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Sunday
Jan112015

The 72nd Golden Globes

We'll discuss in greater detail tomorrow but for tonight a skeletal live blog to remind us of what happened when

8:00 An opening monologue to intimidate all future Globe hosts. Amy & Tina are on fire with just about every joke landing, some more comfortably than others. Jessica Chastain sums up the reactions to the Bill Cosby joke below. [more after the jump]

Jessica reacting to a particularly daring Bill Cosby joke. Tina & Amy really went there
Emma reactions to a BIG EYES joke aimed at her gif via Vulture

8:12 Jennifer Aniston and Benedict Cumberbatch present the first award.

Best Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) 

Lovely speech ending by thanking his wife for everything "...including our adorable above average children" 

8:14 Dakota Johnson and her Fifty Shades of Grey sexpot present next. He seems as surprised as we are by the winner!

Best Supporting Actress, Miniseries Joanne Froggat (Downton Abbey)

She seems to understand that it was her sad rape storyline that did it with a speech about hearing from victims. 

8:20 The commercial break includes a shot of Julianne Moore & Amy Adams together. Sadly, I failed to capture the moment well. 

Best TV Movie or Mini-Series, Fargo (FX)

Jennifer Lopez, in a dress that is warring between being showgirl slutty and caftan goddess presented that one. 

8:40 Bryan Cranston and Kerry Washington presents TV Comedy/Musical categories

Best Actress, TV Series Comedy/Musical, Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin)
Best Series, TV Series Comedy/Musical, Transparent (Amazon)

Love that show, Transparent. Need to watch Jane, obvis. The speeches are very emotional. Hadn't previously read much about the making of Transparent but apparently it's autobiographical

8: 43 Commercial Break 

8:47 Katey's favorite movie St. Vincent introduced by Melissa McCarthy. We had fun with that one on the last podcast. Sienna Miller and Vince Vaughn (looking very uncomfortable) present next.

Best Score, Johan Johannson (The Theory of Everything)

8:50 Surprise presenter PRINCE.

 

 

The audience freaks out. Especially Viola Davis and Alisson Janney.

Best Original Song. "Glory" Common & John Legend (Selma)

I love this song. I've been listening to the live version of this non-stop since that Selma luncheon (which I posted for you) 

8:55 Commercial break: Amy Adams talking to Jake G. George Clooney being goofy with his program at his table. 

9:00 Seth Myers and Katie Holmes and the Supporting Actors are giving good face to the camera. Alan Cumming in a skin colored tux

Supporting Actor in a Movie or Mini-Series for TV, Matt Bomer (The Normal Heart)

Matt seems very very nervous. Plays beautiful tribute to Mark Ruffalo "the best scene partner"

9:03 Clive Owen introduces a clip from The Theory of Everything. Ricky Gervais doing what Ricky Gervais does.

Actress in a Movie Comedy/Musical,  Amy Adams (Big Eyes)

9:08 That was a surprise, wasn't it? Going to commercial break Viola and Oprah are totally holding hands like besties. 

9:18 I missed some stuff. Salma Hayek and Kevin Hart presented Animated film. Then Kate Hudson a clip from Into the Woods. Why are all the presenters from the 'I was most famous in the late 90s' pool? STOP IT, HFPA.  

Best Animated Feature How To Train Your Dragon 2
Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette (Boyhood

9:25 Patricia Arquette's speech is read from a piece of paper which is unforgivable under most circumstance but it's Patty and she calls herself a nerd and she is wearing glasses and she says lovely things so we'll let it slide this once.

9:32 Kristin Wiig and Bill Hader, The Skeleton Twins themselves. 

Best Screenplay, Inarritu & Team (Birdman)

9:33 Jack Black introduces a clip for Boyhood 

9:36 Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin make jokes about a stereotype that men aren't funny. Get it. Haha. Can't wait for their Netflix show.

Best Actor Comedy/Musical, Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent)

9:43 Colin Farrell and Lupita Nyong'o in awesome gladness. And Adrien Brody and Kate Beckinsale

Best Foreign Film, Leviathan (Russia)
Best Actress, Movie or Mini-Series, Maggie Gyllenhaal the Honorable Woman

9:48 Beautiful speech from Maggie about great complicated female parts. Jake looks so happy for her. Frances McDormand doesn't; fans herself.  

