After great reviews from last year’s performance as the emcees of the Golden Globes, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler returned again last night for 2014 edition. The dynamic duo are still a welcome change from the snarky Ricky Gervais from previous years whose brand of humor is more mean than humorous. The two are witty and sweet at the same time.
As with all live broadcasts, anything can happen while filming. But for some reason, odd things seem to happen during the Golden Globes more often than the others. This year, almost everyone who came up for a speech appeared to shake in their boots. Most of the winners seemed to have been genuinely surprised by winning and didn’t prepare speeches. The most obvious was Jacqueline Bisset who won her first Globe for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Television. Winning for her performance in “Dancing on the Edge,” Bisset was at a loss for words and rambled on and on even when the orchestra began to play. Then when Jonah Hill and Margo Robbie went up to present the nominees for their award, the teleprompter’s screen showed Aaron Eckhart and Patton’s lines instead. Just when they thought that they would have to wing it, they were quickly given a typed sheet of paper with their lines written on it so that they could finish. Surprisingly, the pair did great.
Highlights for the evening included a tribute to Woody Allen who won the Cecile B. Demille Award for lifetime achievement. Although Allen wasn’t there to accept the award, actress Diane Keaton (who has appeared in many of Allen’s movies), gave a somewhat ackward speech to the actor/writer/director after a series of movie clips.
The big winners of the night included the movie “American Hustle” (for Best Picture: Comedy or Musical, Best Actress and Supporting Actress), the TV drama show, “Breaking Bad” (for Best Drama and Best Actor) and the new comedy show, Brooklyn Brooklyn Nine-Nine (For Best Comedy and Best Actor). Perhaps the biggest disappointment was that of Julia Louis Drefus who was nominated for both her work on the large silver screen as well as the small and lost out on both of them.
Here is the complete list of last night’s winners:
Best Picture: Drama – “Twelve Years a Slave”
Best Picture: Comedy or Musical – “American Hustle”
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaró for “Gravity”
Best Actor: Drama – Matthew McConaughey for “Dallas Buyers Club.”
Best Actress: Drama – Cate Blanchett for “Blue Jasmine”
Best Actor: Comedy or Musical – Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Actress: Comedy or Musical – Amy Adams for “American Hustle”
Best Supporting Actor – Jared Leto for “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Supporting Actress – Jennifer Lawrence for “American Hustle”
Best Foreign Language Film – “The Great Beauty”
Best Animated Feature Film – “Frozen”
Best Screenplay – Spike Jonze for “Her”
Best Original Score – Alex Ebert for “All Is Lost”
Best Original Song – Ordinary Love by U2 and Danger Mouse, “Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom.”
Best Television Series: Drama – “Breaking Bad”
Best Actor in a Television Series: Drama – Bryan Cranston – “Breaking Bad”
Best Actress in a Television Series: Drama – Robin Wright, “House of Cards”
Best Television Series: Comedy or Musical – “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
Best Actor in a Television Series: Comedy or Musical – Andy Samberg for “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
Best Actress in a Television Series: Comedy or Musical – Amy Poehler for “Parks and Recreation.”
Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television – “Behind the Candelabra”
Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for TV – Michael Douglas for “Behind the Candelabra”
Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for TV – Elisabeth Moss, for “Top of the Lake”
Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Television – Jon Voight
Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Television – Jacqueline Bisset for “Dancing on the Edge”