The epic musical "Les Miserables" dominated the 70th yearly Golden Globe Awards on Sunday evening with 3 trophies, which includes 1 for ideal musical or comedy. However the evening belonged to Ben Affleck.
Affleck's political thriller "Argo," about a CIA plot to rescue Americans trapped in Iran in 1979-80, won for very best dramatic film and director for Affleck. It had been a little bit of vindication, probably, for your filmmaker, who was remarkably absent final week once the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences announced its Oscar nominations for director.
Considering the fact that the Oscar snub Thursday, Affleck hasn't only won a Golden Globe but he also obtained a Critics' Option Film Award for directing too.
"Les Miz" was by far the most honored film on the ceremony held with the Beverly Hilton Hotel's Global Ballroom and telecast reside on NBC. In addition to finest musical or comedy, it won lead actor for Hugh Jackman, who admitted in his acceptance speech that at a single stage he virtually quit the undertaking right after a grueling rehearsal. And Anne Hathaway sang her strategy to a supporting actress win since the tragic Fantine.
With her pixie haircut and tasteful white gown, Hathaway was reminiscent of the youthful Audrey Hepburn.
"Thank you for this pretty blunt object," Hathaway advised the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. "I'll permanently use it as being a weapon against self-doubt."
The wins for "Les Miz" and "Argo" too because the two Golden Globes for "Django Unchained" enable give people films momentum primary on the Oscars on Feb. 24. But people honors do tiny to bring clarity to a topsy-turvy awards season which has observed a lot of excellent motion pictures to select from ?a but handful of clear-cut front-runners.
For instance, Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" went to the evening with 7 Golden Globes nominations ?a over any other film. Former President Bill Clinton even appeared to a standing ovation and thunderous applause to introduce the clip to the historical epic. But in lieu of "Lincoln" by a landslide, the film concerning the 16th president's struggle to finish the Civil War and slavery won just one honor: lead actor in the drama for Daniel Day-Lewis.
Considered one of by far the most breathtaking moments came courtesy Jodie Foster, who took to your stage to provide a ... retirement speech? A coming-out speech? It had been difficult to inform. She was obtaining the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement when she ramped as much as confess that she was ?- single. And though she appeared to consider pains to sidestep addressing her sexual orientation she did thank her ex-partner and co-parent of her two boys, Cydney Bernard.
Her speech was also a rant in favor of privacy that brought lots of men and women to its feet. Foster mentioned that she has lived nearly her total daily life during the public eye nevertheless needed to maintain some points private. "I have offered anything up there in the time I was three many years old," she stated. "That is reality sufficient." Even backstage, speaking face-to-face along with the media, she was cryptic about what, specifically, she was looking to say with her speech. (Memo to Foster: Nothing at all will ruin an try at privacy like telling the entire world you desire to maintain your lifestyle private.)
In other film awards, Jessica Chastain won lead actress inside a drama for her purpose like a CIA operative who assists track down Osama bin Laden in "Zero Dark Thirty." Jennifer Lawrence won lead actress within a comedy or musical for "Silver Linings Playbook" for her functionality like a widow inside the quirky romantic comedy. "I beat Meryl!" Lawrence joked as she accepted the trophy. (Meryl Streep was nominated while in the exact same category, for "Hope Springs.") Amongst Lawrence's thank-yous: "Thank you, Harvey Weinstein, for killing whoever you needed to destroy to have me up right here."
Christoph Waltz won for supporting actor for taking part in a bounty hunter in Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained." The maverick filmmaker was a surprise screenplay winner for your controversial spaghetti Western set through the slavery era, beating out this kind of favorites because the writers of "Zero Dark Thirty," "Lincoln," "Argo," and "Silver Linings Playbook."
"Wow, I was not expecting this," stated an effusive Tarantino. "I'm delighted to get amazed."
Austria's "Amour" won foreign language film, and "Brave" won for animated film. Mychael Danna won for creating the score for Ang Lee's "Life of Pi." Authentic song went to pop singer Adele and Paul Epworth for "Skyfall," the title tune for your most current James Bond installment.
Over the Television side, the Golden Globes honored Showtime's "Homeland" and HBO's "Game Change" and "Girls" with a number of trophies.
"Homeland," the political thriller that counts President Obama as certainly one of its largest followers, won its 2nd consecutive award for drama series. Claire Danes won her second-in-a-row Globe for lead dramatic actress during the series. Her co-star Damian Lewis took lead actor.
"Game Alter," the drama about then-Gov. Sarah Palin's run for your vice presidency in 2008, also carried out effectively. It snapped up 3 awards: miniseries or Television film, supporting actor for Ed Harris, and lead actress for Julianne Moore for her uncanny channeling of Palin.
"Girls" won ideal comedy series even though its younger star and creator, Lena Dunham, won for lead actress. Don Cheadle won lead actor within a comedy series for Showtime's "House of Lies." Kevin Costner won lead actor in the miniseries or Television film for Historical past Channel's "Hatfields & McCoys." Maggie Smith won for supporting actress inside a Television series, miniseries or film for taking part in the acerbic dowager in PBS' "Downton Abbey."
Just after a controversial three-year stint as host, Ricky Gervais turned over the emcee duties to Globe nominees Amy Poehler ("Parks & Recreation") and Tina Fey ("30 Rock"). The pair were only slightly less irreverent, skewering Hollywood by poking fun of pill-popping Hollywood and "rat-faced" Television types and joking regarding the controversy surrounding Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty."
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