The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Live Blog

The 69th Golden Globe Awards - The Live Blog

It's here! Tonight on Haydon's Movie House, we will be taking you through The 69th Golden Globe Awards live online, so grab a pot of coffee and get ready for a late night of film fun!

0:58am - Watched an hour of Red Carpet coverage now. Starting to feel my brain rot. Kelly Osbourne is providing fashion advice despite having dyed her hair grey. Just want the awards to begin now.

1:00am - More adverts. This time focusing on the Kardashians. Sad times.

1:05am - THE AWARDS HAVE BEGUN! Ricky Gervais has begun with a wonderful Jodie Foster Beaver joke. Tina Fey doesn't look impressed. Heck, I laughed. High hopes for his hosting tonight.

1:07am - Gervais shuns Johnny Depp about The Tourist - yeah, he's right, it's pretty terrible. Now he's talking about Hugo with a rather lovely VT attached.

1:09am - Gerard Butler and Mila Kunis announce the nominations for Best Supporting Actor - Drama. Jonah Hill is no longer fat.

1:11am - Christopher Plummer wins the Golden Globe for Beginners.

1:12am - The stream on E! is simply terrible - adverts cutting in during speeches. Awful.

1:14am - Laura Dern wins the Golden Globe for some TV thing.

1:17am - Sixth advert for the Kardashians in 20 minutes. Rarely do I swear on this site but FUCKING HELL.

1:19am - Rob Lowe (sporting the worst fake tan ever) and Julianne Moore are presenting the nominations for Best TV Mini Series.

1:22am - Downtown Abbey wins the Golden Globe. RIGHTLY SO.

1:24am - Back to Lowe and Moore for more nominations, this time Best Actress in TV Mini Series.

1:25am - Kate Winslet wins the Golden Globe for Mildred Pierce.

1:27am - Frida Pinto has introduced Midnight in Paris. Brilliant film.

1:28am - More adverts. Starting to lose interest now.

1:33am - Jake Gyllenhaal has popped in to introduce My Week with Marilyn. Going to get myself a coffee now.

1:35am - Gervais is chatting rubbish again. Still, he's entertaining enough. Nominations for Best Actor in a TV Series now.

1:36am - Kelsey Grammer wins the Golden Globe for Boss. Surprised Steve Buscemi or Bryan Cranston didn't win. Now the noms for Best TV Series - Drama.

1:38am - Homeland wins the Golden Globe.


1:42am - More blooming adverts. Here's a picture of Berenice Bejo from the Red Carpet, just because I'm in love with her.

1:44am - Trailer for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Still looks unbelievably bad.

1:45am - Nominations for Best Score coming in from Jimmy Fallon. Come on The Artist. Or War Horse. Or Hugo....

1:46am - The Artist wins the Golden Globe. My prediction was right! Bource provided such magical work on this masterpiece. 

1:49am - Nominations for Best Original Song. Fingers crossed Elton John doesn't win. Jesus.

1:50am - Masterpiece by Madonna for W.E. wins the Golden Globe. Kinda wish Elton won now.

1:53am - Have a guess? Yeah, your right. More adverts. No wonder American shows are on air for so long. 

1:56am - The Dark Lord Himself just had a dig at Madonna on Twitter. Good times. I've drank my coffee and need a refill.

1:58am - More nominations for some TV award - Best Actor in a TV Series I believe.

1:58am - Idris Elba wins the Golden Globe for Luther. How lovely. Nice speech too.

2:00am - Brad Pitt (who is sporting a walking stick and awful hair) introduces The Ides of March - loved the movie. Amongst my LFF highlights. Now Seth Rogen and Kate Beckinsale provide the nominations for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical.

2:03am - Michelle Williams wins the Golden Globe for My Week with Marilyn. Neither a comedy or musical mind you...

2:04am - These adverts are doing my head in. Here's a picture of Kate Beckinsale who is looking fabulous.

2:08am - Buffy has come out to announce the nominees for Best Supporting Actor in a TV Mini Series.

2:09am - Peter Dinklage wins the Golden Globe for Game of Thrones. And yes, he is the dwarf. Don't be mean.

2:12am - George Clooney (with pimp-stick) has come out to introduce Moneyball. He is such a cool dude. Cool movie too.

2:13am - Beautiful Jessica Alba and Channing Tatum provide the nominees for Best Animated Film. Come on Tintin.

