"Argo" slowed the momentum of awards front-runners
like "Lincoln" and "Life of Pi" at the 70th Golden Globes on Sunday,
earning the Best Picture - Drama award for its dramatization of a true-life
mission to rescue captured diplomats in Iran.
Unlike the Academy Awards, the Globes honors the best of television as well.
On that front, Showtime's spy thriller "Homeland" won the statue for Best TV Series - Drama, while
HBO's coming-of-age chronicle "Girls"
earned the prize for Best TV Series - Comedy.
But the biggest moment of the show was not in any of the competitive
categories. It happened as Jodie Foster accepted her Cecil B. DeMille Award
for career achievement and came out as a lesbian. Social media sites erupted as
the star of "Silence of the Lambs" defended her long-time decision not to
comment publicly on her sexuality, while thanking her former partner,
Cydney Bernard.
"I'm just going to put it out there, loud and proud ... I am, uh,
single," she said, to laughter.
She added that she was "kidding, but not really kidding,"
explaining that she had been a public figure since she began acting
as a toddler and didn't want to share her personal life with the
world.
"Maybe then you too would value privacy above all else ... some day in the
future we will look back and remember how beautiful it once was," Foster
said.
The win for "Argo" win was not the only upset of the evening. Ben Affleck, who was snubbed by Oscar voters on
Thursday, made up for it at Sunday's Golden Globes, by winning Best Director for
his role in guiding the thriller to the big screen.
It followed what has been a rough few days for "Lincoln," which also saw
Affleck pick up top prizes at the Critics Choice Awards, as sympathy has built
in the industry for actor-director Affleck's snub. Unlike in prior years,
the Globes show is being held after Oscar nominations have been announced. The
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences opted to move up the unveiling of
Oscar nominees this year.
"Lincoln" wasn't shut out entirely. Winning Best Performance by an Actor in a
Motion Picture - Drama for his role as the 16th president, Daniel Day-Lewis called Spielberg "a humble master
with a quicksilver imagination" and thanked him for giving him "an experience I
will treasure until the end of my life."
Affleck's win wasn't the only moment when the evening's victors seemed to be
commenting consciously or not on Oscar voters' controversial decisions. Jessica Chastain, who earned Best
Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama honors for her role as a
driven C.I.A. analyst in "Zero Dark Thirty," took the opportunity to salute
Bigelow, who many awards watchers believe was left off the final list for the
film's depiction of the role torture played in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
Chastain avoided wading into that particular ethical bog during her speech,
but she did hail Bigelow for shattering glass ceilings for women in film through
her tenacity and talent.
"You've done more for women in cinema than you take credit for," Chastain
said to director Bigelow.
Hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey presided over a show that poked gentle
fun at the industry -- pausing for digs at "Girls" impresario Lena Dunham's age or insinuating
that Glenn Close was drunk and needed a medic -- but
stopped short of the savage jokes aimed at various movie stars that previous
host Ricky Gervais had detonated. During three shocking
stints as emcee, Gervais had mocked everyone from Mel Gibson to Bruce Willis (it was not always well-received),
and also skewered the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the controversial
organization behind the show that has been slammed by its critics for being more
interested in swag than artistry.
Instead Fey and Poehler kicked off the show by poking fun at its decision to
honor the best of both film and television simultaneously.
"Only at the Golden Globes do the beautiful people of film rub shoulders with
the rat -aced people of television," Poehler said.
One of those beautiful film people, Hugh Jackman, shook off the lingering effects of
the flu to pick up the Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy
or Musical award for his role as an escaped convict trying to outrun the law in
"Les Misérables."
The actor admitted onstage that he almost dropped out of the project after a
difficult day of rehearsals, but thanked his wife Deborra-Lee Furness for
convincing him to remain on the film.
Jennifer Lawrence won Best
Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical for her
role as a grieving widow in "Silver Linings Playbook."
To earn the honor, the 22-year-old actress beat out veteran actresses such as
Meryl Streep in "Hope Springs" and Judi Dench in "The Best Exotic Marigold
Hotel."
"I am so honored to be in a film like this ... Harvey thank you for killing
whoever you had to kill to get me up here today," Lawrence said, thanking the
film's producer, Harvey Weinstein.
In addition to series honors, "Homeland" stars Damian Lewis and Claire Danes won top TV awards Sunday. Lewis
earned Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama for his
performance as a terrorist mole and Danes earned Best Performance by an Actress
in a Television Series - Drama for her portrayal of a bipolar C.I.A.
agent.
