769 missed the Golden Ball
In the cold winter of the northern hemisphere, London is rainy and rainy, while Los Angeles is still sunny and warm like spring.
In the TV drama department, this year is undoubtedly a good year, with popular works such as "Homeland Security", "Game of Thrones", "American Horror Story", "Atlantic Empire", "Breaking Bad", "The Good Wife", and "Downton Abbey" appearing and competing for various awards.
And popular actors such as Kate Winslet, Diane-Lane, Zoey-Deschanel, Alec-Baldin, Matt-LeBlanc, Bryan-Cranston and many more will also be in attendance.
The film department, relatively speaking, is a small year, there are no high-profile box office giants breaking into the competition for the awards season, and there are no majestic epics or masterpieces in the competition for the awards season, more of which is dominated by small costs, small patterns, small stories, and small lives, to some extent, weakens the highlights of the final showdown of the awards season. However, this year's top superstars are countless.
Steven Spielberg, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Charlize Theron, Aaron Sorkin, David Fincher, Christian Bale...... Each name is the backbone of Hollywood, and each name represents a story, a piece of history, and the attention that comes with it.
Rooney Mara, Ryan Gosling, Natalie Portman, Michelle Williams, Shailene-oodley, Jonah Hill, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy...... These names represent the future of Hollywood, some are new generation actors, and some are new names that have popped up in the past year.
Nearly 200 guests, more than 400 journalists, as many as 600 spectators, and more than 600 onlookers. The Golden Globe Awards ceremony is still lively, and the absence of Lan Li, in the eyes of many people, is a regret for Lan Li - after all, at this year's awards ceremony, Lan Li should be the focus of attention, even compared with George, Ryan, and Brad, it is not inferior in any way.
However, after the four-hour awards ceremony came to an end, many people's opinions seemed to be shaken. Now it seems that Lan Li's absence may not be such a bad choice.
I don't know if it's because of last year's lessons and warnings, or because this year's gossip and slots are not very good, Ricky Gervais's performance at the awards ceremony that night was much more restrained, and the whole performance was decent, not drowsy, but it didn't reach the level of constant laughter, which also made the ratings more or less affected.
The 69th Golden Globe Awards have 16 million viewers and a rating of 5.0, a drop of 15 percentage points compared to last year, which is not a big drop and is within an acceptable range, but considering the star-studded all-star lineup this year, such a performance is inevitably a little disappointing.
Ironically, despite the overall decline, the Golden Globes are still NBC's most-watched non-sports live show, reminiscent of the joke in Ricky Gervais' opening remarks, "The No. 1 host hosts the world's second-largest awards ceremony, and the livestream is the third-largest in the U.S....... Sorry, it's the fourth largest television network."
Just as ratings have declined and the topic has cooled down, the list of winners of this year's Golden Globe Awards is really lackluster.
In the competition for the best film in the drama category, the rave reviews of "Help" returned home, and "Hugo", which must have exceeded expectations in the industry, was not able to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but focused on the "descendants" of the mid-life crisis to the end.
But in fact, the overall reputation of this work is far inferior to Alexander Payne's previous two works, "A Cup of Life" and "About Schmidt", even compared to the "Campus Scene" in the early years. On the other hand, the advantages of "help" and "Hugo" are not as obvious as imagined, and the trend of the award cannot be regarded as disappointment or chokeness, but just unfazed.
In the competition for the best picture in the musical comedy category, "The Artist" broke out a big upset, defeating the box office dark horse "Bridesmaids", defeating the overwhelming "Cancer-Fighting Me", and Woody Allen's best performance in the past two decades "Midnight Paris", which is really eye-catching.
Throughout this year's awards season, drama films and musical comedy films are two very different faces.
The average standard of drama films is very good, and the overall quality of a series of works is very close, there are no particularly bad works, and there are no particularly outstanding works, which also makes the selection more and more difficult, and the Golden Globes simply gave six nominations in one go.
On the other hand, musical comedy movies are strong and weak, "Midnight in Paris", "Cancer-Fighting Me", "Artist" and "Bridesmaids" These four works have obvious advantages, and the quality of other works has a large gap.
