live at the 2011 Golden Globes

let the fun begin!

5:00 – and here we go. did you catch my red carpet coverage?

5:01 – host ricky gervais: “it’s going to be a night of partying & heavy drinking. or as charlie sheen calls it, breakfast.”

5:03 – i LOVE that ricky just dumped on johnny depp & angelina jolie‘s the tourist. hilarious.

5:04 – ricky on sex & the city 2: “girls, we know how old you are.”

5:06 – no one is safe here! ricky’s already insulted scientologists, hugh hefner, mel gibson, jewish people & “secret” gays!

5:08 – presentor scarlett johansson not looking her best this year.

5:09 – best supporting actor: christian bale, for the fighter! SO HAPPY! what a cute speech.

5:13 – total shocker! sons of anarchy katey sagal takes home the best supporting actress award after being nominated 5 times good for her!

5: 17 – sorry julianne more, but you struck out here. it would’ve been pretty, but that sleeve is getting in the way!

5:22 – “please welcome, ashton kutcher‘s dad, bruce willis!”

5:24 – newbie chris colfer wins best supporting actor in a tv series (comedy) for glee and kids rejoice around the world!

5: 33 – best actor in a tv series (drama): the amazing steve buscemi for boardwalk empire!

5:40 – i guess this means i should start watching boardwalk empire – the newly-crowned best tv series (drama).

5:45 – “he’s alec from the rock, she’s jenny from the block… if the block is that one near rodeo.”

5:48 – there ya go, burlesque. music is your thing… NOT the best picture category.

5:50 – …and the social network takes home it’s first award of the night! (best musical score for a film) will it win best picture as well?

5:55 – wait, why is justin bieber at the Golden Globes?! and i love that his similarly-aged co-presenter hailee steinfeld is taller than him. oh, puberty.

5:59 – toy story 3 wins for best animated feature film! ts3 director to presenters: “were you guys even born when the first toy story movie came out?”

6:00 – words can’t describe how much i love robert downey jr.. “i don’t know if an actress can do her best work until i sleep with her.”

6:03 – called it! annette bening wins best actress in a comedy/musical film for the kids are all right. would you just look at that hair of hers? not her best look.

6:19 – al pacino for you don’t know jack & claire danes for temple grandin taking home awards just as they did at the 2010 Emmy‘s! congrats!

6:25 – thank you steve carrell & tina fey for bringing some laughs! whew, we needed it.

6:26 – best screenplay goes to aaron sorkin for the social network! tina fey: “thank you for ruining our ability to interact in real life.”

6:28 – i love that sorkin did a little shoutout to real-life mark zuckerberg, calling him a true genuis & altruist. he didn’t deserve the negative light that was cast upon him!

6:36 – best foreign language film: “the category that no one in America cares about!” (winner: in a better world)

6:48 – wow, big bang theory is blowin’ up! jim parsons wins for best actor in a tv series (comedy). just got picked up for 3 more years.

6:53 – YES. melissa leo for the fighter takes home best supporting actress in a film (drama).

7:04 – lifetime achievement award to robert deniro. so iconic.

7:15 – …and the social network wins again for best director (david fincher)!

7:28 – paul giamatti of barney’s version takes home the Golden Globe for best actor in a musical/comedy film. NBC keeps preemptively bleeping out speeches since it’s a live show. wonder what he said?

7:35 – best actress in a film (drama) goes to natalie portman for black swan. haven’t seen it, as it would probably scare the crap out of me, but i hear she was brilliant.

7:40 – best motion picture comedy/musical: the kids are all right. i personally didn’t like it, but to each their own!

7:49 – so happy for colin firth (the king’s speech) to have finally won a Golden Globe. well-deserved!

7:54 – almost over! to present the final award of the evening, michael douglas. “there’s gotta be an easier way to get a standing ovation.” (referring to his recent battle with cancer… love his sense of humor about it all!)

7:55 – best picture? the social network! yes, it was good. but i would’ve loved to see inception or the fighter take it home. oh well!

8:00 – welp, that was fun! hope you enjoyed the coverage.

