69th Annual Golden Globes Live Blog

10:58 – YAY! It’s over! The Weekly Movie Newsletter will be up on Monday night and there will be a Movie Podcast up on Tuesday recapping the entire show. 

10:57 – Music to tell people to get the hell off the stage count: Ten

10:55 – Keep in mind that I really liked The Descendants, I think this was junk. There were two films that were better.

WINNER: The Descendants Best Picture – Drama

10:49 – I see we’re rewarding mediocrity. I like George Clooney but I don’t think this was even close to his best work. However, considering how this night has been, I just have to shrug my shoulders.

WINNER: George Clooney (The Descendants) Best Actor – Drama

10:44 – Music to tell people to get the hell off the stage count: Nine (Not acceptable Golden Globes production staff)

10:41 – Ok, this was the best speech. I understand that they need to keep the show going (I was making snarky comments about the jerks at the beginning going past their allotted time) but that when you have such a heartfelt speech like that, the person who’s pressing the button to start the music needs to get a clue.

WINNER: The Artist Best Picture – Comedy/Musical

10:40 – Music to tell people to get the hell off the stage count: Eight (Sorry)

10:38 – I don’t care that they’re playing her off, Meryl Streep is great; even without her glasses. I’d rather listen to her go one for 15 minutes than anyone else.

10:37 – Will you just get up and give her the damn glasses? Who was that jerk that decided he wasn’t going to get up and see if he can have a front-row street for a train wreck.

10:35 – Why is Meryl Streep surprised? The reviews for The Iron Lady have been pretty below average and the only reason why people are talking about Meryl Streep’s performance.

WINNER: Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) Best Actress – Drama

10:33 – It only took over two-and-a-half hours but Ricky Gervais finally showed up.

10:33 – Thanks for telling me it’s nearly over, Ricky Gervais. I can’t wait.

10:28 – The recession is hitting the acting community pretty hard. Tilda Swinton couldn’t afford a hat so she converted her hair into one.

10:27 – That was very rude of Jean Dujardin’s wife to be using her phone during the acceptance speech. I wonder if she got that in her goody basket.

10:26 – My goodness, I didn’t know Jean Dujardin could speak. Great acceptance speech. Makes me wish some of the other winners could have treated their speeches like silent films.

WINNER: Jean Dujardin (The Artist) Best Actor – Comedy/Musical

10:21 – I’m not a big fan of Modern Family but if more television comedies were more like Modern Family and less like whatever crap passes for comedy on CBS and NBC, network television wouldn’t be in the sad state it’s in today.

WINNER: Modern Family (ABC) Best TV Comedy/Musical

10:16 – Ricky Gervais says something that was censored and then Antonio Banderas starts to rant in Spanish. I couldn’t stop yawning, it was that whatever.

10:15 – Put your hand down, Ben Kingsley.

WINNER: Martin Scorsese (Hugo) Best Director

10:10 – Very nice tribute; Glory and The Shawshank Redemption are two of my favourite films and I can’t imagine anyone else play Red.

9:58 – Helen Mirren: just as awesome.

9:57 – Sidney Poitier: best presenter so far…best part of the show.

9:48 – She beat the odds; it’s hard for someone to win in a category where two people from the same film are nominated in the same category. I still thought Woodley should have taken the award but Spencer did very well in her role too. 

WINNER: Octavia Spencer (The Help) Best Supporting Actress – Film

9:45 – I don’t know much about Episodes but Matt LeBlanc was nominated for Joey? And they mentioned it again on air? Why would they confess to such a failure of a nomination?

WINNER: Matt LeBlanc (Episodes/Showtime) Best Actor – TV Comedy/Musical

9:42 – Emily Blunt looks like the last thing she wants to do is introduce Bridesmaids. I don’t blame her.

9:37 – Music to tell people to get the hell off the stage count: Seven (Called it)

9:36 – It’s looking like we’re going to hit seven.

WINNER: Claire Danes (Homeland) Best Actress – TV Drama 

9:34 – Here comes the real Hoff.

WINNER: A Separation Best Foreign Language Film

9:31 – Um, will someone please tell Madonna that it’s not foreign films but foreign language films. Unless on her map of the world that the U.S.A. is not part of the U.S.A.

9:30 – Ricky Gervais has been the most disappointing part of the show. Very lame.

9:25 – Shouldn’t a judging body be impartial and not “generous”?

WINNER: Jessica Lange (American Horror Story/FX) Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie

9:22 – Not a fan of that decision but I can understand it. What the hell was up with Nicole Kidman there? That was really awkward.

WINNER: Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris) Best Screenplay

9:21 – Maybe this is the year that Clive Owen finally makes a good movie. His talents are wasted on such crappy films like The International.

9:21 – Yes, there has been six minutes of nothing. And they’re already running late.

