The major thing we can take from the newly-announced
list of nominations for the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards is that
David O'Russell's The Fighter can't be counted out so quickly as a contender and the Oscars battle might go all the way to the final round. Hell, a film might need to win on points and maybe I was to quick to award the knockout victory to
The Social Network yesterday. The Fighter features heavily in all rounds but it's definitely clear at this point that
The Social Network (6),
The King's Speech (7) and The Fighter (6) are the big heavyweights of 2010. Also nominated for Best Picture: Drama were
Black Swan and
Inception, with no spots open for
True Grit and
127 Hours, which could be telling for the Best Director Oscar race. Certainly it's a huge boost for Nolan's film to be amongst this pack. Or were the Coens simply to late in releasing their Western to be considered?
As it's the Golden Globes, the whole Awards show itself is meaningless as The Hollywood Foreign Press Association aren't worthy of consideration as anything other than a mere footnote towards February's Oscars. Certainly they will never been taken seriously until they drop the ridiculous category of Best Picture: Comedy/Musical as this year they have had to include
Alice in Wonderland, Burlesque, Red and
The Tourist. Only
The Kids Are All Right is a respectable entry, so can we just kill this category now? Isn't it time? Especially when they can't even get the category right when they have it. Surely,
Love and Other Drugs and especially
Easy A were more worthy? Though they did get it right by nominating
Emma Stone at least for her performance in the film.
That's something.
The Golden Globe Awards will be handed out on
Sunday, January 16, in a ceremony once again hosted by
Ricky Gervais. So there's at least one reason to tune in then. Film Categories;
BEST PICTURE: DRAMA Black Swan The Fighter Inception The Kings Speech The Social Network
BEST PICTURE: COMEDY OR MUSICAL Alice in Wonderland Burlesque The Kids Are Alright Red The Tourist
BEST DIRECTOR Darren Aronosfsky, Black Swan David Fincher, The Social Network Tom Hooper, The Kings Speech Christopher Nolan, Inception David O. Russell, The Fighter
BEST ACTOR: DRAMA Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network Colin Firth, The Kings Speech James Franco, 127 Hours Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine Mark Wahlberg, The Fighter
BEST ACTRESS: DRAMA Halle Berry, Frankie and Alice Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole Jennifer Lawrence, Winters Bone Natalie Portman, Black Swan Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
BEST ACTRESS: COMEDY OR MUSICAL Anette Bening, The Kids Are Alright Anne Hathaway, Love and Other Drugs Angelina Jolie, The Tourist Julianne Moore, The Kids Are Alright Emma Stone, Easy A
BEST ACTOR: COMEDY OR MUSICAL Johnny Depp, Alice in Wonderland Johnny Depp, The Tourist Paul Giamatti, Barneys Version Jake Gyllenhaal, Love and Other Drugs Kevin Spacey, Casino Jack
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Amy Adams, The Fighter Helena Bonham Carter, The Kings Speech Mila Kunis, Black Swan Melissa Leo, The Fighter Jackie Weaver, Animal Kingdom
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Christian Bale, The Fighter Michael Douglas, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps Andrew Garfield, The Social Network Jeremy Renner, The Town Geoffrey Rush, The Kings Speech
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Biutiful The Concert The Edge I Am Love In a Better World
BEST SCREENPLAY Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy, 127 Hours Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg, The Kids Are All Right Christopher Nolan, Inception David Seidler, The Kings Speech Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Alexandre Desplat, The Kings Speech Danny Elfman, Alice in Wonderland A.R. Rahman, 127 Hours Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, The Social Network Hans Zimmer, Inception
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Despicable Me How to Train Your Dragon The Illusionist Tangled Toy Story 3
BEST ORIGINAL SONG Bound To You (Burlesque) Coming Home (Country Strong) I See The Light (Tangled) Theres a Place For Us (The Chronicles of Narnia) You Havent Seen The Last of Me (Burlesque)