Never one to fall in line with critical opinion (reviewers’ darlings We Need to Talk About Kevin, Drive, Shame or Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy didn’t get a look-in at Best Picture this year) last night saw the Golden Globes dish out their statues.
Alexander Payne’s The Descendants took Best Drama, with Meryl Streep bagging the inevitable Best Actress in a Drama for The Iron Lady and George Clooney picking up Best Actor in a Drama for, you guessed it, The Descendants. Man of the year Ryan Gosling however failed to bag the Supporting Actor prize for Clooney-directed The Ides of March.
Best Comedy or Musical went, completely deservedly, to The Artist, with Jean Dujardin receiving the Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical and Ludovic Bource winning for Best Original Score to boot. Michelle Williams went home with Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for My Week With Marilyn. Supporting actor and actress nods went to Octavia Spencer for The Help and Christopher Plummer for Beginners.
Hugo garnered Martin Scorsese the Best Director prize, with The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn swiping Best Animation from Arthur Christmas and Rango.
The full list of movie winners is below for your perusal. So what do you think? Who got robbed? Who got their just desserts?
BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
The Descendants (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Nominees:
The Help (DreamWorks Pictures)
Hugo (Paramount Pictures)
The Ides of March (Columbia Pictures)
Moneyball (Columbia Pictures)
War Horse (DreamWorks Pictures)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
The Descendants (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Nominees:
The Help (DreamWorks Pictures)
Hugo (Paramount Pictures)
The Ides of March (Columbia Pictures)
Moneyball (Columbia Pictures)
War Horse (DreamWorks Pictures)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
Nominees:
Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis - The Help
Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
George Clooney - The Descendants
Nominees:Glenn Close - Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis - The Help
Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
George Clooney - The Descendants
Brad Pitt - Moneyball
Ryan Gosling - The Ides of March
Michael Fassbender - Shame
Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar
BEST MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
The Artist (The Weinstein Company)
Nominees:
50/50 (Summit Entertainment)
Bridesmaids (Universal Pictures)
Midnight in Paris (Sony Pictures Classics)
My Week with Marilyn (The Weinstein Company)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Michelle Williams - My Week with Marilyn
Nominees:
Jodie Foster - Carnage
Charlize Theron - Young Adult
Kristen Wiig - Bridesmaids
Kate Winslet - Carnage
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Jean Dujardin - The Artist
Nominees:
Brendan Gleeson - The Guard
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - 50/50
Ryan Gosling - Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Owen Wilson - Midnight in Paris
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Adventures of Tintin
Nominees:
Arthur Christmas
Cars 2
Puss In Boots
Rango
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Separation
Nominees:
The Flowers of War (New Pictures Film Company)
In the Land of Blood and Honey (FilmDistrict)
The Kid with a Bike (Sundance Selects)
The Skin I Live In
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Octavia Spencer - The Help
Nominees:
Berenice Bejo - The Artist
Jessica Chastain - The Help
Janet McTeer - Albert Nobbs
Shailene Woodley - The Descendants
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Nominees:
Kenneth Branagh - My Week with Marilyn
Albert Brooks - Drive
Jonah Hill - Moneyball
Viggo Mortensen- A Dangerous Method
BEST DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
Nominees:
Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris
George Clooney - The Ides of March
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Alexander Payne - The Descendants
BEST SCREENPLAY - MOTION PICTURE
Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris
Nominees:
George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon - The Ides of March
Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist
Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash - The Descendants
Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin - Moneyball
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - MOTION PICTURE
Ludovic Bource - The Artist
Nominees:
Abel Korzeniowski - W.E.
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Howard Shore - Hugo
John Williams - War Horse
BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE
Masterpiece - W.E.
Nominees:
Hello Hello - Gnomeo & Juliet
The Keeper - Machine Gun Preacher
Lay Your Head Down - Albert Nobbs
The Living Proof - The Help
