And the winners are ...
Argo the other big winner at awards
‘Les Miserables’ garners three honours while ‘Argo’ manages two at the Golden Globes.
BEVERLY HILLS: Argo is in big with the Golden Globes, but not so much with the Academy Awards. Lincoln is sitting pretty with the Oscars but was mostly left out in the cold at the Globes.
Sunday’s Globes left the Feb 24 Academy Awards picture still muddled, with the Iran hostage thriller Argo winning for best drama and director for Ben Affleck, a prize he already knows he can’t win at the Oscars, where he wasn’t even nominated.
The night featured former President Bill Clinton getting a standing ovation after introducing Lincoln.
One thing not so boring this year were hosts – Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, who were given credit for being charming, irreverent and hilarious. Besides the three wins for Les
Miserables and two for Argo, the show was a mixed bag, with awards spreads around a number of films.
Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln came in leading the Globes with seven nominations but won only one award, best actor for Daniel DayLewis. Lincoln also leads the Oscars with 12 nominations, with Spielberg, Day-Lewis and co-star Sally Field all in the running for possible third Oscars.
“If I had this on a timeshare basis with my wonderful gifted colleagues, I might just hope to keep it for one day of the year, and I’d be happy with that,” Day-Lewis said.
Les Miserables was named best musical or comedy and won acting honours for Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway.
Zero Dark Thirty star Jessica Chastain won the Globe for dramatic actress as a CIA agent obsessively pursuing Osama bin Laden.
Other acting prizes went to Jennifer Lawrence as best musical or comedy actress for the oddball romance Silver Linings
Playbook and Austrian Christoph Waltz as supporting actor for the slave-revenge tale Django Unchained.
Les Miserables, the musical based on Victor Hugo’s classic novel, earned Jackman the Globe for musical or comedy actor as tragic hero Jean Valjean. Hathaway won supporting actress as a single mum forced into prostitution.
“Thank you for this lovely blunt object that
Seriously, I hope you’re not disappointed that there won’t be a big coming-out speech tonight, because I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the Stone Age”
- JODIE FOSTER, LONG-RUMOURED TO BE A LESBIAN, IN A TEASING COMING-OUT-BUT-NOT COMING OUT SPEECH WHILE ACCEPTING THE CECIL B DEMILLE AWARD
I will forever more use as a weapon against self-doubt,” Hathaway said, cradling her trophy. Jackman was a bit hoarse from the flu, but his Globe win seemed to be the right antidote.
“I was kicking myself for not getting the flu shot, but it appears that you don’t need one. I feel great,” Jackman said.
But when it comes to Hollywood’s highest honours, Les
Miserables has the same obstacle as
Argo, also failing to earn a best director slot for film-maker Tom Hooper at the Oscars. Last Thursday’s Oscar nominations held other shockers, including the omission of fellow Globe directing nominee Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty.
Among other TV winners, Julianne Moore won a best-actress Globe for her role as Sarah Palin in Game Change, which also was picked as best TV mini-series or movie and earned Ed Harris a supporting-actor prize. Best actor in a mini-series or movie went to Kevin Costner for Hatfields & McCoys.