Last night was the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards, and the highly anticipated kick off to awards season didn't disappoint. There were lots of great moments and the majority of them were provided by first time hosts, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. They did a great job and I'm hoping that they are asked back next year. Their monologue was great and the ladies didn't hold back, letting loose with some fantastic zingers regarding James Cameron and James Franco. Here is the opening monologue for this years Globes.
Poehler and Fey also inserted themselves into the nominees for Best Actor and Actress in a Made for Television Movie. Poehler donned a red wig and some hillbilly teeth to portray Darcy St. Fudge, a "psychic who solves her own murder in Dog President." Fey donned some pretty awful male drag as Dog President male lead, Damian Francisco, "a professional volley ball player battling restless-leg syndrome." Here are a couple of pics of Darcy and Damian.
My only complaint about Fey and Poehler's hosting gig is that I wish they were on screen more. How many times have you been able to say that about awards show hosts?
The ladies weren't the only ones bringing the funny. The other funniest part for me was Kristen Wiig and Will Ferrell presenting the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical. The seemingly unscripted bit consisted of the SNL vets trying, and failing, to convince the audience that they watched all five films the actresses were featured in. Check it out here:
As for the awards themselves, earlier in the week I posted some of my predictions for who would win and who I thought should win. I did OK, but there were definitely some surprises. One of the biggest ones was Ben Affleck and Argo taking the awards for Best Director and Best Drama. Another surprise, and a really good one for me, was Lena Dunham winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical and Girls picking up the Globe for Best TV Comedy. It was a great night for Dunham and for the show, which debuted it's second season last night as well.
Also, is there a celebrity who is more down to earth, more charming and more lovable than Adele. She gave, hands down, the best acceptance speech of the night, right after high fiving Daniel Craig. Who but Adele, would choose the Golden Globes for her first night out after becoming a new mum. I only hope that her Oscar speech is just as good. Check her out:
The most talked about moment from this years Globes, will definitely be Jodie Foster's speech accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. During her speech, Foster said she had to make a major announcement. After a big buildup, she announced that she was single. She finally said that she came out in the "stone age." She then went on a bitter and somewhat rambling diatribe about privacy and how she wasn't Honey Boo Boo. She seemed to be trying to make the point that her private life was her own and nobody's business. I know she's getting a lot of praise and there is a lot of talk about how brave her speech was. Allow me to offer a dissenting opinion. How exactly was what she did brave? Is it brave to come out when acceptance of LGBT people is at an all time high? It would have been brave if she had done it, 15, 10, even 5 years ago. It also came off as slightly hypocritical to me. You're going on and on about your privacy and you are making this giant public statement. It felt very hypocritical to me, with her on her high horse, scolding the little people about daring to question her personal life. Then, you show up with Mel Gibson, who hasn't met a misogynistic, homophobic, or anti-Semitic comment he didn't love. Here is Foster's full speech:
All in all, the Golden Globes were really good and it seems like a lot of people agreed. The ratings for this year's Globes were the highest since 2007. Hopefully, this is a good sign for the Oscars and Seth Macfarlane.
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