Golden Globes live blog 2009
For the TV categories, the Golden Globes were a repeat -- honoring many of the same shows and performers as last year's Emmys.
HBO’s “John Adams” and NBC’s “30 Rock” won every award for which they were nominated, an extraordinary shut out. If the TV industry were over-sensitive (which it is) it might take this as a rebuke. Or perhaps it just means the taste of the Emmy Academy and the HFPA are increasingly in synch, and that these particular shows creatively dominated.
HBO took seven awards (four for "Adams") and NBC earned three (all for "Rock"). AMC broke the streak at the last minute with "Mad Men" taking best drama series, but even that was an encore performance -- it won the Globe for best drama series last year (in addition to its Emmy).
As for reviewing the telecast, ceremonies that seem endless at home seem cartoonishly fast in the press room while blogging away, so I'll leave that to you.
>> Best movie: "Slumdog Millionaire"! If "The Dark Knight" gets nominated for an Oscar, a "Slumdog" vs. "Knight" race would be interesting. Poor choice of clip to promote it, though.
>> Best actor: Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler." More on this.
>> Negotiating Matt Weiner's salary just got easier. Best TV drama: "Mad Men." And AMC exhales a big sigh of relief as the "Rock" and HBO streak is broken -- barely. Backstage, Weiner is asked about the salary issue: "I have every intention of coming back to the show. There’s really been letters movement. It’s been an amazing experience the last two years and the fact that we did it again ... maybe it wasn’t a fluke. I am hoping it works out, I really am. I wrote this in my basement on spec and brought it to them, and it is my child. So I am very close to it. It is very hard to make money in the television business."
>> More backstage with Baldwin and Morgan: Q: Jeff Zucker, he’s given you a lot of freedom on the show. He’s also cutting back with going to live scripted show at 10:00 o’clock."
Baldwin: "We are Leno’s lead in on Thursdays."
Fey: "Good luck, Leno. Good luck with that."
>> Genuine shock in the press room as Kate Winslet wins best actress for "Revolutionary Road" after winning best supporting for "The Reader." "I'm so sorry!" she says, and there's press room hoots when she forgets Angelina Jolie's name. "I am so not wrapping up." Backstage, the press remarks that she really didn't have a second speech prepared, did she? "I thought Anne Hathaway was going to win hands down, no question. I really do feel like this is a dream. Has this happened before? It is unbelievable. It is not supposed to happen."
>> Best theatrical comedy: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
>> Actor in a theatrical comedy: Colin Farrell.
>> Tina Fey backstage: Q. "The posters of the envelope.com. What do
you have to say to them now?"
Fey: "I told them, suck it."
Q. "What did they say that you didn’t like?"
Fey: "They just have always been against me, and I don’t know what I did to them. And DianeFan thinks I have a smug smile, and I don’t know her. I don’t know what I did to her.
Q. Why are people so cruel on the Internet?"
Fey: "Anonymity."
>> Best director: Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire."
>> Superlative voiceover for Spielberg's Cecil B. DeMille award: "Legitimately transcendent... Steven Spielberg and the art of cinema, one is unthinkable without the other..." Deserving, of course, but the director always tells that "Greatest Show on Earth" story.
>> Best TV actress, comedy: Tina Fey. Two hours into the show, and only HBO and "30 Rock" have won awards in the TV categories. Unlike the eclectic array of movies winning tonight, "Adams" and "Rock" are taking every category they're nominated in. Says Fey on stage: "And if you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don’t like you. I’d like to address some of them now. BabsonLaCrosse, you can suck it. Dianefan, you can suck it. Cougar-Letter, you can really suck it because all year, you’ve been after me all year.."
>> Original score: A.R. Rahman, "Slumdog Millionaire." Terrific soundtrack.
>>Tom Hanks, backstage after winning for producing "John Adams," asked about Prop. 8: "I think it is anti-American, Prop 8. But in any given election in the State of California, you can put some commercials on the air and convince anybody of anything. Fear not. This is America. We are going to be okay. And we are going to do the right thing. And I think you can get married to whomever you wanted to get married to."
>> Best TV comedy: NBC's "30 Rock" wins, as expected. "Rock" co-star Tracy Morgan takes the stage: "Tina Fey and I had an agreement that if Barack Obama won, I would speak for the show from now on. Welcome to post-racial America. I’m the face of post-racial America. Deal with it!"... Points out Nellie Andreeva: Believe it or not, this is first best series Golden Globes win for "Rock." Fey and Baldwin have both won before, but for best series. HFPA is actually behind the Emmy Academy by two years, during which "Rock" won.
>> HBO executives glance up at the show's director, annoyed they lost one category, and the awards quickly gets back on track, honoring Paul Giamatti for "John Adams" for actor in a TV movie/mini. "John Adams fever," Giamatti jokes backstage.
>> Despite few overall new TV shows among the Globe nominees, the freshman entries sure are doing a good job of winning, with "In Treatment" and "True Blood" both taking home acting awards.
>> Actor in a TV comedy: Even the HFPA isn't nutty enough to give HBO an award for this category with Kevin Connolly from "Entourage" the only nominee from the network. Alec Baldwin wins for NBC's "30 Rock," breaking HBO's amazing streak. "The first thing you want to say is, “Thank you, Tina. Thank you, Tina. Thank you, Tina.'"
>> Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, "Slumdog Millionaire"...
>> Actress in a TV movie/mini: Laura Linney, "John Adams." Resistance to HBO is futile.
