Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globe Awards recognize excellence in film and television and are distributed every year at a formal dinner held by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The awards date back to 1944, the first time they were handed out. A total of 26 awards, plus a lifetime achievement award, are currently given out, 15 of which go to the top actors, actresses, directors, screenwriters, films and others in the motion picture industry, and 11 of which are given to the top performers and series on television.http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/

The 2011 Golden Globe Awards took place on January 16, 2011, starting at 8:00 p.m. EST. British comedian Ricky Gervais returned to host the event. The 2011 Golden Globe nominations were announced on December 14, 2010. In addition to the 26 awards for films and television shows from 2010, the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Robert De Niro.http://www.goldenglobes.org/blog/2010/12/the-68th-annual-golden-globe-awards-nominations/

2011 Golden Globe Award Nominations

Cecil B. DeMille Award
- Winner: Robert DeNiro

Best Motion Picture - Drama
- Nominees:
- Black Swan
- The Fighter
- Inception
- The King's Speech
- The Social Network -- WINNER

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Nominees:
- Halle Berry - Frankie and Alice
- Nicole Kidman - Rabbit Hole
- Jennifer Lawrence - Winter's Bone
- Natalie Portman - Black Swan -- WINNER
- Michelle Williams - Blue Valentine

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
- Nominees:
- Jesse Eisenberg - The Social Network
- James Franco - 127 Hours
- Colin Firth - The King's Speech -- WINNER
- Ryan Gosling - Blue Valentine
- Mark Wahlberg - The Fighter

Best Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
- Nominees:
- Alice in Wonderland
- Burlesque
- The Kids Are All Right -- WINNER
- Red
- The Tourist

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
- Nominees:
- Annette Bening - The Kids Are All Right -- WINNER
- Anne Hathaway - Love and Other Drugs
- Angelina Jolie - The Tourist
- Julianne Moore - The Kids Are All Right
- Emma Stone - Easy A

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
- Nominees:
- Johnny Depp - Alice in Wonderland
- Johnny Depp - The Tourist
- Paul Giamatti - Barney's Version -- WINNER
- Jake Gyllenhaal - Love and Other Drugs
- Kevin Spacey - Casino Jack

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- Nominees:
- Amy Adams - The Fighter
- Helena Bonham Carter - The King's Speech
- Mila Kunis - Black Swan
- Melissa Leo - The Fighter -- WINNER
- Jacki Weaver - Animal Kingdom

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
- Nominees:
- Christian Bale - The Fighter -- WINNER
- Michael Douglas - Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
- Andrew Garfield - The Social Network
- Jeremy Renner - The Town
- Geoffrey Rush - The King's Speech

Best Animated Feature Film
- Nominees:
- Despicable Me
- How to Train Your Dragon
- The Illusionist
- Tangled
- Toy Story 3 -- WINNER

Best Foreign Language Film
- Nominees:
- Biutiful
- The Concert
- The Edge
- I Am Love
- In a Better World -- WINNER

Best Director - Motion Picture
- Nominees:
- Darren Aronofsky - Black Swan
- David Fincher - The Social Network -- WINNER
- Tom Hooper - The King's Speech
- Christopher Nolan - Inception
- David O. Russell - The Fighter

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
- Nominees:
- Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy - 127 Hours
- Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg - The Kids Are All Right
- Christopher Nolan - Inception
- David Seidler - The King's Speech
- Aaron Sorkin - The Social Network -- WINNER

Best Original Score - Motion Picture
- Nominees:
- Alexandre Desplat - The King's Speech
- Danny Elfman - Alice in Wonderland
- A.R. Rahman - 127 Hours
- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - The Social Network -- WINNER
- Hans Zimmer - Inception

Best Original Song - Motion Picture
- Nominees:
- "Bound To You" - Burlesque
- "Coming Home" - Country Strong
- "I See the Light" - Tangled
- "There's A Place for Us" - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" - Burlesque -- WINNER

Best Television Series - Drama
- Nominees:
- Boardwalk Empire -- WINNER
- Dexter
- The Good Wife
- Mad Men
- The Walking Dead

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama
- Nominees:
- Julianna Margulies - The Good Wife
- Elisabeth Moss - Mad Men
- Piper Perabo - Covert Affairs
- Katey Sagal - Sons of Anarchy -- WINNER
- Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama
- Nominees:
- Steve Buscemi - Boardwalk Empire -- WINNER
- Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad
- Michael C. Hall - Dexter
- John Hamm - Mad Men
- Hugh Laurie - House

