2009 Golden Globes Announced
by Big Hollywood
BEST PICTURE – DRAMA
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Precious
Up In the Air
BEST PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover
It’s Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine
BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
James Cameron – Avatar
Clint Eastwood – Invictus
Jason Reitman – Up In The Air
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
BEST ACTOR - DRAMA
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up In The Air
Colin Firth – A Single Man
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Tobey Maguire – Brothers
BEST ACTOR – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
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
BEST ACTRESS – DRAMA
Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Gabourey Sibide – Precious
BEST ACTRESS – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Sandra Bullock – The Proposal
Marion Cotillard – Nine
Julia Roberts – Duplicity
Meryl Streep – It’s Complicated
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Matt Damon – Invictus
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penélope Cruz – Nine
Vera Farmiga – Up In The Air
Anna Kendrick – Up In The Air
Mo’nique – Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire
Julianne Moore – A Single Man
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess And The Frog
Up
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I know this is a blog about Hollywood and movies and whatnot, but I'm having a really hard coming up with a reason I should in the slightest about this. Especially with that idiot's mug staring at me.
Clooney, Damon, Roberts, Harrelson….sounds like a golden age of mediocrity.
Meh, have no interest in watching Clooney's new flick… though I am quite intrigued by the new movie "Young Victoria" but that's my prefered genre anyway.
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Really glad that (500) Days of Summer got a best picture nomination. That was one of the best films I've seen this year.
The Oscars are one thing (I always follow the tech categories like Best Visual Effects myself) but in film school, they showed us a documentary on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that's behind the Golden Globes. It's all just a big sham. It's a bunch of journalists who work for foreign publications and they just want free swag! (I am, of course, oversimplifying things a little bit.)
Inglorious Basterds? WTF? Best drama? WTF?
I have seen less than a handfull of these movies
but If "Up!" doesn't win there is something wrong with the planet.
That's because some of them arn't even out in theaters yet… XD
I just don't get it, how some that are not even in Theaters yet can be up for an award??? I don't watch the awards programs any more..
Precious wins best drama. Hangover wins best comedy. Chris Waltz wins best supporting actor. (surprised Christian McKay wasn't nominated) and Quentin wins best director.
Given my less than favorable opinion of Hollywood at the moment, it's really hard for me to give a golden globe about the golden globes.
Harrelson is actually quite good in that movie.
F the Globes. No Best Picture nod for UP?
i enjoyed him in Seven Pounds too
was zombie land any good?
I would have said "flying fig" myself
well done +1
Up in the Air wins Drama and Nine wins comedy/musical. Bigelow wins Director and Quentin wins script, making the PGA,DGA, and WGA precursors as important as they've ever been.
Most of these actors are quite good in their respective roles … one of the reasons they are routinely nominated.
I almost expected a nod for Fantastic Mr. Fox, or even Clooney for the voice work in that film.
Zombieland was pretty good natured, although Shaun of the Dead was much better.
Up will get a BP nod with the expanded 10 film Oscar. The Ponyo snub in animated was surprising.
I like Harrelson's acting in most of his stuff, other than "White Men Can't Jump".
I had my mp3 player plugged in while it was being played on one of my flights. Finding out later that it's a pretty good movie. I'll have to check it out on dvd next week.
Go Inglorious Bastards & Hangover!
Zombieland was excellent. Nothing will ever top Shaun of the Dead but this is as close as it gets.
the biggest snub is christian mckay for supporting actor: Me and Orson Welles.
Todd, it's pretty good. Although (not spoiling anything), it became really hard to even *like* one of the main characters about halfway through the film. It kept a good film from being a truly great one in my opinion.
Of course, Harrelson was nominated for a different movie.
It sounds like a film lots of guys could identify with.
Yes and no, but it's hard to have that good rom-com vibe when one of the main characters is a selfish twit stringing the other one along in a dysfunctional relationship. Don't get me wrong, it was very well made and well acted, but at the end I was trying to figure out what the actual takeaway from the movie was supposed to be.
Joseph Gordon Levitt is going to break GIGANTIC next year when he's in Christopher Nolan's Inception.
Nice to see "One" good pick ………..Clint Eastwood – Invictus. Classy.
