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This year's Golden Globes left the Oscar race wide open, given the shutout of The Hurt Locker, which won trophies for best film and director at the Critics' Choice Awards two nights ago. Avatar, a late awards contender as audiences begrudgingly admit its merits, took Best Drama and Director instead, leaving the other leading contender Up in the Air with a single win for screenplay, and Inglourious Basterds with one win for supporting actor Christoph Waltz. You can see our complete list of winners and nominees, order some on DVD and Blu-ray, and sign up to be notified when the others are available for pre-order.
Highlights:
- Finally, some love for Dexter, which has always been a bridesmaid, never a bride. The Showtime drama picked up its very first major awards(!) for Supporting Actor John Lithgow and Actor in a Television Drama Michael C. Hall, who recently revealed he was battling non-Hodgkins' lymphoma.
- Let's hear it for the freshmen: Glee knocked 30 Rock off its Best Comedy perch (though Alec Baldwin again won the Best Actor in a Comedy award), Julianna Margulies picked up her very first (!) Globe after six career noms for the new drama The Good Wife; and Toni Collette also won her first Globe for United States of Tara after four career nominations.
- Jeff Bridges' win for Best Actor in a Drama following his Critics' Choice win, makes him the front-runner as of today for Best Actor. Should he win the SAGs next week, it's pretty much a lock.
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The emotional tributes to spouses: Supporting Actress Mo'Nique to her husband, whom she'd known since she was 14; Lithgow and Bridges both acknowledged their long marriages (28 for Lithgow, 33 for Bridges); Robert Downey Jr. to his wife, Sherlock Holmes producer Susan Downey, without whom he'd be bussing tables (?); Margulies to her husband and son, and Sandra Bullock, who told hubby Jesse James: "It's no coincidence that my work got better when I met you."
- Touching tributes to parents: Meryl Streep to her mother, Jeff Bridges to his father, the late actor Lloyd Bridges, and Jason Reitman to his director father Ivan Reitman, who co-produced Up in the Air.
- Other odd (but not awkward) callouts: James Cameron to his ex-wife (and friend) Kathryn Bigelow, who he acknowledged he'd been expecting to beat him for Best Director; Bridges thanking his stand-in.
- Sandra Bullock's perfect German.
- I know she's not in movies (though she was there to plug her debut in the upcoming Burlesque with Cher), but seriously, Christina Aguilera has never looked better.
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Lowlights: - The underutilization of Ricky Gervais. I know they wanted to keep the show moving and end on time, but they could have easily cut out about 5-7 presenters for more Ricky. But that may have ended up a good thing, because the usually spot-on comedian spent a whole lotta time plugging (his old BBC series The Office--both the DVD and the reruns!, his blog, his 2009 film The Invention of Lying, and his upcoming HBO series). And the one or two zingers he did manage to say, he seemed to deliver so nervously he seemed afraid a giant cane was going to yank him offstage by the neck.
- Really shaky camera direction. Some nominees' faces were missed entirely as their names were called, and more than one camera appeared to have collided with a star on the way to the bathroom (see James Cameron's quote below).
- Cheesiest moment: Cameron, again, effusively telling the ballroom how lucky they were to have fantastic jobs (which they applauded to) and then encouraging them all to "give it up for yourselves!" (which they didn't). What was this, an episode of The Biggest Loser?
- Sally Hawkins, last year's Best Comedy Actress winner for Happy-Go-Lucky, appearing to present, during which you thought: I haven't seen this person since the last Golden Globes. Is she still acting? (Your second thought: Has she eaten since then?)
- There must be a clause in his oath of office that says that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is allowed to appear on the Globes every year, always toward the end, even though he hasn't made a film since 2004. At least this time he didn't use the phrases "Hasta La Vista" or "I'll be back."
- The loss of the "graceful loser" face. The other best actress in a drama nominees pretty much looked like they were going to throw up as Bullock made her way to the stage.
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And now, the most memorable quotes of the night:
"Let's get on with it... Before NBC replaces me with Jay Leno." -- Host Ricky Gervais
"This is for anybody and everybody who got a wedgie in high school." -- Ryan Murphy, creator of Glee, winner for Best TV Comedy
"Thank you... for believing in the 10 o'clock drama." --Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife), winner for Best TV Actress in a Drama
"They told me that was going to open." --Presenter Jodie Foster on her delayed stage entrance
"Fox and I made a deal: Half of the gross receipts are going to the state budget, and the other half goes right to James Cameron ... the only way he can make more money than that is to be hired by NBC ... or be fired by NBC."--Arnold Schwarzenegger, on why he's presenting Avatar
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"To my American family who's watching: Put down the Maker's Mark and go to bed." -- Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side), winner for Best Actress in a Drama
"You're really screwing up my underappreciated status here." -- Jeff Bridges
"Thank you to Susan Downey for telling me Matt Damon was going to win, so don't bother preparing a speech." -- Robert Downey Jr. (Sherlock Holmes), winner for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical, to his wife/Sherlock Holmes producer
"Thank Joel Silver? The guy's only restarted my career 12 times since I started 25 years ago." --Downey
"My name is Paul McCartney, or as I'm known, That Guy From Rock Band." --Paul McCartney, presenting for Best Animated Feature Film
"Animation is not just for children. It is also for adults who take drugs." --McCartney ![]()
"Our giant foreheads." --Presenter Neil Patrick Harris, on why he and Jane Krakowski went into comedy instead of drama
"This is not the Meryl Streep movie in which she ends up in bed with Alec Baldwin, but she does with Stanley Tucci... By any measure, a substantial move up." --Tom Hanks, presenting Julie & Julia
"For the first 20 years of our careers, Marty and I made movie after movie together. For the last 10 we've been giving each other awards." --Robert De Niro, presenting the Cecil B. DeMille award to Martin Scorsese
"I too was in this room when I was seven years old, but it was for bar mitzvah." --Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, echoing Drew Barrymore's revelation of how long she's been attending the Globes
"I wanna change my name to T-Bone." -- Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), winner of Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical
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"I know I could be like, Jeff Spicoli's girlfriend, with the lisp and the paralysis. Thank you for taking a chance on me." --Drew Barrymore, Best Actress in a TV Movie winner for Grey Gardens, mocking her own famous mannerisms
"If you want attention, sit next to Paul McCartney. I've never had so many texts in my life." --Presenter Julia Roberts
"I'm gonna try to make it as brief as I can, because I have to pee something fierce." -- James Cameron (Avatar), winner of Best Director
"Honestly, I like a drink as much as the next man... unless the next man is Mel Gibson." --Gervais, before introducing Gibson
What were your favorite/least favorite moments?
--Ellen
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