The 2014 Golden Globe Awards are in the bag and the night’s big winner was American Hustle, winning three awards including Best Picture (Comedy/Musical), Best Actress (Comedy/Musical) for Amy Adams and Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Lawrence. I thought the film would end up walking home with two additional awards but instead the Best Screenplay award went to, surprisingly, Spike Jonze for Her (very well deserved) and Best Director went to Alfonso Cuaron for Gravity. Neither film won anything else.
One film that continued its rise, however, was Dallas Buyers Club. It was assumed Jared Leto would win Best Supporting Actor, but when Matthew McConaughey was named Best Actor (Drama) it was a bit of a surprise, considering he bested one of the night’s biggest favorites in Chiwetel Ejiofor. It became even more surprising when 12 Years a Slave won Best Picture (Drama), a category Dallas Buyers wasn’t even nominated in and considering it was going up against Gravity, which had already won for Best Director. Oh well, just goes to show attempting to figure out the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and their random awards show is impossible.
I loved seeing Alex Ebert win for Best Score for All is Lost. His was the best of the five nominees in my opinion and I thought for sure it would go to Gravity or 12 Years a Slave. A nice surprise along with the Screenplay win for Her.
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine) won, obviously, and Frozen took home Best Animated Feature, which was also to be expected.
If you want a surprise, I guess you could say the win for The Great Beauty for Best Foreign Language Feature was a surprise as I certainly expected Blue is the Warmest Color to take it, but Beauty is a favorite for many, and I expect its run to continue to an Oscar nomination on Thursday. A win? Eh, not so fast…
As for television. I don’t know what to say. I don’t watch a lot of TV so I don’t really care. I’ve placed those winners on page two and you can see my page for the 2014 Golden Globes right here.
I’ll talk more about tonight’s winners soon enough, but if you missed our live blog of the event click here and relive the magic.
BEST PICTURE (DRAMA)
- 12 Years a Slave
- Captain Phillips
- Gravity
- Philomena
- Rush
BEST PICTURE (COMEDY/MUSICAL)
- American Hustle
- Her
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Nebraska
- The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST ACTOR (DRAMA)
- Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)
- Idris Elba (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)
- Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips)
- Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club)
- Robert Redford (All is Lost)
BEST ACTRESS (DRAMA)
- Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
- Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
- Judi Dench (Philomena)
- Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)
- Kate Winslet (Labor Day)
BEST ACTOR (COMEDY/MUSICAL)
- Christian Bale (American Hustle)
- Bruce Dern (Nebraska)
- Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)
- Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis)
- Joaquin Phoenix (Her)
BEST ACTRESS (COMEDY/MUSICAL)
- Amy Adams (American Hustle)
- Julie Delpy (Before Midnight)
- Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha)
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Enough Said)
- Meryl Streep (August: Osage County)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Bradley Cooper (American Hustle)
- Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave)
- Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club)
- Daniel Bruhl (Rush)
- Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
- Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
- Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave)
- Julia Roberts (August: Osage County)
- June Squibb (Nebraska)
DIRECTOR
- Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity)
- Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips)
- Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
- Alexander Payne (Nebraska)
- David O. Russell (American Hustle)
ANIMATED FILM
- The Croods
- Despicable Me 2
- Frozen
SCREENPLAY
- Spike Jonze (Her)
- Bob Nelson (Nebraska)
- Jeff Pope and Steve Coogan (Philomena)
- John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)
- David O. Russell and Eric Singer (American Hustle)
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
- Blue is the Warmest Color
- The Great Beauty
- The Hunt
- The Past
- The Wind Rises
ORIGINAL SCORE
- All Is Lost
- Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
- Gravity
- The Book Thief
- 12 Years a Slave
ORIGINAL SONG
- “Atlas” from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- “Let It Go” from Frozen
- “Ordinary Love” from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
- “Please Mr. Kennedy” from Inside Llewyn Davis
- “Sweeter Than Fiction” from One Chance
Cecil B. deMille Award
- Woody Allen
The television nominees are on the next page…
