The 80 80s Throw Out Some Globes Nods
Well… saw that coming.
The, uh, 69th Golden Globes Nominations landed and the loonies did what everyone else has done… darts on the board. Being the HFPA, they’ve thrown some darts way off the board. So, the George Clooney party delivered three nods for George in The Ides of March, one more for Gosling, and another Georgie as an actor in The Descendants. The puts Clooney in director ahead of Spielberg and Bennett Miller, btw, Angie and Brad both got the call to walk the red carpet. Shocker! The Veteran Whores of Oscar Wars went 6 in the Best Drama nods.
In the tightly contested Best Actress fight, in with Glenn Close and Rooney Mara, out with Elizabeth Olsen and Kirsten Dunst. The other 5 actresses fighting for Oscar all got in with 10 selections to make and the odd nothing that My Week With Marilyn is a comedy.
In Supporting Actor, Viggo Mortensen takes “the Nolte slot,” while Albert Brooks gets in for the first time with the Globes, not having been nodded for his Oscar nominated turn in Broadcast News or for any of his great comedies.
On the Foreign Language front, reasonable and good choices. The only foreign language film we haven’t DP/30ed yet is the one directed by the movie star. Go figure.
They even figured out a way to get Madonna to show up… Best Song. W.E. also got Best Score… which left no room for either great Cliff Martinez score or Alexandre Desplat, for that matter.
Look… there aren’t a ton of overtly stupid choices here. But then again, the season has been better defined this year than in the past. It’s really just another turns of the slide puzzle. And it is meaningless in as much as the only award that people REALLY care about is Oscar. And these awards will not change the game in any significant way. I’m sure that if you’re working on The Tree of Life or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, this isn’t a fun morning. But assuming you’ve taken a big step forward if you’re amongst these nominees is as foolish as anyone assuming that not being nominated by The Globes is death to your Oscar effort.
Bet LexG will blow a gasket about the fact that Ides of March got all those nominations, but Evan Rachel (gives me) Wood wasn’t one of them. Maybe she’ll win for Mildred Pierce.
“My Week With Marilyn” is a musical, Harvey deliberatly put some musical numbers in the movie so it will be elligible in this category.
“The Thin Red Line” wasn’t among nominees at the Globes in 1999, but it scored seven Academy nominations. So I shouldn’t worry…
The multiple nods for George are a bit puzzling but perhaps they REALLY dug Ides. Foreigners love U.S. Politics I guess. And when will you DP30 the movie star’s film?
I just looked over the noms and aside from the usual snubs of great performances in small movies (Michael Shannon, Elizabeth Olsen) the only real outrage is no Muppets songs for best song! WTF?!? I’m serious too. That’s a great soundtrack and a few of those songs are amazing.
I second the surprise and annoyance over the lack of a Muppets song.
Also, Breaking Bad is a far better drama than American Horror Story.
And finally, I’d like to see Homeland win Best Drama (although I’m behind on Boardwalk).
Life’s A Happy Song is in an instant classic, too. Muppet or Man had people really laughing. Pictures in My Mind, while not Rainbow Connection, is really poignant. Leaving all off was just a joke.
“Life’s a Happy Song” has happily been stuck in my and my families head for over 3 weeks and no one is complaining. I play that soundtrack daily. “Man or Muppet” is also very clever and funny. I’m seriously pissed and stunned they were snubbed. And I can’t really bag on it because I haven’t heard it, but I highly doubt Chris Cornell (of Soundgarden) wrote or sang a memorable or award worthy film song.
Chris Cornell’s song for Machine Gun Preacher is awesome, as are Chris Cornell and Soundgarden. Not everyone’s cup of tea I suppose, but his voice is spectacular and I really like the nominated song.
Muppets didn’t get a nod because it wasn’t written and sung by Randy Newman.
I’m sure that if you’re working on The Tree of Life or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, this isn’t a fun morning.
Or “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” for that matter.
Ok. Lets have some fun.
Worst/Most Ridiculous GG nomination this year?
Worst/Most Ridiculous GG nomination ever?
And on the other end of the spectrum: An example of a time (this year or any other) where the globes got something right that other awards got wrong…..
In recent memory, last year some people mocked the GG Best Musical/Comedy nomination for The Tourist, but I haven’t seen it. They nominated Michael Stulbarg for Best Actor Comedy/Drama, a good call.
Guess none of the HFPA folks watch Justified.
