A Steady Diet of Film

the Golden Globes came and went, and boy did they smell

so here's the wrap up from the Golden Globe awards (which have a track record 80% accuracy in predicting the Oscars). If you were anything like Film Light playing the "take a shot everytime the camera cuts to a celebrity looking bored" you were probably pretty hammered by the time they got through the Supporting Actor categories.

FILM

Drama: Brokeback Mountain

Musical or Comedy: Walk the Line

Director: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain

Actor, Drama: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote

Actress, Drama: Felicity Huffman, Transamerica

Actor, Musical or Comedy: Joaquin Phoenix, Walk The Line

Actress, Musical or Comedy: Reese Witherspoon, Walk The Line

Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener

Supporting Actor: George Clooney, Syriana

Screenplay: Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana; Brokeback Mountain

Foreign Language: Paradise Now

Original Score: Memoirs of a Geisha, John Williams

Original Song: "A Love That Will Never Grow Old," Brokeback Mountain

TELEVISION

Series, Drama: Lost

Series, Musical or Comedy: Desperate Housewives

Miniseries or movie: Empire Falls, HBO

Actress, Drama: Geena Davis, Commander in Chief

Actor, Drama: Hugh Laurie, House

Actor, Series, Musical or Comedy: Steve Carell, The Office

Actress, Series, Musical or Comedy: Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds

Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Sandra Oh, Grey's Anatomy

Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Paul Newman, Empire Falls

Actress in a Miniseries or Movie: S. Epatha Merkerson, Lackawanna Blues

Actor in a Miniseries or Movie: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Elvis

Cecil B. DeMille Award: Anthony Hopkins

Highlights included: Steve Carrell's wife, S Epatha's "I'm 50!!" acceptance speech, Steve Carrell's mom, Brokeback Mountain scribe Larry McMurtry thanking his typewriter for keeping him from "the cold embrace of the computer", George Clooney thanking Jack Abramhoff "for no reason really", Jack Abramoff's father responding that he wants to spank George Clooney (furthering Film Light's belief that conservative Republicans are just self-loathing homosexuals), Hugh Laurie thanking House's script supervisor, Mary Louise Parker winning a Golden Globe while somewhere faraway in a dank alley Billy Crudup nurses a meth addiction.

posted by Erin @ Thursday, January 19, 2006