>> Best foreign film: "Waltz With Bashir." ... Colin Farrell, sniffing while presenting the award: "I've got a cold. It's not the other thing it used to be." Asked about the war in Gaza, director Ari Folman says, "it's relevant now and it's relevant when we made the movie...(But) I'm very optimistic otherwise i wouldn't have done this film. I believe it's all a matter of leadership. The time will come when both sides will have clever leaders and it will work out."
>> Best supporting actor: HEATH LEDGER. Furious typing in the press room as "Dark Knight" director Chris Nolan accepts: "... an awful mixture of sadness but incredible pride...You saw a hole
ripped in the future of cinema but with extraordinary response to his
work we've seen all over the world, I started looking a little less at
the future and a little more at the incredible place in the history of
cinema he built for himself with his talent and his artistry...he will
be eternally missed but he will never be forgotten." More
>> Best TV movie/mini: "John Adams." HBO's trophy monopoly continues.
>> The Holocaust joke Ricky Gervais started to make on stage, then stopped himself. Backstage, somebody asked what it was: "I was going to say when I got the DVD for 'Schindler’s List,' one should have a box of tissues ready. And I was going to say that sounds a bit sick." Yeah. Best he didn't.
>> Actress in a comedy: Sally Hawkins, "Happy Go Lucky." Everybody is waiting patiently for her to get over her overwhelming tide of emotion. She says she wishes she could thank everybody in the cast and you believe her.
>> Best animated: "WALL-E." Did anybody bet on "Bolt"?
>> Presenter Ricky Gervais, on not being nominated this year, hilarious: "It detracts from the credibility of any awards show... that's the last time i have sex with two hundred middle aged journalists ... Kate Winslet, I told you do a Holocaust movie and the awards would come ... trouble with Holocaust movie there's never any gag reels on the DVD." More on this.
>> TV drama actress: Anna Paquin. "True Blood"! Wow, HBO is going four for four. Here's Paquin backstage, when asked how this compares to her 1993 win for "The Piano": "I don’t even remember that.
That was blurry and crazy. This is actually blurry and crazy, too you but at least I am old enough to drink and stay out past 10:00 p.m." This is her first major TV award.
>> TV drama actor: Gabriel Byrne, "In Treatment." He wasn't at TCA either -- HBO said he had strep throat/stomach flu. I'm sure he's probably genuinely sick but ... geez, only 14 people watch this show, would have been nice for him to spend some time on stage. This is Byrne's first major TV award win.
>> Hopes for film: Not my beat, so I'm only doing few here. I'd love to see "Slumdog Millionaire" beat the interminable and overrated "Benjamin Button," along with longtime favorite Danny Boyle take director (I even loved "Sunshine"). Heath Ledger, of course, for supporting actor. “In Bruges” would be great for comedy.
>> Supporting TV actress: Laura Dern, "Recount." On stage, she makes the first overt political statement of the awards: "I will cherish this as a reminder of the extraordinary, incredible outpouring of people who
demanded their voice be heard in this last election so we can look forward to an amazing change in this country." Backstage, Dern talks about the SAG strike threat, in pretty standard terms: "We hope that unions are supported to protect people especially in this time of the country to protect their pensions and their future. As a child of actor parents, I have witnessed the ebb and flow of careers. I am just hopeful that [it] can be done in a way without strikes and great difficulty for many."
>> Supporting TV actor: Tom Wilkinson, "John Adams." Was pulling for Neil Patrick Harris here, but traditional, even semi-traditional, sitcoms are a tough sell to the Hollywood Foreign Press. Piven's supportive smile when he loses seems a bit stiff.
>> Supporting actress & original song: Kate Winslet wins supporting actress, "The Reader" -- more. Bruce Springsteen for original song. "This is only time i'm going to be in competition with Clint Eastwood," says Bruce.
>> Hopes (and predictions): For TV: "Dexter" for best drama (but "Mad Men" expected to win) ... Anna Paquin for actress (and slightly favored) ... Hugh Laurie for actor (Jon Hamm favored) ... “30 Rock” for comedy series (and favored) ... Tina Fey for comedy actress (and favored) ... David Duchovny for comedy actor (favored) ... “Recount” for movie (“John Adams” favored) ...
>> Is this the most low-key and unassuming intro ever for a Hollywood awards show?
"This is the Golden Globes, so let's get right to the awards" -- Jennifer Lopez, opening the ceremony. Is this the most low-key and unassuming intro ever for a major Hollywood awards show?
RED CARPET
>> “I haven’t really thought about things like that” -- Tom Cruise, when asked if he initially thought of his unusual “Tropic Thunder” role as taking a risk, showing how his mind is unclouded by emotions such as fear.
>> "I’m just wondering if mercury poisoning is contagious," says Mark Wahlberg about Jeremy Piven, who's standing beside him.
"It was a completely humbling experience," says a healthy-looking Piven of his recent incident that caused him to drop out of the Broadway production of Speed-the-Plow. "I could have gone against doctor’s orders and I didn’t."
"Well when they would tell me I couldn’t play, I’d jump back in," says interviewer and former New York Giants running back Tiki Barber.
"Well, you’re an iron man." says Piven.
>> “Well I mean it's nice that he’s nominated, it's bittersweet ... I think we need to celebrate Heath and celebrate his work and he did great work for his fans. Hopefully he’ll win tonight -- not that it matters if he wins or not” – Aaron Eckhart, when asked “what’s it like” having "Dark Knight" co-star Heath Ledger nominated for supporting actor and being, you know, not alive and all.
>> “Absolutely. I will bow down to Ricky Gervais every time.” -- Steve Carell, when told that Gervais just said that he was better at playing the bumbling boss in the UK version of “The Office.”
>> “It just goes to show God always has a plan,” – Miley Cyrus, on the Lord’s strategy to make her famous and win awards.
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