Best Celebrity Reactions to SAG or Globe Nominations
Thursday, December 10, 2015 at 3:33PM Normally the press release soundbytes involving celebrities being thankful for their nominations are as dull and even more flavorless as an trophy winner reading names from a piece of paper in monotone. It's usually along the lines of "this film is special to us and I am so genuinely grateful. Thank you" So it's worth noting any reactions that display even a little bit of personality or say something more specific. Here are our favorites this year after the jump...
Jennifer Jason Leigh on her Globe nomination
Getting an acting nomination for my role as Daisy in The Hateful Eight is a testament to the great Quentin Tarantino and would not have been possible without the cast (especially the one I was handcuffed to, Kurt Russell)
Carter Burwell nominated for the Original Score of Carol
I’m grateful the HFPA chose to recognize Carol in so many categories, including music. In making Carol, a large number of artists worked with self-effacing restraint, and yet I believe created a film that’s grand and stirring. Thank you for acknowledging that work. It means a lot.
Paul Feig on the Best Picture nomination for Spy
“I can’t thank the HFPA enough for recognizing funny movies... We’d also like to request four extra bottles of wine at our table that night. Woo hoo!!!”
Jamie Lee Curtis, a surprise nominee for Scream Queens
As I am recovering from foot surgery, you could call this morning the agony and the ecstasy. Thrilled to represent for the crew, the #SQsquad of talented youngins and our writers Ryan, Brad and Ian. This has been a wonderful creative year and this a nice way to keep it going!”
Saoirse Ronan on how she got the news [src]
It was the afternoon in Dublin and I was getting my nails done—and I was getting them painted a gold color. I've never had gold polish before. And then my phone kept ringing. I finally answered it and it was my publicist but I said I couldn't talk because I was getting a manicure. But then he told me. Everyone in the nail salon cheered and we had champagne.
Amy Schumer
Thank you so much HFP and congrats to my sistas! @brielarson and what's her face pic.twitter.com/4s2gD27m08
— Amy Schumer (@amyschumer) December 10, 2015
Helen Mirren on the generosity of her multiple SAG nominations
Thank you fellow rogues and vagabonds. Once is an honour, twice is surprising, three times is a miracle. I know they are called the SAG awards but I feel very perky today.”
Bryan Cranston on more Trumbo honors...
A SAG nomination for Helen Mirren, myself, and the cast of Trumbo has me so joyous -I'm beside myself. pic.twitter.com/n2rkanByfb
— Bryan Cranston (@BryanCranston) December 9, 2015
Daniel Pemberton Globe nominated for the Original Score of Steve Jobs
"Wow! I just got nominated for a Golden Globe - that is proper bonkers! I wanted to 'Think Different' in how I approached this score and working with a cinematic visionary like Danny Boyle meant I could. Since STEVE JOBS was brilliantly written by Aaron Sorkin in three acts I took three different musical approaches, so Danny got three scores for the price of one - Bargain of the year!
Sarah Silverman tweeting about her surprise Best Actress SAG Nomination
HORRIFIED to be in a category w these hacks. Still, thank you SAG Awards. Thank you x 1000000. https://t.co/ETqt6aaOmB
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) December 10, 2015
Reader Comments (25)
LOL at Schumers and Silverman's response!!!
Awww even Helen Mirren is as surprised as the rest of us :)
Maggie Smith statement according to the LA Times: "I am absolutely thrilled to be nominated for a Golden Globe, and to be in such terrifically talented company. I look forward to seeing you all in LA in January. Thank you."
So she might actually attend!
Nicely done by all, I wish I were sharing those extra bottles of wine at Paul Feig's table. Wouldn't you love to sit with that crew!
Ben -- WHOA!
Maggie Smith to attend the Globes - that is fabulous, she was in fine form a few weeks ago on Graham Norton. I expect witty comments, lots of great reaction shots, and innumerable GIFs.
The Dowager commeth....what a party this will be.
Not to get your hopes up but her statement says roughly the same thing each year and she's just had hip replacement surgery - poor thing.
Although it always makes me giggle because of her character in the first Marigold Hotel.
Helen Mirren almost redeems her unwarranted nominations with that response
I hope the Globe Nod alerts Feig to the underused recently comedic giflts of JLC.
Are we at a Helen Mirren tipping point yet?
She's been earning dignified golf claps for 10 years now. People are happy to talk about how boring and middling her movies are—Hitchcock, The Hundred Foot Journey, Trumbo, The Woman in Gold. Even Phil Spector and The Last Station don't stand tall in their mediums/genres.
Can someone of some stature admit that SHE is part of the equation that makes her movies so missable and unimportant? That she's just not that great of an actress, for an actress who's recognized as a capital G "Great" at every turn? Helen Mirren makes very dull movies IN PART because she's usually a very dull actress. The thing about great actresses is that their job is to elevate safe, unremarkable material written for women their age.
Mirren doesn't even have a signature set of tricks like Maggie Smith and Emma Thompson to make mediocre projects watchable.
Hayden baby lay off of Mirren. She's awesome and her filmography actually contains some essential viewing. I hate the Trumbo support like anyone else. But strange things continue to happen this award season maybe something wonderful and unexpected will happen on Oscar morning or Oscar night.
LOL, call me when Dame Helen drops out of *anything* and is replaced with Joanna Lumley.
I can't believe Hayden just put Mirren and Thompson in the same age bracket. #shade
Maggie Smith apparently only shows up for awards shows when she's nominated for a movie!
I know it's vaguely off topic, and there's been no requests for questions, but Nathaniel can I ask a question for and your podcast buddies?
SAG and Golden Globes, when taken with the critics awards and the higher focus on category fraud, are indicating a fairly fluid race in all the acting categories. Could this year be the first time all 20 nominated performances are from different films?
I am also sick of Helen Mirren. Her work since The Queen has been largely terrible. We know the HFPA are insane hacks and poor writers, so welcome to the world of sycophants.
Where's Phyllis Nagy's response on here? 😉
re: Helen Mirren
9 words: The Cook, The Thief, The Wife, and her Lover
I give Streep credit for really taking a year off.
Thriller for ScreamQ bagging a nomination for Jaime Lee. My fav reaction was Inarittu thanking the crew, simply hysterical :)
@Hayden: I co-sign almost all of that. And I don't find her endlessly recycled Bawdy Jokes™ as endearing as I'm supposed to, either.
Lady Gaga:
"I apologize to my neighbors I'm still screaming in my apt in NY! I'm nominated as an actress for the Golden Globes what a dream is this real!"
Hayden - I've been at the Helen Mirren tipping point since she waltzed away with all the awards for The Queen, beating two of the great performances of the decade for that snore.
Add me to the Helen Mirren is Overrated club. Had that Elizabeth miniseries been film, she would've deserved an Oscar for it (and deservingly won an Emmy) but NONE of her Oscar nominated (or in the Oscar conversation) roles have been as invigorating as that performance. No, not even Gosford Park where Maggie Smith easily outshone her. And don't even get me started on her clean sweep of awards for The Queen. Just think, if Streep or Cruz had won that year for awesome performances, we might have been spared less remarkable wins for The Iron Lady and Vicki Cristina Barcelona. It's all Helen Mirren's fault.
I love Volver, but Cruz is stupendous in VCB. Of the fourteen Best Supporting Actresses this century, she is top tier. (And neither she nor Mirren should have won Best Actress for '06--it should have gone to Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal, category fraud be damned.)
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