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Golden Globes 2009 Recap: Minute by Minute
LOS ANGELES -- What a difference a year makes. No matter what, this 66th Annual Golden Globes ceremony promises to be more exciting that last year's somber reading of the winners due to the actors defecting in a show of solidarity with the striking writers.
Since the Golden Globes, awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, honors both TV and film, an array of stars will be out to hobnob with faces they don't encounter regularly. So that means Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (both nominees) tonight will be mixing it up with all the cable darlings, and the very talented Meryl Streep can be seen on the red carpet with the equally talented Tina Fey.
Even if you haven't gone digital and availed yourself of a DVR, no worries. Zap2it is here to recap the highlights for your reading pleasure. (All times listed are Eastern)
8:05 p.m. - J.Lo shushes the room, "Hello, Mama talkin'. Mama talkin'," and presents the award for best supporting actress in a movie drama to The Reader's Kate Winslet who looks amazing and somewhat flustered. She explains, "I have a habit of not winning things," and then gives a heartfelt speech with a shout out to her kids.
8:06 p.m. - Whoa, dark-bearded Sting.
8:09 p.m. - The Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen, gets the best original song award for "The Wrestler" for the film of the same name. He quips, "This is going to be the only time I'm in competition with Clint Eastwood. Felt pretty good too."
8:11 p.m. - Sponsors Escalade Hybrid, Target and L'Oreal. Well, the last two will be more welcome in this economy. Are you worth it?
8:14 p.m. - Promo for 3-D Chuck: Really enjoy Chuck, but the special episode has me worried. Gimmicky.
8:15 p.m. - Rumer Willis is Miss Golden Globe. Huh, I would have sworn she would have already been honored. When will it be Suri's turn?
8:16 p.m. - Tom Wilkinson gets best supporting actor on TV for the John Adams miniseries. He totally killed it as Ben Franklin. Minutes later, Laura Dern nabs the supporting actress award for her role in Recount.
8:24 p.m. - Geico "I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me" commercial kind of creepy. Don't like to associate voyeurism with googly eyes.
8:25 p.m. - Dan Cheadle is all sorts of funny (Cohen Bros., he would have crushed it in Fargo), introduces Burn After Reading clip. Don't worry Don, you have Hotel for Dogs coming up, according to helpful Mr. Announcer Man.
8:28 p.m. - Whoa, the Chinese can now enjoy the capitalist decadence that is the Golden Globes! Oh, and the head of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association demands we have a good time. You heard him.
8:29 p.m. - Hayden Panettiere AND Zac Efron on stage together? Can't. Fight. The. Pretty.
8:29 p.m. - The young pretty folk accept the best actor in a TV drama award on behalf of Gabriel Byrne for In Treatment. He's got the strep. That's why he missed press tour yesterday.
8:30 p.m. - Young Star Trek stars Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto announce Anna Paquin wins the best actress in a TV drama for playing the psychic Sookie Stackhouse in love with a vampire in HBO's True Blood. Umm, really? It's a fun show, but really?
8:36 p.m. - Ricky Gervais continues the shh-ing trend. "How rude are you lot?" He makes a hilarious reference to his show Extras, saying, "Winslet, I told you. Do a Holocaust movie and win an award."
8:39 p.m. - Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas on stage. No love for the fourth one, uh, Shemp?
8:41 p.m. - Wall-E slams the its carbon-based life form (a dog and panda) rivals to win best animated film.
8:42 p.m. - Johnny Depp still looks damn good with that floppy hair. Sally Hawkins beats some very good competition to win for her comedy leading role in Happy-Go-Lucky. She puts her award down. It's the second time a winner had a problem holding it. How about a table HFPA? She's tearfully overwhelmed. It's very sweet.
8:56 p.m. - John Adams scores for best TV miniseries. Tom Hanks gives a very glib and quick acceptance speech.
8:57 p.m. - Demi Moore gets maternal and tells Rumer, "Don't hunch. Shoulders back."
8:59 p.m. - Heath Ledger gets a standing ovation for his posthumous win for playing the Joker from The Dark Knight. A scene was prepared for the honor. Director Christopher Nolan accepts on his behalf. "He will be eternally missed, but he won't be forgotten." Well deserved.
9:08 p.m. - Ah, Colin Farrell, I've missed you. I sniffle. He sniffles, then says, "I still have a cold. It's not the other thing it used to be." Hee. Oh, and Waltz With Bashir wins Israel the best foreign language film and is dedicated to the eight production babies born during the four years of filming.
9:12 p.m. - Lots of love for John Adams. Laura Linney wins for her leading role in the HBO miniseries.
9:20 p.m. - Huzzah! Slumdog Millionaire, this year's little indie film that could, wins Simon Beaufoy for best motion picture screenplay.
9:23 p.m. - TV now. Alec Baldwin nabs the best actor in a comedy award for 30 Rock. Second time he won this award. He reminisces about bringing Rumer a juice box oh so many moons ago and then thanks Tina Fey four times.