But who would have thought that the reputation of "Midnight Paris" blessed by Woody surpassed that of "The End of the Game" and "Midnight Barcelona", and the industry generally believed that the old man was rejuvenated again; As a result, both works lost to "artists", there were no big-name directors, no big-name actors, no big-name producers, and even a French-made work that remembered the golden age of Hollywood, which fought its way out.
It's not a fright, but it's not a surprise, it's just a ...... It's hard to put into words.
In stark contrast to the award of Best Director, Martin Scorsese stood out with "Hugo" and won his third Golden Globe trophy.
This year is Martin's year.
Since 1995's "Las Vegas", Martin has fallen into the obsession of chasing the Oscars, and his subsequent works have fallen into the trap of the little golden man, "New York Gangster", "The Aviator", "The Departed" and other works are like this, the skills are becoming more and more neat, the atmosphere and sharpness in the early years of "Taxi Driver", "Angry Bull", "Good Guys" have disappeared, and the "Departed" was able to win the award that year, more thanks to the old man's merit ticket, hard work, and merit.
However, after harvesting the little golden man, Martin let go of his hands and feet, first a "Shutter Island" amazed loyal fans, and then this year's "Hugo", full of childlike and whimsical lens language, reawakened the love of movies in the hearts of every audience, the septuagenarian still showed his enthusiasm and received unanimous praise from the public opinion circle.
Having defeated old rival Woody Allen, Mesozoic directors Alexander Payne and George Clooney, and the little-known Michelle Hazanavicius, Martin is once again the favourite for this year's awards season.
Objectively speaking, if the best film in the drama category is awarded to "Hugo", corresponding to the best director, then the Golden Globes will be much more interesting, and the third phase of the next awards season will also be much more interesting. It's a pity that the Golden Globes, as always, chose to share the cake, so the list of winners became boring.
Compared with Best Picture and Best Director, this year's competition for the actor department is more suspenseful and topical.
Meryl Streep was easily crowned for Best Actress in a Drama Series with "The Iron Lady", Michelle Williams challenged Marilyn Monroe in "My Week with Monroe" to great acclaim, strongly repelled a competitor and won the Best Supporting Actress award.
Among them, both actors play real characters in history, and in addition to their vivid performances, they are also challenging their own limits. It is foreseeable that the competition between Meryl and Michelle above this year's Oscars is bound to heat up.
Best Actor in a Drama Category, George Clooney of "The Descendant" won his third Golden Globe Award, Jean Dujardin stood out as an "artist" for Best Actor in a Musical Comedy, and Christopher Plummer of "Beginner" finally got his long-cherished wish.
The list of winners for the actor once again continued the usual style of Hollywood - respecting the old and not loving the young, 28-year-old Jonah Hill, 32-year-old Ryan Gosling, 22-year-old Ranley Hall, and 35-year-old Michael Fassbender were all ignored, and the three winners, the youngest Jean, is 40 years old this year. Among them, Ryan and Lan Li, two superstars, were the most disappointed people at the awards ceremony.
Objectively speaking, in the competition for best actor in a drama this year, the industry is generally optimistic about Lan Li and Michael's two-person turn.
The former has dedicated the most eye-catching romantic movie performances since "Annie Hall" in 1977 with "Love Crazy" - "Brokeback Mountain" and "Blue Valentine" are closer to feature films, and many critics have compared Lan Li to Heath Ledger, who died young; The outbreak of invisible performances, showing the depth and internal strength of European actors to the fullest, almost broke into the entire Hollywood's field of vision as a comet, and the momentum was even more ferocious than Ryan five years ago.
However, both lost to George.
The competition for Best Actor in a Musical Comedy was originally a showdown between Jean-Dujardin and Lanley Hall, both in the performance itself and in the work as a whole, the advantages of the two actors are more obvious. In North America, Lan Li's voice is slightly higher, and age is the biggest shortcoming, but the performance of four nominations in two years has convinced countless people;
It is generally believed that the estimation is the result of the splitting of votes: some people voted "love is crazy", and some people voted "I am fighting cancer", so the votes were scattered, resulting in empty-handed returns.
So, can the twin stars Lan Li and Ryan continue to shine above the next Oscars? After the Golden Globe Awards ended, the questions were not only not answered, but became even more confused.