Gosh, I didn’t really think anyone liked Babel this much. And check out all the stars whose Hollywood Foreign Press Association payola teams worked extra hard, scoring them more than one nomination in a single year: Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio, Toni Collette, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emily Blunt, Annette Bening. Christ, Helen Mirren has three fucking nominations, including two in the Best Actress in a TV Movie category. Granted, everyone loves her, but can we quit lady-fellating the Teaching Mrs. Tingle star and come up for air for just one second?
Also, any organization that nominates Beyonce Knowles for an acting award (in the same category as Meryl Streep, no less) isn’t worth the Mrs. Dalloway-like effort I’ll surely be putting into my annual Korbel-swilling Golden Globe party come January. We’ve seen Dreamgirls, and we can’t help but resent Ms. Knowles’ lox-like inability to sink her teeth into the rich camp opportunity of playing a Diana Ross composite. Kim Cattrall gave a livelier performance during the scenes in Mannequin where she’s actually a mannequin.
And they nominated Bobby for Best Drama, which…how to put this politely…um…no.
I love how the HFPA Web site posts the nominations blog-style, as if it’s just another piece of operational news for them, as if they existed year-round as a functional organization that does anything but receive “complimentary” watches from Sharon Stone.
64th Annual Golden Globe Nominations [Hollywood Foreign Press Association]
