The results of the Golden Globes are often seen as a direct influence on the results of the Oscars. If that’s the case, we can all go home right now – the cowboys have got 2006 sewn up.
Any Golden Globes that the gay Brokeback Mountain cowboys didn’t win last night were all more or less mopped up by the dead singing Walk The Line cowboys. And, um, Lost, which doesn’t have any cowboys in it, and has buggered up our theory a bit. Wait, Sawyer‘s a bit like a cowboy, isn’t he? That’ll do.
The Golden Globes are marketed as the fun alternative to the Oscars
– if only because there’s no six-hour song about how George Clooney
grew a beard performed by Billy Crystal to sit through – but we’re not
entirely convinced that spending an evening listening to filmstars
telling each other how brilliant and important they are can be
construed as ‘fun’. Anyway, the Golden Globes happened last night, and
people won. Here’s the lowdown.
Brokeback Mountain, the ‘ha ha gay cowboys this should be fun oh no
actually it’s really bloody sad’ Oscar favourite strode into the Golden
Globes with seven nominations and, although it only won just over half
of them, still emerged vaguely triumphant having scored Best Picture
(Drama), Best Director for Ang Lee, Best Screenplay for Larry McMurty
and Best Original Song for A Love That Will Never Grow Old.
But Brokeback Mountain didn’t dominate the Golden Globes rodeo by
any means. It faced sturdy cowboy competition from Walk The Line, the
‘hey, look, an actor doing an impression of a dead singer let’s fling
awards at him’ Johnny Cash biopic. Walk The Line took three Golden
Globes last night, for Best Picture (Musical Or Comedy), Best Actor for
Joaquin Phoenix and Best Actress for Reese Witherspoon.
And that’s about all the interesting Golden Globes stuff that
happened last night. Jack Nicholson didn’t get his arse out onstage
like he did a few years ago, Elizabeth Taylor didn’t read out the
winner before she read out the nominations like she did a few years
ago. That kid from The Sixth Sense didn’t burst into tears when he
found out he didn’t win anything like he did a few years ago. But some
other people won awards…
George Clooney won the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe for
Syriana, Rachel Weisz won the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe for
The Constant Gardener, Lost won Best Drama Series, Hugh Laurie won Best
Actor for his role in TV show House and Desperate Housewives won Best
Series (Musical Or Comedy), even though it isn’t musical or funny.
Read more:
Globes Cash In, Scale "Mountain" – E! Online
[story by Stuart Heritage]
Anthony says
This s bull, Woody Allen should have stolen all of the golden globes. Even the things that he had nothing to do with, such as best actress in a television serise. The only reason that Broke Back Mountain won is because Gay Cowboys have never been featured in a non-pornographic light.
Firebird says
Keira Knightley should have won the award for whatever she was nominated for!