Having been sidelined by the WGA strike this year, the Golden Globes are set to return next year on Sunday, Jan. 11.
On Tuesday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. announced its key dates for its 66th annual awards. Nominations will be announced at 5 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 11.
Where once stars were gathered, a 'lone fat guy' now swims
Time writer Rebecca Winters Keegan kept a diary of her experience covering the Golden Globes press conference last night, asking, "If an awards show happens in Hollywood but nobody famous attends, does it really happen at all?" Her funny chronicle of what actually did happen includes entries such as, "5:15 p.m.: A lone fat guy is swimming laps in the pool area where HBO normally holds its gala," and, "6:23 p.m.: Presenter Mary Hart thanks her agent and hails Viggo Mortensen's 'scary naked fight scene' in 'Eastern Promises.' This news conference is becoming the best proof of the need for writers the WGA could hope for."
The acceptances speeches (and yee-haws) you didn't hear
The announcements were televised last night, but no stars actually attended the press conference for this year's sad, stricken Golden Globes. So we were robbed of seeing how they reacted to the news — the winners and the losers. Here, we've cobbled together reports of the various yee-haws and oh-drats ...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Not every Golden Globes party was canceled.
Despite the scrapping of Sunday’s ceremony and official studio events, Ernest Borgnine — who, at 90, was the oldest Globes nominee ever — still threw a private bash at his hilltop home.
The evening started with pizza and champagne as an assortment of publicists, photographers and friends joined Borgnine, his wife, Tova, and daughter, Nancy, to watch the awards-presentation press conference in his living room.
The Hollywood writers strike took the glitz, the glamour and roughly two-thirds of the audience from this year’s Golden Globe Awards. NBC’s no-frills, one-hour presentation of the winners Sunday night drew a 4.8 rating and 7 share, according to preliminary estimates from the nation’s 55 largest metered markets by Nielsen Media Research.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Nothing fancy or frilly for the winners and losers of this year's dressed-down Golden Globes — some celebrated tonight barefoot and by cooking their own food.
The writers strike forced cancellation of the usual fashion-drenched soiree in favor of a news conference that winners watched from televisions in living rooms and hotel suites.
The Golden Globes awards telecast is usually a rollicking, star-studded party. This year's was more like a laundry list.
Even so, not all live coverage was the same. Viewers who mistakenly watched NBC were fed a package of clutter and commercials padding out the program to a full hour — a blink of an eye by awards-show standards, but twice its necessary length.
By contrast, viewers tuned to the generic announcements carried by networks including CNN, E! and the TV Guide channel knew all the winners in half the time. And they were spared NBC's blabby co-hosts, Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell of "Access Hollywood," as well as useless "analysis" by Entertainment Weekly writer Dave Karger. NBC stooped to vamping and artificial suspense, at the expense of giving its viewers what they had come for.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — A roar went up from the lobby bar of the Beverly Hilton before tonight's Golden Globes. But it wasn't fans thrilling at the sight of Angelina Jolie or George Clooney on the red carpet — it was the New York Giants upsetting the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL playoffs.
The Globes typically kick off Hollywood's award season with more than 1,000 stars and powerbrokers on hand for a rollicking ceremony. But they were knocked back into humdrum reality by the Hollywood writers strike, forced to trade that tradition for an awkward news conference with all the drama of a Los Angeles weathercast.
Some reactions to the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards, announced tonight at a news conference held by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in Beverly Hills, Calif. ...
Don't wait for TV, part 2: 'Atonement' finally wins one
The tragic romance "Atonement" was named best drama Sunday at a Golden Globes event that was deflated from star-studded revelry to dry, news conference-style awards announcement because of the Hollywood writers strike. "Atonement" had the most nominations but failed to win many until this biggie.
The bloody stage adaptation "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" was chosen as best musical or comedy tonight at a drab Golden Globes announcement held in lieu of the usual ritzy party because of the Hollywood writers strike.
Boy, they're flying through the announcements of the Golden Globes tonight — faster than we can type them up, nearly. Who'd-a thunk we'd miss acceptance speeches and skits?
A blogger at The Envelope reports that, even though the WGA agreed not to picket tonight's Golden Globes once it was reduced from a gala to a press conference, a handful of picketers stood near the Beverly Hilton Hotel chanting, "Settle the strike! Let us go back to work!"
These strikers are not, as it turns out, WGA members. Tom O'Neil quotes one: "We're below-the-line people who work in other areas of the business and we've been tossed out of work because of the strike! Writers aren't the only ones affected by this strike, you know. And many of us have been hit the hardest!"
Counting down to the Globes press conference. Everyone we read out there comes to the same conclusion: The Coen brothers are going to take it, as this AFP story concludes: "Experts are almost unanimous in predicting that "No Country for Old Men" is likely to earn the Globes' best drama film accolade."
A lot of actors are disappointed Sunday's Golden Globes telecast has been reduced to a press conference, but few are more bummed out than 90-year-old Ernest Borgnine.
Borgnine is nominated in the best film.miniseries actor category for "A Grandpa For Christmas." It's an honor he never thought he'd be alive to enjoy.
"It's 52 years since my Oscar for 'Marty,' and it sure brought the people out of the woodwork," he told the New York Post. "At 90, I'm suddenly the fair-haired boy again. I keep the Oscar in our back room. I just polished it up a bit. One dealer wanted to buy it. He said it would probably bring more than John Wayne's saddle."
Here is the cold, hard reality of the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards that will be handed out Sunday at the Beverly Hilton: A lot of people are going to lose a lot of money.
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s blue-collar infrastructure is going to take a beating this weekend. With the Golden Globes, the town’s famously party-hearty awards show, now reduced to a glorified news conference because of the writers strike, the couriers who deliver elaborate floral displays to winners, the waiters who keep their glasses filled with champagne, and the drivers who shepherd the drunks home after late-night parties will be sitting idly by — on what is ordinarily one of their most lucrative nights.
Sure, filmmakers are lamenting the loss of the Golden Globes, and fretting about the Oscars. But there's another group of workers really worried about the state of award shows this season: the fashion designers. Including this one in Grand Rapids, Mich.
