Winners updated as the show proceeds (I’m sure people come here for news). Liveblogging below.
♦ Winner ♥ Rooting for • Seen, worthy ο Seen, unworthy
| Best Motion Picture—Drama | |
| ♦ ο | Avatar |
| ♥ | The Hurt Locker |
| ο | Inglourious Basterds |
| Precious | |
| ο | Up in the Air |
| I almost like Basterds enough in a giddy, trashy way—what a weak category if that’s the case. | |
| Best Motion Picture—Comedy | |
| ♥ • | (500) Days of Summer |
| ♦ | The Hangover |
| ο | It’s Complicated |
| ο | Julie & Julia |
| ο | Nine |
| Ugh, seriously? Summer is the best this category can offer? Please tell me Nine isn’t really a contender. | |
| Best Actor—Drama | |
| ♦ | Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart |
| • | George Clooney, Up in the Air |
| ♥ | Colin Firth, A Single Man |
| Morgan Freeman, Invictus | |
| Tobey Magiure, Brothers | |
| Seen so few. Clooney would be a fine winner, but I’m already certain Firth owns everyone this year. Bridges, maybe. | |
| Best Actress—Drama | |
| • | Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria |
| ♦ | Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side |
| ♥ | Helen Mirren, The Last Station |
| ♥ | Carey Mulligan, An Education |
| Gabourey Sidibe, Precious | |
| Very strong category. Just please don’t give the Academy any encouragement where Bullock is concerned. I do not want to have to see that film. | |
| Best Actor—Comedy | |
| ♥ • | Matt Damon, The Informant! |
| • | Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine |
| ♦ | Robert Downey Jr, Sherlock Holmes |
| • | Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer |
| • | Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man |
| Also strong, but Damon is so hilariously perfect in The Informant! | |
| Best Actress—Comedy | |
| Sandra Bullock, The Proposal | |
| • | Marion Cotillard, Nine |
| Julia Roberts, Duplicity | |
| • | Meryl Streep, It’s Complicated |
| ♦ ♥ • | Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia |
| Marion is by far the best thing about Nine, and Meryl can take it for either role. Julia should be an easy win, though, right, unless the vote is split? | |
| Best Supporting Actor | |
| Matt Damon, Invictus | |
| Woody Harrelson, The Messenger | |
| Christopher Plummer, The Last Station | |
| Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones | |
| ♦ ♥ • | Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds |
| And Christoph is the best thing about Basterds. I’m sure Plummer is worthy, and Tucci too but again, don’t encourage the Academy to nominate that film anywhere. | |
| Best Supporting Actress | |
| • | Penelope Cruz, Nine |
| ♥ • | Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air |
| • | Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air |
| ♦ | Mo’Nique, Precious |
| Julianne Moore, A Single Man | |
| I’d be pretty all right with any of these nominees. | |
| Best Director | |
| ♥ | Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker |
| ♦ ο | James Cameron, Avatar |
| Clint Eastwood, Invictus | |
| ο | Jason Reitman, Up in the Air |
| ο | Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds |
| Same feeling as Film, have to go to Hurt Locker. | |
| Best Screenplay | |
| Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell, District 9 | |
| Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker | |
| ο | Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds |
| ο | Nancy Meyers, It’s Complicated |
| ♦ ο | Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air |
| Tarantino almost deserves a nod here. Meyers kind of, sort of, no. Reitman equals very no. | |
| Best Animated Film | |
| Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs | |
| Coraline | |
| ♥ • | Fantastic Mr Fox |
| The Princess & the Frog | |
| ♦ | Up |
| Fantastic Mr Fox is cussin’ fantastic, but I do need to see Up. | |
| Best Foreign Film | |
| • ♥ | Broken Embraces |
| Baaria | |
| ♦ ♥ | The White Ribbon |
| The Maid | |
| A Prophet | |
| Broken Embraces is truly worthy, but I expect White Ribbon and The Maid and A Prophet are even better. | |
8:04 Is it just me, or is Ricky Gervais actually making this fun? Masturbation jokes & insensitivity galore. “Let’s get on with it before NBC replaces me with Jay Leno.”
8:05 Best Supporting Actress already, yes, move this along. Penelope did start looking like a real, old-school movie star somewhere along the line, didn’t she? Mo’Nique just makes me happy, exactly as much as I know her role will not. Aw! Mo’Nique wins. Cool.
8:26 Forgot there isn’t really a lot of hosting to do with the Globes. Bored without Gervais.
8:28 Yay, montage of Nine. The only way to watch it.