At least I've heard of these movies. The Oscars loose me in that regard. I don't really watch either one, though.
I did catch that he finally pulled his head out and asked another girl out who looked similar to the very cute Zooey Deschanel. Between the start and that point, I'll have to see what I missed. Thanks for the info.
The awards shows begin… let the onslaught of SMUG commence!
I definitely don't Tivo any of them. Can't stand to watch people who would otherwise be working in my neighborhood 7-11 if it weren't for a great amount of luck and looks, patting themselves on the back for either hating Republican's or saving the world through their precious, donated time.
The HFPA is the 3rd most worthless film-ranking body on the planet, behind the People's Choice Awards and Ted Baer. That said, it's nice to see them not drinking the Kool-Aid on "Blind Side" (there'll be time for that later, see: The 2nd and 1st listed ranking bodies.)
"Up In The Air" is probably going to win this and the Oscar. It's a magnificient film, every bit as good as "Thank You For Smoking," everyone who skips it because "booo! hiss! George Clooney is Democrat!!!" is missing a movie they're probably really, really going to like and, in addition, will find themselves utterly perplexed when Anna Kendrick is the toast of the town by next year.
I did not see one of these movies listed!
I am so Happy for me since instead of spending my money sitting in a dark theater with my eyeballs glued to a screen full of sewer, I joyfully spent my own money on worthwhile troops serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
If you didn't see the movies, how exactly do you know that it was a "screen full of sewer"?
Exactly. I don't see everything, but I do see a lot. Most of the time, I am satisfied with the experience, sometimes I'm not. But I don't know until I actually see it for myself. That's why I rarely listen to critics reviews.
I'm pullin' real hard for Jeff Bridges this year. I think it's his year to get the best actor Oscar for Crazy Heart ! I always loved those boys. Beau and Jeff and their Dad, Lloyd. They seem to carry a certain decency that's rare in Hollywood. The exact opposite of the the Douglas's, Michael especially. Even Michael's dad seemed to carry that arrogance so prevelent in that town. I just want to kick that Michael Douglas in the face every time I ever saw him on screen… even now that he's old I still want to do it. He's a stuff-shirt !
I like Robert Downey Jr and hope he gets the Actor in a Comedy Oscar. Mo'Nique I hear deserves the best supporting actress Oscar for Precious and the newcomer (probably the only role shell ever get in Hollywood unless she loses all that weight) Gabby. I hope they give the best Actress in a serious role to her.
I want Clint Eastwood to win for best director.
And that that coked- up rip-off of a Tarantino deserves to be run over by a tractor. Not killed by one mind you.. just leave tire prints on his face – would be an improvement on what it looks like now.
Most of the time, I can enjoy these actors up to a point. I think Clooney is a good actor as long as he leaves his politics at the door, and depending on the movie, such as Zombieland or the Bourne trilogy (I like action), I can even tolerate Damon or Harrelson. But when films like Syriana come out, in which these people start pontificating about liberal causes, or they start spewing their stuff on TV…pass.
Most people I've talked to say it's a fairly good movie, but I do have a little trouble imagining it in the drama category, if it's the kind of movie I think it is.
Pixar scares the Globes and Academy: better acting/character development/story than 99% of films today and all done by cartoons. Heck WALL-E had better characterization in the first hour than most films this decade and that was done with 0 dialog.
"let's not start sucking each other's d**ks just yet gentleman"
~ Harvey Keitel (Mr. Wolfe), "Pulp Fiction"
That one line pretty much sums up every hollywood award show these days.
Love that line.
I do too, but it's not always easy to work it into a conversation.
I was wondering the same thing.. I'm going to hold out hopes and go see Sherlock HOlmes, but then I saw RD Jr on the list, i got confused…
But you are right that's what these shows end up being.
He can't win it – He's a Republican.
I actually saw Duplicity just a few minutes ago(for a film class…lord knows why) and Robert literally just stuck out like a sore thumb. She was just being Julia Roberts.
The selection of movies this year have been more poor than usual this year. C'mon, Julie & Julia for comedy? Where was, A Serious Man?
I couldn't even care less who the winners end up being.
I am really glad to see the Hurt Locker for Best Picture and I am happy that District 9 at least got a screenplay nod. Those two movies are the best that came out this year with Inglorious Basterds in third. Christoph Waltz is the man to beat this year and I don't see anyone coming close to his performance.