…and the nominees are: the 2011 Golden Globes

Best motion picture, drama
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception

The King’s SpeechBurlesque
The Social Network

Best motion picture, musical or comedy
Alice in Wonderland
Burlesque*
The Kids Are All Right
Red
The Tourist

*Burlesque, really? Some of the WORST acting I’ve ever seen.

Best Director
Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
David Fincher – Social Network
Tom Hooper – King’s Speech
Christopher Nolan – Inception
David O. Russell – The Fighter

Best Actor in a motion picture
Jesse Eisenberg – Social Network
Colin Firth – The King’s Speech
James Franco – 127 Hours
Ryan Gosling - Blue Valentine
Mark Wahlberg – The Fighter*

*To choose “Best Actor/ress”, I always take into account how much time and effort the actor went into preparing for the role. Mark Wahlberg spent years training for this role. Now THAT’s commitment!

Best supporting Actor in a motion picture
Christian Bale – The Fighter
Michael Douglas – Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps
Jeremy Renner – The Town*
Jeffrey Rush – The King’s Speech
Andrew Garfield – The Social Network

*Wow, Jeremy was thrilling in this film. So convincing and multi-dimensional.

The Tourist

Best Actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy
Johnny Depp – Alice in Wonderland*
Johnny Depp – The Tourist
Paul Giamatti – Barney’s Version
Jake Gyllenhaal – Love and Other Drugs
Kevin Spacey – Casino Jack

*Nominated twice in one category! Nice, Johnny!

Best Actor in a mini-series or TV movie
Idris Alba - Luther
Ian McShane – Pillars of the Earth
Al Pacino – You Don’t Know Jack
Dennis Quaid – The Special Relationship
Edward Ramirez – Carlos

Best Supporting Actor in a series, mini-series, or TV movie
Scott Caan – Hawaii 5-0
Chris Colfer – Glee
Chris Noth – The Good Wife
Eric Stonestreet – Modern Family
David Strathern – Temple Grandin

Best Actress in a motion picture, drama
Halle Berry – Frankie and Alice
Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter’s Bone
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine

Best supporting Actress in a motion picture
Amy Adams – The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter – The King’s Speech
Mila Kunis – Black Swan
Melissa Leo – The Fighter
Jackie Weaver – Animal Kingdom

Best Actress in a motion picture, musical or comedy
Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
Anne Hathaway – Love and Other Drugs
Angelina Jolie – The Tourist*
Julianne Moore – The Kids Are All Right
Emma Stone – Easy A

*Is anyone else getting tired of Angie playing the SAME role over and over again? Boring.

Best Actor, TV series, comedy
Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock
Steve Carell – The Office*
Thomas Jane – Hung
Matthew Morrison – Glee
Jim Parsons – The Big Bang Theory

*Please oh please vote for Steve! His last year as Michael Scott… He deserves it!

Boardwalk Empire

Best Actor in a TV series, drama
Steve Buscemi – Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall – Dexter
John Hamm – Mad Men
Hugh Laurie – House

Best Actress in a TV series, comedy
Toni Collette – Unites States of Tara
Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie
Tina Fey – 30 Rock
Laura Linney – The Bic C
Lea Michele – Glee

Best Actress in a TV series, drama
Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife
Elizabeth Moss – Mad Men
Piper Perabo – Covert Affairs
Katey Sagal – Sons of Anarchy
Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer

Best Actress in a mini-series or TV movie
Hayley Atwell – Pillars of the Earth
Claire Danes – Temple Grandin
Judi Dench – Return to Cranford
Romola Garai -  Emma
Jennifer Love Hewitt – The Client List

Best Supporting Actress in a series, mini-series or TV movie
Hope Davis – The Special Relationship
Jane Lynch – Glee
Kelly McDonald - Boardwalk Empire
Julia Stiles – Dexter
Sofia Vergara – Modern Family

Best TV movie or mini-series
Carlos
The Pacific
Pillars of the Earth
Temple Grandin

You Don’t Know Jack

Best original score – motion picture
Alexander Desplot – The King’s Speech
Danny Elfman – Alice in Wonderland
A.R. Robin – 127 Hours
Trent Reznor – The Social Network
Hans Zimmer – Inception*

*What a gripping score. Truly brought so much to the story.

