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'Slumdog' BacklashWatch: Fox Calls Us, India Calls the Cops
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• Wed, Jan 28
By STV While we sincerely empathize on one hand, we're tabulating numbers on the other: $85 million (and counting) worldwide gross. Ten Oscar nominations. Four Golden Globes. One huge SAG Awards honor recognizing the film's ensemble — slum kids included. We're not here to broker settlements, bu...
Defamer Predictions: The Best Actress Oscar Nominees
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• Mon, Jan 19
By Kyle Buchanan Winslet accurately summed up Angelina Jolie's buzz at the Golden Globes: "Who's the other one?" Despite her star power and showy (if one-note) performance, Jolie hasn't been able to crack the resistance some in the industry have to this movie. Thus, the dark horses with the best chances a...
Wish You Were Here!
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• Fri, Jan 16
By STV · The Golden Globes were great and everything, but what do they mean? And will Darren Aronofsky get to keep his finger when the FCC is done with it? · Kate Winslet's breasts landed on Oprah Winfrey's good side. Doubt director John Patrick Shanley, not so much.
Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Zachary Quinto Begging Edition!
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• Tue, Jan 13
By STV I spotted ZACHARY QUINTO and his friend/date/Vulcan/whatever trying to talk his way into the HBO party after the Golden Globes. He was pleading for entry because his blood sugar was very low, and he was super hungry — but they wouldn't let him in 'cause he wasn't on the list. If he was so fuckin...
Internet Unofficially Apologizes To Tina Fey
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• Mon, Jan 12
By STV Awards gadfly Tom O'Neil wasted little time exploiting Tina Fey's indictment of his site's anonymous, comedienne-slagging commenters at last night Golden Globes, nearly tripping over his clown shoes backstage to grovel for forgiveness.
And The Bad Celestial Omen Goes To...
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• Mon, Jan 12
By McCluskey and Miller If today - January 12 - is your birthday: Maybe things didn't go your way at the Golden Globes, but don't fret. There's no shame in losing to such great company, especially when you can smile with restrained anger and pretend not to notice the red camera light as you wait for it to click off so yo...
Kate Winslet Waxes, Sean Penn Wanes and Other Curious Golden Globes Implications
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• Mon, Jan 12
By STV 1. Is this Kate Winslet's year, like, for real this time? To the extent we all love to hate the Globes and downplay their implications in the awards-season sweepstakes, the Best Actress winners are reliable-enough indicators of the competition in that Oscar category. Without a Helen Mirr...
Defamer Liveblogs the Golden Globes for Spoiler-Averse West Coasters!
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• Sun, Jan 11
By Kyle Buchanan 8:33: Best Actor in a TV Drama goes to Gabriel Byrne over Michael C. Hall. How many sisters does a guy have to fuck for a Golden Globe in this town? 8:03: "Mama's talking," complains ignored presenter Jennifer Lopez. She presents Best Supporting Actress in a Film to Kate Winslet, for The Reader....
Which Stars Pretended They Had No Idea the Golden Globes Were Announced Today?
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• Thu, Dec 11
By Kyle Buchanan · "I was in bed sleeping and I got a phone call." – America Ferrera, actress, Ugly Betty · "I live in a complete fool's paradise. I didn't even know it was Golden Globes today. I was taken aback when someone rang me to tell me I was nominated." – David Hare, screenwriter, The Reader
Jeff Zucker Rumored To Be Seeking Damages From WGA For Pooping On His Golden Globes Parade: UPDATE
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• Wed, Feb 13
By Seth UPDATE: Is Dick Clark pulling the levers? After the jump. I'm told by sources that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and NBC are on the verge of taking legal action against the WGA for actions leading to the cancellation of this year's Golden Globes.
Ain't No Party Like An Ernest Borgnine Golden Globes Party
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• Mon, Jan 14
By Mark Though the cancellation of Golden Globes ceremony forced the Hallmark Channel to grudgingly call off its annual after-party, considered by many to be the most debauched in all of Hollywood (2006's orgy honoring Meet the Santas is still spoken of in hushed tones for the five overdosing S...
