:: Spotlight :: 62nd Golden Globe AwardsBy: Carmine PascuzziThe countdown to the 62nd Golden Globe Awards on January 16, 2005 has begun with the announcement of the nominations and the recipient of the Cecil B.DeMille Award for outstanding contribution. Alexander Payne's comedy “Sideways” leads the nominations with seven and actor Jamie Foxx scored the most individual nominations with three when nominations were announced recently. Other nomination leaders in the movie categories were “The Aviator” (six), “Closer”, “Finding Neverland” and “Million Dollar Baby”, each with five. The Golden Globe Awards will be presented Sunday, January 16, 2005, during a star-studded ceremony broadcast live from the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Robin Williams (pictured), an 11-time Golden Globe Award nominee and five-time winner, has been chosen to receive the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s highest honor, the Cecil B. DeMille Award for outstanding contribution to entertainment. Robin Williams’ stellar career embraces comedy and drama and crosses media from television and movies to the stage and the recording arts. He also is known for his extraordinary generosity, most notably as a driving force behind Comic Relief. He has received three Golden Globes as Best Actor (Comedy or Musical) for Mrs. Doubtfire, The Fisher King, and Good Morning, Vietnam and another as Best Television Actor (Comedy or Musical) for Mork & Mindy. He also received a special Golden Globe for his vocal work in Aladdin. He received six additional Golden Globe nominations – two as Best Actor (Drama) for Awakenings and Dead Poets Society; two as Best Actor (Comedy or Musical) for Patch Adams and Moscow on the Hudson; one as Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting; and one as Best Television Actor (Comedy or Musical) for Mork & Mindy. Here is the list of nominations (film categories): BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY ANNETTE BENING - BEING JULIA BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE -MUSICAL OR COMEDY JIM CARREY - ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM THE CHORUS (LES CHORISTES) (FRANCE) BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE CATE BLANCHETT - THE AVIATOR BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE DAVID CARRADINE - KILL BILL VOL. 2 BEST DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE CLINT EASTWOOD - MILLION DOLLAR BABY BEST SCREENPLAY - MOTION PICTURE CHARLIE KAUFMAN - ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - MOTION PICTURE CLINT EASTWOOD - MILLION DOLLAR BABY BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE “ACCIDENTALLY IN LOVE” - SHREK 2 - Music & Lyrics by: Adam Duritz, Dan Vickery, David Immergluck, Matthew Malley & David Bryson *********************************************************************** **Winners** The following is a complete list of Golden Globe Award winners - film categories - announced on January 16: Best Picture - Drama: “The Aviator” The Howard Hughes epic, “The Aviator” was the big winner with the Best Picture - Drama prize, and two other honours - but five different films split the key acting honours. The road-trip romp “Sideways” won the award for Best Picture - Musical or Comedy, while lead actor prizes went to Jamie Foxx of the Ray Charles film biography “Ray”, Hilary Swank of the boxing saga “Million Dollar Baby”, Annette Bening of the showbiz comedy “Being Julia”, and Leonardo DiCaprio of “The Aviator”. “Can I just tell you that I am having the ride of my life right now?” said Jamie Foxx, who is considered the frontrunner to win the Best Actor Oscar for his uncanny emulation of Ray Charles. “I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system, and we would all love each other a whole lot more.” Hilary Swank's win for dramatic actress and Annette Bening's for musical or comedy sets up an Oscar rematch between the performers, who competed against each other five years ago for best actress. Underdog Swank won the Golden Globe and Oscar for “Boys Don't Cry” over Bening, who had been considered the favourite for “American Beauty”. Swank paid tribute to director and co-star Clint Eastwood. “I don‘t want to ruin your `go ahead, make my day image,’ but you have such a huge heart and you envelop all the people around you. You guided us so brilliantly, while you also, in my humble opinion, gave the performance of your career.” In “Being Julia” Annette Bening plays an ageing stage diva in 1930s London who plots gleeful revenge against the men in her life. Backstage, Bening said that while Hollywood economics is geared toward roles for younger actresses, she said there are filmmakers eager to present tales of older women. As Hughes in “The Aviator” dramatic actor winner Leonardo DiCaprio was reunited with his “Gangs of New York” director Martin Scorsese. DiCaprio said that for all his good fortune in Hollywood, the “pinnacle of all that is to work alongside one of the greatest contributors to the world of cinema of all time, and that is the great Martin Scorsese.” Eastwood won the directing honor for “Million Dollar Baby” giving him a good chance to win again at the Oscars. He previously won the directing Oscar for “Unforgiven”. Natalie Portman and Clive Owen won supporting actor honours for the sex drama “Closer” their wins coming as something of a surprise. Both offered their thanks to “Closer” director Mike Nichols. “The Aviator” earned composer Howard Shore the award for film score, while Mick Jagger and ex-Eurythmics star Dave Stewart won the song honour for “Old Habits Die Hard” from “Alfie.” “I'd like to thank Dave Stewart for getting me into this mess,” Jagger said on stage alongside Stewart. Jagger is never one to attend award ceremonies and this was a new experience for him. Spain's “The Sea Inside” — starring Javier Bardem in the real-life story of Ramon Sampedro, a paralysed man who fought a decades-long battle for his right to die - was picked as best foreign language film. We await the next awards ceremonies - Satellite Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, BAFTA Awards, and the Academy Awards. The following pictures are courtesy of Steve Granitz
The following pictures are courtesy of Christina Radish
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