Sunday, January 17, 2010

2010 Golden Globes - And The Winner Is...

The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards aired live from rainy Beverly Hills Sunday night with many winners announced in both the TV and Movie categories. The show was hosted by the creator of “The Office” in the U.K., funnyman Ricky Gervais.

“Avatar” continued its impressive run winning awards for Best Dramatic Picture and Best Director James Cameron. To everyone’s surprise “The Hangover” beat out “500 Days of Summer”, “It’s Complicated”, “Julie & Julia” and “Nine” for the award of Best Picture, Musical or Comedy. Best Actor and Actress in a Musical or Comedy went to Robert Downey Jr. for “Sherlock Holmes” and Meryl Streep for “Julie & Julia”. Sandra Bullock took home the Best Actress in a Drama globe for her role in “The Blind Side” and Jeff Bridges won the Actor category for “Crazy Heart”.

Nobody was surprised when Mo’Nique’s name was called as the winner of Best Supporting Actress for “Precious”. Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Nazi Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds”. The animated movie “Up” took home globes for Best Animated Film and the Best Score.

In the TV categories, “Mad Men” took home the Golden Globe for the third year in a row for Best Television Drama. The comedy or musical category was taken by the new hit “Glee”. Toni Collette and Alec Baldwin won the awards for best actor and actress in a comedy or musical television series; Collette for “United States of Tara” and Baldwin for “30 Rock”.

The drama category was won by Michael C. Hall for “Dexter” and Julianna Margulies for “The Good Wife”. Michael C. Hall who just announced that he’s battling cancer showed up for the awards and left everyone from the cast of “Dexter” in tears with his acceptance speech.

Click here for the complete list of this year's nominees and winners.

Jeff @ NOW2K

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