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We always love it when there's a little controversy during a major awards show, because not only does it make the ceremony slightly more fun to watch, but it also gives us something to talk about, constantly, the following day. Thus, the two most controversial parts of last night's Golden Globe awards didn't come during an acceptance speech (although director Darren Aronofsky's giving "the finger" to Mickey Rourke was definitely a highlight for East Coasters); instead, two British comedians presenting clips for the films nominated in the best feature category were the talk of the town.

The two, Ricky Gervais and Sacha Baron Cohen, are known for taking risks with their comedy, and for making fun of Hollywood ... like, a lot. But on such an important night for the entertainment industry, and on a show broadcast around the world, were their jokes all in good fun or absolutely tasteless? Watch Sacha Baron Cohen's bit below and Gervais' little beer-drinking clip after the jump, then let us know whether you found them offensive, hilarious or just plain whatever.

Cinematical is live blogging the 2009 Golden Globes ceremony. Keep refreshing for more updates.

Check out our Golden Globes winners list, updated in real time

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9:00pm -- I now turn you over to Mr. Erik Davis, who might not type as quickly as I do, but his thoughts are a lot more interesting than mine. Plus I can't watch any more of these commercial breaks. I need some Futurama. G'night!

8:58pm -- Demi-goddess Moore is giving out Best Supporting Actor (Not Drama, Though), and it goes to the late Heath Ledger. Predictable, OK, but still classy.

8:56pm -- Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore swoop in with a collective cackle and give the Best Mini-Series / TV Movie Prize to John Adams. Tom Hanks accepts the award for Mr. Adams, who has been dead since 1826.

8:52pm -- Donnie Darko hypes Benny Button: "It's a fable for our time." Groan.

8:50pm -- Commercial Break Poetry

There once was a movie called Howard the Duck
And dear sweet lord did that movie suck.

Also: I love Isla Fisher, but her "big starring role" movie looks like canned migraine.

8:47pm -- Sally Hawkins? More like Sally Talkins! (Oh snap.)

8:43pm -- The always-cool Johnny Depp is on to give out Best Actress (Musical, Comedy or Musical Comedy), and he hands it to Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky, which would be considered a big shock if this was the Oscars and not the Globes. (Sorry.)

8:40pm -- See, I was originally supposed to do hour two and not hour one. If I'd done that, "the Jonas brothers" would have been in bed by now, and I wouldn't be feeling 121 years old just for not knowing who they are.

Anyways, the category is Best Animated Film. Winner, of course, is the wonderfully awesome Wall-E. I'm just hitting PUBLISH now. It hasn't actually won yet.

All nominations (film only) below -- winners in BOLD

Check out additional Golden Globes coverage over on Moviefone

Read the first hour live blog (Scott Weinberg)
Read the second hour live blog (Erik Davis)
Read the third hour live blog (William Goss)

Best Motion Picture (Drama)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire - WINNER

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Burn After Reading
In Bruges
Happy-Go-Lucky
Mamma Mia
Vicky Cristina Barcelona -- WINNER

Best Supporting Actor

Tom Cruise - Tropic Thunder
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Ralph Fiennes - The Duchess
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight - WINNER

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams - Doubt
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Kate Winslet - The Reader - WINNER

Best Director

Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire - WINNER
Steven Daldry - The Reader
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Sam Mendes - Revolutionary Road

Best Actor (Drama)

Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler -- WINNER

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy

Javier Bardem -- Vicki Cristina Barcelona
Colin Farrell - In Bruges - WINNER
James Franco -- Pineapple Express
Brendan Gleeson - In Bruges
Dustin Hoffman - Last Chance Harvey

Best Actress (Drama)

Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kristin Scott Thomas - I've Loved You So Long
Kate Winslet - Revolutionary Road - WINNER

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

Rebecca Hall - Vicki Cristina Barcelona
Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky - WINNER
Frances McDormand - Burn After Reading
Meryl Streep - Mamma Mia
Emma Thompson - Last Chance Harvey

Best Screenplay

Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire -- WINNER
David Hare - The Reader
Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley - Doubt

Best Original Song

"Down to Earth" -- WALL-E
"Gran Torino" - Gran Torino
"I Thought I Lost You" -- Bolt
"Once in a Lifetime" -- Cadillac Records
"The Wrestler" -- The Wrestler - WINNER

Best Original Score

Defiance
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Slumdog Millionaire -- WINNER
Frost/Nixon
Changeling

Best Animated Film

Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E - WINNER

Best Foreign Language Film

The Baader Meinhof Complex
Gomorrah
I've Loved You So Long
Waltz with Bashir- WINNER

Admit it, just the other day you were thinking to yourself: "Ya know, I'm gonna watch the Golden Globes this year, but I wish the show came with a whole bunch of intelligent, life-changing snarky commentary from some of my favorite Cinematical writers." Well we heard your cries for quality entertainment, and we're answering them with yet another year of (dare I say brilliant) awards live blogging, beginning with the much-anticipated return of the Golden Globes.

