- Mo’Nique wins Best Supporting Actress honors for “Precious” – A fine choice. She’ll repeat the honor when the Oscar ceremony comes around. And the comedienne even gently mentions helping people who have endured sexual abuse, a critical theme in the film, in her speech. Nicely done …
- “Up” wins best animated film … Co-director Pete Docter gives the night’s first boring speech. Expect more …
- Ricky Gervais looks bored … and he just did a bad plug for his last mediocre movie. At least he snuck in a veiled Pia Zadora line.
- Felicity Huffman looks more confused than Robert De Niro on a talk show couch.
- (8:32 pm EST) I miss Rob Lowe and a dancing Snow White. (sorry … forgot to include the time stamps — it’s my first liveblog, please to forgive)
- (8:42 pm EST) Harrison Ford talks up “Up in the Air” — Harrison, wake up, please. People are watching.
- (8:43 pm EST) Gervais tells a cutting joke at Sir Paul McCartney’s expense – and the camera doesn’t get a reaction shot of the ex-Beatle. I thought this was a different kind of award show …
- (9 pm EST) And the Best Actress (comedy/etc. category) is … Meryl Streep. Her mantle must be steel reinforced. “I want to change my name to T Bone,” she purrs. She’s literally run out of acceptance speeches at this point.
- (9:11 pm EST) One degree of separation: Kevin Bacon gets a Globe! Nice skinny tie …
- (9:23 pm EST) Best screenplay — Jason Reitman. Bet Quentin is simmering right about now. Boy, Jason really kissed up to George Clooney. Maybe a bromance is a-brewing. But sweet shout out to his pappy, Ivan.
- (9:26 pm EST) Globe cred takes a major hit as Ashton Kutcher takes the stage. Will he Tweet in between line readings?
- (9:33 pm EST) Geez, how many “Nine” cast members did they snare? Any excuse to see Sophia Loren ain’t bad.
- (9:39 pm EST) What this broadcast really needs is a bloated dance number …
- (9:46 pm EST) Shouldn’t it be an honor just to appear on an awards show? So why do we hear plug after plug after plug?
- (9:50 pm EST) Christoph Waltz wins Best Supporting Actor … the assembled actors would have stormed the stage if he didn’t win. Richly deserved. So curious to see his follow up project … but why is his speech in just one language?
- (10:03 pm EST) Fine tribute to Martin Scorsese ends with extended commercial for “Shutter Island.”
- (10:04 pm EST) As a conservative it’s nice to watch an award show and feel secure that the politician you voted for won’t be dragged through the mud via a bad political segue.
- (10:10 pm EST) Watching commercial for “Valentine’s Day” – the Julia Roberts horsey laugh is so 1998.
- (10:14: pm EST) Did Gervais really just say that?? “I like a drink as much as the next man … unless the next man happens to be Mel Gibson” … yikes. That’s gutsy.
- (10:15 pm EST) Cameron wins Best Director for “Avatar” – someone likes the money 3-D films make, no? The director has crazy mad scientist hair. But he did go out on a pretty thin limb to make his flick, so in a way he earned it.
- (10:27 pm EST) “The Hangover” wins best Comedy/Musical? Wow. The Globes really aren’t the Oscars. Great line …. “Now, I’m gonna get in a fistfight with Harvey Weinstein. But I have Mike Tyson here, so I’m good,” says director Todd Phillips flanked by, yes, Iron Mike. Weinstein, the trades claim, throws cash around so his films do better come award night.
- (10:34 pm EST) How much do I love the way Arnold Schwarzenegger pronounces “Avatar?” I can’t even measure it.
- (10:36 pm EST) Sandra Bullock wins! But not for “All About Steve.” Dang. That would have sparked riots in H’wood. Great speech to boot.
- (10:46 pm EST) Jeff wins! Jeff wins! And now he’s nuzzling Kate Winslet. Wish I could win a Golden Globe. A standing O for The Dude. “You’re really screwing up my ‘under-appreciated’ status here …” He thanks his wife of 33 years … nice! Suddenly, I wanna grow a salt and pepper goatee.
- (10:56 pm EST) AVATAR BEST PIC??? Aw, geez. Jason Reitman looks pissed. He should be. So will the 2010 awards be about money — or about honoring a great movie? Goodnight … and good luck to quality films like “Up in the Air” and “Precious,” two far more deserving pics. The only up side … we’ll have to wait a dozen years or so before … “we make entertainment for a global audience,” Cameron says. “All human beings are connected to each other and us to the earth” — OK, we need some bona fide reporters to start digging around Cameron’s lifestyle. You simply can’t preach green this and green that and not live it. He better be Ed Friggin’ Begley, Jr. at this point or there’s a hypocrisy award coming his way.
- Final thoughts. A. Booooooh-ring B. Plug-plug-plug-award. Repeat. Shameless. But it’s all about the art, right?
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I have a question. Why can’t celebrities hold their own umbrella? Do they have weak arms??
Well, conservatives are always bitching about popular movies not winning the Oscar. Here’s Hollywood’s chance to show that isn’t the case. As long as the movie is anti-American and left leaning they have no problem at all with picking the money movie.
One more question. If I don’t wear a red ribbon does that mean I don’t care about Haiti?
For a moment, I thought Harrison Ford was going to moan ‘brains’ and climb into the audience.
Ha! Great line, Grofe.
Yeah, the ribbonpalooza always bugged me.
And why now, all of a sudden, do the award voters care about a movie’s box office?
Like the live blogging. Do it more often. Do it during the Academy Award broadcast for sure.
B.O./popularity affecting award voters? Uhm, since “Titanic”?
How about “Shakespeare in Love” (also influenced by Miramax marketing) or “Gladiator” or “Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King” (albeit also the best nominee that year)?
HFPA is comprised of less than 100 members, and the broadcast, like most award shows, manages the devil’s bargain of trying to balance actual film critique with television viewership demands and its debatable reputation as a Oscar harbinger.
With this much inherent bias, the results should be surprising to no one.
D.