Best Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
- Nominees:
- 30 Rock
- The Big Bang Theory
- The Big C
- Glee -- WINNER
- Modern Family
- Nurse Jackie

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
- Nominees:
- Toni Collette - United States of Tara
- Edie Falco - Nurse Jackie
- Tina Fey - 30 Rock
- Laura Linney - The Big C -- WINNER
- Lea Michelle - Glee

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Comedy Or Musical
- Nominees:
- Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
- Steve Carell - The Office
- Matthew Morrison - Glee
- Jim Parsons - The Big Bang Theory -- WINNER
- Thomas Jane - Hung

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Nominees:
- Carlos -- WINNER
- The Pacific
- Pillars of the Earth
- Temple Grandin
- You Don't Know Jack

Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Nominees:
- Hayley Atwell - Pillars of the Earth
- Claire Danes - Temple Grandin -- WINNER
- Judi Dench - Return to Cranford
- Romola Garai - Emma
- Jennifer Love Hewitt - The Client List

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Nominees:
- Idris Elba - Luther
- Ian McShane - Pillars of the Earth
- Al Pacino - You Don't Know Jack -- WINNER
- Dennis Quaid - The Special Relationship
- Edgar Ramirez - Carlos

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Nominees:
- Hope Davis - The Special Relationship
- Jane Lynch - Glee -- WINNER
- Kelly Macdonald - Boardwalk Empire
- Julia Stiles - Dexter
- Sofia Vergara - Modern Family

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Nominees:
- Scott Caan - Hawaii Five-O
- Chris Colfer - Glee -- WINNER
- Chris Noth - The Good Wife
- Eric Stonestreet - Modern Family
- David Strathairn - Temple Grandinhttp://www.goldenglobes.org/blog/2010/12/the-68th-annual-golden-globe-awards-nominations/

2010 Golden Globe Awards

The 2010 awards were presented on January 17 at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles, California. The 2010 show was hosted by comedian and British TV star Ricky Gervais. Winners included Avatar for Best Picture, Drama, as well as James Cameron for his direction of the film. Best Picture, Comedy, went to The Hangover. Robert Downey Jr and Jeff Bridges won the major acting awards for Sherlock Holmes and Crazy Heart, respectively, while Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock shared the Best Actress prizes for Julie and Julia and The Blind Side. Pixar's Up was honored as the Best Animated Film, Austria's The White Ribbon took home the Best Foreign Film award and Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner won for their script for Up in the Air. The Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award, which in 2009 went to Steven Spielberg, was given to Martin Scorsese.http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/year/2009

FCC Investigation

During the 2009 broadcast director Darren Aronofsky raised his middle finger to actor Mickey Rourke as the actor gave his acceptance speech for The Wrestler, a film Aronofsky directed. The incident was caught on camera and aired during the telecast (except for the west coast, when the feed cut to black during the event). The FCC investigated the incident.http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/01/breaking-fcc-in.html

History

The first Golden Globe Awards ceremony was held in 1944 at the 20th Century Fox Studios. During the early 1950s, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish a special award that recognizes "outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry." The award, first presented to Cecil B. DeMille in 1952, was officially named the Cecil B. DeMille Award. The following year, Walt Disney was the first to receive the newly named honor.http://www.goldenglobes.org/about/

1958 was the first year the Golden Globes were broadcast in a local telecast. Typically the awards had been presented by journalists who were part of the association, but with the advent of the first TV coverage came celebrity presenters Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. The association asked them to present the awards again the following year. Dick Clark Productions has produced the Golden Globes ceremony since 1983.http://www.goldenglobes.org/about/

In 2008, the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards were not telecast in a live ceremony due to the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike.http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/movieawards/goldenglobes/2008-01-07-golden-globes-canceled_N.htm

Globes as Oscar Predictors?

As the Golden Globes are awarded a few months before the Academy Awards, many individuals believe the ceremony can help to predict the Oscar winners. However, only a relatively small percentage of Golden Globe winners have gone on to win Oscars. Furthermore, the awards are selected by very different voting bodies. The Golden Globe winners are determined by a small group of 80 individuals, whereas the Oscars are voted on by thousands of members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,236477,00.html