No kidding Joe. Easily one of the best shows of 2011, if not the best. Season 2 was just about perfect.
Did everyone forget Chris Cornell wrote the theme song to CASINO ROYALE, which rocked?
I have no problem with MY WEEK WITH MARILYN being called a comedy. Marilyn is a tragic character in it, but every other scene is full of goofy Britishisms.
No Breaking Bad for Best Drama? Fuck ’em.
Who was it on the boards here who was bagging on Fassbender in Shame? I saw it and have to say I didn’t think it was his best work either.
I thought the Skin I Live In was interesting and well executed but wouldn’t have thought it award worthy.
I kept seeing trailers for Carnage but never saw if/when it was released. Hadn’t heard any sort of hype about the performances. Very talented cast but not ones I’d associate w/funny.
Yeah, Justified was unfairly snubbed. It’s easily better than AHS, but it isn’t a Ryan Murphy production, so no one cares.
Triple- It may have been me who opined that Fassbender’s performance in “Shame” has been wildly overrated. I found his perf as one-note, humorless and dull as the film itself.
My theory on Fassbender is that he’s always better with facial hair (“Dangerous Method,” “Fish Tank,” “Hunger,” “Basterds”) than without (“Shame,” “Jane Eyre,” etc.)
JUSTIFIED is awesome. FX has been showing repeats, so I’m finally catching it. I’ve finished season 1 and I’m three episodes into season 2. SAG also snubbed the show — unbelievable. At least the Emmys got it right this year, with nods for Olyphant, Goggins and Davies and a win for Martindale.
I like SHAME alot and love Fassbender in general but kinda agree his performance was good but not great. What he does is so subtle and constrained throughout (sans “O” faces) you never get a real feeling for his character. But that’s also the point as it doesn’t matter who *he* is, what matters is his addiction.
In the process, neither Fassbender ot his director (who’s more interested in strikingly lensed NYC tableaux anyway) ever once engage the viewer emotionally. Like “Hunger,” it’s a cold, cold, well-nigh impenetrable film, and for my money, a fatally dim and exceedingly, exhaustingly pretentious one.
I find a guy who’s so out of touch with his emotions that he doesn’t even have them very moving (I think the character is akin to Anthony Hopkins’ in “Remains of the Day”) but Fassbender’s is not the sort of flashy performance that these awards generally eat up. Meanwhile, I don’t get the surprise over Mara not showing up in many awards. She’s playing a role that was recently played to perfection by another actress — even though she’s good, she has a shadow over her.
“My theory on Fassbender is that he’s always better with facial hair (“Dangerous Method,” “Fish Tank,” “Hunger,” “Basterds”) than without (“Shame,” “Jane Eyre,” etc.)”
movieman, your fassy-as-thespian-samson theory is amusing (not that i agree with it, but still)
he rocks the clean shave in ‘eden lake’ in one of his few ‘ordinary guy’ roles… i still think his portrayal of connor in ‘fish tank’ is his zenith, how he manages to make such a creepy fucker so magnetic and likable is almost scary, yowza. disturbing
I don’t know “Eden Lake,” Leah.
Was that a made-for-BBC movie or miniseries?
I’m pretty certain it never had any theatrical play in the US. And if it was on, say, PBS or BBC America before Fassbender entered my radar screen, I missed it.
I know my “facial hair versus no facial hair” theory is absurdly reductive, but that’s just the way Fassbender’s performances stack up for me at present.
Wasn’t “Eden Lake” that sort of a “Straw Dogs”/”Deliverance”/”Lord of the Flies” hybrid co-starring the kid from “This Is England”?
Eden Lake is a horror flick with Fassbender and Kelly Reilly. It does have some similarities to Straw Dogs. Not entirely original, but it’s intense and brutal and messed up. Highly recommended for genre fans.
yeah, eden lake is fairly hard-core – and seething with pointed social commentary about fear of today’s entitled, no-respect, hoody-wearing violent youth, and, as it turns out, who enables this behavior – with a couple really rather shocking scenes. it came out a few years ago now, i think i first saw it at a film festival. i’m not really feeling the comparisons to ‘dog soldiers’ (apart from being set out in butt-fuck egypt woods i guess), but of course marshall directed fassb in the rather cool ‘centurion’ (complete with facial fuzz)
fwiw ‘eden lake’ trailer
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi93782809/
…and, yes, Thomas Turgoose from “This is England” is also in “Eden Lake” (which also might sorta bring to mind “Antichrist”).
