Atonement receives Globe for Best Sex Scene

Atonement scores Best Original Score (pun very much intended) and Best Motion Picture (Drama). Was crossing my fingers for a Joe Wright win for Best Director, but I suppose that was too much to ask for. Sweeney also scored doubly with Best Motion Picture (Musical/Comedy) and Best Actor (Musical/Comedy)--yesss. Johnny.

I saw it coming:
The Atonement wins
Daniel Day-Lewis (heard the raves)
Julie Christie (same)
Ratatouille (...same)
Extras (brilliant)
Jeremy Piven (does he ever not win?)
Samantha Morton (is she never not awesome?)

Totally surprised me in a good way:
Tina Fey's win for 30 Rock
Queen Latifah for Life Support (what the heck even is that? Okay...)
Jim Broadbent (wish he was my dad, sorry Dad)
Cate Blanchett (I guess I should have seen it coming)
Johnny Depp (ditto. I mean, he was singing to knives)

Things that are apparently awesome that I have still never heard of:
Mad Men?
Longford?

For a full list of winners and nominees, check out IMDb.

Hope for an Best Original Song Oscar nomination for any song from Enchanted. Amy Adams singing live? My heart would go on...

That was bad.

Billy Bush is the final straw

Even though the Golden Globes star party was heartwrenchingly cancelled (who doesn't love watching all those cool people eat dinner with one another and boozedly accept their awards?), I still tuned it at 9pm tonight to catch some winners. I was actually expecting a very, VERY boring press conference during which two, bespectacled, balding, stage-frightened men monotonously read off all the winners off of a single sheet of paper. I predicted no glam, no flashiness, just two balding men and all of the winners' names.

Instead, I was greeted at 9pm with two very glammed-up Access Hollywood "anchors." Oh, joy. Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell were dressed in their Sunday best, eager to share with "you all at home!" the Golden Globe winners.

Okay. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's Access Hollywood. If there is another thing that I can't stand, it's Entertainment Tonight.

I know that parties and celebrities--and awards, too--aren't news. They aren't politics. They aren't international debate. I simply cannot watch or listen to "breaking news" and commentary about celebrities in that real-news fashion. Eck.

So it was a major disappointment to see Billy Bush and Nancy O'Dell share the news of the winners with me. I really, really, REALLY wanted a press conference, because then I would have been able to see what a press conference looks like. I really wanted two nervous balding men, not two hairsprayed, eyelined people stupidly hash out "the surprises" and "the totallies" of the evening. I returned to Baby Boom at the start of the first commercial break. I couldn't stand more than 9 minutes of the "Winners' Special!"

Come on, WGA. Come on, producers. Don't mess up the Oscars.

Love,
Someone who watches movies