Golden Globes.

The New York Times has the straight-up list of winners, of course, but also the best Golden Globes bloggage out there in David Carr: "The Bagger likes the way the story turned out, with everybody getting a taste. Babel, which had seven nominations but got blanked most of the night, ended up with the ultimate prize. But Martin Scorsese finally has a major directing award for The Departed and boy did he seem happy."

Updated through 1/17.

Updates: Here's some of what I happen to have run across during a very haphazard sort of day; more, I'm sure, haphazardly, tomorrow.

At the AV Club, Noel Murray kept up "a quasi-live category-by-category breakdown of the justices and injustices, and the wackiest speeches, interspersed with a few comments about the nature of the show itself."

David Poland: "The moment of the night for me was Sacha Baron Cohen meeting Steven Spielberg in the middle of a busy walk-thru area at the Paramount party and having a very engaged 10 minute conversation, surrounded by a few choice security guards and the ever-present Marvin Levy. This was the B'Nai Brith calendar moment of the year! Two shy Jewish geniuses."

"It's nearly six weeks till Oscar Night, but in three major categories, maybe four, the race is all but officially over," decides Time's Richard Corliss. He's talking, naturally, about Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker, and perhaps not as naturally about Jennifer Hudson. The fourth, the maybe, is Martin Scorsese. Also: "[F]ully half of the acting prizes went to subjects of Her Royal Majesty." And Rebecca Winters Keegan lists "10 Surprises From the Golden Globes."

Gregg Kilday files for the Hollywood Reporter while Borys Kit, Tatiana Siegel and Nicole Sperling chronicle the backstage antics.

Kim Masters sends a dispatch from the parties to Slate, where Troy Patterson zaps around during the show.

Jeffrey Wells: "The Golden Globes awards confirmed two things: (a) there will be no sweeping victory by anyone or anything come Oscar night, and (b) the Globes are getting a bit staid and tidy - almost Oscarish in their decorum."

A Cinematical tag team commented throughout the evening.

Updates, 1/17: "Think of it this way," suggests Karina Longworth at Netscape: "these are the greatest achievements in film and television as decided by the people who produce the Argentinean version of Entertainment Tonight."

"Dishing the Golden Globes" with Anne Thompson; also, Oscar's foreign-language category's been whittled down to nine contenders.

That Little Round-Headed Boy has "5 quick thoughts."

It's David Carr again: "Remember that preschool graduation at which everyone got an award for something and parents left feeling validated that their pride and joy was in some way special? Monday night felt a bit like that."

"No no no no no no no no no no no no!" Aaron Dobbs objects to a few of the awards.

The Guardian's Mark Lawson suggests that "Baron Cohen's victory raises the question of whether the Globes are right to regard comedy as a separate art, and whether the Baftas and even Oscars should follow them."

"Seriously, with all due respect to Forest Whitaker, who really is one of our finest actors, how many of the people voting for his performance do you think actually saw The Last King of Scotland?" asks Bilge Ebiri at ScreenGrab.

"[T]he unexpected comments were the highlight of the night," writes Salon's Heather Havrilesky. "'It's such an honor to play a role that I hear from young girls on a daily basis how it makes them feel worthy and lovable and they have more to offer the world than they thought,' [America] Ferrera rambled weepily.... Then Ferrera twisted the knife by thanking her mom and - gulp! - calling her 'Mommy.' Hey! That's my mom's name too. (Sniff.)"

Nikki Finke was live-blogging.

Meanwhile: "The concept of a 'professional Oscar prognosticator' makes me very sad," sighs Sean Burns in the Philadelphia Weekly. "Is it really a point of pride to be able to predict the whims of an insular group of elderly showbiz people who tend to have terrible taste?" As for David Poland and Jeffrey Wells, "Poland is downright fascinating, thanks to his insane messianic insistence that anybody who disagrees with him is either 'irrelevant' or has ulterior motives, while Wells is a riot just because he always seems to be in the midst of a horrible nervous breakdown, often launching into froth-mouthed quasi-racist broadsides aimed at giant swaths of the American public. The two fight like cats in a bag, unaware they’re already at the bottom of the river."

Nevertheless, Slant's Ed Gonzalez and Eric Henderson: "We offer our Oscar nod predictions at this late date for two reasons. First, because nearly every last group will have had their say and we got through school by looking over our peer's shoulders on test day. Second, and more importantly, we'd hate to think that our reiteration of the same old ragged, over-hyped contenders (instead of, you know, Sandra Hüller) means we've given in to the pressure of Oscar season groupthink. After all, the ballots were due on Jan 13. The damage - and there will be damage - has already been done."

Online viewing tip. The "5 Best Golden Globe Speeches" at Modern Fabulosity.

Posted by dwhudson at January 15, 2007 10:17 PM