Well, it started EARLY at 4PM with the E! Red Carpet, predicting what people would wear which is always ludicrous but a good way to kill time, I guess, and by the time people actually started arriving, the mood was set for what turned out to be fun night of TV. Asked about getting ready Lena Dunham blasted the Twitter trolls saying she had deleted her account to “create a safer emotional space for herself”, which you can understand. (She was wearing a dress by her former babysitter, Zac Posen which, along with Versace dressed a LOT of nominees.) Ryan Seacrest and the E! crew presented the “It” couple of the night, Amal & George Clooney with wedding graphic “GAME OVER” tees, which they ALL were wearing. Both husband and wife, already wearing #jesuischarlie buttons, were amused and were the butt of hosts Tina Fey & Amy Poehler‘s jokes all night. The BEST being;
“George Clooney married Amal Alamudin this year. Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an advisor to Kofi Annan regarding Syria and was selected for a three-person UN commission investigating human rights violations in the Gaza strip. So tonight her HUSBAND is getting a lifetime achievement award.”
They started out the night with;
“Good evening and welcome you despicable and spoiled minimally talented brats! Tonight we celebrate all the movies we know and love as well as all the movies that North Korea was OK with… that’s right, the biggest story in Hollywood this was when North Korea threatened an attack if Sony Pictures released ‘The Interview‘ forcing us all to pretend we wanted to see it.”
And then a slam (dunk);
“Joaquin Phoenix is nominated for ‘Inherent Vice‘. Obviously, he’s not here as he’s said publicly before that awards shows are totally bullsh – (waving to him) ‘Oh, hey, Joaquin!'”
They “went there” too, as promised when both impersonated Bill Cosby;
“I put the pills in the people that the people did not want put into them.”
Mid-show there was the obligatory “photo-opp” moment with Michael Keaton taking a pic of Meryl Streep and a new member of the Hollywood Foreign Press (played expertly by Margaret Cho) who was photo-bombed by Benedict Cumberbatch. Cho popped up several more times to banter with Amy & Tina and ended the show with;
“Show over. I host next time. Goodnight!”
All jokes aside, so many great projects, important films and TV shows were recognized like Transparent, Selma and The Normal Heart. Openly gay actor, Matt Bomer (the most handsome man on earth!) won for his performance in The Normal Heart and thanked Larry Kramer, his own husband, three kids, and then pays homage to those we’ve lost to AIDS by saying;
“We remember you.”
A moving speech by Jeffrey Tambor recognizing and thanking the trans community for his win for Transparent as did show creator Jill Soloway who dedicated the shows win to Leelah Alcorn. Prince presented the Best Song to Common & John Legend for Selma, which was nominated but lost is all of the major categories.
All the winners are below, including my personal faves, Best Actor, Michael Keaton in Birdman, who made a moving acceptance speech, and The Grand Budapest Hotel which was THE most graphically detailed film in history no doubt, pretending to be in its own country and having its own currency –just like Hollywood!
THE WINNERS!
Best Motion Picture – Drama
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Lead Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything
Steve Carell – Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
David Oyelowo – Selma
Lead Actress in a Motion Picture- Drama
Julianne Moore – Still Alice
Jennifer Aniston – Cake
Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon – Wild
Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Birdman
Into the Woods
Pride
St. Vincent
Lead Actor in a Motion Picture- Comedy or Musical
Michael Keaton – Birdman
Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Bill Murray – St. Vincent
Joaquin Phoenix – Inherent Vice
Christoph Waltz – Big Eyes
Lead Actress – TV Drama
Ruth Wilson – The Affair
Claire Danes – Homeland
Viola Davis – How to Get Away With Murder
Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife
Robin Wright – House of Cards
Director
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
David Fincher – Gone Girl
Ava DuVernay – Selma
Alejandro G. Inarritu – Birdman
Lead Actor – TV Drama
Kevin Spacey – House of Cards
Clive Owen – The Knick
Liev Schreiber – Ray Donovan
James Spader – The Blacklist
Dominic West – The Affair
Best TV Drama
The Affair
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife
House of Cards
Original Song – Motion Picture
Glory – Selma (John Legend, Common)
Big Eyes – Big Eyes (Lana Del Rey)
Mercy Is – Noah (Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye)
Opportunity – Annie (Greg Kurstin, Sia Furler, Will Gluck)
Yellow Flicker Beat – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 (Lorde)
Original Score – Motion Picture
Johann Johannsson – The Theory of Everything
Alexandre Desplat – The Imitation Game
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross – Gone Girl
Antonio Sanchez – Birdman
Hans Zimmer – Interstellar
Actress – TV Miniseries or Movie
Maggie Gyllenhaal – The Honorable Woman
Jessica Lange – American Horror Story: Freak Show
Frances McDormand – Olive Kitteridge
Frances O’Connor – The Missing
Alison Tolman – Fargo
Foreign Film
Leviathan, Russia
Force Majeure (Turist), Sweden
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem Gett, Israel
Ida, Poland/Denmark
Tangerines (Mandariinid), Estonia
Lead Actor – TV Comedy
Jeffrey Tambor – Transparent
Don Cheadle – House of Lies
Ricky Gervais – Derek
Louis C.K. – Louie
William H. Macy – Shameless
Screenplay
Alejandro G. Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo – Birdman
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Graham Moore – The Imitation Game
Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year
Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game
Emma Stone – Birdman
Meryl Streep – Into the Woods
Animated Feature
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Big Hero 6
The Book of Life
Boxtrolls
The Lego Movie
Lead Actress in a Motion Picture- Comedy or Musical
Amy Adams – Big Eyes
Emily Blunt – Into the Woods
Helen Mirren – The Hundred-Foot Journey
Julianne Moore – Maps to the Stars
Quvenzhané Wallis – Annie
Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries, or TV movie
Matt Bomer – The Normal Heart
Alan Cumming – The Good Wife
Colin Hanks – Fargo
Bill Murray – Olive Kitteridge
Jon Voight – Ray Donovan
Best TV Comedy or Musical
Transparent
Girls
Jane the Virgin
Orange Is the New Black
Silicon Valley
Lead Actress – TV Comedy or Musical
Gina Rodriguez – Jane the Virgin
Lena Dunham – Girls
Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Veep
Taylor Schilling – Orange Is the New Black
Actor – TV Miniseries or Movie
Billy Bob Thornton – Fargo
Martin Freeman – Fargo
Woody Harrelson – True Detective
Matthew McConaughey – True Detective
Mark Ruffalo – The Normal Heart
TV Miniseries or Movie
Fargo
The Missing
True Detective
The Normal Heart
Olive Kitteridge
Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries, or TV movie
Joanne Froggatt – Downton Abbey
Uzo Aduba – Orange Is the New Black
Kathy Bates – American Horror Story: Freak Show
Allison Janney – Mom
Michelle Monaghan – True Detective
Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
J.K. Simmons – Whiplash
Robert Duvall – The Judge
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
Edward Norton – Birdman
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
(Top photo; Douglas Friedman/ Instagram)
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