The 69th annual Golden Globe Awards spread the love around far and wide on Sunday night.
In the early going at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, no film won more than one award, as The Artist, The Beginners, My Week With Marilyn and The Adventures of Tintin all shared the early trophies.
The biggest surprise was Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin, which edged favourite Rango as best animated feature.
Michelle Williams' acceptance speech as best actress in the film comedy-musical category ranked as one of the most moving. She earned it for My Week With Marilyn, a film in which she plays legendary Marilyn Monroe.
"Oh hear, gosh," Williams said sweetly. "I consider myself a mother first, and an actress second." She apologized to her six-year-old dauighter, Matilda Rose Ledger, for reading her bedtime stories for six weeks "with a Marilyn Monroe accent."
Williams also said she was delighted that she won the same award as Monroe did 52 years ago for her stunning performance in Some Like It Hot.
At the awkward end of the scale, Madonna was rendered speechless after winning the best original song award for her film W.E.. Madonna stammered and faltered before finally giving some credit to her song's co-writers, Julie Frost and Jimmy Harry.
The night started with a Canadian flourish.
The first winner was Christopher Plummer, the 82-year-old, Toronto-born legend of stage and screen.
In the film section, he scored the supporting-actor award for his coming-out role in the gay-themed movie The Beginners. Eloquent and intelligent -- as always -- Plummer went poetic with his acceptance speech.
"What a wonderful welcome-back to the home of King Kong, Rin Tin Tin and all our childhood fantasies," he said of being honoured in Hollywood.
Plummer apologized to his competitors, for besting them, and sent a shout-out to his Beginners co-star, Ewan McGregor, who beamed when Plummer referred to him as "the wily Scot." McGregor then burst out laughing seconds later when Plummer expanded his tribute, calling him "that scene-stealing swine from the Outer Hebrides."
It was no surprise, then, that Plummer also thanked the friend who had kept his martini glass full. He set the proper tone for the entire evening.
In the early going, few film awards were cited, with TV getting the most attention. But The Artist started what was expected to be a great night by winning the award for best original score. Ludovic Bource's music was critical in helping to make The Artist, which is a silent film except for a couple of lines of dialogue at the end, so riveting.
In the television categories, established movie stars won a clutch of the acting awards.
Laura Dern, star of Enlightened, took the best-actress prize for a TV comedy/musical. Oscar-winner Kate Winslet, star of the TV remake of Mildred Pierce, won as best actress in a mini-series or TV movie.
But Kelsey Grammer reminded the audience that TV superstars are still relevant. Thanks to his riveting performance in Boss, he won best actor for a TV series (drama). That had him beating out Jeremy Irons for The Borgias and even Steve Buscemi for the hugely popular Boardwalk Empire.
Boardwalk Empire, which is at home with HBO, also got hammered by Homeland as best TV series (drama). Homeland is at home with Showtime so there are bragging rights there.
The Globes went British when picking the best mini-series or TV movie winner. It was Downton Abbey, a glorious entry from the Masterpiece Classic series. It chronicles the upstairs-downstairs lives at a British mansion in the years before and during the First World War. Downton Abbey beat out Mildred Pierce, among others.
In the film categories, it is a myth that the Golden Globes are a crystal ball for predicting the Academy Awards. Instead, the role of the Globes is strictly to serve as a gala hypefest for Hollywood. The heavy consumption of wine and liquor at the sit-down dinner just heightens the effect as hosts, presenters, winners and losers all get a little giddy, just like we do at home watching the chaotic show. Hollywood studios already have their Oscar campaigns in full stride and the lavish Globes put the key faces, names, titles and images in front of the 6,000 voters who determine the Oscar nominations and the final awards.
As for its Oscar connection, the Globes have what The Hollywood Reporter recently called "a dismal track record" in their ability to predict Oscars. Even with two separate winners as best film -- one in the drama category and another in the comedy-musical category -- the Globes have scored the eventual best picture winner at the Oscars just 55 percent of the time in the past 20 years. The past seven years have been really off. Only once in that time period, with Slumdog Millionaire, has a Globe winner gone on to the Oscar.
