Golden Globe Winners, the Logic of Art [video]



2010 January, 18th
Phil Butler
Phil Butler
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The 2010 Golden Globe Award winners were announced last night. Some of our predictions here on Everything PR News hit the spot, while others fell woefully short of reality. Like any other motion picture arts awards ceremony ever held, the Golden Globes this year leave us with both a sense of logical balance and surrealistic wonder. But then we are not artists all are we? James Cameron and Meryl Streep provide the balance, while Sandra Bullock and a few others prompt a WTF quandary.

We listed the nominees in the various motion picture categories yesterday along with our predictions of who we thought would win. Below are images and a list of the winners along with our correct predictions as in bold where we were correct.  The WTF notations are inserted where weird science appears to have been applied in the voting.

  • Best Motion Picture – Drama – Winner Avatar, we chose Hurt Locker for some unknown reason (Liliana)
  • Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama – Sandra Bullock WTF? Sandra had her best performance acting tacky by trying to French kiss Meryl Streep for a scandalous shot before the awards. We chose Gabourey Sidibe because acting ability was present. Determining how the Golden Globe people pick winners is sometimes an impossible feat.
  • Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama – Jeff Bridges is so logical for being overdue and in recognition of his real talent.
  • Best Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical – The Hangover won but we chose Julie & Julia, some WTF going on here.
  • Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical – Meryl Streep who else?
  • Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical – Robert Downey Jr.
  • Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture – Mo’nique, no chaos here.
  • Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture – Christoph Waltz, it was a Quentin Tarantino film, we should have known. WTF marginal in this case, but there were superb performances by others.
  • Best Animated Feature Film – Up
  • Best Director – Motion Picture – James Cameron, a masterpiece, half the world watched it in theaters, as obvious as selecting Gone With the Wind as best picture in its day.

As predictions go, guessing half is not bad I guess. Though we like Sandra Bullock, her unbridled enthusiasm or lack of class prior to the ceremonies reflects on why we tagged her with WTF.

Being a fan of a decent actress does not mean one has to be blind. Bullock, while talented, is not in the same league as Streep. How Avatar could lose any category given Cameron’s work this go round is beyond any reasonable explanation.

Avatar is not about pop culture, it almost trancends the literal world into the digital one. Masterpiece being over used perhaps, Avatar is the finest film of its genre (if it even has a genre) I ever saw. In over half a century of being enamored with movies, that say something – and I am not alone.

There we have it. The winners of the 2010 Golden Globes in film, and the favorites for the Oscar version of virtual artistic reality. Let’s hope the Academy is straight once the voting for Oscar takes place. We wouldn’t want a “Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon” episode to hit Jim Cameron like it did Ridley Scott now would we.

Below. Jim Cameron and the crew of Avatar accept well deserved accolades.

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Phil Butler is editor-in-chief of Everything PR and senior partner at Pamil Visions PR. He’s a widely cited authority on beta startups, search engines and public relations issues, and he has covered tech news since 2004. Phil wrote in the past for ReadWriteWeb, Mashable, Profy, SitePoint, Search Engine Journal, AltSearchEngines. Follow Phil on Twitter or send him an email at phil [at] pamil-visions [dot] com.

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  1. Comment by Maria Myrback on 18 January 2010:

    Avatar may have been the most visually stunning piece of film in decades but it did NOT deserve best picture. The scripting was terrible. The dialog was shoddy. It was a complete rip off of Disney’s “Pocahontas” minus her forest creature friends. It should have won every technical award available, but it did NOT deserve best picture.