The People and/or Entities That Could Win Golden Globes Are...
Ah, the Golden Globes: our most precious Earth effigies. Who will be given the chance to add one to their mantelpiece this year, proof that they'd have rather have won an Oscar?
Here are your nominations, with commentary added as needed:
Best Picture, Drama
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
Up In The Air
[Avatar? That's sort of surprising. I would have guessed The Blind Side before that. I thought pseudo-inspiration was an easy auto-nomination.]
Best Picture, Musical/Comedy:
500 Days of Summer
The Hangover
It's Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine
[It's Complicated? Who knew the Foreign Press was so boringly menopausal?]
Best Director:
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
James Cameron, Avatar
Clint Eastwood, Invictus
Jason Reitman, Up In The Air
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Best Actor in a Drama:
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up In The Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Tobey Maguire, Brothers
Best Actress, Drama:
Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabby Sidibe, Precious
[Ah, there's our Blind Side nomination. Instead of rewarding the film, they're rewarding the accent.]
Best Actress, Comedy:
Sandra Bullock, The Proposal
Marion Cotillard, Nine
Julia Roberts, Duplicity
Meryl Streep, It's Complicated
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
[Sandra Bullock again? For THE PROPOSAL. Oh, fuck off. But still, not as shocking as the fact that enough people remembered Duplicity to nominate Julia Roberts.]
Best Actor, Comedy:
Matt Damon, The Informant!
Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine
Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 500 Days of Summer
Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man
[Is it appropriate to give Michael Stuhlbarg Best Actor in a Comedy when he made me feel horrible far more often than jovial?]
Best Supporting Actress:
Mo-Nique, Precious
Julianne Moore, A Single Man
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Penelope Cruz, Nine
Best Supporting Actor:
Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Screenplay:
District 9
The Hurt Locker
It's Complicated
Up In The Air
Inglourious Basterds
Best Foreign-Language Film:
Barria
Broken Embraces
The Maid
The Prophet
The White Ribbon
Best Animated Film:
Coraline
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Princess and the Frog
Up
[Hey, where's Avatar!? LOL! Because Avatar uses so much CGI.]
Best Original Song:
"Cinema Italiano", Nine
"I Want To Come Home", Everybody's Fine
"I Will See You", Avatar
"The Weary Kind", Crazy Heart
"Winter", Brothers
[It seems wrong that Where the Wild Things Are, which is nominated for Best Original Score for a soundtrack composed largely of songs with vocals, wouldn't have a song nomination. Karen O and screaming children jumping around on stage would almost make sitting through a lavish production of Cinema Italiano worth it.]
Best Original Score
Up
The Informant!
Avatar
A Single Man
Where The Wild Things Are
TV Series, Drama:
Big Love
Dexter
House
Mad Men
True Blood
TV Series, Comedy:
30 Rock
Entourage
Glee
Modern Family
The Office
Best Actress, TV Drama:
Glenn Close, Damages
January Jones, Mad Men
Julianna Marguiles, The Good Wife
Anna Paquin, True Blood
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
Best Actor, TV Drama:
Simon Baker, The Mentalist
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House
Bill Paxton, Big Love
Best Actress, TV Comedy:
Toni Collette, The United States of Tara
Courteney Cox, Cougar Town
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Lea Michele, Glee
Best Actor, TV Comedy:
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
David Duchovny, Californication
Thomas Jane, Hung
Matthew Morrison, Glee
Best Mini-Series Made for Television
Georgia O'Keefe
Grey Gardens
Into The Storm
Little Dorrit
Taking Chance
Best Performance By an Actress in a Mini-Series
Joan Allen, Georgia O'Keefe
Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens
Jessica Lange, Grey Gardens
Anna Paquin, The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Sigourney Weaver, Prayers For Bobby
Best Performance By an Actor in a Mini-Series
Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance
Kenneth Branagh, Wallander: One Step Behind
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Endgame
Brendan Gleeson, Into The Storm
Jeremy Irons, Georgia O'Keefe
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Supporting Role
Jane Adams, Hung
Rose Byrne, Damages
Jane Lynch, Glee
Janet McTeer, Into The Storm
Chloe Sevigny, Big Love
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Supporting Role
Michael Emerson, Lost
Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
William Hurt, Damages
John Lithgow, Dexter
Jeremy Piven, Entourage
So what do you think? Voice all praise and grievances below.