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When a dog is wearing a bow tie you know it’s a special occasion. The reason Uggie from The Artist is all dressed us is that it was the Golden Globes last night, and as they are the first award ceremony of the year we have to pretend that they matter. At least the Golden Globes has Ricky Gervais on hand to entertain and offend everyone.

My predictions were hit and miss as usual but overall I’d say the awards went to the right people. The Artist, everyone’s favourite film right now (I did a small poll last night), received Best Comedy/Musical, Best Actor (Comedy/Musical) and Best Original Score (sorry Kim Novak) and should have won every other award going.

The Descendants, a film I enjoyed but for some reason don’t want to win any awards (I’m complicated), did very well for itself taking home Best Drama and Best Actor (Drama), leaving the Oscar battle as a dead heat between The Descendants‘ George Clooney and The Artist‘s Jean Dujardin.

Meryl Streep and Michelle Williams both won Best Actress awards, seemingly proving that a great performance in a mediocre not-quite-biopic beats any other effort this year. It still remains to be explained to me just how My Week With Marilyn fits into the Comedy/Musical category. Williams and Streep should have gone head to head in the drama category, and then lost to Tilda Swinton, in my achingly pompous opinion.

A quick shout out for Christopher Plummer winning Best Supporting Actor, Woody Allen winning Best Screenplay and A Separation winning Best Foreign Language Film; three worthy but unexpected wins. Also worth mentioning Madonna’s allegedly awful film W.E. picking up the award for Best Original Song In A Motion Picture which is a token award for a film that may never win anything again, unless another awards body wants to be able to invite Madonna along to their parties.

On the TV front all is well with Best Drama, Comedy/Musical and Miniseries going to deserving series Homeland, Modern Family and Downton Abbey respectively. The fact that I have actually seen all three is almost too much excitement for me this early on a Monday.

On the acting side it’s not too surprising to see Kate Winslet taking home an award, though she may have done better work in the film catagory this year (see Carnage). Peter Dinklage and Clare Danes rightly won in their categories and Matt Le Blanc picked up Best Actor In A TV Comedy/Musical as if to show how weak that category was this year. All that remains to be said is that Damien Lewis was robbed of his rightful award by Kelsey Grammer and Zooey Deschanel by Laura Dern.

For a full list of winners click here, and for a picture of Uggie with his very own Golden Globe look no further:

He thinks he’s people!

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With awards season truly hotting up we are treated with the nominations for the 2012 Golden Globe Awards. They’re an interesting bunch, a lot of the more challenging and/or smaller films have been passed by. The Los Angles Times has it spot on when they say that the nominations seem to recognise those works featuring the A-list actors, more accessible films and less dark dramas. No Tyrannosaur or Like Crazy to be found below.

What you will find is my gut reaction and my opinions for each category (apart from Best Original Song and Best Original Score as that is not my strong suit) whether you want it or not. Read more »

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On Monday morning the Golden Globes were awarded to some deserving recipients in the film categories, and some less deserving recipients in the TV categories.

The Social Network, our 2nd best film of 2010, picked up Best Score, Best Drama, Best Director and Best Screenplay in a clear sweep of all but the acting awards. No arguments there, it is a great film that goes way beyond being a Facebook movie.

The Kid’s Are All Right did well out of the Golden Globes’ bizarre system of splitting films into drama and comedy/musical for a few categories. While the directors all go head to head the actors and films don’t have to. With The Kid’s Are All Right being classed as a comedy (not a drama?) it was an easy win in Best Comedy for the wonderful Annette Bening in Best Actress.

In the drama acting categories the vibe was set for future award ceremonies with Colin Firth and Natalie Portman taking the top honours. Two very deserving wins and two lovely acceptance speeches, now Firth is sure to get a BAFTA now and they could both do well at the Oscars.

The Fighter also did well for itself in a supporting manner, winning Best Supporting Actor and Actress in two categories that were not split into drama and comedy/musical. Not sure where the HFPA draw the line at which categories to split and which require comedians and dramatic actor to battle it out. Regardless, having not seen The Fighter, I feel like some personal favourites had their award taken from them.

Toy Story 3 won Best Animated Film in the most predictable category of the night… there really is nothing more to say on that.

TV went crazy, Glee is not the best comedy, Boardwalk Empire not the best Drama and Jim Parsons, Chris Colfer, Laura Linney and Steve Buscemi did not put in the best performances this year. Katey Sagal I can’t comment on and Jane Lynch is the exception as someone who was easily one of the best in her category. A couple of these awards looked a lot like rewarding movie actors for doing TV to encourage them to keep going, rather than judging the actual performances.

Next up: The BAFTAs!

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With the Golden Globes being presented in the early hours of Monday morning it’s about time we perused the nominees and favour those films we’ve actually seen. Read more »

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Last night the Golden Globes succeeded in giving out some well deserved, if unexpected, TV awards. Glee, Dexter, Big Love and United States of Tara all got awards that I had hoped for but not expected, putting me in a very good mood to begin with. Read more »

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