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Golden Globes: Best Actress - Drama
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In a choice that proves the Hollywood Foreign Press likes
people with issues as much as the Academy does, Felicity Huffman wins
for her apparently incredible work as a transsexual in Transamerica. She's wearing an awesome dress, by the way - despite
that, however, the crowd is bored. Or at least she thinks it is. Happily, she's ignoring them and just doing her thing.
(Aw. Her mom thinks little Felicity is on a TV show called The
Women. That's sort of close - I wonder which one of them is Joan
Crawford.) She also salutes "the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation, and a life lived on the
margins to become who they really are," (Thank you, Tivo.) which strikes me as much classier than Tom
Hanks outing a guy to honor him when he won for being
marginalized.Golden Globes: Sandra Oh, goddess
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Sandra
Oh, the surprise winner for Grey's Anatomy in the
category with the longest, most idiotic name in the history of the world (I'll just called it "TV Supporting
Actress," because that's what it is) reacts to her win by looking incredible, laughing hysterically, and getting
lost on the way to the stage. Then, her speech consists of such explosions of genuine feeling as "I feel like
someone set me on fire," and "Oh God, I don't remember ANY of your names!"As a result, all six people in the US who hadn't already fallen in love with her as a result of either Sideways or Grey's Anatomy were officially smitten. Sandra, we bow before you.
Capote, Syriana in Scripter tie
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The USC Scripter award, given to the year's best screenplay
"adapted from a literary source," is seen as a good indicator of what of screenplay is likely to take the
Oscar home in the adapted category (last year, for example, Million Dollar Baby won both). This year, however, nervous studios
will have to wait just a little longer to find out who's in the lead: there was a tie. Dan Futterman's adaptation of Gerald Clarke's Truman Capote biography, and Stephen
Gaghan's screenplay for Syriana -
adapted from See No Evil, by Robert Baer - have the same
number of votes; a winner will be determined in a runoff vote on Wednesday. As the Guardian article linked below points out, whether it wins or not, this is more good news for Capote, which continues to gain ground on presumed Oscar front runner Brokeback Mountain. That said, of course, we'll know a whole lot more about who's really in the lead by this time tomorrow, after the Golden Globes have been handed out.
Chen Kaige's The Promise demolishes box office records
Filed under: Foreign Language », Awards », Box Office », Cinematical Indie »
The Promise, Chen
Kaige's gorgeous fantasy epic (remember the trailer?) and also China's
official Oscar entry, easily broke the Chinese opening weekend records when it was released last week. The film's
four-day total of £5.2 million outdistanced the previous record (set by Kung-Fu Hustle) by almost a full £1 million, and the first
week total is also expected to set a record.The film, which took nearly three years to shoot is, with its cost of £24 million, the most expensive Chinese film ever made. It is one of the nominees for the best foreign film Golden Globe Award, and must be considered one of the films with a legitimate shot at an Oscar nom as well, if only because of the status of its director. Unfortunately, the US release is currently slated for some vague time next spring (by which point a region 0 DVD will be widely available), so we won't know for month and months if it actually deserves any of this regard.
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