9:30 p.m. - Not crazy about Renee Zellweger's old-school black dress. I like golden age of Hollywood, but I think the gown looks too matronly and unflattering. Ha! That was a silly clip of The Reader though. Random back nudity.
9:32 p.m. - No suprise. Paul Giamatti continues the John Adams sweep for playing the titular historical guy in the miniseries. He blames Wilkinson for starting him smoking again. That explains the scratchy voice.
9:36 p.m. - Woo hoo! It's Tina's year. 30 Rock wins for best comedy series. Tracy Morgan explains that he and Fey had an agreement: if Barack Obama won, he would speak for the show from now on. "I am the face of post-racial America. Deal with it, Cate Blanchett!"
9:40 p.m. - Okay, this is Hanh Nguyen signing off to leave you in the capable recapping hands of my Zap2it colleague Rick Porter.
9:44 p.m. - Hi folks! It's Rick. Kate Beckinsale looks like she doesn't quite know what to make of Diddy. They hand the best score award to A.R. Rahman for Slumdog Millionaire.
9:47 p.m. - David Duchovny just got a text from his wife. Are he and Tea getting back together, or is the separation process just slow?
9:48 p.m. - TIna Fey wins best actress for 30 Rock. Alas, Tracy Morgan doesn't get to accept the award on her behalf. And, while I love me some 30 Rock, the awards-hogging is getting a little old.
9:50 p.m. - Fey: "If you ever start feeling too good about yourself, there's this thing called the Internet. ... I'd like to address some of those people now. Babs in LaCrosse, you can suck it."
9:53 p.m. - Spent the commercial break figuring out ways to work "Deal with it, Cate Blanchett!" into everyday conversation.
9:55 p.m. - Martin Scorsese presents the Cecil B. DeMille/lifetime achievement award to Steven Spielberg. He calls Spielberg "our pioneer" and the present-day counterpart to DeMille, D.W. Griffith et al. Transition from live intro to taped bit is a little weird, as on tape it sounds like Marty is speaking in a loud whisper.
10 p.m. - Nice to see an Animaniacs shout-out in the Spielberg montage.
10:04 p.m. - The childhood train-set story was an awful long way to go to relate to DeMille.
10:07 p.m. - Steven Spielberg enjoys being an enabler. But in a good, employing-talented-people way, not in a codependent way. And he also speaks up, sort of, for independent films -- we need movies that speak to us as individuals, not just to the biggest crowd.
10:13 p.m. - Emma Thompson almost eats it walking out on stage. She looks fantastic, though.
10:14 p.m. - Danny Boyle is your best director for Slumdog Millionaire. Maybe it's because I saw it earlier today and it's fresh in my mind, but he seems clearly the best choice to me. He appreciates the "mad, pulsating affection" the HFPA has for the film.
10:19 p.m. - Sandra Bullock is kinda funny presenting the best actor-comedy nominees: "That's the first time I've ever used the word 'Flemish' in a sentence."
10:19 p.m. - Can't say I'm overly surprised Colin Farrell won a Golden Globe for In Bruges -- it seems like the kind of "Huh?" pick the HFPA makes from time to time -- but I was really kinda hoping James Franco would get it. He knocked the hell out of Pineapple Express.
10:23 p.m. - That said, Farrell probably gets the award for funniest/most charming acceptance speech of the night.
10:29 p.m. - OK, the critics I'm watching the Globes with are cracking up at Sacha Baron Cohen. It didn't seem to play too well in the room, though.
10:30 p.m. - Vicky Cristina Barcelona wins for best movie comedy. Have little to say other than, hmm.
10:32 p.m. - As we go to break, Kate Winslet and Tom Cruise are chatting. Perhaps comparing notes about playing Nazis?
10:37 p.m. - Hi, I'm Mark Wahlberg. I'm presenting a Golden Globe. Say hi to your mother for me.
10:39 p.m. - Pull yourself together, Kate. I know this is a big breakthrough and all -- two wins tonight after five previous Globe noms -- but chill. Also, Anne Hathaway was the fifth nominee in this category.
10:43 p.m. - Rainn Wilson: "Hello, we're TV actors." You oversold the Gossip Girl bit, though, dude.
10:44 p.m. - Hey, look. Mad Men won an award. Surprise, surprise. Which is not to say it's not richly, richly deserving of it. Just a little more award fatigue. And Matt Weiner gets to deliver the speech he would've delivered last year.
10:50 p.m. - Give me some crazy pants, Rourke! This is your moment!
10:52 p.m. - Mickey Rourke: "I'm not a very good public speaker -- I was kinda hopin' Robert Downey would come up here and talk for me." OK, actually, this is a really nice and heartfelt speech. (Except for Aronofsky giving him the finger -- did y'all see that on 7-second delay?)
11 p.m. - And the night's final award, best picture/drama, goes to Slumdog Millionaire. That makes four tonight, which is a pretty huge sweep for a semi-indie film. So that's it, folks ... except for Slumdog producer Christian Colson's (not director Danny Boyle, as I erroneously had it earlier) muted-out "f**K!" as he starts to get played off. Good night, folks.
What did you think of this year's Globe winners? Did you enjoy having the show back in all its celebrity-filled glory?
Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore, what up? handholding? Gay?
victor109 | Jan 11, 2009 7:28:18 PM | #Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange are playing mother and daughter in an HBO movie, Grey Gardens. Publicity, dude.
Lisa | Jan 11, 2009 7:47:13 PM | #Alec Baldwin over Steve Carell?
What the?
30 Rock is great, but Carell should have won that for The Office
Dunder Mifflinite | Jan 11, 2009 7:57:14 PM | #I am very dissapointed that Meryl Streep did not win at all!
Natalia | Jan 11, 2009 8:21:23 PM | #Just FYI, that wasn't Danny Boyle at the end. I can't remember the name of the gentleman who accepted the award, but Danny Boyle was standing right behind him.
J | Jan 11, 2009 8:26:24 PM | #And the fifth nominee for Best Actress that Kate Winslet blanked out on was Angelia Jolie. She mentioned Anne first in her apology. If your going to make a sarcastic comment, you might want to make sure your actually right.
Nick | Jan 11, 2009 8:59:59 PM | #Kate Winslet stole the show. she was amazing in revolutionary road. haven't seen the reader yet but cannot wait for it. Her speech and how she couldn't remember angelina's name was hysterical. and the way she spoke about leo and her husband was fabulous. she is, hands down, one of the most talented and down-to-earth actresses out there. Great Job kate!
rebecca | Jan 11, 2009 9:49:02 PM | #Umm, Danny Boyle wasn't the one giving the speech for the final award, and hence wasn't the one dropping the F-Bomb.
Also, it's clear the writer of this recap hasn't seen either In Bruges or Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Can we get a recap from people who actually know something about films next time?
Tom | Jan 11, 2009 9:59:25 PM | #My bad on the Danny Boyle ID at the end (post has been edited to reflect that). As for Kate Winslet forgetting names, I thought she stammered out "Angelina" rather than Anne, so that was the basis of my comment.
Rick | Jan 11, 2009 10:58:16 PM | #A Huh? winner slam for Colin Farrell? You're kidding, right? He was great in In Bruges! It's a really good, dark-humored, yet touching, film. Did you even see it?
DRH | Jan 12, 2009 5:08:47 AM | #Kate Winslet looked beautiful!
dolly | Jan 12, 2009 9:57:07 AM | #can anyone report Bruce's comments about the call he got to explain what was wanted for the song it was him speaking accepting the award good show some realness seen people looked great mostly and the joy for the cast of slumdog contagious on the screen
carol | Jan 12, 2009 10:21:32 AM | #I didn't mean to come off like I was questioning the quality of Colin Farrell's performance in "In Bruges."
The "Huh?" comment was about the fact that the movie was released nearly a year ago and has been pretty far under the radar -- didn't get a ton of critics' honors, etc. Perils of live blogging, I suppose.
Rick | Jan 12, 2009 10:57:54 AM | #This was a nauseating show MOSTLY full of people who seemed high, tight or REALLY unhappy to be there.
I turned it off at 9 but oh yeah - I was there to see the guy give Mickey Rourke (whose hair probably smelled) the finger.
The writing on this show was SO bad that the people in the room didn't even laugh and when they don't laugh at EACH OTHER, you know it really stinks.
How many more years is John Adams going to be nominated for awards?
Jan | Jan 12, 2009 2:16:12 PM | #Ricky Gervais ought to be the main (and only) host of the next Emmy's or Oscar's. He kills everytime he's on stage at one of these types of events.
Daniel | Jan 12, 2009 2:25:02 PM | #Saw Angelina's face after Kate said, "Oh, gawd--who's the other one???" To her credit, Angie laughed along with the crowd. (Bet Jen was laughing, too!)
Dee | Jan 12, 2009 10:29:42 PM | #Rick,
Totally agree with you on the "huh?" comment. Colin was good in In Bruges, but not nearly that good.
Lisa | Jan 12, 2009 11:21:40 PM | #Also,
totally agree that Ricky G. should host something. He's awesome!
Personally I found Sasha's comments about Mickey Rouke (sp?) in bad taste.
Best acceptance speech: Tracy Morgan
Honorable mention: Tina Fey
Most in need of Mommy time in the corner: Demi Moore for not letting her daughter be a grown up
Most in need of a drink and an inhaler: Sally Hawkins
Most uncomfortable presenters (them): Diddy and Kate Beckensale (sp?) Really, had they just fought backstage...or had sex?
Most uncomfortable presenters (us): Drew and Jessica displaying wierd PDA
Lisa | Jan 12, 2009 11:31:23 PM | #I was very disappointed that the AMAZING Hugh Laurie didn't win. In my opinion, there is no actor better.
I love Cameron and Renee, but WHAT WHERE THEY THINKING?
Happy for Kate!
I wasn't crazy about most of the hair styles. They seem to be getting old. Anyone else know what I mean?
WE LOVE YOU, HUGH!!
i didn't think Mickey Rourke would ever show up in public again, then there he was, winning big at the Golden Globes
coffee | Jan 14, 2009 10:03:30 PM | #
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