9:15 – Thankfully, Steven Spielberg gets the point that speeches aren’t supposed to be marathons…even if his thing about the phonebook didn’t make that much sense.

9:14 – I was bound to finally get one right.

WINNER: The Adventures of Tintin Best Animated Film

9:11 – Please save the show, Ricky Gervais.

9:10 – Music to tell people to get the hell off the stage count: Six (I wrote this one way before the music started)

WINNER: Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones/HBO) Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie

9:04 – The last show that CTV rammed down our throats through advertising was Pan-Am. I doubt Smash will perform much better.

9:02 – Lame performance for a movie that’s not a comedy or musical. This show, MY GOODNESS!

WINNER: Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn) Best Actress – Comedy/Musical

9:01 – I doubt anyone will beat Seth Rogen for the worst joke of the night. At least he gets that My Week With Marilyn was not a comedy.

9:00 – These presenter pairings are really odd.

8:59 – Music to tell people to get the hell off the stage count: Five

WINNER: Idris Elba – (Luther/BBC America) Best Actor – Mini-Series or TV Movie

8:53 – Has anyone seen W.E.? Probably not. It’s one of the films that has only been screened at a couple of film festivals and a couple of theatres in Los Angeles so it can qualify for the Golden Globes. It’s premiering in the UK this Friday and isn’t being released in North America until February. Completely asinine!

8:52 – Music to tell people to get the hell off the stage count: Four

8:51 – Madonna shouldn’t be talking about beating people up with the guns she’s sporting. She’s not headed to Disney World…she’s headed to WRESTLEMANIA!!!

8:50 – Does this mean Madonna’s going to win the Oscar too? That’s what she said the last time she won for Evita. That ended up working well for her.

WINNER: “Masterpiece” – Music & Lyrics By: Madonna, Julie Frost and Jimmy Harry (W.E.) Best Original Song

8:48 – Three winners now played off.

8:47 – Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman both look incredibly bored…or annoyed that they were nominated for anything.

WINNER: Ludovic Bource (The Artist) Best Original Score

8:45 – Attention Jimmy Fallon: George Clooney doesn’t appear to be impressed by your schtick. You must obey George Clooney.

8:43 – I hate Foster the People and hate their stupid song. Just saying.

8:40 – We’re up to two award winners hearing the music. We need to speed things up. I have to be up in 7 hours and still have to finish two newsletters.

8:39 – Speed the speech up, bub. It’s only a three hour show.

WINNER: Homeland (Showtime) Best TV Drama

8:37 – They’re letting her present twice? Ok, we’re approaching train wreck TV here.

WINNER: Kelsey Grammer (Boss/Starz) Best Actor – TV Drama

8:36 – Yes, Paula Patton did come across like a blithering idiot. This show has been awful so far.

8:32 – They promised Ricky Gervais when they came back from commercial. BAIT-AND-SWITCH!

8:26 – Kate Winslet also wins the award for being the first person to be played off stage. The reason she took so long was that she needed a rest. I mean, I understand being anxious and all but at the beginning, I thought she was going to pass out.

8:25 – Will someone get Kate Winslet some oxygen? She’s having trouble catching her breath from the walk up the stairs.

WINNER: Kate Winslet (Mildred Pierce/HBO) Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie

8:22 – We’re only three awards and twenty minutes into the show and I’ve already been wrong twice. Maybe I should just go to bed now.

WINNER: Downtown Abbey (PBS) Best Mini-Series or TV Movie

8:20 – Nothing like a busted teleprompter to make the show grind to a halt. You can’t blame Ricky Gervais for that one.

8:18 – HBO had the same amount of nominations this year than all the networks combined and PBS.

8:17 – I’m not a big TV fan but I think that it’s about time that there be separate categories for pay-TV and network-TV. I get the feeling it’s going to be a near-shutout for HBO et al. The only Golden Globe that the networks have a chance with tonight might be Modern Family (ABC). The differences in what they can do is so vast that it’s incomparable. That’s not to say network television is bad; it really isn’t. It’s just that HBO and Showtime and the rest can do so much more with the type of content they can show on their channels than the networks.

WINNER: Laura Dern (Enlightened/HBO) Best Actress – TV Comedy/Musical

WINNER: Christopher Plummer (Beginners) Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

I can’t really comment since I haven’t seen Beginners so I’ll hold my judgment whether this was the right call or not but I still think Kenneth Branagh did an amazing job in My Week with Marilyn (which is saying something since I thought the film was nothing special).

8:08 – What’s wrong with Johnny Depp?

8:06 – I hope they do this all night: Ricky Gervais must speak to all the presenters. It should be a law.

8:01 – Ricky Gervais is stealing all my “Golden Globes being sub-par compared to the Oscars” jokes. They’re still funny, though.

It’s time for the Ricky Gervais show…I mean Golden Globes. I’ll be offering up witty responses to this year’s Golden Globes (otherwise known as the start of the Oscar season).