Golden Globes Winners List: ‘The Social Network,’ Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, Annette Bening, David Fincher…

COMMENTS (19)

• Boardwalk Empire deserved its win for best drama. Very good writing.

  Comment by Jim — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 8:13pm PST  Reply to this post

  • There always seem to be upsets in the TV category….not so in the movie category and I have a feelin’ the Oscars are going to be a snooze fest.

    Comment by Sally in Chicago — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 5:42am PST  Reply to this post

  • Agreed. Best new show on television. Absolutely incredible. By the way: how great is it that their is finally something in the zeitgeist that talks about World War I!! People tend to forget what a damaging impact it had on the psyche of this country.

    Comment by Altered — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 11:16am PST  Reply to this post

• How To Train Your Dragon was infinitly better than Toy Story 3, which is saying a lot because TS3 was very good.

  Comment by Teddy — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 8:21pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I was thinking the same thing even though I did not see either one. If you asked my 8 year old niece which was better – Definitely, How to Train Your Dragon.

    Comment by Karen — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 10:24pm PST  Reply to this post

• Stopped clock being right and all that, but many of these winners were richly deserved.

  Comment by Todd Toronto — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 8:25pm PST  Reply to this post

• I watched a doco about the HFPA (not sure it’s the same one Nikki refers to?) that skewers the GGs and explains what goes on behind the scenes. At the end, however, the film points out that despite all the ridiculous schmoozing the GGs often come up with more interesting and deserving winners than the Oscars or Emmys. Go figure.

  Comment by msd — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 8:46pm PST  Reply to this post

• I am very happy for Katey Segal’s win. I hope the Emmy voters are watching.

  Comment by Terrence Moss — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 8:57pm PST  Reply to this post

• I love Scott Rudin trying to act is if he’s human. He’s a talented producer who is also a sociopath and abusive to all who work for him. He hates his parents and loathes the directors, writers, actors he hires. He has a cruel and abusive personality and no amount of therapy or lack there of can change his sadistic ways. Scott has definitely had some serious media coaching to “say all the right things” and “thank all the right people” to continue his climb.
  Scott Rudin is a pathological despot with talent.

  Comment by Have worked for Scott Rudin — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 10:15pm PST  Reply to this post

  • AMEN!! I was thinking the same thing. Why do people continue to try and portray this guy as if he’s some patron saint of indie film. He is a flat out psychopath.

    Comment by Altered — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 11:50am PST  Reply to this post

• There isn’t a universe where How to train your Dragon is better than Toy Story 3!

  Comment by CeejayNightwing — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 10:44pm PST  Reply to this post

• delighted that katey won. but gervais seemed drunk off his butt and totally unfunny.

  Comment by ex-pat — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 11:04pm PST  Reply to this post

• Was very happy for Colin Firth’s win. Also thought THE SOCIAL NETWORK very deserving, a real tossup with THE KING’S SPEECH, however. Thought Mr. Rush would win Best Supporting Actor.

  Comment by Marilyn Joan Roberts — Sunday January 16, 2011 @ 11:15pm PST  Reply to this post

• The Social Network hit the asshole trifecta:

  Scott Rudin, David Fincher, and Dana Brunetti

  Truly three disliked people.

  I’ll admit Rudin and Fincher have talent, but Brunetti got there by kissing a lot of ass…on the mouth.

  Nice beard, though.

  Comment by CW — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 1:00am PST  Reply to this post

  • Brunetti discovered the material and saw the potential for a film. The books themselves contain no real drama and it was his prescience that began the process. Without Brunetti the film would not exist. You cannot say that about the other players.

    Comment by ari — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 6:32am PST  Reply to this post

• I’m glad for Katey Sagal, whom I recently saw perform wonderfully in “Harps and Angels” at the Mark Taper Forum. It’s her time, now. I think the foreign film category was a real upset. I didn’t see that one coming. I bet Oscar doesn’t either….

  Comment by karennina — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 2:45am PST  Reply to this post

• I don’t care how many awards they give it- Social network is not the years best. Kings speech- Black Swan- TS3 – Kids are alright are all superior films

  Comment by joe — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 3:28am PST  Reply to this post

• To be honest, the lack of any representation of ‘True Grit’ at the GGs makes them kind of irrelevant wrt pointers for Oscars. Greatly approve of the Christian Bale win, however.

  Comment by BBW — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 3:46am PST  Reply to this post

• What’s the point of awards season if the winners are already known by December now? The Social Network, David Fincher, Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, and Melissa Leo. Any doubt those will be the Oscar winners? Might as well mail it to them an cancel the show. Only one who might be vulnerable is Leo because True Grit’s LEADING lady comes into supporting at SAG and likely the Oscars which is an abomination as she is in True Grit for the vast majority of the movie.

  Would love to see Bening upset Portman at the Oscars though. She was just as good without trying nearly as hard.

  Comment by boxo — Monday January 17, 2011 @ 11:29am PST  Reply to this post