Spreading Around the Love at the Golden Globes

Everyone’s favorite annual event dedicated to getting Hollywood stars drunk, then giving them awards they were never expecting to win, hence forcing them to improvise pathetically hilarious speeches.  It’s the Golden Globe$! 

I think the moment of the night was when Seth Myers and Julie Bowen claimed they were willing to “play ball” with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Anyway, The Globes have always been known to give love to big Hollywood pictures, so despite 12 Years a Slave having more nominations than any other film, many were still expecting Gravity to take home Best Picture- Drama.  Although they were wrong about Best Picture, Gravity’s director Alfonso Cuaron took home Best Director in an attempt to spread all of the love around.  On-point was the first surprise of the night, Spike Jonze winning Best Screenplay for Her.

As for Comedy/Musical? Don’t even start with me.  Julie Deply was nominated for Before Midnight.  Yeah, that movie was so funny I cried throughout the whole thing.  Especially the end. 

On that end, it was American Hustle’s night, Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams both taking home prizes.  Adams winning over SAG nominees Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson, is probably a precursor to a potential Oscar nomination.  However, it will not be the same with Leonardo Dicaprio, who took home Best Actor Comedy/Musical for The Wolf of Wall Street, over Bruce Dern…(wut…)

It pays to be popular if you want to win a Golden Globe.  Likewise for an unexpected Best Actor Drama winner Matthew McCounaghey, who actually is expected to be nominated for an Oscar.  My theory is, the HFPA felt sorry for those really bankable stars that Hollywood can count on, having to sit in the most crowded award ceremony ever.  Seriously, so much speech time lost due to winners having to sneak through tables to the stage.  And with so many people, you can bet they’ll all find a number of people to hug, kiss and thank on the way up.  If you want people to watch, please manage that a little better HFPA, thanks.

Finally, the biggest surprise of the night was All is Lost winning Best Score.  The biggest whoop was Cate Blanchett winning Best Actress Drama.  Now that it’s over we can finally move on to the Oscars, whose nominations will be announced Thursday, Check out the nomination predictions on the Oscars page, and the other pages will have all the info you need to know to make your own predictions!