Deadline Golden Globes

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Justice prevailed at the Beverly Hilton as Argo nabbed the best drama Golden Globe and the film’s director Ben Affleck, overlooked last week by the Academy for best director, got his due by the Hollywood Foreign Press with a best directing Globe. So after the Academy overlooked Affleck in the directing category, what did his Oscar strategists have to say to him? What reasons did they give him in terms of why he was overlooked? In short, the director was mum on that answer and wasn’t bogged down by voting mechanics over at the Academy. Rather, he gratefully exclaimed “Look, we got nominated for seven Oscars. And if one isn’t happy with that, your prospects for long-term happiness is pretty damned. I’m the luckiest guy in the world.” Flanked by his producers Grant Heslov and George Clooney, Affleck added, “I’m a member of the Academy and we got nominated by the people who made movies we all admire and respect.” “What Academy are you talking about?,” joked Heslov. “To frame this (race) about me not getting the nomination I didn’t get, isn’t right,” said Affleck then quipping, “But hey — I didn’t get the acting category and no one is saying I got snubbed there!” Clooney threw his 10 cents in on the entire Academy misfire in the director category: “I was disappointed. I think Ben made a phenomenal film. He should have been nominated, but you can’t figure out what goes on in the Academy. We talked about this for the next day. We got seven nominations! And it all happened out of what Ben put together. We’re not out of the water yet.” Remarking on Affleck’s career, from Good Will Hunting co-star and Globe/Oscar winning scribe to Gigli headliner to auteur, Clooney exclaimed, “Ben was in actor jail for a couple of years. We’ve all been there, even me. I was in Batman & Robin. But it’s how you handle yourself as a performer during those times. Ben directed his way out of it. He did Gone Baby Gone and The Town, films which made money and with Argo it put him further in the right direction. I’m proud to work with him — and I hate him.” The gang was joined on stage by their composer Alexandre Desplat, actors Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Tate Donovan, Alan Arkin and Argo source material CIA agent Tony Mendez.

The Golden Globe comedy musical win for Les Miserables comes at a prime time for the film, following its record UK opening, not to mention, right in the middle of its steady domestic run which has minted an estimated $119.2 million as of today. Bringing the film in at a lengthy 157 minutes, Tom Hooper was faced with the difficult choice of what to keep and what to cut. “‘I Dreamed A Dream’ — I think that’s the greatest of Anne’s performances. I was beholden to that cut. Who would want to cut it? But the most painful edit I had to make was a little scene after Gavroche was shot dead and Eddie Redmayne’s Marius shoots the soldier dead.” One thing director Hooper didn’t do during the filming of Les Miserables was shut down the production every time someone got a sore throat. This was the case when Sacha Baron Cohen lost his voice on set. Hooper sent the comedic actor home on voice rest. “This was an ensemble piece with 204 actors, and I certainly wasn’t going to shut down the set 204 times. We would still be in production. But, one guy (Sacha) proved he didn’t have the vocal stamina!” joshed Hooper who was joined backstage with castmembers Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Hugh Jackman, Baron Cohen, songwriters Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg as well as producers Debra Heyward, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Read More »