My problem with Shame was that it wasn’t shameful enough. For most of the film dude was just sort of a playah, not really exhibiting the real “geeze, dude, what are you doing?!” behavior one would expect out of addicts. All of his hookups are hotties. You don’t really see any over compensation in his life, certainly not to the point of obsession, that’s very often associated w/functioning addicts. Avoidance and shift of blame are also common traits. I didn’t think they put in enough points of conflict and confrontation for the character. People can be estranged from family, they can be aholes and really drop the ball when the game’s on the line, but that’s not exclusive to disconnected, sexual deviants. In fact, we see a similar scenario play out from a very “together” cat in Ides of March.
Since I’ve now seen the flick, I can watch the DP/30 with Fass and McQueen. I’m sure it was a challenge to get the thing made but I feel like this thing didn’t submerge itself deep enough into the dark side. I’m not saying it needed to be more graphic. Like I thought Cage was more representative in Leaving Los Vegas but this was a film of a guy w/some wild stories but not a soul needing to be rescued. Yes, my desires and the filmmakers’ choices are two different things but my critique comes from what I felt was missing after seeing the film not my expectations heading in.
bloody hell, jts it occurs to me i need to read a bit more closely on tgif, as skimming over this thread now i see nobody even compared ‘eden lake’ to ‘dog soldiers’, so no wonder i didn’t get the comparison…yikes
(hmm, will the fasser have facial hair in ‘prometheus’? inquiring minds want to know)
curse you, movieman
“Drive” was classified as a Comedy/Musical? There was some dark humor from Albert Brooks’ character, but the movies itself was hardly a laugh riot. Perhaps the right wingers do have a point about a cultural divide between the US and Europe. Maybe over there seeing a *SPOILER* just released ex-con gunned down in a heist go wrong, leaving behind his wife and son is a laff riot.
Sorry, but “Eating Raoul” it ain’t.
“Eden Lake” sounds interesting. Is it available on DVD?
It’s a Dimension Extreme release so I’m sure Eden Lake is available on DVD.
I saw “Eden Lake” like a month ago on Showtime. Kind of ridiculous self-serious camp– but relatively engrossing. fassbender’s character is kind of dull and one note in it. And all of the characters for that matter. It’s kind of fun to see Turgoose and Fassy in small genre films like this though.
I would agree with Muppeastes and say that I was dissapointed in the lack of songs from the movie in the noms. I felt like this is something that the HFPA should get right. I thought the muppets were a big international brand too, not something confined to the tastes of pepto-bismol-swilling americans. hm…
So, in other words, the entire industry has been in agreement for years that this awards show is little more than a parade of celebrity. Isn’t anyone bored with this lede? More people watch boring awards shows when celebrities show up in nice clothes. Why not use a platform like Gurus of Gold to change the conversation, David? Year in, year out, you run this story, and year in, year out the Gurus track the Globes as if its relevant beyond the worth of TV ratings, building consensus towards the loudest voice in the room, the biggest show on the circuit with the most celebrities before the Oscars. Is there something I’m missing? Could it be that the miniscule amount of credibility that the Globes has justifies the attention?
samguy: What makes you think DRIVE was classified Comedy/Musical? Has someone said this? It didn’t get a nomination in that category as far as I can see.
I think he meant that because Gosling got an acting nomination in the comedy/musical category for Drive. Insane.
And from the production shots released Fassbender does not have facial hair in Promethesus. Considering the fact that he plays an android also indicates no facial hair.
movieman: this does not bode well for you
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/images-ridley-scotts-prometheus-scanned-pages-entertainment-weekly/prometheus_ew_4/
(so nice to see noomi)
eta jinx monco you owe me a coke
MWWM is as much a musical/comedy as The Kids are alright, Walk the Line, etc. this stuff happens all the time so what’s the big deal?
Gosling got 2 best actor nods:
in the drama category for “Drive;” and in the musical/comedy slot for “Crazy, Stupid, Love.
No, Gosling’s drama nod is for THE IDES OF MARCH (I double-checked on the Globes site just to be sure). So, again, I’m not sure how DRIVE got into this. Maybe DRIVE was originally listed, then corrected? At any rate, that’s that.
Oh, you’re right.
His “Drive” nod was with the BFCA.
Globes gave him the nomination for “Ides” (in drama), and “CSL” (in comedy).
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