What’s that, the vague screeches of Joan Rivers and her pack of gay stylist picking their best and worst dresses of the 2012 Golden Globes? Nope, it’s Lauren Best, local fashion aficionado and supplier of my lipstick consultations. Check out her best and worst dressed picks below.
Best: Sofia Vergera in Vera Wang
“Sofia Vergara from Modern Family looked amazing in this midnight-blue Vera Wang gown. The colour is immaculate, and the fish tail bottom shows off her amazing curves. If I looked like that in this dress, (or if I was her), I would never want to take it off. Sofia Vergera is my best dressed pick of the night.”
Worst: Sarah Michelle Gellar in Monique Lhuillier
“I just cannot begin to imagine what Sarah Michelle Gellar was thinking when she decided that wearing a tie-dyed Monique Lhuillier gown to the Golden Globes was a good idea. I do like the print, but definitely not for this dress. The photo speaks for itself. She is my word dressed pick of the night.”
To read Lauren’s complete coverage of the 2012 Golden Globes fashion, visit her blog by clicking here.
The Moet has been popped, the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press has torn Ricky Gervais a new one, Harvey Weinstein has terrified several publicists, and the results are in. Although there were a few upsets, the show went mostly according to predictions. But I must journey on with the recap, as my stomach attempts to digest the vat of sushi and McDonalds that I ate, like the classy broad that I am.
In the TV department, Homeland and Modern Family were the big winners of the night, respectively taking home the biggest tv awards. Highlights include Claire Danes and Kelsey Grammar’s exciting wins for Best Actress/Actor in a Television Series – Drama, for their performances in Homeland and Boss, respectively. I was happy to see Laura Dern take home the Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy for her work in the underrated Enlightened. Best Mini-Series or Movie Made For Television, unsurprisingly, went the badass aristocrats over at Downton Abbey. As previously mentioned, Best Television Series -Drama went to Homeland, while Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical, went to the gay cliches over at Modern Family. I’m shocked.
One of the biggest snubs of the night happened when Joey Tribianni, I mean Matt LeBlanc took home Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy for his performance in Episodes. Critics were predicting another win for the indelible Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad. Hey, LeBlanc had Just for Men on his side. Hard to beat.
Over in the movie department, or what I like to call the front and centre portion of the ballroom, it was all about The Artist, who took home 3 awards, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Jean Dujardin.
Unsurprisingly, Octavia Spencer took home Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Roll in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for her work in The Help. That sexy senior citizen Christopher Plummer, who appears to be on a roll this awards season, picked up the Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Roll in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for his work in Beginners. Michelle Williams, who spoke as if she had tumbled out of a Teletubbies episode, won Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for her work in My Week With Marilyn. You can go back to the other side of the rainbow now, Michelle.
That ugly, monogamous man George Clooney deservingly picked up Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for his work in The Descendants. The film also took home top honours, with Best Motion Picture – Drama. Although I felt that The Tree of Life and Take Shelterwere both more deserving of an award, much less a nominations, Alexnader Payne’s incredible narrative of Hawaiian family and land ties was a fabulous picture, deserving of such an award.
One of the biggest upsets came from Martin Scorsese’s win for Hugo. Most critics, and even me (I know, shocking), predicted that Michel Hazanavicius would win for The Artist. That Scorsese. His glasses are so big cause they’re full of awards, and chicken parmesan.
And finally, I am sooooo happy to say that Meryl Streep won Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her incredible work in The Iron Lady. She is long overdue for her Oscar this year, and for President of the World. Long may she reign.
Overall, Ricky Gervais played it safer from last year’s groan-inspiring set, but still prompted a few uncomfortable chuckles with his risky material that included jabs at Kim Kardashian and the recession. However, I thought he hit the perfect level of meanness, intelligence, wit, and downright funny. Here, here Gervais. Have another pint and continue tweeting about being an Atheist. It’s doing you good.
After popular demand from my dad, below are my who should win/who will win predictions for the television Golden Globe awards. Enjoy, and comment for chastization if I’m wrong.
Best Television Series – Drama
Who Should Win: Game of Thrones - HBO’s medievally fantastical series deserves top prize this year, but its awards season heat has cooled off considerably since its first season finale aired in June.
Who Will Win: Homeland - An Iraq war veteran? A swearing CIA agent? Who could resist?
Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Drama
Who Should Win: Claire Danes in Homeland - Good girl goes bad Danes’ transformation is awe-inspiring in this Showtime series. Angela Chase, be damned!
Who Will Win: Claire Danes in Homeland - HFP voters have taken note of every F bomb and have loved every syllable.
Best Performance by an Actor In a Television Series – Drama
Who Should Win: Steve Buscemi in Boardwalk Empire - Although buzz for HBO’s 20′s period piece has hushed considerably, Buscemi continues to amaze as political bootlegger Nucky.
Who Will Win: Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad - As high school chemistry turned meth dealer, Cranston continues to be a voter favourite, and the Hollywood Foreign Press are no exception.
Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical
Who Should Win: Enlightened - This entirely underrated little HBO show about a high-powered female executive (Laura Dern) in the midst of an existential crisis will almost certainly be overlooked. Le sigh.
Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Comedy or Musical
Who Should Win: Laura Dern in Englightened – Sensing a theme yet? Dern absolutely kills it as the over-bearing power bitch in rehab. Her tour-de-force performance of physical hilarity deserves the accolade.
Who Will Win: Laura Dern in Englightened - Praise HBO, but I think it might actually happen.
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Comedy or Musical
Who Should Win: Matt LeBlanc in Episodes - I know! Who knew Joey Tribbiani could act!
Who Will Win: Johnny Galecki in The Big Bang Theory - Them Hollywood Foreign Press voters love the clichéd nerds. Again, le sigh.
Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television
Who Should Win: Downton Abbey – It’s all about the aristocrats and the Brits. Just don’t watch it and expect it to be about a hip Bronx nunnery. I’ve already made that mistake once . . .
Who Will Win: Downton Abbey - I’m sorry, but Damn Maggie Smith is just the shit. Well deserved.
Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television
Who Should Win: Kate Winslet in Mildred Pierce – If I had it my way, the goddess of the Brits and Jack Dawson’s heart deserves a double win, for Mildred Pierce and Carnage.
Who Will Win: Kate Winslet in Mildred Pierce – You don’t save Richard Branson’s mother from a burning building and come away with nothing.
Best Performance by an Actor In A Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television
Who Should Win: Bill Nighy in Page Eight – Bill Nighy, aka Billy Mack from Love Actually, is horridly underrated in this harrowing film of homeland security and M15 officers. I feel it in my fingers . . . that he will get unjustly snubbed.
Who Will Win: Hugh Bonneville in Downton Abbey – Yeah we get it, the brits rock.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role In A Series, Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television
Who Should Win: Evan Rachel Wood in Mildred Pierce - I am one of ERW’s sole-supporters, but I was a big fan of her horrifying portrayal as Vita, the daughter who knows how to get what she wants at any cost. What can I say, I admire a girl with work-ethic.
Who Will Win: Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey – She’s a dame, literally. Yep, it’s happening.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role In A Series, Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television
Who Should Win: Guy Pearce in Mildred Pierce - Maybe I’m biased to this particular mini-series, but Pearce was fantastic and so was the series. It deserves a rewatch by voters and viewers, alike.
Who Will Win: Peter Dinklage in Game of Thrones – A worthy choice for his portrayal as Tyrion Lannister, the aristocratic ‘imp’.
For a complete list of the 2012 Golden Globe nominees, click here.
It is the eve before the Golden Globes and many questions loom: who will win, who will lose, who will wear what, who will Gervais drive to substance abuse? Known as one of the fluffiest awards shows, it’s time for me to break down my who should win/who will win movie predictions. I know my dad is psyched for this.
Best Motion Picture Drama
Who Should Win: The Descendants - Alexander Payne’s impressive family drama so thoroughly avoids the melodrama in favour of the honest, the sincere, and the Clooney.
Who Will Win: The Help - Tate Taylor’s narrative of 1960s black maids who risk it all to tell it all is Golden Globes catnip. Unfortunately, this problematic Mammy-spree will take home the gold.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Who Should Win: Meryl Streep in The Iron Lady - With almost 30 years since Streep’s last win for Sophie’s Choice, her tour-de-force performance as Margaret Thatcher is one of her best to date.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Who Should Win: George Clooney in The Descendants – I’ve been hard on him for always playing himself, it paid off majorly in his performance as Hawaiian land baron Matt King. Although the best performance of the year was Michael Shannon in the incredible Take Shelter, Clooney is the best of these nominees.
Who Should Win: The Artist – Believe the hype. This black and white, silent film is so charmingly and skillfully executing, it’ll have you nostalgic for the Chaplin days.
Who Will Win: The Artist – There’s no stopping this one. The undeniable momentum of this french phenom will most likely take them all the way to a Best Picture win at the Oscars.
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Who Should Win: Kate Winslet inCarnage- One of her least talked about performances, but one of her best nonetheless, Winslet’s performance as Nancy Cowan, a mother trapped in a parental dispute, is simply stunning.
Who Will Win: Charlize Theron in Young Adult – Her subtle, menacing, and bitchy performance in Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman’s first collaboration since Juno got a lot of folks talking. She’s hit her stride at just the right time in the awards season race.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Who Should Win: Jean Dujardin in The Artist - Not enough can be said about Dujardin’s stunning, physical, and charming performance as George Valentin. He’s bringing black and white back, and it’s a welcome and fresh change from the status quo of American film.
Who Will Win: Jean Dujardin in The Artist - It’s all about The Artist and it’ll show in the numbers, tomorrow night.
Best Animated Feature Film
Who Should Win: The Adventures of Tintin - With stunning special effects and a jovial and exciting plot, this Jackson/Spielberg collaboration was a light point in the feel bad movie season of the year.
