BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
• Avatar
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Precious
• Up in the Air
missing:
Where the Wild Things Are this movie was by far the best picture of 2009. The foreign press need to buy themselves a soul.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
• Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
• Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
• Helen Mirren, The Last Station
• Carey Mulligan, An Education
• Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
missing:
Ellen Page (Whip It)
everyone is kissing Sandra Bullock's ass this year, lol. She also was in a horrible flop in "All About Steve" this year. People need to bring her a bit back down-to -earth. She ain't Kate.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
• Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
• George Clooney, Up in the Air
• Colin Firth, A Single Man
• Morgan Freeman, Invictus
• Tobey Maguire, Brothers
Bridges won much like Mickey Rourke did last year for The Wrestler. Had Firth won, or if he wins the Oscar, I'll have no issue with that.
missing:
Ben Foster in The Messenger. He got ignored in Alpha-Dog, and got ignored for a powerful performance as a lead in The Messenger. he's one of the best young actors in Hollywood, and the Foreign Press contunues to fail to recognize that.
Paul Dano for Gigantic
BEST MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
• (500) Days of Summer
• The Hangover
• It's Complicated
• Julie & Julia
• Nine
missing:
In the Loop
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
• Sandra Bullock, The Proposal
• Marion Cotillard, Nine
• Julia Roberts, Duplicity
• Meryl Streep, It's Complicated
• Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
this list is laughable and shows as a microcosm, of what's wrong with these awards. Streep wins, and defeats herself? lol. I would have voted for Julia Roberts as a default, and her remarks on the red carpet about NBC and on stage would have justified that even more.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
• Matt Damon, The Informant!
• Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine
• Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
• Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man
missing:
Gordon-Levitt should have won, but the below omissions from the nomination list bug me even more. Gordon-Levitt though the media are acting like this is his 1st good work. Hardly, lol. "The Lookout" in 2007 especially should be seeked out by naive people who had never seen him before 500 Days of Summer.
Gerard Butler (The Ugly Truth)
Peter Capaldi (In the Loop)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Princess and the Frog
• Up
they got this one right (the winner being Up),
except "Nine" and/or "$9.99" I would easily have put in there instead of that vomit-worthy adaptation of "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
• Baaria (Italy)
• Broken Embraces (Spain)
• The Maid (Chile)
• A Prophet (France)
• The White Ribbon (Germany)
missing:
Rudo Y Cursi should be in there. But with The White Ribbon winning, I can't be completely upset, given it was done by the same guy who made a movie I really liked a few years ago in "Cache (The Hidden)." But Rudo Y Cursi was great and nobody saw it. La Fille De Monaco ("The Girl From Monaco") is another omission that is at least noteworthy.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
• Penélope Cruz, Nine
• Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
• Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
• Mo'Nique, Precious
• Julianne Moore, A Single Man
I would have liked to have seen Anna Kendrick win. She's a good young actress, not to mention she was looking rather fetching, hehe. Mo'Nique winning this is another case of the voters voting for the politically-correct, little-engine-that-could darling movie. Blech.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
• Matt Damon, Invictus
• Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
• Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
• Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
• Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
I would have voted for Woody Harrelson, although I think he may have been a bit better in "Trans-Siberian" last year. But all the people singing the praises of Christoph Waltz for that film may have some validity, save for the fact the movie didn't look all that funny or appealing.
missing:
Guillermo Francella in Rudo Y Cursi
Christian McKay in Me and Orson Welles
BEST DIRECTOR
• Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
• James Cameron, Avatar
• Clint Eastwood, Invictus
• Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
• Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
missing:
Spike Jonze (Where the Wild Things Are)
He should have won. Everyone is crying out about Tarantino, but honestly, QT is one of the most overated directors of the last 20 years. On avg, I'd rather watch a movie from The Coen Bros, lol. From Dusk Til Dawn, Reservoir Dogs and the overated but still good Pulp Fiction are more or less the only stuff he's done that I look back on with much value. Jackie Brown was okay. But the Kill Bill's and Grindhouse stuff do nothing for me. And this new movie, while I'm sure wasn't the most appalling thing that got pimp-ed over and over this past fall, still got promoted as a Brad Pitt movie, and like Tarantino, for the most part i can't fathom wanting to give 10 minutes let alone 90 or whatever to see.
"Kihhllll---ehhhn Nahtzeeeeez"
..blech. Not. Funny.
A-N-N-O-Y-I-N-G
BEST SCREENPLAY
• Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, District 9
• Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
• Nancy Meyers, It's Complicated
• Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
• Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
missing:
Where the Wild Things Are
Spike Jonze.
In the Loop
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell
Armando Iannucci , Ian Martin, Tony Roche
Untitled
Catherine DiNapoli (writer)
Jonathan Parker (writer)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
• Michael Giacchino, Up
• Marvin Hamlisch, The Informant!