9:49 Another commercial break where Julianne Moore and Amy Adams are talking. They can't get enough of each other.

9:53 We're back. Paul Rudd & Adam Levine presenting. Paul Rudd introduces himself as Blake Shelton. Is that a Voice joke.

Best Drama Series, The Affair (Showtime)

9:56 Why is Catherine Zeta-Jones introducing Pride? Oh wait, Welsh, right? She looks great. 

9:58 Katherine Heigl & David Duchovny

Best Actor in a Drama Series, Kevin Spacey, House of Cards

First Globe win after 8 nominations - I totally forgot he lost for American Beauty (to Denzel Washington for The Hurricane). Nice speech about wanting to be better. That's good. Once you get too complacent...

10:02 Commercial break. Gwyneth chatting with Ethan. Great Expectations reunion! 

10:07 Julianna Marguiles and Don Cheadle introduce the Cecil B DeMille Award to "our great friend" George Clooney. Nice expansive reel. It's easy to forget how many good movies he's been in!

10:22 The Grand Budapest Hotel is introduced by Owen Wilson, voice even more nasal than usual.

10:23 Harrison Ford presents Best Director.

Best Director Richard Linklater Boyhood

Richard Linklater seems a little bit overome with this prize. Ethan Hawke, breathing out like he's been holding it for hours, and Patricia Arquette are holding hands.

Chris Pratt & Anna Faris doing a bit about their cross channel marriage

Best Actress Drama Series, Ruth Wilson, The Affair 

10:27 Ruth Wilson compliments Dominic West's butt. That's all I got from it. I do plan to watch the show. Not for the buttocks. 

Best Actor, Comedy or Musical, Michael Keaton (Birdman)

10:35 Amy Adams presents. Michael Keaton seems drunk. Very generous speech thanking HFPA for even having a comedy category (hear hear). Correctly suggests that Inarritu is never going to have a trouble getting big actors for his next films. Tears up talking about his son. Great speech. And he tells so much about his family life. Definitely wasn't born into showbiz...

 

 

I'd say he just won the Oscar but we haven't seen who the Drama winner is yet. 

10:37 Our next presenter is known by only one name "Winfrey". Haha. She introduces the clip from Selma.

10:39 Commercial break: Kate Hudson takse a photo for someone on their phone. But who? 

10:44 Channing Tatum introduces the clip from Foxcatcher nominated for Best Drama. Robert Downey Jr gets to do Best Picture Comedy. Weird segueway that. 

Best Picture, Comedy or Musical The Grand Budapest Hotel

After multiple wins they wanted to spread the wealth. We never hear Wes Anderson give speeches.

...and we still haven't. But the reading of names of various HFPA members was hilarious.  

10:51 Matthew McConaughey gets right into it with Best Actress (we're running long)

Best Actress, Drama Julianne Moore Still Alice
Best Actor, Drama Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything

SAVAGE GRACE FOREVER! Nice reunion. Julianne's speech ends with a bit on "work and love" and it's beautiful and she seems so happy. Eddie Redmayne gets played off because they're running long.  But it's still a long time until Oscar. Can they repeat? 

Best Picture Drama, Boyhood

11:02 Meryl Streep presents the last award of the night. Correctly assumes that she'll be there the next year and the year after that by saying she's going to miss Tina and Amy hosting. Aren't we all?

 

 

 A big night for Boyhood with 3 prizes but Birdman and The Theory of Everything also took home two Globes and Grand Budapest won best picture, comedy so it was a spread the wealth kind of night.

GOOD NIGHT. MORE TOMORROW!

 

 

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Reader Comments (46)

Frances McDormand is unfussy and unsentimental as a rule, but did anyone else notice her make a face when the Fargo folks thanked her for letting them go "Full Coen?"

She already shaded the series this year in her (excellent) NYT profile.

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterHayden W.

I didn't realize JLo was on Dancing with the Stars.

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterHenry

So psyched and surprised about Transparent (and the dedication to Leelah). Now take this thing, Julianne.

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterBruno

Reaction to Bill Cosby joke, better here:

http://defamer.gawker.com/who-laughed-at-tina-feys-bill-cosby-joke-the-crowd-rea-1678883728

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered Commenteroinone

And when Allison Janney saw Prince (: this is adorable..

http://i.imgur.com/PHbUGxE.png

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered Commenteroinone

Patricia Arquette just made Naomi Watts and me weep. That Oscar is hers - and so deserved!

