List Lounge’s Top 10 Best Things about the 2011 Golden Globe Awards
1) Colin Firth winning Best Actor for The King’s Speech. Well deserved.
2) The Social Network winning Best Picture and three more prizes. The most relevant and timely winning film I can ever recall.
3) NIN Front man, Trent Reznor winning a Globe for The Social Network score. He used to be such a rebel, now; he’s a Hollywood A-List Celebrity.
4) Christian Bale winning Best Supporting Actor for The Fighter. Supurb performance.
5) Robert De Niro winning the Lifetime Award. That place loved him.
6) Melissa Leo winning for The Fighter. She was a mean, bad, bothersome character in the film. Hard to like, but amazingly real performance.
7) Aaron Sorkin winning for The Social Network Screenplay. The speed and wit of that script was one of the best in many many years.
8) Paul Giamatti’s groovy and self-less speech. He’s done some amazing things. Sideways being one of the best single performances ever.
9) Natalie Portman (new school) and Annette Bening (old school) Hollywood class acts receiving awards. Both roles were powerful.
10) Having DVR'ed the show, I could skip past much of Ricky Gervais’s mean-spirited, awkward and largely un-funny banter. He was brutally mean and brutally un-funny.
Often, the Golden Globes feel like they are filled with some odd choices. Tonight, it felt like the HFPA really got it right. A great year for films and it will be an exciting Oscars this year. (Plus, no Gervais.)
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