This year’s 64th Annual Golden Globes Awards couldn’t have been more predictable. The people everyone knew would win did, and the speeches were every bit as boring as audiences might have feared. There were few bright spots in the award ceremony, disappointing since last year’s batch of winners actually proved to be pretty entertaining.
Maybe the difference is in who won. Last year we had naturally funny people like Steve Carell getting awards, this year it was America Ferrera and Helen Mirren. Talented actresses? Sure. Entertaining when asked to speak off the cuff? Hell no.
Take Forest Whitaker. Great actor. He’s been the frontrunner to win the Golden Globe for Best Actor – Drama for weeks. Scratch that, he hasn’t just been the frontrunner, he’s been a total lock. Not just to win the GG, but every other award anyone is bothering to present. The others didn’t even need to bother showing up. When he won, what did we get? Forest Whitaker standing on stage staring blankly, as if in shock. He looked like a deer in headlights. It was just that kind of night.
This year's biggest winner was without a doubt Dreamgirls. Bill Condon's musical garnered three awards, Best Picture Musical or Comedy, Jennifer Hudson for Best Supporting Actress Musical or Comedy, and Eddie Murphy for Best Supporting Actor Musical or Comedy.
The funniest moment in the evening came from Sacha Baron Cohen, who pwned all the haters by winning Best Performance In A Musical or Comedy for Borat. His speech involved the difficulty in being trapped beneath his co-star’s testicles. It’s a miracle they were even able to air it.
If there was a low point to the GG’s night of lulls, it was Babel winning Best Picture – Drama. It’s easily the most pretentious movie of 2006, the kind of film that critics love to rub themselves all over but moviegoers are completely baffled by and disinterested in. Unfortunately for the GGs, those people who have no use for Babel are the same ones watching their broadcast waiting for a close-up of Angie and Brad (of which there were plenty).
Without further ado, here’s the full list of this year’s mostly boring Golden Globes winners.
Cecil B. DeMille Award
Warren Beatty
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Babel
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Helen Mirren – The Queen
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Forest Whitaker – The Last King Of Scotland
Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Dreamgirls
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Sacha Cohen – Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan
Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls
Best Animated Feature Film
Cars
Best Foreign Languge Film
Letters From Iwo Jima (Japan, United States)
Best Director - Motion Picture
Martin Scorsese – The Departed
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
The Queen Written by Peter Morgan
Best Original Score - Motion Picture
The Painted Veil (Desplat)
Best Original Song - Motion Picture
"The Song Of The Heart" – Happy Feet Music & Lyrics By: Prince Rogers Nelson
Best Television Series - Drama
Grey's Anatomy (ABC) Touchstone Television; ABC
Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama
Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer (TNT)
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama
Hugh Laurie – House (FOX)
Best Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
Ugly Betty (ABC) Touchstone Television; ABC
Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
America Ferrera – Ugly Betty (ABC)
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock (NBC)
Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television
Elizabeth I (HBO)
Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Helen Mirren – Elizabeth I (HBO)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Bill Nighy – Gideon's Daughter (BBC)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Emily Blunt – Gideon's Daughter (BBC)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jeremy Irons – Elizabeth I (HBO)
