Globes '08

[ZapRowsdower]

They just announced the nominees this morning.

Best Motion Picture - Drama

American Gangster
Atonement
Eastern Promises
The Great Debaters
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Across the Universe
Charlie Wilson's War
Hairspray
Juno
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

George Clooney for Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood
James McAvoy for Atonement
Viggo Mortensen for Eastern Promises
Denzel Washington for American Gangster

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie for Away from Her
Jodie Foster for The Brave One
Angelina Jolie for A Mighty Heart
Keira Knightley for Atonement

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Ryan Gosling for Lars and the Real Girl
Tom Hanks for Charlie Wilson's War
Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Savages
John C. Reilly for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Amy Adams for Enchanted
Nikki Blonsky for Hairspray
Helena Bonham Carter for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose
Ellen Page for Juno

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Casey Affleck for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman for Charlie Wilson's War
John Travolta for Hairspray
Tom Wilkinson for Michael Clayton

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Cate Blanchett for I'm Not There
Julia Roberts for Charlie Wilson's War
Saoirse Ronan for Atonement
Amy Ryan for Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton for Michael Clayton

Best Director - Motion Picture

Tim Burton for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen for No Country for Old Men
Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Ridley Scott for American Gangster
Joe Wright for Atonement

Best Screenplay: Motion Picture

Atonement - Christopher Hampton
Charlie Wilson's War - Aaron Sorkin
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Ronald Harwood
Juno - Diablo Cody
No Country for Old Men - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Best Original Song - Motion Picture

Enchanted - "That's How You Know"
Grace Is Gone - "Grace Is Gone"
Into the Wild - "Guaranteed"
Love in the Time of Cholera - "Despedida"
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story - "Walk Hard"

Best Original Score - Motion Picture

Atonement - Dario Marianelli
Eastern Promises - Howard Shore
Grace Is Gone - Clint Eastwood
Into the Wild - Michael Brook
The Kite Runner - Alberto Iglesias

Best Animated Film

Bee Movie
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie

Best Foreign Language Film

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - Romania
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - France/USA
The Kite Runner - USA
Lust, Caution - USA/China/Hong Kong/Taiwan
Persepolis - France/USA

[ZapRowsdower]

Best Picture - Drama

Seven nominees, and not one of them Into the Wild? I thought Into the Wild was much better than Michael Clayton and Eastern Promises. Don't get me wrong, I liked both of those movies, I just didn't really consider them Best Picture material. And where did the Great Debaters come from? How about 3:10 to Yuma or the Assassination of Jesse James? Gone Baby Gone? Very disappointed with this category.

Best Picture - Musical or Comedy

I loved Across the Universe, but how is Enchanted NOT a better musical? You got seven in the other category. Couldn't get 6 in this one? And if not, once again, Enchanted was better.

Best Screenplay

No Country's strength comes from the Coens' direction this time around, not screenplay. The screenplay sorely needed a climax. I don't care how the book did it, this isn't the book. It's the movie. Movies need climaxes, otherwise they feel incomplete. I love the film, but I wouldn't give it this nomination.

Original Song

Missing anything from the movie "Once". Also, either of the two songs from "Hairspray".

Best Animated

I liked Bee Movie, but I don't think it was better than Surf's Up. Is there an anti-penguin movement at the globes or something? Sheesh.


On the plus side, some of these nominations have caught my eye. La Vie En Rose is next up on my Netflix queue, so I'll see whether or not Cotillard deserved her nomination.

Liked the nominations for Blonsky, Travolta, Amy Adams, Amy Ryan, Javier Bardem, Casey Affleck and Viggo Mortensen. I also look forward to Sweeney Todd and There Will Be Blood.

[Pulpmariachi]

iamthesmitty said:

Best Screenplay

No Country's strength comes from the Coens' direction this time around, not screenplay. The screenplay sorely needed a climax. I don't care how the book did it, this isn't the book. It's the movie. Movies need climaxes, otherwise they feel incomplete. I love the film, but I wouldn't give it this nomination.

There might be spoilers in this:

The film was fine. The ending was perfect, but you have to think about it. The climax came in Ed Tom Bell actually going into the motel room and being able to leave, to confront this world about him and make the decision not to deal with it anymore. What comes after is just an extended epilogue. Overall, the whole film is about this old guy's struggle to find some solace in the changing world around him, but in the end even he realizes that good won't always have this final duke-out over evil, which is incredibly important, because it's against the norm of what we think a climax is.

As for your book comparison, the book's not that great. McCarthy has written things that are vastly better (see: "Blood Meridian" and "All the Pretty Horses" and even "The Road" from his latter works). He must've realized somewhere that he was writing an otherwise pulp novel and peppered it with all sorts of philosophical digressions, which bogged the story down. I guess it was something meant to be visualized because the film works so much better.

But I guess if you wanted that shoot 'em out, "Live Free and Die Hard" just hit DVD and the unrated edition is pretty intense ridiculously spectacular.

[Heineken Skywalker]

Best Motion Picture - Drama

Of the nominees, I've only seen "American Gangster", but am really looking forward to
"No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood" if I can ever find the time.

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

So far only saw "Hairspray", but can't wait for "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street".

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

Only saw Denzel Washington in "American Gangster".

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

Haven't seen any of these yet.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Haven't seen any of these yet.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

So far only saw Nikki Blonsky for "Hairspray", but she was great.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

John Travolta in "Hairspray" was both funny and unintentionally creepy.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Haven't seen any.

Best Director - Motion Picture

Only saw "American Gangster" by Ridley Scott.

Best Screenplay: Motion Picture

Nothing yet.

Best Original Song - Motion Picture

Nothing yet.

Best Original Score - Motion Picture

Nothing yet.

Best Animated Film

Saw "Ratatouille" and "The Simpsons Movie". I love The Simpsons, but "Go Remy!!"

Best Foreign Language Film

Nada.

[ZapRowsdower]

Well, they announced the winners today

Best Motion Picture - Drama: Atonement

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama: Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama: Julie Christie for Away from Her

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy: Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Cate Blanchett for I'm Not There

Best Director - Motion Picture: Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Screenplay: Motion Picture: No Country for Old Men - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Best Original Song - Motion Picture: Into the Wild - "Guaranteed"

Best Original Score - Motion Picture: Atonement - Dario Marianelli

Best Animated Film: Ratatouille

Best Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - France/USA

[Pulpmariachi]

Neither best picture comedy or drama deserved that. Considering what they were up against; those films were far weaker.

[ZapRowsdower]

Atonement being my least favorite of the frontrunners, I too was disappointed by their selection. I was, however, satisfied with their pick for best musical. The only one I wouldn't have gone for was Across the Universe.

Glad to see Johnny Depp win something. The race comes down between him and Daniel Day-Lewis...

[Pulpmariachi]

The Oscar race? I beg to differ.

I think it's between Daniel Day-Lewis, who I've heard is so strikingly amazing, it's difficult to look away, and George Clooney, who has lots of buzz around him for "Clayyton." Johnny Depp will probably get nominated -- though I hold his performance in "Sweeny Todd" was rather one-note -- because he seems to be a favorites of the nominations category.

Of course, I was wrong about Forrest Whitaker last year so....