8:45 If “Cinema Italiano” wins for song (“that Guido neorealism” 
)… I don’t know, what, I’ll be grumpy. …Oh good good, T-Bone wins. Looking forward to Crazy Heart.
8:47 Score. I don’t remember any of these as being particularly memorable, so I didn’t list above. But I’m pulling for anything and everything A Single Man wants to do.
[Site chooses NOW to crash so I've been Tweeting]
8:58 Yes, all things considered, I’d rather find myself in bed with Stanley Tucci than Alec Baldwin, too.
9:02 OMG MERYL IS THE CUTEST
9:03 “I want to change my name to T-Bone. T-Bone Streep.”
9:09 HELEN!!! I adore her even as she is sort of the opposite of Meryl. She knows EXACTLY how hot she is.
Is Branagh looking kind of adorable and humble? Oh, he just looked over the top of his glasses…
Nothing like awards shows to get me all hot over the slightest, silliest of gestures. Gervais is right, actors are better than other people.
I am kidding. However, JEREMY IRONS JOAN ALLEN SIGOURNEY WEAVER MARK WAHLBERG
You may not know it, Golden Globes, but you do not play MICHAEL HANEKE off the stage. You don’t do it to Streep, you don’t do it to Haneke.
Christoph Waltz! Was he favored? He totally deserves it. He seems so much cuddlier now.
He pronounced Laurent so Frenchly I am incredibly hot for him right now. I need to stop watching award shows; they make me very silly.
How drunk is Brendan Fraser? DeNiro went on way too long about having sex with film, should have learned from Gervais’ earlier penis jokes.
[10:13 annnd we're back!]
10:16 Cameron, not surprising, still upsetting.
10:17 Ha, I did not realize until this moment that Cameron and Bigelow are exes… This moment is suddenly much more compelling. Can I see her reaction shot again?
10:28 I have to trust that The Hangover deserved it, because the other four certainly did not.
10:36 WHAT THE FUCK Sandra Bullock wins. This either means I have to see that movie, or stop caring about all this nonsense forever. A watershed moment.
10:37 Unless the Oscars still snub her. Any chance?
10:38 Helen Mirren is coldly judging her. (I like to think so.)
10:39 Haha, they played her off.
10:40 WHAT THE FUUUUCK I have to see Sherlock Holmes now too? This is all upside down. “If you start playing violins I will tear this place apart.” I mean, I do love RDJr & won’t complain about seeing him shirtless. But, seriously? Anyway, best speech of the night.
10:47 As long as the HFPA wanted to play it a little crazy, couldn’t they have indulged Colin Firth?
10:57 Avatar. I’m tired of 2009.
10:59 And DONE. Mercifully.
Things which puzzle me: 1. You watched Avatar. 2. You watched the Golden Globes. 3. You did 1 and 2 of your own free will.
WHYYYYYYY
Comment by Ian — 18 January 2010 @ 18 January 2010It shouldn’t surprise you. This is who I’ve been, longer than I’ve really cared for film. Always try to see all the nominated films, waste of my time though they mostly are. Always watch the award shows, little though I’ve respected them for years. Oh yes, this behavior predates most of what else you know about me.
I regret Avatar, though. But in trying to counsel a friend not to see it herself, to spare her, I still had to conclude that one almost must see it.
But please, save yourself!!
Comment by Lauren — 18 January 2010 @ 18 January 2010Avatar shall never reach my eyes. I avoid all big commercial releases and usually have no trouble doing so, and I am particularly motivated to avoid this one. “Have you seen Avatar yet, Ian?” “Ava-what?”
I should think the awards habit easy to kick — or are you not willing to try?
Comment by Ian — 18 January 2010 @ 18 January 2010Better that way. Avatar has nothing to recommend it whatever except being-in-mass-culture.
The awards habit feels very easy to kick, very. There is nothing compelling me to go on with it but inertia. I’ve found that I’m unable to participate in more than one online community at once and obviously no one at TLC does the awards thing, so I don’t really have anyone to talk about it with, even. But I go on. Childhood habits, I think, completism. I think I will continue to go on.
Comment by Lauren — 18 January 2010 @ 18 January 2010Avatar was all right but the amount of awards its getting is laughable. Why didn’t you like Basterds?
Comment by Sean — 27 January 2010 @ 27 January 2010I actually liked Basterds a lot. Whole bunches. Maybe even enough to think it’s due some awards–but I can’t help backing off that. It entertained me immensely but I can’t go much further. (Aside from Waltz, who deserves everything he’s getting.)
Comment by Lauren — 28 January 2010 @ 28 January 2010