Tonight at 8pm EST, please tune your ridiculously short attention span to Cinematical.com where Scott Weinberg, William Goss and yours truly will be rockin' your world in real time. Additionally, we'll be updating the winners as they're announced -- so you don't have to do anything except show up in your underwear ready to party like an online movie writer who's got nothing better to do on a Sunday night. Yeah! We're excited! See you there ...

Check out our Golden Globes nominations list (film only)

Check out additional Golden Globes coverage over on Moviefone

In what has got to be the best quote of the WGA strike so far, NBC Entertainment Co-Chief (and former prom king, perhaps?) Ben Silverman, bitching about the Golden Globes being canceled, reportedly said about the writer's strike to Ryan Seacrest, "Sadly, it feels like the nerdiest, ugliest, meanest kids in the high school are trying to cancel the prom. But NBC wants to try to keep that prom alive."

Awww, isn't that sweet of NBC? They wanted to keep the prom going for all the cheerleaders and jocks but those dorky-ass kids at the writers' table had the audacity to band together and spoil all the fun. And here he already swiped a bottle of Everclear from the folks' liquor cabinet to spike the punch, too.

Seriously though, if we're going to compare Hollywood to high school (and I'm not saying I disagree with that) and the Globes to the prom, let's be realistic here. Since when are the kids relegated to the nerdy lunch table the "meanest" kids in school? At my high school, they were the ones getting the sh*t kicked out of them by the rich jocks, who only wanted anything to do with them if they were stealing their lunch money or getting the brainy kids to write papers for them so they wouldn't get kicked off varsity. Oh, wait ... that DOES sound a bit like Hollywood.

Having to cancel the Globes -- the highest rated awards show after the Oscars -- cost NBC a pretty penny. E! News reports that NBC paid between five and six million for rights to the show, off which the network makes back $10-15 million in ad revenue. Ouch. That's a lot of lunch money. Go nerds!

Best Original Score

Nominees:

Into the Wild

Grace is Gone

Kite Runner

Atonement

Eastern Promises

Predicted Winner: Atonement


Atonement is a powerful, beautiful, and heart-tugging achievement from Joe Wright, one that is strengthened by Dario Marianelli's haunting score. It's the sort that slides into your skin and stays with you well after the film is over and the curtain is closed. The staff here at Cinematical thinks Atonement will nab the prize for Best Original Score.

Now it's your turn to vote ...

Best Supporting Actor

Nominees:

Casey Affleck -- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Javier Bardem -- No Country for Old Men

Philip Seymour Hoffman -- Charlie Wilson's War

John Travolta -- Hairspray

Tom Wilkinson -- Michael Clayton

Predicted Winner: Javier Bardem

Once in awhile there comes to cinema a character, and a performance that goes with it, that goes on to haunt us for years. Such a timeless villain is played in No Country for Old Men by Javier Bardem. It's the actor's third Golden Globe nomination and will be his first win. How do I know? Here at Cinematical headquarters we were going to toss a coin to find out if Bardem would get the statue. But then we realized that this award isn't about chance (plus we were afraid of getting an air blast to the skull if it came up that he'd lose). Bardem will win because he deserves the award, because his is the most well-developed and most memorable performance of the bunch.

Now it's your turn to vote ...

Best Actor (Musical or Comedy)

Nominees:

Johnny Depp -- Sweeney Todd

Ryan Gosling -- Lars and the Real Girl

Tom Hanks -- Charlie Wilson's War

Philip Seymour\ Hoffman -- The Savages

John C. Reilly -- Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Predicted Winner: Johnny Depp

There was some stiff competition for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy this year, but we at Cinematical think it'll be winning year for Johnny and his slasher ways. He's musical, he's creepy, and he knows just how to pick the ingredients for a killer meat pie.

Now it's your turn to vote ...

Best Screenplay

Nominees:

Diablo Cody -- Juno

Joel & Ethan Coen -- No Country for Old Men

Christopher Hampton -- Atonement

Ronald Harwood -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Aaron Sorkin -- Charlie Wilson's War

Predicted Winner: Diablo Cody -- Juno

Often, it's not the finest writing that wins the screenplay award, it's the flashiest. Cinematical doesn't think Globe voters will be able to pass up Diablo Cody's hyper-verbose, show-offy script, chock full of memorable one-liners and quotable dialogue. Plus, Hollywood just can't get enough of her stripper-turned-screenwriter tale. Juno what I'm saying?

Now it's your turn to vote ...