Three More GG Winners
The Golden Globe Best Director award goes to Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly...what? Everyone had called this for No Country's Joel and Ethan Coen. What happened? Does this mean something? Did anyone at all predict this?
Sweeney Todd's Johnny Depp has won the Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical award...deserved, not muchy of a surprise, good call.
The Golden Globe award for Best Motion Picture Comedy/Musical goes not to Juno but Sweeney Todd! With Ellen Page having lost the Best Comedy/Musical actress award to Marion Cotillard, this amounts to a double Juno shut-down. I don't get it -- didn't the Golden Globes voters consider Juno's box-office receipts? Perhaps some of them came to the conclusion that Todd is...you know, all things considered, a richer, fuller, better film?
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 13, 2008 at 6:38 PM
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Jeffrey Kunze
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I don't think the Coens will mind getting skipped by the Globes as long as the Oscars give them their due.
Posted by Jeffrey Kunze
at January 13, 2008 6:57 PM
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RoyBatty
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82 squabbling half-assed journalists pull both the nominations and the winners out of their asses. I don't if you taking it seriously or getting upset about it is funnier. At any rat...
Heheheheheheheheh LMAO
Posted by RoyBatty
at January 13, 2008 6:59 PM
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The Winchester
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Votes for the globes were tallied before Juno started garnering big BO. I don't think this means anything against Juno's Oscar chances.
(Nominations, not wins)
Posted by The Winchester
at January 13, 2008 7:08 PM
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Hash
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I guess people really dug that milky white cinematography.
Posted by Hash
at January 13, 2008 7:10 PM
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qwiggles
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Since when do you take the Globes this seriously? Strange choices all around, if you ask me, and I predict they'll have zero effect on the Oscars. First, because nominations are done anyway, and second, because what are the only surprises here? That Sweeney beat Juno? Sweeney has no shot at best picture even if it gets in, and Juno is in the running to be nominated at best. As for Atonement, I don't see why a win would put it back in a race it may have been booted out of yesterday. Unless it's already among the nominees, in which case this win didn't help, either.
Posted by qwiggles
at January 13, 2008 7:16 PM
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Sam Adams
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It's the Globes. Juno has no stars. Whence the confusion. Granted, they like to crown new talent, but the HFPA prefers their starlets with a little more va-va-voom.
Posted by Sam Adams
at January 13, 2008 7:28 PM
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corey3rd
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During his lunch with the HFP folks, Julian broke their plates and sent them home with original art.
Posted by corey3rd
at January 13, 2008 7:40 PM
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Daniel G.
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The Coen brothers deserve every directing award given out this year, but Schnabel's sneaky win here is fine with me. In fact, as Jeffrey says, the Coens should share some wealth with PTA and Schnabel. Oscar is the only win that matters.
Also I don't think Juno is hurt at all by not winning here. It still has oodles of momentum.
Posted by Daniel G.
at January 13, 2008 9:37 PM
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truefaith
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I just saw JUNO and it was all right but nothing special. It's a bit overrated. Acutally I preferred DAN IN REAL LIFE over JUNO. I found DAN to be a lot funnier.
Posted by truefaith
at January 14, 2008 12:03 AM
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Craig Kennedy
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This is weird. It's like the first time Jeff has covered the Globes. Why are you taking it so seriously, man? It's the Globes. It's just a big party, only this year there isn't even a party.
Posted by Craig Kennedy
at January 14, 2008 1:07 AM
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Marty Melville
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"It's just a big party, only this year there isn't even a party."
That's why it's "serious" this year so we all gotta pay attention. Next year, the party is back and we can say "screw it, it's the Globes."
Posted by Marty Melville
at January 14, 2008 1:26 AM
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Chicago48
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Marion deserved best actress musical/comedy. She was spectacular, and I hope she gets the Oscar.
Posted by Chicago48
at January 14, 2008 4:55 AM
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tophertilson
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Comedy doesn't travel. You'd be hard pressed to find an internationally acclaimed comic novel/movie/play/television show. JUNO means nothing overseas. And stripped of the zippy zeitgeist vibe that the American would-be hipsters are grooving to, it's revealed as being the so-so film it actually is. SWEENEY deserved its award. It deserves an Oscar nom, too. But I fear it won't be getting it.
Posted by tophertilson
at January 14, 2008 5:03 AM