66th Annual Golden Globes (2009) Winners!
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association presented the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles.
Kate Winslet – 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards
“Slumdog Millionaire” took four awards – Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score. “The Wrestler” was the second most lauded film, with two awards (Best Actor – Drama for Mickey Rourke and Best Song), and Kate Winslet was the most lauded person, winning Best Actress – Drama for “Revolutionary Road” and Best Supporting Actress for “The Reader.”
Complete Winners at the 66th Golden Globe Awards:
Best Motion Picture – Drama
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire [movie info, trailer, poster...]
Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture – Drama
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie – Changeling
Meryl Streep – Doubt
Kristin Scott Thomas – I’ve Loved You So Long
Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road [movie info, trailer, poster...]
Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture – Drama
Leonardo DiCaprio – Revolutionary Road
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn – Milk
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler [movie info, trailer, poster...]
Golden Globes Official Poster
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association Board of Directors has chosen the official poster of The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards.
The poster will be distributed to the 1300 guests attending The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday evening, January 11 at The Beverly Hilton.
Los Angeles artist Colin McGreal completed the poster in association with Famous Frames. The vibrant artwork features the world’s most famous golden orb flanked by parallel rows of palm trees that give a sense of the iconic Los Angeles setting for the event recognized worldwide as “The Party of the Year.”
The posters, which are printed on the finest archival paper featuring the embossed award and lustrous, gold metallic ink. There will also be a limited edition of 200 posters signed by the artist. Each of the 200 limited edition posters will also be signed by a celebrity at the Golden Globe Awards and be part of the “Stars For A Cause” auction conducted by Bonhams & Butterfields in May, 2009.
The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards will take place Sunday, January 11, 2009 at The Beverly Hilton with a live telecast airing on NBC at 8 PM (EST).
For more information, go to GoldenGlobes.org
The Golden Globes won’t be so Golden (Updated!)
Reuters has just reported : “The traditional gala ceremony for Hollywood’s annual Golden Globe Awards for film and television will be scrapped in favor of a “press conference” carried live by NBC News, organizers said on Monday.
Cancellation of the usual three-hour-plus show sponsored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association marks the latest casualty of the nine-week-old strike by screenwriters against the major film and TV studios.
Jorge Camara, president of the roughly 90-member HFPA said the group was “very disappointed” about the change.
“We take some comfort, however, in knowing that this year’s Golden Globe Award recipients will be announced on the date originally scheduled,” Camara said in a statement.
The Writers Guild of America has said it would picket the Golden Globes unless the studios returned to the bargaining table to resume contract talks that collapsed last month in a labour dispute that hinges on how writers should be paid for work distributed over the Internet.
The WGA’s sister union for performers, the Screen Actors Guild, has said nearly all of its members would boycott the Globes rather than cross picket lines to attend the ceremony, often a key indicator of possible contenders for Hollywood’s top film awards, the Oscars. Continue Reading…