Who Will Win: Rango - It’s been an awards season favourite so far, and Johnny Depp’s vocal stylings as a cool, Southern chameleon might just charm the Hollywood Foreign Press too.
Best Foreign Language Film
Who Should Win: In The Land Of Blood and Honey – Written and directed by that ugly actress Angelina Jolie, this tale of forbidden love during the Bosnian War is altogether brutal and stirring.
Who Will Win: In The Land Of Blood and Honey - Sucks to be Angelina, huh?
Best Performance by and Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Who Should Win: Berenice Benjo in The Artist - Charming, moving, and sweet, Benjo brings back the ingenue in her literally silent performance in the French sleeper hit.
Who Will Win: Octavia Spencer in The Help - There’s no denying the Spencer. Cleaning up at awards shows throughout the season, her performance as the black maid with a flare for revenge will undoubtedly win.
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Who Should Win: Christopher Plummer in Beginners - With dually acclaimed performances in this film and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, it’s all about the sexy senior citizen this awards season.
Who Will Win: Christopher Plummer in Beginners - Although he’s got close competition with Albert Brooks in Drive, Plummer’s performance as the newly out and proud gay senior is a critic favourite.
Best Director – Motion Picture
Who Should Win: Michel Hazanavicius in The Artist – With stunning visual and emotional images, Hazanavicius makes a stunning mark in popular cinema with his tale about film innovation and love.
Who Will Win: Michel Hazanavicius in The Artist – A director who can make a black and white, silent picture a hit in the United States: now that’s award worthy.
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Who Should Win: Woody Allen for Midnight In Paris- With his whimsical, challenging, fantastical, and charming screenplay, writer and director Allen was able to craft a story that brought in the best box office numbers of his career.
Who Will Win: Stan Chervin, Aaron Sorkin, and Steve Zaillian for Moneyball - The wordy trio showed considerable restraint with this crisp, slick, and exciting adaptation of Michael Lewis’s novel of the same name. The Hollywood Foreign Press will not be able to resist.
Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Who Should Win: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Reuniting the Oscar winning musical team from Fincher’s last film, The Social Network, this duo of English gent and Nine Inch Nails frontman produced a powerful, sinister score.
Who Will Win: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - This could possibly be the only award for Fincher’s adaptation of Steig Larsson’s bestselling novel. I’m still bitter about the Social Network too.
Best Original Song – Motion Picture
Who Should Win: I have no opinion. Maybe Elton John for that Gnomeo and Juliet film, mostly because the combination makes me laugh.
Who Will Win: I can only assume the Hollywood Foreign Press will agree with my above reasoning.
For a complete list of the 2012 Golden Globe nominations, click here.
Who do you think will win tomorrow night? Isn’t the combination of Elton John and talking gnomes hilarious? Drop me a line in the comment section.
The Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning and I, of course, streamed theme live from the comfort of my snuggie. Leading the pack with the most nominations are The Artist with six, followed closely by The Descendantswith five. The Artist received nods for Best Picture Comedy/Musical, Best Actor Comedy (Jean Dujardin), Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius), Best Supporting Actor (Bérénice Bejo), Best Screenplay (Michel Hazanavicius), and Best Original Score (Ludovic Bource). The Descendants received nominations for Best Picture Drama, Best Actor Drama (George Clooney), Best Director (Alexander Payne), Best Supporting Actress (Shailene Woodley) and Best Screenplay (Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash).
Also, we got some lucky double nominees happening here. George Clooney racked up nominations for both Best Director for The Ides of Marchand Best Actor Drama for The Descendants. Then we’ve got Ryan Gosling, my sweet, sweet Ryan, who received Best Actor nods in both Comedy and Drama for his roles in Crazy Stupid Love and The Ides of March. Those suits and abs are Best Actor in my book.
That being said, there still were some major snubs, namely to my beloved, dino-centric The Tree of Life. Unsurprisingly, Malick’s masterpiece received not one nomination, due to The Hollywood Foreign Press being ignoramuses who clearly didn’t get what was happening during that 2 h 45 min epic. Okay, okay, I had no clue either. But it’s still a far superior movie to The Help or Ides of March. Oh well, thems the breaks. Luckily, The Academy Awards are uppity biatches, like myself, and don’t give a Harvey Weinstein if The Golden Globes were nuts for Crazy Stupid Love.
Another major snub came with David Fincher for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’s omission from the Best Director category, and Beginners from the Best Picture Drama category. Films that got the altogether shaft include Cameron Crowe’s animal loving We Bought A Zoo, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and that other Olsen sister’s cult movie Marcy Mary May Marlene.
As far as The Golden Globes being an Oscar predictor, I don’t personally agree. I believe the Comedy/Drama divide make up for a lot of the random nominees (cough cough Gnomeo and Juliet cough). However, if one thing has been made clear over the last few weeks of award season hype, it’s that The Artist is the one to beat this year.
To see the full list of the 2012 Golden Globe Nominations, click here.
