Jan 14
Golden Globes Winners: Ben Affleck doesn’t need your stupid Oscars
Only days after he was snubbed by fellow directors at the Academy Award nominations, Ben Affleck discovered that he no longer craves the respect of those cliquey gossip-mongers at the Academy. After all, who needs an Oscar when you have an awesome group of best friends like the Hollywood Foreign Press Association? And indeed, last night, the HFPA awarded Argo with two of their biggest prizes at the 2013 Golden Globe awards (Best Picture, Drama and Best Director) thus cementing their status as Affleck’s new #1 Bro — replacing Matt Damon who now takes, like, a whole three days to reply to his emails.
As many Hollywood insiders will concede, the Golden Globes aren’t so much awards of any inherent value as much as they are indicators for how the Academy will vote once Oscar season rolls around next month. And judging by how the prizes went last night, the race for Best Picture has no clear front runner: while Lincoln is the odds-on favourite, it won’t be a cakewalk to the podium. Awards pundits had considered Argo to be out of the running after Affleck’s snub in the Best Director category, but it’s very much a contender now alongside Silver Linings Playbook and Les Misérables, which won Best Picture, Musical or Comedy: Tom Hooper’s epic musical provided wins for both Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman while SLP’s Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress in a Comedy, beating out a bunch of old ladies (Judi Dench, Maggie Smith & Meryl Streep).
British winners on the night included Adele (for her theme to Skyfall) and Lincoln‘s Daniel Day Lewis, who is pretty much a shoe-in for every acting award this year. In the television categories, Damian Lewis and Maggie Smith won Globes for their performances this year in Homeland and Downton Abbey respectively.
Here are the winners in the motion picture categories of the 2013 Golden Globes:
Best Motion Picture – Drama
WINNER
Other Nominees:
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
WINNER
Other Nominees:
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
WINNER
Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln
Other Nominees:
Richard Gere for Arbitrage
John Hawkes for The Sessions
Joaquin Phoenix for The Master
Denzel Washington for Flight
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
WINNER
Jessica Chastain for Zero Dark Thirty
Other Nominees:
Marion Cotillard for Rust and Bone
Helen Mirren for Hitchcock
Naomi Watts for The Impossible
Rachel Weisz for The Deep Blue Sea
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
WINNER
Hugh Jackman for Les Misérables
Other Nominees:
Jack Black for Bernie
Bradley Cooper for Silver Linings Playbook
Ewan McGregor for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Bill Murray for Hyde Park on Hudson
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
WINNER
Jennifer Lawrence for Silver Linings Playbook
Other Nominees:
Emily Blunt for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Judi Dench for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Maggie Smith for Quartet
Meryl Streep for Hope Springs
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
WINNER
Christoph Waltz for Django Unchained
Other Nominees:
Alan Arkin for Argo
Leonardo DiCaprio for Django Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Master
Tommy Lee Jones for Lincoln
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
WINNER
Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables
Other Nominees:
Amy Adams for The Master
Sally Field for Lincoln
Helen Hunt for The Sessions
Nicole Kidman for The Paperboy
Best Director – Motion Picture
WINNER
Ben Affleck for Argo
Other Nominees:
Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty
Ang Lee for Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg for Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained
Best Screenplay
WINNER
Django Unchained: Quentin Tarantino
Other Nominees:
Argo: Chris Terrio
Lincoln: Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook: David O. Russell
Zero Dark Thirty: Mark Boal
Best Original Song – Motion Picture
WINNER
Skyfall: Adele, Paul Epworth(“Skyfall”)
Other Nominees:
Act of Valour: Monty Powell, Keith Urban(“For You”)
The Hunger Games: Taylor Swift, John Paul White, Joy Williams, T-Bone Burnett(“Safe and Sound”)
Les Misérables: Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer(“Suddenly”)
Stand Up Guys: Jon Bon Jovi(“Not Running Anymore”)
Best Original Score – Motion Picture
WINNER
Life of Pi: Mychael Danna
Other Nominees:
Anna Karenina: Dario Marianelli
Argo: Alexandre Desplat
Cloud Atlas: Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer
Lincoln: John Williams
Best Animated Film
WINNER
Other Nominees:
Wreck-It Ralph
Best Foreign Language Film
WINNER
Amour
Other Nominees:
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