Meh. Golden Globes- Schmolden Schmobes.
Didn't believe the line in the opening "…this is not a love story"?
Instead of being a simple rom-com, it was a refreshing perspective on a the mistakes of a relationship that both genders bring, whether delusional hopes or mental baggage.
And as an added bonus the man is written as a douche.
Um. No offense, but he's won four Oscars and been nominated four other times in the last 20 years. If anything, people complain that Eastwood simply gets nominated for making a film. So let's not pretend that there's some sort of awards boycott against the guy because of his politics.
I was being facetious.
I’ve been looking for an excuse to bring up Dexter (not mentioned in this post, but it did get nominated for best television drama, so that counts, right?). Anyone else see that fantastically horrifying season finale?
Oh, ok…sorry dude.
You have to admit that 20 years ago NO ONE would have predicted Eastwood becoming more famous as a director than actor in the final act of his career.
Up until the last few years, I thought the "Any Which Way…" series was as good as it got. But I've enjoyed his last few films.
George Clooney's acting… looks wooden most time. Stares ahead blankly. Turns head slightly looking amused.
He gets paid millions.. bah!
"It's on random!" Agree with the both of youse, "Shaun of the Dead," is great! Much better to buy the DVD, than watching it all chopped up on Comedy Central, or TBS, where I've seen it a couple of times.
Because the people who vote for these things get free screeners.
Up not getting a best picture nomination is a disgrace. Just because its animated. So what. Up is the best movie of the year so far. Its storytelling at its finest. This is why I hate film snobs.
Dave – Clooney looks wooden and stares blankly ahead because he's sold his soul to the devil. He can't do anything unless the red devils tell him to, and so far, they haven't learned to direct movies. And if it were a coservative "teabagger" that was walking around wooden and staring blankly ahead with only an infrequent look of amusement gracing their faces, they would admit that person to the nearest psychiatric facility for observation
Oh, how amusing. Golden Globes actually thinks I give a hoot what they think about a film.
Hello, Dexter Morgan…
Poor Dex – Just when he was going to put his family first after ridding the earth of The Trinity Killer forever he finds thta his life is not only gone but fate has stepped in and little Harrison will need a mentor. I have never missed an episode of Dexter and season five I hear is the last one…
Lithgow was great, was't he?
He was absolutely terrific. And his character was just fantastically written. Something about last season’s Miguel Prado storyline just rubbed me the wrong way, and I really wasn’t a fan of Lila, so it was refreshing to see a truly fascinating and engaging “big bad” this season. I just wasn’t prepared for that character to send the series down this much darker direction.
Yep! Dexter has lost his anchor when he lost Rita. He'd already lost faith in the code and had abandoned the only thing that kept him under control and now.. he's really screwed. He's going to change big time! He's going to open a great big can of whoop-ass and I don't think he's going to care too much who knows it and who don't. How he's going to explain Rita being found bled-out in a bathtub… I don't know…. it's a mystery and quite a feat for the writers next season.
I agree about Prado deal and Lila. Brian was pretty good… Keith Carradine didn't offer the show too much if you ask me. His death was quite believable. I believe he drew upon the trauma he had just experienced with his brother David's demise. He looked cold and dead layin' there, didn't he?
Deb finally came into her own last Sunday. Hopefully she'll open up and become a real cop instead of a little sister. That relationshp between LaGuerta and Battista is just silly. Quinn got something up his sleeve and I look for him to carry his weight next season.
Agreed – the first movie (notice, I do not use the effete term, "film") I have seen in years that made me cry. Even though Ed Asner is a classic Hollywood leftist, this was a film for all ages and all persuasions. A beautful experience which I shared with my 20-year-old daughter.
Gotta disagree on the lack of character arc.
While I agree with you on the Deschanel's character scarcity of content, Levitt's is really the only true lead in the movie, that provides the demarcation between this movie and a regular rom-com. The movie is essentially telling a single perspective of a man's growth in understanding relationships.