2:15am - The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn wins the Golden Globe. I'm thrilled. 

2:17am - Sensing a pattern with these adverts. Not sure how many more I can take. Eyes are feeling heavy now. Big awards need to speed up.

2:21am - Ewan McGregor is nattering about 50/50 - such a good film.

2:22am - Now a proper award. Nicole Kidman and co present Best Screenplay. 

2:23am - Woody Allen wins the Golden Globe for Midnight in Paris. WOOH!

2:24am - William H. Macy looks like a child molester with that beard-hair combo. Nominees for Best Actress in a TV Series.

2:25am - Jessica Lange wins the Golden Globe for American Horror Story. Not interested really.

2:26am - More adverts. Getting annoyed with this broadcast. Also tired and hungry. NEED 2am snack.

2:31am - Gervais jokes about Madonna's virginity. She then asks him for sex. HORRID. I want my mummy. Now she's introducing the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film and claims she has a vast knowledge of World Cinema. I do not believe you Madge.

2:32am - A Separation wins the Golden Globe. OBVIOUSLY.

2:34am - Dustin Hoffman is in the house. Shame he's announcing another blooming TV award, this time Best Actress in a TV Drama.

2:35am - Claire Danes wins the Golden Globe for Homeland.

2:38am - KRAFT CHEESE. That's what the show is sponsored by. Hmmmm.

2:42am - AHHHHH it's Emily Blunt! She's introducing Bridesmaids and talking about excreting. Charming.

2:43am - AHHHHHH! It's Tina Fey (looking divine) and Jane Lynch providing the nominees for Best Actor in a TV Comedy or Musical.

2:45am - Matt LeBlanc wins the Golden Globe for Episodes. Surprised. I did enjoy that show though.

2:47am - Bradley Cooper provides the list for Best Supporting Actress - such a tight category.

2:47am - Octavia Spencer wins the Golden Globe for The Help. Really loved her in it, but wanted Bejo to win, or Woodley.

2:51am - I'm doing this rather a lot:

2:55am - The beautiful Reese Witherspoon introduces The Descendants - one of my favourite films of recent months.

2:56am - Sidney Poitier has entered the ceremony to grant the brilliant Morgan Freeman with his Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in the film industry. A big 'AHH' all round. Lovely, if somewhat overdrawn speech from Poitier too.

2:58am - Helen Mirren is making tame jokes about Freeman. It's rather cute actually. She presents a VT of Freeman's work. Some of the videos are amazing. A young freeman washing himself in a casket with fangs is a highlight. 

3:05am - Freeman's speech is tender, sincere and amusing - all of which was expected to be honest.

3:07am - Wishing all the big awards weren't at the end of the show. Really feeling tired now. I want to give into pressure and sleep but I also want to push through and finish this blog.

3:11am - Robert Downey Jr. beautifully introduces The Artist. God I hope it takes home the Best Motion Picture in it's category.

3:13am - The gorgeous Angelina Jolie provides the nominees for Best Director. Here we GO!

3:14am - Martin Scorsese wins the Golden Globe for Hugo. Another prediction right!

3:16am - Gervais is back and introducing Selma Hayek and Antonio Banderes. Overall, Ricky hasn't been that funny tonight - barely featured and is clearly restricted by what he can say. The pair present the nominees for Best TV show - Comedy or Musical. Do not care.

3:18am - Modern Family wins the Golden Globe. Thank God it beat Glee anyway.

3:20am - After the break, Marky Mark minus the Funky Bunch and Jessica Biel will announce the nominees for Best Actor - Comedy or Musical. Jean Dujardin HAS TO WIN...

3:24am - Oh, but first Michelle Pfeiffer introduces the brilliant War Horse. I hope it does well.
3:25am - Jean Dujardin wins the Golden Globe for The Artist. YAY!!

3:32am - Queen Latifah "MMMMHHHHMM" introduces The Help - a truly touching and heart-warming picture.
3:33am - Gervais is drunk and now Colin Firth is taking the stage. Gervais has accused him of racism and hurting cats. I'll never look at Firth the same way again.....Anyway, he provides the nominees for Best Actress - Drama. My guess is another win for The Help .
3:35am - Meryl Streep wins the Golden Globe for The Iron Lady. I was wrong then.

