Posted on 01/17/2006 6:09:13 AM PST by thehumanlynx
Brokeback Mountain Claims Big Four At The Golden Globes
Critically-acclaimed western Brokeback Mountain cleaned up at the Golden Globe Awards last night by claiming four top honors.
The controversial film, which has been banned from some cinemas for its gay themes, took home Best Movie (Drama), Best Screenplay and Best Song prizes at the 63rd annual Golden Globe Awards, while Ang Lee picked up the night's Best Director honor from his hero Clint Eastwood.
And there were triple celebrations for Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line when Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix claimed the acting honors in the Comedy/Musical movie category and the film picked up the Best Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical) prize.
The win cost Phoenix dear, however - he bet Witherspoon's husband Ryan Phillippe he wouldn't win a Golden Globe. The Crash star demanded payment as his pal took to the stage at the Beverly Hilton hotel.
Meanwhile, there was a big upset for the stars of Desperate Housewives during the night's TV awards - all four Best Actress nominees from the show lost out to Mary Louise Parker, who plays a marijuana-selling desperate housewife on cable show Weeds.
But the stars of the hit show didn't miss out on a Best TV Show award - they scooped the coveted prize from Weeds, Curb Your Enthusiasm, My Name is Earl, Entourage and Everybody Hates Chris - and the show's Felicity Huffman claimed the night's Best Actress (Drama) movie award for her role as a transgender man in Transamerica.
The big TV winner was acclaimed mini-series Empire Falls, which claimed two honors - Best Actor (Paul Neuman) and Best Miniseries/TV Movie.
The full list of awards is:
Movie Awards Best Score: John Williams MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
Best Original Song: A Love that Will Never Grow Old by Emmylou Harris, Bernie Taupin and Gustavo Santaolalla -Brokeback Mountain
Best Movie (Comedy/Musical): Walk the Line
Best Movie (Drama):
TV Awards
Best Mini-series or TV Movie: Empire Falls
Best TV Series (Movie/Comedy): Desperate Housewives
Best TV Series (Drama): Lost
Cecil B Demille Award for Lifetime Achievement: Sir Anthony Hopkins
Copyright 2006, World Entertainment News Network
Now that's what I would have expected Steven Tyler's daughter to look like.
When I read your post, I have to wonder how you came up with your screen name. Nothing I said can be construed as "liberal", just common sense.
i didnt watch the globes, wont watch the oscars. I find it terribly annoying that my friends are so interested in the lives of the hollywoodians, but thats there thing. I'm not gonna talk about what JLo was wearing, cuz I dont think its important. I do, however, think it is paramount that we express our disdain for the content of the trash that is produced.
Free speech/expression is still protected on both sides.
You are not alone!
Active members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Not one American among them.
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Hollywood just jumped the shark!!!
You big silly - NARNIA didn't appeal to the elite group of critics who nominate the films. If C.S. Lewis had written about children coming of age sexually and exploring their homo-erotic notions in an allegorical world - then it would have got the big awards. But as it is, the film was just too decent and it told too nice of a story (the kind where evil loses) for the bath-house boys to appreciate.
But it is actually good, in a way. They spend so much time trying to villainize those of us on the right in the battle for the soul of mushy middle America. But we don't hardly have to say a thing about them -- they villainize themselves.
I hate to bring up my mother and father's divorce, but after they split up, a day didn't pass that my mother didn't rail on how much she hated my father. My father never said an unkind word about her -- mostly he didn't talk about her at all with us. Guess who's side I was most attracted to?
The Golden Globes voting major awards to Brokeback Mountain is like the Democrat Caucus voting Nancy Pelosi in as Minority Leader in the House. Both are extreme versions of the voters' culture.
Writers of bbm, short story writer included, dont even compare to CS Lewis.
Maybe if Sir Thomnas had tried to mate with the beaver and the fox at the same time, they could have won something.
Narnia was a great movie.
It should be noted that the Globe awards are given based on the voting of just 80 foreign correspondents. And they apparently love gay sheepherders...
I believe that this homosexualized view of male friendship is why most of us guys have far fewer and more superficial male friends than our fathers would have. It's less and less acceptable to talk about anything but sports and conquests than it was.
Men used to hang out nude in the sauna, shower, camping... it was acceptable. It had nothing to do with sex. Now it just isn't done. They still do it at the YMCA, and let me tell you, I was covered with a towel at all times and I was out of there as fast as I could go and didn't want to go back, because it just isn't done. I'm still not sure they aren't a bunch of homos because of that song and everything.
I suppose homophobia isn't about being afraid OF homosexuals, or being homosexual oneself, it's the fear of being BRANDED homosexual that has us all running in circles. And why not? It's a disgusting, devastating lifestyle that leaves nothing but death and destruction in its wake. The damn movie even demonstrates this, but nobody seems to notice that part.
I agree! which is so unfortunate and also does not transend to the female population, as women we have always been able to have friendships that are intimate but not sexual and so many more women have friends than a straight man can have without be pinged queer.
Nice post. There is very little dedicated to the destruction of the families in the movie.
Also, it used to be fine when I was younger to stay at a friends house and sleep in the same bed, after all, you are just sleeping, but now one stops to think about it before its done. Say you go on a trip with 4 friends, you get a room w/2 beds, it is still wierd but you share the 2 beds w/2 guys on each. You have that safety b/c there are the other 2 in the room on the other bed, nothings going on. But would you dare get a hotel room with 1 bed and 2 men? with no one there to verify that no funny business went on?
I go on business trips with my brother in law and we wouldnt do that.
there is a stigma to all that stuff. In response, like you say, the number of quality friends with which you have emotional/spiritual ties to, have dwindled.
Actually, the only film I might see in a theater or on DVD is "Memoirs of a Geisha". Why should I pay to be preached the progressive gospel?
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