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...movie-business-as-usual, celebrity reaction to the event was hued by the international crisis that went a shade deeper than the suddenly ubiquitous multicolored "Remember Haiti" ribbons dotting tuxes and gowns. Clutching a Golden Globe in his left hand, the night's big winner Avatar director James Cameron waxed philosophical about the entertainment community's response. "When Hollywood puts on the glitz, people of conscience are divided," Cameron told TIME. "You don't know how to react. Should we be happy, should we be sort-of happy?" (See TIME's exclusive pictures from Port-au-Prince...
...Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire. Only in the Picture and Director categories did the two groups disagree. The Broadcast Critics gave those awards to Kathryn Bigelow, and her Iraq bomb-squad drama The Hurt Locker, while the HFPA cited Cameron, Bigelow's ex-husband, and Avatar. "Frankly, I thought Kathryn was gonna get this," Cameron generously said at the Globes. "And she richly deserves it." (See the best movies of the past decade...
...harbingers of the March 7 Academy Awards, whose nomination ballots are still in the hands of the members (they'll be announced on February 2) the two ceremonies boosted the pedigree of Avatar - now it's not just the runaway blockbuster of the millennium - and dented the chances of an early Best Picture favorite, Up in the Air, which won only a screenplay award from each group. Bridges gets a leg up over his main rival, Up in the Air's George Clooney; and Bullock, once a long shot for a Best Actress nomination, now looks to be short-listed...
...Avatar, $41.3 million; $491.8 million, fifth week 2. The Book of Eli, $31.6 million, first weekend 3. The Lovely Bones, $17.1 million; $17.5 million, sixth weekend 4. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, $11.5 million; $192.6 million, fourth week 5. Sherlock Holmes, $9.8 million; $180 million, fourth weekend 6. The Spy Next Door, $9.7 million, first weekend 7. It's Complicated, $7.7 million; $88.2 million, fourth weekend 8. Leap Year, $5.8 million; $17.5 million, second weekend 9. The Blind Side, $5.6 million; $226.8 million, ninth weekend 10. Up in the Air, $5.5 million; $62.8 million, seventh weekend...
Read a Q&A with Avatar director James Cameron...