The willfully innocent view he has is harshened by his experience with a woman whose view is as distorted as his is naive. (I wouldn't classify her as selfish, but incredibly lost and deadened). The film tracks his journey through this encounter with reality, giving the viewer insight only to his maturation process. Whether his romantic or work life, his growth is dramatic and generally feels organic.( His journey from optimistic fool, to embittered soul, to confident and hopeful maturity is the focused pleasure of the film). Hers doesn't simply because she's not given the adequate screen time to fill that void from her original mindset to her climatic development.
However, I think that's by design as I would classify this as a chick flick, except in this case the 'chick' is a guy. (Since with most films of that genre the guy is basically an underwritten banality).
In terms of executing the personal intentions of the writer of the film, I think it's quite effective.
Oh, and my original post has a mistake.
It should have been the man isn't a douche.
Which is a nice change.
I am so proud to say that I have not seen one of these movies. I have decided long ago to boycott the theaters. These actors/producers are so over paid for the crap they have out there. When they decide to keep their under-educated mouths shut and just act then, and maybe then, I will go see a movie. Until then I will continue to use my ONDEMAND => Free Movie button to curb my desire to watch a movie.
I haven't seen a single movie on this list.
Same as last year.
He is also extremely boring. This is just movie companies buying awards.
Though I didn’t hate Lundy, I have to agree on LaGuerta and Batista. I thought Batista had a somewhat interesting back-story with his ex-wife and daughter, but it seems like they just let that fall by the wayside in favor of a bland and unnecessary office romance subplot. Quinn I would like to see developed further, and I’ll definitely be interested in seeing where they go with Debra and what she’s learned about Dexter.
Interesting note on Carradine. Though I did instantly think of David’s death when he reappeared, I never thought about how that might have affected his performance.
If the preview turns me off, I don't go. I've seen the previews for about 2/3 of the movies listed and I have to say, "screen full of sewer" is probably a little better than what I was thinking.
Given your money to the Zinn machine, he// no! They can stick it all up their, well u can finish the sentence! What a sham these awards have gotten! Let's get some NEW blood in these studios!!!
There are some TV shows I watch, Legend of the Seeker, Glee, The Goodwife, the NSI/CSI shows, Bones, Fringe, Lie to Me, Medium, Merlin, Royal Pains, House, Castle, Burn Notice, Life, Flash Forward, Lost, and FOX NEWS.
Why I don't go to or rent movies:
Reason 1: Movies for the last 20 years have gone from bad to worse, 99% trash.
Reason 2: Ninety-nine % of the actors and actresses are nothing but trash, and even worse, liberal democratic Dumbama supporters. They aren't getting a dime from me !
You have a free movie button on your ON DEMAND ?
I whine a great deal about the state of Hollywood but I am a grand movie lover! TCM is my favorite station. i adore film. I hate what movies have become but there was a time when people like John Ford made classics and people really made great Pro-American movies. The comedies and romances were just that (with no political crap thrown in) I long for films like that. I'm looking forward to Sherlock Holmes and Crazy Heart and I do want to see Precious. I never go to a movie theater. I hate crowds and traffic so i'll lay down my $4.99 to the Dish people next year or late next year, always depending on whether or not the film's a failure or a success.
I been watching DEXTER. I loved DEADWOOD and CARNIVALE and JOHN FROM CINCINNATTI. I watch Real time with Bill Maher hoping to see that rock finally fall out of Heaven right on his head or possibly he'll burst into flames right there on the panel. I watch Craig Ferguson every night even tho he does lean left a bit. I sometimes look at the Joy Bahar show when I feel like I need a good S&M session (it really hurts) I never miss The Soup on E! and I used to watch old Columbo reruns bu you can't find them onthe television any more.
Maybe, but you have to be able to sympathize with the characters in order for the film to work. I found the Deschennel part rather underwritten, and you gain no real insight into her character or motivations for her actions (avoiding spoilers, but her behavior in one of the key sequences near the end of the film was pretty hard to understand because the script was so superficial when it came to her).
Again, at the end, it appears that no one learned anything, and there was no character arc.
Don't get me wrong, it was enjoyable, but it could have been MUCH better.