The Globes also have two winners in the two categories covering best actor and best actress in films. In the best-actor category, the score is 60%. But, in the best actress category, they have scored the eventual Oscar winner 85% of the time. In fact, the Globes have not miss since 1996. As for the best supporting categories, the Globes have a 65% success rate with actors, and a 55% success rate with actresses.
The truth is, anyone could score just as good, if not better, than the Globes. If you asked all those mythical monkeys -- the same ones in the room typing all that Shakespearean verse at random -- they could actually do a better job!
Predicting the Oscar nominations, which are coming on Jan. 24, is still a fool's game because so many titles are in play. But predicting the results in the Golden Globes seems to be a cut-and-dried deal. At least in the film categories (the television categories seem to be more wide open).
Film and TV nominations for the 69th Golden Globe Awards (Winner in RED):
FILM
BEST DRAMA
The Descendants
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
Moneyball
War Horse
BEST COMEDY OR MUSICAL
50/50
The Artist
Bridesmaids
Midnight in Paris
My Week with Marilyn
BEST ACTOR, DRAMA
George Clooney, The Descendants
Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar
Michael Fassbender, Shame
Ryan Gosling, The Ides of March
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis, The Help
Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin
BEST ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Brendan Gleeson, The Guard
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 50/50
Ryan Gosling, Crazy, Stupid, Love
Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris
BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Jodie Foster, Carnage
Charlize Theron, Young Adult
Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids
Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn
Kate Winslet, Carnage
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn
Albert Brooks, Drive
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Berenice Bejo, The Artist
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer, The Help
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
BEST ANIMATED FILM
The Adventures of Tintin
Arthur Christmas
Cars 2
Puss In Boots
Rango
BEST DIRECTOR
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
George Clooney, The Ides of March
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
BEST SCREENPLAY
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon, The Ides of March
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, The Descendants
Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin Moneyball
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Flowers of War (China)
In The Land of Blood and Honey (USA)
The Kid with a Bike (Belgium)
A Separation (Iran)
The Skin I Live In (Spain)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Ludovic Bource, The Artist
Abel Korzeniowski, W.E.
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Howard Shore, Hugo
John Williams, War Horse
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Hello Hello from Gnomeo & Juliet (Elton John, Bernie Taupin)
The Keeper from Machine Gun Preacher (Chris Cornell)
Lay Your Head Down from Albert Nobbs (Brian Byrne, Glenn Close)
The Living Proof from The Help (Mary J. Blige, Thomas Newman, Harvey Mason Jr., Damon Thomas)
Masterpiece from W.E. (Madonna, Julie Frost, Jimmy Harry)
TELEVISION
BEST SERIES, DRAMA
American Horror Story
Boardwalk Empire
Boss
Game of Thrones
Homeland
BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA
Claire Danes, Homeland
Mireille Enos, The Killing
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Madeleine Stowe, Revenge
Callie Thorne, Necessary Roughness
BEST ACTOR, DRAMA
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Kelsey Grammer, Boss
Jeremy Irons, The Borgias
Damian Lewis, Homeland
BEST SERIES, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Enlightened
Episodes
Glee
Modern Family
New Girl
BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Laura Dern, Enlightened
Zooey Deschanel, New Girl
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Laura Linney, The Big C
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
BEST ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
David Duchovny, Californication
Johnny Galecki, The Big Bang Theory
Thomas Jane, Hung
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
BEST MINI-SERIES OR TV FILM
Downton Abbey
The Hour
Mildred Pierce
Too Big to Fail
BEST ACTRESS, MINI-SERIES OR TV FILM
Romola Garai, The Hour
Diane Lane, Cinema Verite
Elizabeth McGovern, Downton Abbey
Emily Watson, Appropriate Adult
Kate Winslet, Mildred Pierce
BEST ACTOR, MINI-SERIES OR TV FILM
Hugh Bonneville, Downtown Abbey
Idris Elba, Luther
William Hurt, Too Big to Fail
Bill Nighy, Page Eight
Dominic West, The Hour
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, SERIES OR MINI-SERIES OR TV FILM
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story
Kelly MacDonald, Boardwalk Empire
Maggie Smith, Downtown Abbey
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Evan Rachel Wood, Mildred Pierce
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, SERIES OR MINI-SERIES OR TV FILM
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Paul Giamatti, Too Big to Fail
Guy Pearce, Mildred Pierce
Tim Robbins, Cinema Verite
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
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