• James Horner, Avatar
• Abel Korzeniowski, A Single Man
• Karen O and Carter Burwell, Where the Wild Things Are
how did Karen O and the WTWTA not win this?..[Napoleon]Ihh-dee-yahhts![/Napoleon]
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
• "Cinema Italiano," Music & Lyrics by Maury Yeston (Nine)
• "I Want to Come Home," Music & Lyrics by Paul McCartney (Everybody's Fine)
• "I Will See You," Music by James Horner, Simon Franglen; Lyrics by James Horner, Simon Franglen and Kuk Harrell (Avatar)
• "The Weary Kind," Music & Lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart)
• "Winter," Music by U2; Lyrics by Bono (Brothers)
missing:
again, WTWTA nor Untitled, a movie ABOUT MUSIC, nowhere to be found ("This Might Get Loud" would also have an argument, but Jack White is too nauseating to have me be upset about that).
BEST TELEVISION SERIES, DRAMA
• Big Love
• Dexter
• House
• Mad Men
• True Blood
missing:
-Lost (ironic how Matthew Fox was a presenter last night, lol)
-Breaking Bad
-Fringe
canceled shows like Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles or Battlestar Galactica might also make sense, but they have been off the air too long I guess.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES, DRAMA
• Glenn Close, Damages
• January Jones, Mad Men
• Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
• Anna Paquin, True Blood
• Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
Anna Paquin should have won, but because she won last year, she wasn't going to again.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES, DRAMA
• Simon Baker, The Mentalist
• Michael C. Hall, Dexter
• Jon Hamm, Mad Men
• Hugh Laurie, House
• Bill Paxton, Big Love
missing:
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) he won the fucking Emmy, lol.
Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice)
BEST TELEVISION SERIES, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
• 30 Rock
• Entourage
• Glee
• Modern Family
• The Office
missing:
The Big Bang Theory
Psych
Monk
How I Met Your Mother
Chuck
this is probably the biggest annual absurd failure. Glee (even with Jane Lynch and the fact my cousin works on this, I don't need to watch Fame: The Next Generatio), Modern Family (Ed O'Neill may never do anything else at the level of Married with Children) and of course the unwatchable american version of The Office embarass the foreign press again here. Entourage and 30 Rock get their ass-kissed every year here too, and frankly I don't believe I'm alone here in being totally bloody sick to death of it.
Psych..nowhere to be found. Psych, again, nowhere to be found. HIMYM annually has good ratings, TBBT can do no wrong, and at least 1 if not both got Emmy nominations. Foreign Press have their heads up their asses, obviously.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
• Toni Collette, United States of Tara
• Courteney Cox, Cougar Town
• Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
• Tina Fey, 30 Rock
• Lea Michele, Glee
missing:
Caley Cuoco (The Big Bang Theory)
Jordana Spiro for My Boys..I'm sure nobody knows this show among the Foreign Press, but she's at least as good if not better than that whole list there. Especially the girl from Glee, lol.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
• Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
• Steve Carell, The Office
• David Duchovny, Californication
• Thomas Jane, Hung
• Matthew Morrison, Glee
missing:
-Tony Shaloub (Monk)..uhm, hullohhhhhh! 8 seasons, he's won before. It's the final season, duh.
-James Roday (Psych)..best-show-on-tv and he's the lead, and he's hilarious.
Zachary Levi (Chuck)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
• Jane Adams, Hung
• Rose Byrne, Damages
• Jane Lynch, Glee
• Janet McTeer, Into the Storm
• Chloë Sevigny, Big Love
1 of the only awards they actually got right. Chloë is a hottie, and can act. I have meant to watch Big Love for awhile now, and with those nominees, I had no problem with her winning. Now, if she'd just get cast in some movie with Kate Winslet and have it include a lesbian scene with the two of them, hehe.
missing:
Rutina Wesley: Tara on True Blood she's an emotional badass, a bit like Lafayette character. And she should get credit for pulling that off on 1 of the best shows on all of tv. Maybe next year?..yeah right.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
• Michael Emerson, Lost
• Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
• William Hurt, Damages
• John Lithgow, Dexter
• Jeremy Piven, Entourage
There should be like 10 candidates for this category if they have to lump Comedy and Drama, and tv/miniseries/tv-movies together
missing:
John Noble: Walter on Fringe
Nelsan Ellis: Lafayette on True Blood,
-Aaron Paul: Jessie on Breaking Bad
-Jim Parsons: Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory..he was a presenter for this award, lol.
-Enver Gjokaj: Victor on Dollhouse
movies I haven't seen:
Extract
Whatever Works
Shrink
Pippa Lee
The Lovely Bones
Sherlock Holmes
Up in the Air
Sugar
Crazy Heart
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