I know that Keith wasn't nearly as close to David as Bobby was. The way David went stigmatized that family forever and the brothers will always carrry that "stain" Keith is very career minded. He was terribly embarrassed more than anything else and Bobby was less embarrassed and more really traumatized because he looked to David. They were in the same rock band and Bobby actually moved his family from Colorado to Southern California to be with David every day. The two were like twins. The way David died and the ugliness it left behind isn't going away. Imagine if you were in the public arena and your brother died wearing a pair of fishnets and a wig with his hands and genitals tied iup to a door because he was obsessed with S&M. There's more to ocme out. People are gong to talk. They always do.
LOFLYou guys kill me, I swear.But that reminds me…IB comes out today on DVD. Let me go to Red Box.
Given your money to the Zinn machine, he// no! They can stick it all up their, well u can finish the sentence! What a sham these awards have gotten! Let's get some NEW blood in these studios!!!
I can't wait to see Up in the Air. Looks very good. I reward good movies with my attendance.
Clooney is a very deft actor. One of the best working today. Has a great nose for roles, too, unlike several of his contemporaries.
I don't like the man's politics, but I can't knock his acting skills.
"Ninety-nine % of the actors and actresses are nothing but trash"
Oh, so you've met them?
I'm sorry. I get the political gist of Big Hollywood. I'm a fairly conservative Libertarian and the hard left of Hollywood elites chaps my hide. But seriously, calling people 'trash' just because they don't share your ideology seems a little harsh and unnecessary.
It's funny, but during my work as a producer's assistant, most of whom I met on and off-set where (mostly) decent people trying to get a job done and they didn't wear their political affiliation on their sleeves.
Sometimes I wish this site were more about the promotion of conservative ideals within the framework of entertainment and storytelling, and less the denigration of those we disagree with.
I can understand your boycott based upon principle, but as a lover of the cinema, I need to see movies. Good movies … and sometimes "bad' people make good movies.
I agree with you, Clooney is a good actor. That is the very reason I wished he and other actors i used to enjoy would keep their mouths shut about their political leanings. It ruins it for me. If I have to fight through their politics to enjoy their work – Screw'em! Nobody's going to do that to me. I really enjoy Edward norton also and Sean Penn is an extremely satisfying actor, and Meryl Streep and alot of others. I long for the old "Hollywod System" days in a way because then the studio MADE you keep your mouth shut about anything personal that might make you unlikaable to your audience. If only these terrific artists, who know their craft well would respect their audience enough to try and stay anonymous. They have left themselves get in the way of the characters they play when their job in the first place is to hide themselves to the best of their ability inside a character. Hollywood has always been it's own worst enemy but now, in this politically charged society we live in… they've literally committed suicide.
Nice to see the Hurt Locker in the mix.
On point of practicality didn't Hurt Locker make something like 16 millions WORLD WIDE! Whatever its relative merits as story telling ,that figure indicates that it should be considered a flop. However it is directed by a woman and we all know that Hollywood thinks of itself collectively as ,"filled with the milk of human kindness",and so Bigelow will be the token female director winner and Hollywood will get lots of positive press. Now if Hollywood would just treat its actresses age 40 and older with more respect .How about some decent scripts . The truth is that there were better roles for actresses in the pre-women's lib days of the thirties and forties. Heck there were better stories told just over the last 30 years. The H in Hollywood stands for Humbug.
He's starting above the screen, so that's impossible.
BamaMan passes judgment on things he doesn't bother seeing. It's easier that way.
wow, you're so open-minded.
I suppose there is a chance with an Oscar snub with Sandra Bullock, but the Globes? They nominated Meg Ryan every time she was in a hit. So, it wasn't really surprising. Not even the double nomination. Female-lead-driven movie + box office gold = automatic Golden Globe nomination every time. Even if there is Kool-Aid to be drunk.
I love how your comment has a -3. Must be the "Booo! hiss!" Voters on this site are so predictable.
It's the comedy category Roberts was nominated for. As in every year past, it's an open playing field. Was Sandra Bullock being anything but Sandra Bullock in "The Proposal"? Or was Meg Ryan being anything but Meg Ryan in any of the nominations she's received over the years for a Golden Globe?
You obviously give hoot enough to post something. Or else you really wouldn't have given it a second thought.
Do you want a medal?
If adults still attended the cinema like they did in the 30's and 40's, then we would see better parts for women.
No, I was actually thinking about a Nobel Peace prize but thanks for asking.
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