The Golden Globes leave me disappointed year after year.
While the Oscars, though admittedly not perfect, have had a fairly good history of choosing nominees who truly deserve to be recognised, the Golden Globes instead seem to get it all wrong.
Last year, Tobey Maguire and Robert Downey Jr. caused a lot of curiosity when they found themselves up for two of the acting awards. Moreover, the year before saw the critically slated Nine up for one of the Best Film awards while in 2007 the heavily Oscar tipped Juno lost out to the mediocre Tim Burton adaptation of Sweeney Todd.
This year seems to be no different with the nominations leaving many film fanatics with a feeling of confusion as, once again, the highly-tipped, award winning films have been snubbed for some the less successful ones.
Let's take a look a look at the nominations for Best Drama.
Best Drama:
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
Four of these choices are great. The King's Speech won the BIFA and scored the top prize in Toronto, Black Swan has found itself nominated in almost every award ceremony so far, Inception was a huge critical and box office smash and The Social Network has won pretty much every film award this year. But The Fighter? Over 127 Hours? Over True Grit? Over Winter's Bone? It's a very curious choice.
The same goes for the Best Actress category.
Best Actress:
Halle Berry, Frankie and Alice
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
I consider myself to be very aware when it comes to cinema, but I have never heard of Frankie and Alice before. So why is Halle Berry nominated above the incredible Lesley Manville?
The supporting category has another strange choice too.
Best Supporting Actor:
Christian Bale, The Fighter
Michael Douglas, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Andrew Garfield, The Social Network
Jeremy Renner, The Town
Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech
Bale, Garfield, Rush and even Renner have been getting a lot of nods over the last few weeks, but Michael Douglas? Surely, Michael Douglas' performance - as good as it may have been - doesn't hold a candle to the stunning turn that Mark Ruffalo gave in The Kids Are All Right or that Sam Rockwell allegedly delivers in Conviction.
Which, I suppose, brings me on to the thing that annoys me most about the Golden Globes... The comedy and musical sections. Personally, this is one of the most pathetic award categories you could conjure up. Sure, comedies are great and who doesn't love a great musical, but are there enough of them in the space of a year to warrant an entire category? In the end, it just means that great dramas lose out on nominations because there isn't enough space because there are so many released, while average comedies and musicals receive nods just to fill up the five places.
For example:
Best Actor — Musical or Comedy
Johnny Depp, Alice in Wonderland
Johnny Depp, The Tourist
Paul Giamatti, Barney’s Version
Jake Gyllenhaal, Love and Other Drugs
Kevin Spacey, Casino Jack
The Tourist and Alice In Wonderland were critically panned and Depp received little praise for either of them.
Why is he up for two awards?
Best Actress — Musical or Comedy
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Anne Hathaway, Love and Other Drugs
Angelina Jolie, The Tourist
Julianne Moore, The Kids Are All Right
Emma Stone, Easy A
Similarly, Emma Stone does nothing of any note in Easy A and Jolie's role in The Tourist again doesn't deserve a nod over many of the other overlooked actresses in the drama categories.
The full list can be found at EW:
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