List of Golden Globes Winners
Last night's events bode well for three events that will make me very happy: Best Picture and Best Director wins for Return of the King and an Oscar nomination for Bill Murray. We'll know about that last matter tomorrow morning, but the other two look a lot more like locks after LOTR swept all four categories in which it was nominated and Cold Mountain was denied all but a single trophy after leading with eight nominations. Other pleasant happenings: Sean Penn and Tim Robbins were recognized for their sublime work in Mystic River--a Best Picture winner any year but this one--and Sofia Coppola got to accept two awards despite the fact that she's up against the Peter Jackson juggernaut in the directing category. Lost in Translation richly deserves the expanded audience that the awards season should garner for it.
On the TV side, it was nice to see Frances Conroy finally win an award for playing Ruth Fisher on Six Feet Under. But her short and classy speech paled in comparison to Ricky Gervais's quote of the night: "I'm from a little place called England. We used to run the world before you." And thank you, Meryl Streep, for using your acceptance speech to mock the policies put forward in President Bush's State of the Union. Anyone who thinks that people who want to get married and athletes who take steroids are the nation's biggest issues should get out more.
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