Thoughts on the Golden Globes
I’m only posting this on Squandrous because I promised that I wouldn’t post any more movie news on Eloquation until the new year. I still have to figure out some way of getting this on the front page of the main blog somehow, but that can wait for next week.
Anyhoo, all that aside, the Golden Globe nominations were announced yesterday, and while I’m not incredibly surprised by any of the announcements, I can’t say that they are completely reflective of the best in film this year.
I won’t list all the nominees here, but I do want to point out a few things that caught my attention:
- Where’s the love for Ratatouille? Seriously, Pixar’s offering was by far one of the greatest films of the year (ever made?) and it only got mentioned for Best Animated Film. It really should have picked up a Best Picture - Comedy/Musical nod.
- Why was Persepolis forgotten? I’m glad that the French film was nominated for Best Foreign Language film, but it was animated, so why no nod in that category? It is was infinitely better than Bee Movie.
- Yay for Cate Blanchett! This woman can act and she was fantastic in both Elizabeth: The Golden Age and I’m Not There. I’m glad she got the respect and got nominated for both.
- TV gets it right. I’m loving the respect that Pushing Daisies, easily the best show on the tube, got a few nominations. I particularly love the fact that Anna Friel got the respect she deserves for her performance on that show, and love the fact that Donald Sutherland got a nod for his role on Dirty Sexy Money (another awesome show) as well.
- Atonement? Huh? Okay, it was a decent film, but a movie that deserves seven nominations and all the critical accolades? I’m not sure about that. Kudos to Joe Wright and Ian McEwan, I guess.
Those are some first impressions, of course.
I’ll have more thoughts on the nominations later, because after all, I still haven’t seen three of the nominated films (There Will Be Blood, Walk Hard, The Great Debaters) and probably won’t finish all of them until the end of next week.