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterRyan Crowe

That Kevin Hart/Salma Hayek moment was one of the most uncomfortable things I've ever seen at an awards show.

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterJestifer

I hope The Grand Budapest Hotel takes the Oscar for original screenplay, but it looks like Birdman is the film to beat.

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterRaul

Kate Hudson worked with Rob Marshall in Nine, that must be why she presented the clip for Into the Woods, just like with Jack Black presenting Boyhood (after being directed by Richard Linklater in Bernie and The School of Rock). On the other hand, other than being British, why was Colin Firth presenting The Imitation Game or Clive Owen presenting The Theory of Everything?

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterRichter Scale

Russia's Leviathan pulls the upset. Will watch that tonight maybe...

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterBruno

I was just really shocked how old and unrecognizable James Spader looks...

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterDominik

clooney annoys me so much...

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered Commentermarcelo

Not trying to pick a fight, but I love Clooney.

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterHenry

lol the kevin hart moment was the best part of the show so far, i don't know why one would call it uncomfortable!

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered Commentermartin

Yay Patricia <3

Get that Oscar.

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterPhilip H.

Grand Budapest Hotel over Birdman? Wow. Wes Anderson was hysterical though.

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterBruno

The Grand Budapest Hotel! My favorite win of the night!

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterRaul

kate hudson took picture of gwyneth paltrow with the one I couldn't see.

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered Commenteroinone

If Eddie Redmayne wins the Oscar over MIchael Keaton I swear to God...

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterMDA

So glad McConnaghey didn't say "Jennifer Aniston" or "Rosamund Pike." Onwards and upwards.

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterBruno

Grand Budapest's win has to mean it's an absolute lock for a BP nom now, right?

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered Commenterdenny

If only Hugh Dancy had also been nominated and won, the threesome from "Savage Grace" would have been complete!

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterRaul

But West's buttocks are the real Golden Globes of The Affair, Nat.

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterPaul Outlaw

This was the best Golden Globes I've seen in years. Really deserving winners across the board, and my viewing partner actually teared up during Patricia Arquette's speech. I hope it's one of many she will be making this season.

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterMJ

STOP trying to make Amy Adams happen, HFPA!

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterBd

The Foreign Press continue to deny Viola Davis.

Off topic---but I think I want Chastain's boyfriend.

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered Commenter3rtful

Keaton won the oscar with that speech. Redmayne got cut off. Neither has a best picture win to carry them through. Imitation winning and Benedict could have been a threat but Keaton's narrative and performance is too good to ignore for voters. He will take sag. Bafta might go to redmayne. Keaton is back at oscar.

January 11, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterJoseph

Here's a thought, if it's Keaton, Moore, Simmons and Arquette, then it would be the first time since 1997 that all four acting winners are playing fictional characters. With that stat in mind, Keaton might be vulnerable, especially considering that his co-nominees are playing Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking and Martin Luther King. I want Keaton to win, but that stat is a little hard to ignore and if the other three are already as locked up as they feel, well, you get my point...

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterRichter Scale

The Cosby joke was good, the Clooney joke was better.

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterArkaan

Keaton's got this now. Hallelujah

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered Commenterbrookesboy

As a victim of sexual assault, the Cosby joke was so NOT funny. Dear god. MAYBE in like six years or something, but it's still so fresh and unresolved that it's just not at all cool to make light of. :/ Same with the North Korea shit. Just wasn't funny. I was extremely turned off. Made me glad it's their last year, and usually I love them. Bring back Gervais who is just poking fun at the rich celebrities in the room, not a country full of citizens being oppressed by a dictatorship.

BUT, there were some great winners. I wish Uzo had won. But Froggat gave a good enough speech that it made it feel okay. And I enjoy that the Globes aren't totally predictable.

Amy Adams tho... :|

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterPhilip H.

Anyone else find it funny that HFPA had Gwyneth Paltrow present best actor drama in place of Cate Blanchett?

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterAaron

One of my disturbing takeaways is that Eddie Redmayne got that much closer to being a threat to Keaton and my whole body is now full of DO NOT WANT. Like, this performance bait??