3:38am - Passing shot of Tilda Swinton who looks like a blonde Jeremy Beadle. Ha.
3:40am - JANE FONDA is here with the nominations for Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical. Crossing my fingers for The Artist.
3:41am - The Artist wins the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture. I am OVER THE MOON.
3:42am - Lovely speech for The Artist. Guess whose on stage too?

3:49am - Gervais introduces the wonderful Natalie Portman (whose looking lovely) with the nominees for Best Actor - Drama. I'm rooting for Fassbender but would be happy with Clooney or Gosling.

3:50am - George Clooney wins the Golden Globe for The Descendants. FANTASTIC and much deserved. Hope Fassbender takes an award away for Shame this season as his performance is masterful. Clooney gives a witty and charming speech. Got big love for him.

3:55am - Harrison Ford comes out with the big award for Best Motion Picture - Drama. Such a tough category but The Descendants/War Horse has my vote.

3:56am - The Descendants wins the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Drama. Rightly so - it's a masterpiece. Came in the top half of my favourite films of 2011. Cannot wait to see this incredible movie again.

4:00am - That's it! All over for another year. Now, I'm going to bed. NIGHT WORLD.

Thank you to all that joined me and hope you enjoyed my coverage of The 69th Golden Globe Awards!

What Should Win at The Golden Globes Tomorrow...

Predictions are boring. In fact, the only reason award predictions can be moderately interesting is if you bet on them, for which I have done because it's pretty hard to lose in all honesty. If you too want to hand your soul over to Satan and bet, then click here.

Anyway, now that is cleared up, here are my thoughts on who and what SHOULD win at tomorrow night's Golden Globes. I am also planning to stay up all night and live-blog the ceremony on Haydon's Movie House too so I certainly hope many of you will join me. Right, onto the list...

Best Motion Picture - Drama

The Descendants

(dir: Alexander Payne - USA - Fox Searchlight)

I would be okay with any of the nominations winning in this category in all honesty, but one had to select The Descendants as it truly is a beautiful study of family drama - something which all viewers can relate to. This is a no-nonsense character tale laced with whip-smart wit as well as aching sorrow. It featured highly in my top 10 and it is certainly worthy of an award.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

Rooney Mara

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Let's face it - she's the youngest nominee in this category who is portraying the most complex and intricate character. Mara really holds her own with this staggering performance and she is worthy of celebration.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

Michael Fassbender

Shame

Yeah you knew it was coming; without a doubt the finest, bravest and most powerful performance for ages. Fassbender is simply breathtaking here, nothing else needs saying.

Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical

The Artist

(dir: Michel Hazanavicius - France/USA - The Weinstein Company)

I refuse to explain this choice. You lot must know that it was my favourite film of 2011 by now. SURELY? 

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

Charlize Theron

Young Adult

Feisty, arrogant and misguided are a few words to describe Theron's character in Jason Reitman's new comedy. She provides a multi-layered and dimensional performance as a has-been prom-queen.

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

Jean Dujardin

The Artist

Again I'm not going to say to much apart from this - Dujardin is incredible, show-stopping and magical as George Valentin. A perfect performance for a perfect film.

Best Animated Film

The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn

(dir: Steven Spielberg - UK/USA - Paramount Pictures)

Surprisingly, this is the weakest category in this year's ceremony and one believes Tintin should be the rightful owner of the award. This is a master-class in animation and in digitalised realism. Plus the film was completely brilliant. 

Best Foreign Language Film

The Skin I Live In

(dir: Pedro Almodovar - Spain - Sony Pictures Classics)

Vintage Almodovar filled with demented ideas and processes that counteract it's thrilling revenge narrative wonderfully. I'm bored of everyone raving on about A Separation now. 

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

Berenice Bejo

The Artist

There is nothing else to say. Bejo is simply spell-binding. However, it is disgusting that she has been selected for Supporting Actress when she is clearly the leading lady. Still, this category means she is more liable to win so that's a plus.

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

Jonah Hill

Moneyball

Who would have thought the chubby guy from Superbad could give such a reserved and focused performance in a drama about sports statistics? Well he has done just that and he was electric in this less-showy but more calculated role (excuse the pun). Kudos, Mr. Hill, kudos.

Best Director - Motion Picture

Martin Scorsese

Hugo

It took a genius auteur like Scorsese to do two things; one was to present audiences of today with the works of Georges Melies, and the other was to make 3D seem relevant. Hugo was not only amongst my top 3 films of 2011, it was also the most delicately crafted and wonderfully exciting visual experience I had the privilege of seeing. This is a masterful film helmed by a master of cinema and he deserves a great pat on the back as well as a golden stick with a ball on top. 