"The best journeys are always shared ... I would like to share this with the
best cast and crew in television," Lewis said.
"I am very proud to be working in this medium at this moment for this
company," Danes said.
Showtime, which produces "Homeland," had a very strong evening, also
picking up a Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Comedy or
Musical for Don Cheadle's performance as a cut-throat
management consultant in the network's "House of
Lies."
Earning Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Comedy
or Musical was 26-year-old Lena Dunham.
A teary Dunham said, "I thought I'd be a cooler customer if this ever
happened, and I didn't think it would."
"This award is for every woman who ever felt like there wasn't a place for
her," she added.
On the film side, Anne Hathaway captured the Best Performance by an
Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture prize for playing a
desperate woman forced into prostitution in "Les Misérables."
"Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forever use as a weapon
against self-doubt," Hathaway said.
Christoph Waltz won Best Performance by an Actor
in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for his portrayal of a German bounty
hunter in "Django Unchained."
Waltz, who captured the award over a strong field of candidates like Alan Arkin in "Argo" and Tommy Lee Jones in "Lincoln," thanked director Quentin Tarantino, calling him his "North
Star."
Tarantino would have his own turn under the klieg lights, picking up a Best
Screenplay statue for the blood-soaked revenge fable set in the antebellum
South.
"Brave," Pixar's Scotland-set female empowerment
story, earned Best Animated Film over hits like "Wreck-It Ralph" and "Hotel Transylvania." "Amour," the Austrian film about an elderly couple,
earned Best Foreign Film over the likes of "Rust and Bone" and "Kon-Tiki."
The champagne-lubricated event took a political turn at one point
-- albeit one that looked back at more distant ideological clashes -- as
the Globes awarded the Best Mini-Series of Motion Picture Made
for Television statue to HBO's "Game Change."
Director Jay Roach said he hoped the film, which looks at
Sen. John McCain's decision to tap Sarah Palin as his running mate in the 2008
presidential election, would encourage more people to talk about politics.
Moments later Julianne Moore took the stage to accept an award
for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Movie or Mini-Series for playing
Palin in the film.
"This was one of my favorite jobs ever," Moore said.
Her "Game Change" co-star Ed Harris won Best Performance by an Actor in a
Supporting Role in a TV Movie or Mini-Series for his portrayal of
McCain.
It would not be the only moment to dish about the democratic process. Former
President Bill Clinton strolled out at one point to introduce Steven Spielberg's
"Lincoln," citing it as a guide for future presidents. A hush fell over the
crowd as he extolled the historical epic's virtues -- one that was not lifted
until co-host Amy Poehler punctured the solemnity by noting that he was "Hillary
Clinton's husband."
Kevin Costner earned honors in the Best
Performance by an Actor in a TV Movie or Mini-Series for his role in the smash
hit "Hatfields & McCoys." In a speech that looked
back at his own career in movies and TV, he thanked the awards show for allowing
people to "...illuminate movies they might not have seen and now they will.
Also honored in the initial awards was Maggie Smith, who captured Best Performance by an
Actress in a Supporting Role in a TV Movie or Mini-Series for her work as a
haughty aristocrat on PBS' "Downton
Abbey." Smith was not at the ceremony.
Of the major awards contenders, "Life of Pi" earned a Best Original Score -
Motion Picture award for Mychael Danna. On the music front, English chanteuse Adele earned her first Golden Globe for her title
track on "Skyfall."
"Honestly, I've come for a night out ... I was not expecting this!" Adele
gushed.
For Fey and Poehler, the expectations were huge, but based on the reaction on
Twitter, the two former "Saturday
Night Live" stars were able to put their own spin on the show. They were
also able to send-up the envelope-pushing Gervais.
"Ricky Gervais could not be here tonight, because
he is no longer in show business," Fey said.
Unlike the caustic Gervais, Fey and Poehler were gentler with the HFPA, but
they still shot off a few zingers at the organization's expense.
"When left untreated HFPA can lead to cervical cancer," Poehler said.
After all is said and done with Zero Dark Thirty, no one person, to date, has thanked the men who went in and actually killed Bin Laden.....without them there would be no film or award. Those are the guys who deserve the real credit, not some fantasy in Hollywood. I would think that not one of those people have any idea what a day in the real military is actually like, except for the ones who have served the rest are just guessing.
Right on to Ben Affleck after Hollywood gave him the old go f*ck yourself snub!!! Also, to Lena Dunham and "Girls" as she doesn't fit that Hollywood stereotype! Well done!
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