Grand Budapest might even lead on the nomination tally now the same way it did at the BAFTAs.

I'm sure I wasn't the only one having a Nicole Kidman-winning-for-The-Hours PTSD flashback right before Julianne's name was read. Big sigh of relief there JESUS. I honestly thought he was gonna saw ROSAMU-

I'm gonna miss Amy + Tina but maybe they'll be back someday.

Thank god Gervais was only onstage for two second. You could feel the cringe in the room swelling up hardcore.

Gotta say, most of the tv winners were pretty deserving. Transparent! I've been a huge Jill Soloway fan since her days as one of the best Six Feet Under writers and this is so nice to see her work validated like this.

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterMark The First

I was bored throughout. Amy Adams win bored and depressed me most of all.

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterKeegan

Tina and Amy were not particularly funny.

Emma Stone, yes, you got big eyes. Get over it.

Cumberbatch is a geek trapped in the body of an English actor with an extraordinary voice.

I felt a lot of love in the room for Ruffalo. One more movie and he will get all the awards at last.

Nathaniel you're getting soft with age! You said in the podcast that JK Simmons was very funny, but his speech was sooo conventional! I thought of you the minute Patricia pulled out that piece of paper. Written speech, glasses, humongous ribbon, hair covering half of her face ... Patricia, girl, I want you to win (and you will) but you need to practise this whole thing! Look at Julianne!

P.S. Tomlin's face-lift horrified me and Michelle Monaghan doesn't look like Michelle Monaghan anymore.

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterPeggy Sue

Loved Maggie and Eddie!

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterPeggy Sue

god, stop all the disdain on Amy Adams!
you guys hate her only because it's trending now, like that time everyone is appalled by Jennifer Lawrence.

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered Commenterfadhil

I only saw Birdman yesterdday and totally get all the love in all categories but supp actress I like Emma Stone but that role was blah,i much preferred Ryan and Riseborough but Emma's a name so they went with her,i feel this a real coatail nomination,Norton is my no 1 for Supporting with Keaton in 5th for lead loving Fiennes,Boesman,Carell and Gyllenhaal more.

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered Commentermark

Oh, how I would not be so impertinent as I am now had I been a child of Frances McDormand. I am in-love/scarced-shitless of that lady, and all I want and need in life is for her to scold me!

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered Commentervegeta's concubine

Yay Jeffrey Tambor and Transparent, and Yay, Gina Rodriguez for Jane the Virgin.

Super pleased pleased with how Birdman, Grand Budapest Hotel, and Boyhood all got something--three great films I actually saw in a theater, and loved every performance and every second of each.

Also pleased with HtTyD2 winning best animated. I think Lego will take the Oscar though. Both films are great. Just saw Book of Life and really enjoyed that one too! Good year for animation.

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterPam

Amy Adams in Junebug > AA in Enchanted > AA in Doubt > AA in Julie & Julia > AA in American Hustle > AA in Big Eyes. Next up? More Lois Lane garbage. The vectors are going in the wrong direction! Someone save Amy Adams!

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterCharlieG

fadhil: The logical contortions necessary to support an Adams win over those competitors in this movie are astounding...and impressive. Congratulations!

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterBd

@CharlieG: You skipped The Fighter, which came after Doubt and Julie & Julia, and was a much stronger performance than both.

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterBruno

@Bruno: You are so right. That was a great Amy Adams performance. Better than her performance in Enchanted, I would say. So, it's not all doom and gloom! But seriously, more Lois Lane? She was wretched in Man of Steel.

January 12, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterCharlieG

As cute as Dean DeBlois is, and how personal "How to Train Your Dragon 2" is, to him, I still think "Lego", was not only the Best Animated film this year, but the best since "Fantastic Mr. Fox" and before that, "The Lion King". I get it, I get it... personal and moving speech was expected by DeBlois (who also was due to some recognition) and that prevailed over the free marketing to a danish corporation, even if the film is a masterpiece.

It is.

The other great, great film of the night, at least got Screenplay. Out of the ones I've seen. I still need to see Boyhood, Theory of Everything or Selma, for example. But seen Birdman, Whiplash (unimpressed by them), Imitation (lacked punch), Into the Woods (yes but not) and Interstellar (vomit inducing)...

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January 14, 2015 | Unregistered CommenterSerena
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