At the risk of alienating every member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, I've never been a fan of the Golden Globes. The Globes are nowhere close to being in my top three favorites when it comes to award shows. They've got too many categories, and in too many years past the HFPA members seemed to have filled out their ballots by looking down a list of the most recognizable names and slotting them in for award consideration. This year was actually one of the very few times over the past decade in which their nominees in the motion picture categories made more sense than not (
Charlie Wilson's War being the most notable exception this year).
But while I'm not a fan of the Globes, the cancellation of this year's ceremony was a sad turn of events for the organizers, the nominees, party planners, restaurants, limo services, and dozens of other unfortunates who lost out on business. According to
Mediaweek, NBC stands to lose between $10-15 million dollars. If the Oscars go the way of the Globes, ABC's losses could be astronomical.
Atonement Captures Top Prize
The 2008 Golden Globes winners were announced press conference style, with no clear winner emerging to take the early title of Oscar favorite. Four movies earned two Globes apiece, while six films picked up one honor.
Atonement, which led the pack going into the event with seven nominations, did earn what's considered the top prize - Best Drama. But most critics groups and film-related guilds have been siding with
No Country for Old Men or
There Will Be Blood, which seems to indicate either of those two movies have more of a shot at the top Oscar prize than
Atonement.
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