously so i do think it would only be fair to make it compete in drama series next year.
Terris -- well, i think it was supposed to be Brad's year until the whole world got all hawaiian and decided that Descendants was the new Citizen Kane even though it's totally mediocre! GRRRRR
still smiling after re-reading this yet again. fun night!
Scorsese won director fair and square. "Hugo" is one of his best films. He'd be winning for this if not for "The Departed."
Anybody else loved Evan Rachel Wood's "Woo!" shout out to Jamie Bell during Spielberg's Tin Tin speech? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hUpry7_YZs