Moviegoers Find Uplift In Jack Nicholson And Morgan Freeman's Slow DeathsOriginal at Defamer
• Mon, Jan 14
By Mark As you shake off the morning-after effects of your rollicking Golden Globes party—which consisted entirely of pounding cans of PBR and shouting obscenities at clueless NBC presenter Billy Bush every time he opened his mouth—take a look at the weekend's box office numbers:
Golden Globes ... To Liveblog or Not To Liveblog?
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• Sun, Jan 13
By Mark Graham 6:23pm: The recent crest of Juno-mania failed to catapault Ellen Page to victory over the frog princess Marion Cotillard's performance as Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose. The Academy might as well engrave that Best Actress Oscar for Marion now.
HFPA Dissidents Upset At NBC's Plans To Turn Golden Globes Press Conference Into 'Access Hollywood'-Style Fiasco
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• Thu, Jan 10
By Mark According to the LAT's Gold Derby blog, some scandalized members within shadowy, buffet-decimating, kudos-proffering concern the Hollywood Foreign Press Association are livid that network broadcast partner NBC, hoping to salvage something from the strike-ravaged wreckage of t...
Clooney Hates Cheadle, And Other Critics' Choice Award Highlights
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• Tue, Jan 8
By Seth · No Country For Old Men took the most trophies—whose design fittingly looks like some kind of torture device Anton Chigurh might use—including Picture, Director, and Supporting actor. Juno and Hairspray took two lesser awards each. Daniel Day-Lewis and Julie Christie took Actor and Ac...
Breaking! Johnny Depp Repeats As Hollywood's Best Autographer Signer! Also: Will Ferrell Sick Of Sharpie Charade
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• Mon, Dec 17
By jgrode Autograph magazine, which actually exists, has just released their annual ranking of the best and worst in celebrity acquiesence to demands to scribble on a napkin outside of a Starbucks bathroom. Topping the list is Johnny Depp, whom, should he ever win the Best Actor Oscar, will have bo...
'Are You Going?' Replaces 'Who Are You Wearing?' As #1 Golden Globes Nominee Question
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• Thu, Dec 13
By Seth Ryan Gosling: "I'm gonna have to make some calls and talk to some of the other nominees in the category to figure what we should do. I kinda wanna talk to Tom Hanks about it because I imagine he always does the right thing." [Variety] John Hamm: "You make these things and you hope people like them...
Strike-Hobbled Awards Shows Brace For A Bleak, Banterless Future
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• Fri, Nov 16
By Mark While the Academy Awards telecast will doubtlessly be crippled by the absence of its writers, as we hinted above, the Golden Globes has a secret weapon that could obviate the need for WGA labor: the presence of liquor at the attendees' tables. In fact, a minor shift in the Globes ceremony's...
Golden Globes Hangover: Diddy Vs. CAA
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• Fri, Jan 19
By Mark Guests lists at industry parties are a tricky matter, and their convoluted politics become even more complex when one's throwing an exclusive post-awards show orgy, as hosts try to balance the ratio of talent to the behind-the-scenes types hoping to fellate them: invite too many famou...
Will The Golden Globes Pretend To Like 'Studio 60'?
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• Wed, Dec 13
By Seth Abramovitch A Golden Globes win for the ratings-deficient Hollywood insider drama--whose core audience seems to be composed primarily of Hollywood insiders watching to see if it could possibly get any more not-insidery than it did the week before--might be precisely the kind of confidence build...
Opinion: In Defense Of The Braless Drew Barrymore
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• Wed, Jan 18
By Mark The entire viewership of the Golden Globes could easily second-guess Drew Barrymore's decision to go braless during her presenting duties, but JV NY Daily News gossip Lloyd Grove called in a plastic surgeon for his expert opinion on Barrymore's breasts: "What the hell was she thinking...
Golden Globes Party Round-Up: Castle Hilton Hosts The Stars
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• Tue, Jan 17
By Seth Like spoiled, scheming daddy's girls with Sweet 16s falling on the same night, the various studios threw out all the stops to lure the popular kids to their Golden Globes bashes. Since all the events took place somewhere in the Beverly Hilton, however, party hopping was as easy as stumblin...
Griffin Out, Seacrest In
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• Wed, Dec 21
By Mark Today's Page Six lends an uncharacteristically sympathetic ear to Kathy Griffin, who found out that E! had rolled up her heavily nip/tucked body in a red carpet and tossed her in the river only when her lawyer tried to find out about her Golden Globes assignment: "I asked my reps, 'What's g...