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture

Alexander Payne/Nat Faxon/Jim Rash

The Descendants

This film is a textbook example of how important character and narrative are, and what happens when they are married together with such grace and elegance. The Descendants is drenched with perfectly timed and humanised dialogue making the entire feature seem so real and so authentic, that is is simply impossible not to be taken along by it.

Best Score - Motion Picture

Ludovic Bource

The Artist

Perhaps the strongest category this year making this choice actually difficult. Howard Shore's score for Hugo is spine-tingling, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' work on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is haunting and the legendary John Williams' score for War Horse is heart-achingly beautiful (I would be happy for it to win too) but I had to pick Bource's essential score for The Artist which truly aids the authenticity when replicating this era of filmmaking. The music here is as important as the performing and storytelling, and for that reason, it needs to be recognised. 

Films/Performers that Deserved Nominations

Best Motion Picture - Drama

Shame

(dir: Steve McQueen - UK/USA - Fox Searchlight)

Drive

(dir: Nicolas Winding Refn - USA - FilmDistrict)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

(dir: David Yates - UK/USA - Warner Bros.)

Best Actor/Actress (Lead and Supporting) in a Motion Picture - Drama

Ryan Gosling

Drive

Carey Mulligan

Shame

Carey Mulligan

Drive

Jeremy Irvine

War Horse

Gary Oldman

Tinker Tailor Solider Spy

Alan Rickman

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

Benedict Cumberbatch

Tinker Tailor Solider Spy

Uggie the Jack Russell 

The Artist

Joey the Horse

War Horse

Best Director - Motion Picture

Steve McQueen

Shame

Nicolas Winding Refn

Drive

Best Score/Soundtrack - Motion Picture

Harry Escott

Shame

Clint Martinez

Drive

'Shame' Review

'Shame' (dir: Steve McQueen, 2011/2012) Cert: 18

Another review for Steve McQueen's latest - this time it's a full analysis though and you can read it over at Filmoria.

Click/High-Five the hand above for the review.

'War Horse' Review

'War Horse' (dir: Steven Spielberg, 2011/2012) Cert: 12A

I've reviewed Steven Spielberg's latest for my pals at Filmoria.

Click the beautiful poster to read my review.

Harry Potter: A Cinematic Congratulation

It's the most financially successful film franchise in box-office history and the most financially successful film franchise in DVD/Blu-Ray sales, and rightly so. The adventures of a young orphaned wizard and his fight for survival and justice has captured the heart, spirit and imagination of millions across the globe. But despite anyone's individual opinions towards the Harry Potter film series and whether they care for it or not, it truly deserves congratulation for such a staggering cinematic achievement, and one is not talking about money in this context.

 Over a 10 year period, Warner Bros. and Heyday Films have released eight feature films, clocking a staggering 1178 minutes, that adapt the seven Harry Potter novels penned by the incredible J.K Rowling. What's all the more impressive is the sheer consistency of the pictures - franchises or sagas that run for this length always fall short or lose footing at some point, yet these films rarely put a foot wrong and progress dramatically in various areas throughout the decade. 

 The acting improves, the set designs and cinematography rapidly escalate, the tone and mood is forever evolving - each individual aspect makes up a film which once added to the rest of the series, makes a vital and magical component in an unforgettable and totally remarkable movie-going feat, and to top it all off, it's British.

 Sure, it's made with dollars rather than sterling but the world of Harry Potter and it's creation was born from British soil and has changed the way the wider world views our cinematic outlet. Some snotty-nosed folk will preach that the pictures have damaged the British film industry when they could not be further from the truth. The films have expanded audiences, boosted tourism and made us stiff competition with the Hollywood outputs. 

 Admittedly, one is incredibly bias due to adoring the Harry Potter books and pictures yet personal taste should not void or taint any praise the series deserves - these films are a landmark in audio-visual entertainment and are worthy of respect. One believes the likelihood of another film franchise replicating the magic and sheer consistancy of Harry Potter is virtually impossible and for that reason, I applaud the cast, crew and all involved in bringing Rowling's majestic world to the silver screen. 

 Kudos Mr. Potter, no more broom cupboards for you...