6:56:00 PM: Take a break from the awards for a sec as I give you my favorite scene from Burn After Reading and one from In Bruges:
6:57:30 PM: Quick comment check again and I see we have folks from India, Russia, Playa Del Carmen, New Zealand, D.C. and Sydney… FANTASTIC!!! Glad to see you all and hope I am mildly entertaining… Speak up wherever you are reading from!
7:04:19 PM: Yup, still here, just listening to Steven Spielberg talk about wrecking trains or something…
7:04:59 PM: Still think they should have waited to give Spielberg this award later in life.
7:07:53 PM: He just ended his speech. Kept it pretty short… kudos to him.
7:11:11 PM: In the middle of a commercial break and we will soon be back to award giving…
7:13:02 PM: And here we go… Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman are out and she towers over Dustin…
7:14:03 PM: It’s the nominees for Best Director… my pick is Boyle for Slumdog
7:14:23 PM: And the winner is…
7:15:30 PM: Boom, thanks to Loveleen! That’s all I wanted to hear.
7:16:47 PM: And now Sigourney Weaver arrives to introduce Revolutionary Road as a Best Picture (Drama) nominee… Great acting, not necessarily a great movie in my opinion.
7:18:18 PM: Sandra Bullock arrives to present the Best Actor Motion Picture (Musical/Comedy)… my pick was Javier Bardem but I am hearing Dustin Hoffman rumblings…
7:18:57 PM: And the winner is…
7:20:06 PM: Now that is a winner I am proud to be wrong on!
7:21:06 PM: Talk about 2008 being the year of Robert Downey all you want… I love seeing the comeback of Colin Farrell
7:23:19 PM: Commercial break time…
7:25:11 PM: Farrell’s speech was fun to listen to, probably gonna be one to look for on YouTube in the morning/afternoon/night depending on where you are reading this from. 🙂
7:26:31 PM: Looks like we have dramatic actors and best pictures left to hand out… here comes Salma Hayek to introduce Vicky Cristina Barcelona as a Best Picture (Comedy/Musical) nominee… my personal #1 film of 2008.
7:33:12 PM: Sacha Baron Cohen out to hand out the award for Best Picture (Musical/Comedy)… he’s got jokes: “Madonna has had to get rid of one of her personal assistants… our thoughts go out to Guy Ritchie.” They booed him on that one.
7:39:21 PM: Okay… site troubles happened….
7:41:54 PM: Okay, and so it seems I may be back to normal… Winslet win is a shocker and won’t be the way the Academy goes… But it is awesome to see her win two Globes tonight!
7:43:08 PM: Blake and Rainn are out to award Best Television Series (Drama)…
7:43:57 PM: And the winner is…
7:46:55 PM: And another commercial break as the site struggles to survive from so much traffic.
7:50:32 PM: Susan Sarandon presenting Best Actor and it goes to
7:51:24 PM: Yet another one I am happy to have been wrong on as I had Sean Penn in Milk. Penn was great, but I think Rourke nailed it.
7:52:55 PM: Rourke is giving another good speech and probably one people will be watching on YouTube.
7:53:48 PM: I think we are left with just Best Drama now… 7 minutes to 8 o’clock here on the West Coast
7:59:25 PM: Tom Cruise is out to present the Best Picture (Drama)
7:59:31 PM: And the winner is…
8:00:07 PM: Man… I feel like I just survived a tornado!
8:00:31 PM: So, the night is over… Over the next couple of days I will have a Globes vs. Oscars preview comparing how often the Globe winners go on to win an Oscar as well as a new Oscar prediction article…
8:01:50 PM: So… thanks for joining me and putting up with a couple of server glitches.