Best screenplay – motion picture
Danny Boyle - 127 Hours
Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Hart – The Kids are All Right
Christopher Nolan – Inception
David Seidler – Kings Speech
Aaron Sorkin – Social Network

Best TV Series, comedy
30 Rock
The Big Bang Theory
The Big C
Glee
Modern Family

Nurse Jackie

Best foreign language film
Beautiful, Mexico – Spain
The Concert – France
The Edge – Russia
I Am Love – Italy
In a Better World – Denmark

Best animated feature film
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
*
The Illusionist
Tangled
Toy Story 3

*Probably one of my favorite movies of all time. LOVED IT.

Best original song – motion picture
“Bound to You” – Burlesque*
“Coming Home” – Country Strong
“I See the Light” – Tangled
“There’s a Place for Us” – Chronicles of Narnia: The Dawn Treader
“You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me” – Burlesque

*Go for it, Burlesque. Singing, dancing, that’s your category. NOT acting!

Best TV series, drama
Boardwalk Empire
Dexter

The Good Wife
Mad Men
The Walking Dead

johnny depp’s the tourist


the tourist – due out on december 10th – is posing quite the problem for me. you see, johnny depp looks absolutely genius in it.

but angelina jolie? i mean, come on, how 2-dimensional can you be! she always plays the same darn character… the beautifully mysterious woman who is too pretty to be involved in crime and violence but is anyway. not to mention the fact that she only has two “looks” – the playful smirk and the sexy smirk. ground-breaking, i know.

what are you in for during the flick?

“depp stars as an American tourist whose playful dalliance with a stranger leads to a web of intrigue, romance and danger in the tourist. during an impromptu trip to Europe to mend a broken heart, frank (depp) unexpectedly finds himself in a flirtatious encounter with elise (jolie) , an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path. against the breathtaking backdrop of Paris and Venice, their whirlwind romance quickly evolves as they find themselves unwittingly thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.”

i suppose johnny is WAY too good to pass up. but still the question remains, to see or not to see?

take a bow

heath ledger’s final contribution to the film world, ‘the imaginarium of doctor parnassus,’ has just released its trailer. and can i just say… wow. check out the trailer above. it pretty much oozes brilliance.

ledger, who portrays the film’s lead character, passed away in the midst of filming. only about half of his work was done, which left the question of who to replace him up to director terry gilliam. gilliam decided to honor ledger by casting several great actors in his place – johnny depp, jude law & colin farrell. the 3 men portray transformations of the ledger’s character as he travels through a dream world.

the film follows the leader of a traveling theatre troupe, doctor parnassus (christopher plummer), who makes a deal with the devil in order to give the audience the show of their dreams. when the devil comes to collect on his end of the deal & things go sour, ledger’s character tony embarks on a journey to save the doctor’s daughter. as ledger’s unexpected death led to a production hiatus, the release date has been pushed from october to december 25th.

burton’s world

director tim burton has always welcomed us with open arms into his mixed-up little mind. from ’beetle juice’ to ‘sweeny todd,’  burton has shown us that his imagination might be a bit more imaginative than our own. his latest project? the disney classic ‘alice in wonderland.’

from the moment the new project was announced, we knew we were in for a treat. let’s be honest, ‘alice in wonderland’ is a weird movie even before burton touched it! he of course cast his two muses in the flick – actress/wife helena bonham carter & actor johnny depp. depp takes on the role of the mad hatter with bonham carter as the red queen. current hollywood ‘it’ girl anne hathaway co-stars as the white queen, and newbie mia wasikowska portrays little miss alice.

with such a bomb cast & brilliant cinematography no doubt, ‘alice in wonderland’ will fit perfectly in tim burton’s line of work. check out the trailer for the movie above - it was just released at comic-con this past weekend. ‘alice in wonderland’ is set to hit theaters march 5, 2010. why so long, darn it!