The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards

[thewrongvine]

The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards

Nominations announced Thursday, December 15th; winners announced on Sunday, January 15th, broadcast at 8pm ET/5pm PT on NBC.

Best Motion Picture - Drama

Spoiler

WINNER
The Descendants (2011)

Other Nominees:
The Help (2011)
Hugo (2011/II)
The Ides of March (2011)
Moneyball (2011)
War Horse (2011)

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Spoiler

WINNER
The Artist (2011)

Other Nominees:
Bridesmaids (2011)
50/50 (2011)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
My Week with Marilyn (2011)

Best Motion Picture - Drama

Spoiler

WINNER
The Descendants (2011)

Other Nominees:
The Help (2011)
Hugo (2011/II)
The Ides of March (2011)
Moneyball (2011)
War Horse (2011)

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Spoiler

WINNER
The Artist (2011)

Other Nominees:
Bridesmaids (2011)
50/50 (2011)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
My Week with Marilyn (2011)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

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WINNER
George Clooney for The Descendants (2011)

Other Nominees:
Leonardo DiCaprio for J. Edgar (2011)
Michael Fassbender for Shame (2011)
Ryan Gosling for The Ides of March (2011)
Brad Pitt for Moneyball (2011)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

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WINNER
Meryl Streep for The Iron Lady (2011)

Other Nominees:
Glenn Close for Albert Nobbs (2011)
Viola Davis for The Help (2011)
Rooney Mara for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Tilda Swinton for We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

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WINNER
Jean Dujardin for The Artist (2011)

Other Nominees:
Brendan Gleeson for The Guard (2011)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt for 50/50 (2011)
Ryan Gosling for Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
Owen Wilson for Midnight in Paris (2011)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

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WINNER
Michelle Williams for My Week with Marilyn (2011)

Other Nominees:
Jodie Foster for Carnage (2011)
Charlize Theron for Young Adult (2011)
Kristen Wiig for Bridesmaids (2011)
Kate Winslet for Carnage (2011)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

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WINNER
Christopher Plummer for Beginners (2010)

Other Nominees:
Kenneth Branagh for My Week with Marilyn (2011)
Albert Brooks for Drive (2011)
Jonah Hill for Moneyball (2011)
Viggo Mortensen for A Dangerous Method (2011)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

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WINNER
Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011)

Other Nominees:
Bérénice Bejo for The Artist (2011)
Jessica Chastain for The Help (2011)
Janet McTeer for Albert Nobbs (2011)
Shailene Woodley for The Descendants (2011)

Best Director - Motion Picture

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WINNER
Martin Scorsese for Hugo (2011/II)

Other Nominees:
Woody Allen for Midnight in Paris (2011)
George Clooney for The Ides of March (2011)
Michel Hazanavicius for The Artist (2011)
Alexander Payne for The Descendants (2011)

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture

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WINNER
Midnight in Paris (2011): Woody Allen

Other Nominees:
The Artist (2011): Michel Hazanavicius
The Descendants (2011): Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
The Ides of March (2011): George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon
Moneyball (2011): Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin

Best Original Song - Motion Picture

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WINNER
W.E. (2011): Madonna, Julie Frost, Jimmy Harry("Masterpiece")

Other Nominees:
Albert Nobbs (2011): Brian Byrne, Glenn Close("Lay Your Head Down")
Gnomeo & Juliet (2011): Elton John, Bernie Taupin("Hello Hello")
The Help (2011): Mary J. Blige, Thomas Newman, Harvey Mason Jr., Damon Thomas("The Living Proof")
Machine Gun Preacher (2011): Chris Cornell("The Keeper")

Best Original Score - Motion Picture

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WINNER
The Artist (2011): Ludovic Bource

Other Nominees:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011): Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
Hugo (2011/II): Howard Shore
War Horse (2011): John Williams
W.E. (2011): Abel Korzeniowski

Best Animated Film

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WINNER
The Adventures of Tintin (2011)

Other Nominees:
Arthur Christmas (2011)
Cars 2 (2011)
Puss in Boots (2011)
Rango (2011)

Read the rest here.

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Well, I guess I had a busy year this past year, since I don't believe I've seen any one of the films nominated for best picture. George Clooney got two big ones, ha.

Anyone see any of the films that won/were nominated?

 

[FireCat]

Anyone see any of the films that won/were nominated?

It seems nobody has seen them! lol Well, it's no wonder really.

 

[Wiseman_2]

The only one of those that won I saw was Hugo. Scorsese deserved that award, that was a brilliant film. Considering that most people seem to believe it's a kid's film, the story was definitely one that would appeal more to adults, and one that I enjoyed more than many other films last year.

The only other one I saw from any of the nominated ones was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I went in with pretty negative expectations to be perfectly honest, but I did enjoy the intricately woven narrative and deeper character development, even if some scenes were just a little too disturbing to be watching in the company of rather innocently minded girls

 

[thewrongvine]

Hugo deserves it's own thread but for the time being, this will do I suppose.

Found this really interesting article on the making of the VFX of Hugo, and it is crazy.
Some quotes I pulled from it:

"But it also took a lot of processing power — one fantastic scene alone would have taken 19.5 years to render if just a single computer had been used."

"Because rendering just one version of one shot of the film — the swooping view into the train station, shown at the beginning of the above clip that showcases Pixomondo’s work on Hugo — took 171,015 hours of processing time. To get it done in time for the film’s November release, they broke down each shot into jobs for 1,000 computers in five different offices."

Video and full article here.

Pretty awesome, CGI is quite impressive these days. Can't wait for it to come out on DVD.