In Contention: The Golden Globes

By Josh Spiegel

January 18, 2010

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Well, all the votes are in, all the tequila has been gulped, and as the hangovers in Hollywood continue today, we can go over who won at last night's Golden Globes ceremony, and what it means for a few films at the upcoming Academy Awards. The Golden Globes, as always, are inexplicable and full of surprises. This year was no different. That is, unless you had predicted that The Hangover and Avatar would be crowned the Best Comedy or Musical and Best Drama of the year. Unless you predicted Sandra Bullock would get the Best Actress in a Drama award for The Blind Side. If you got those ones right, congratulations, you are the winner of your office pool, by far. Lucky you.

No one movie dominated last night, as the top winners got two Golden Globes. And there were quite a few of those movies, including Crazy Heart, Avatar, and Up. There were some awards that weren't surprising at all; though there could be lots of twists and turns on the road to the winners for some categories, Christoph Waltz and Mo'Nique, the winners for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, will be nominated for their respective categories on February 2nd, and they'll win on March 7th. I'd like to say that you read it here first, but let's be honest; everybody's been aware that these categories are sewn up. Though we'll find out soon enough, I did predict that these two would win at the Globes. Two for two so far.




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And, since I'm trying to prolong the agony of being wrong in so many ways, let's go with my third correct prediction, even if it was out of left field: Robert Downey Jr. in Sherlock Holmes. As Downey noted in his acceptance speech (or, based on how he delivered it, his not-acceptance speech), the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is a strange bunch. Why Downey over Joseph Gordon-Levitt? Why not? Looking for logic in what the HFPA does is akin to going insane. There's no point, so why figure things out? If anything else, Downey is now a movie star, he's well-liked, he's funny, and he's charming. Awards like these don't take into consideration whether something is deserved. Deserve has nothing to do with it, but Downey, who has no chance of an Oscar nod, will take his Globe and be happy with it.

Another correct prediction of mine was Meryl Streep winning the Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for Julie & Julia. Her likely competition for the award will come from the woman who won for the Best Actress in a Drama category, Carey Mulli...oh, wait. Yes, I was very wrong here. The winner is Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side. Alongside the tie between Streep and Bullock at last week's Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, it's safe to say that the race could be between these two women. Both are popular (though Streep's popularity is on the rise), both are in popular movies, and neither has made any enemies in the Hollywood community. I'm willing to say there won't be a tie at the Oscars, but if one of these two women doesn't get the Oscar, it'll be surprising.


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