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...host a party for the movie stars whose hair they'd dressed or cars they'd parked. Whatever the journalistic provenance of the HFPA members, their ability to commandeer a Sunday night on a major television network (all right, a once-major network: NBC) made the Golden Globe dinner the starriest show around. And that luster helped legitimize the awards and their selectors. (See TIME's list of the top 100 films...
...publicists. These are the pictures the industry wants to be remembered by. Until now, you hadn't seen Kate Winslet's name in this story, because she didn't win any of the critics' awards. (Though some magazine reviewer named her Best Actress of 2008.) Well, she snagged a Globe nomination for Actress - Drama in Revolutionary Road and Supporting Actress in her other December drama, The Reader; both were among the five finalists for Best Motion Picture - Drama. The others were Slumdog, Benjamin Button and one film, Frost/Nixon, that didn't figure prominently in the critics' fancies. (Doubt was aced...
...their nominations, the Globes breaks movies and lead performances into drama (where most of the serious contenders reside) and comedy or musical. For Globe-watchers, that's the fun part. How to find five comedies? This year the wild card was In Bruges, the madly violent crime farce from Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. The critics groups paid the movie no mind, but it and its stars, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson got Globe nominations. The Comedy or Musical category is also the consolation spot for actors nudged out of the more competitive Drama department; so James Franco, surely worthy...
...most prominent trophies are, of course, the Academy Awards,. Many, however, consider the annual Golden Globe nominations to be the official beginning of the three-month "Oscar season." On Thursday morning in Beverly Hills - at exactly 5 a.m. local time - the nominees will be announced for the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards, serving up an ideal Christmas gift for studios that will then rush to convert the love into marketing gold...
...active voting members - journalists representing 55 countries and publications with a combined reach of more than 250 million readers. The annual awards ceremony (scheduled this season for the evening of Jan. 11) is regularly one of America's most-watched televised awards shows. But while a Golden Globe gives winning films and TV series considerable exposure to a wider audience, it is the ceremony's position on the Oscar calendar that brings the HFPA considerable influence...