Golden Globes: Meryl Streep now has seven statuettes & 25 nominations
Double Golden Globe nominee Meryl Streep’s Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy win for Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia was her seventh. Her loss for Nancy Meyers’ It’s Complicated – also in the Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy category – was her 18th.
Beginning in the late 1970s, Streep has been nominated for a total of 25 Golden Globes, both in the motion picture and television categories. Below is a partial list of Meryl Streep Golden Globe nominations.
- Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for The Hours (2002).
Director: Stephen Daldry.
Cast: Meryl Streep. Nicole Kidman. Julianne Moore. Ed Harris. Toni Collette. Allison Janney. Claire Danes. Jeff Daniels. Stephen Dillane. Miranda Richardson. Eileen Atkins. John C. Reilly.
Winner: Nicole Kidman for The Hours. - Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for …First Do No Harm (1997).
Director: Jim Abrahams.
Cast: Meryl Streep. Fred Ward. Seth Adkins. Margo Martindale. Allison Janney.
Winner: Alfre Woodard for Miss Evers’ Boys. - Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for The River Wild (1994).
Director: Curtis Hanson.
Cast: Meryl Streep. David Strathairn. Kevin Bacon. Joseph Mazzello. Stephanie Sawyer. Benjamin Bratt. John C. Reilly.
Winner: Jessica Lange for Blue Sky. - Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for Out of Africa (1985).
Director: Sydney Pollack.
Cast: Meryl Streep. Robert Redford. Klaus Maria Brandauer.
Winner: Whoopi Goldberg for The Color Purple. - Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for Silkwood (1983).
Director: Mike Nichols.
Cast: Meryl Streep. Kurt Russell. Cher.
Winner: Shirley MacLaine for Terms of Endearment. - Best Supporting Actress for The Deer Hunter (1978). First nomination.
Director: Michael Cimino.
Cast: Robert De Niro. John Cazale. Christopher Walken. Meryl Streep.
Winner: Dyan Cannon for Heaven Can Wait.
See also the full list (up to 2012) of Meryl Streep Golden Globe wins and nominations.
Meryl Streep: ‘Vessel’ for other women’s lives.
‘Vessel for other people’s stories’
While accepting her seventh Golden Globe at the Jan. 17, ’10, Golden Globes ceremony at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Meryl Streep told the crowd that because she has played many extraordinary women, people have come to believe that she’s one as well. She proceeded to put things in perspective: “I’m a vessel for other people’s stories, and other women’s lives.”
From there, Streep got fellow Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nominee Sandra Bullock (for Anne Fletcher’s The Proposal) all teary eyed when she reminisced about her mother, who “had no patience for gloom and doom.” She then added, “I’m not like that.”
Celeb glamour vs. real-life tragedies
Meryl Streep was trying to make a point about her attempts to reconcile her being at the Glitzy, Glamorous, Glorious Golden Globes a few days after the deadly Haiti earthquake. (Estimates now place the number of dead between 50,000 and 200,000.) In her speech, she mentioned Partners in Health, an organization that has been providing assistance to Haiti’s poor for quite some time.
And in the not-too-distant future, Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) will be battling it out for the Best Actress Academy Award. U.S. critics, for their part, have mostly favored Streep and An Education actress Carey Mulligan.
Meryl Streep photos: Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA.
Meryl Streep Golden Globe nominations via the IMDb.
Jeff Bridges: Best Actor Golden Globe winner.
Best Actor Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges, who turned 60 last month, has been around making movies since 1970, but despite dozens of well-received performances he had never won a Golden Globe until last night – for his work as an aging country singer in Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart, also featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Bridges’ previous Golden Globe nominations were for the following movies:
- Best Supporting Actor for The Contender (2000).
Director: Rod Lurie.
Cast: Joan Allen. Jeff Bridges. Gary Oldman. Christian Slater. Sam Elliott. William Petersen. Saul Rubinek. Philip Baker Hall. Mariel Hemingway.
Winner: Benicio Del Toro for Traffic. - Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for The Fisher King (1991).
Director: Terry Gilliam.
Cast: Jeff Bridges. Robin Williams. Mercedes Ruehl.
Winner: Robin Williams for The Fisher King. - Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for Starman (1984).
Director: John Carpenter.
Cast: Jeff Bridges. Karen Allen.
Winner: F. Murray Abraham for Amadeus.
Jeff Bridges Oscar nominations
Jeff Bridges has also been nominated for four Academy Awards; he has never won.
- Best Supporting Actor for The Contender (2000).
Winner: Benicio Del Toro for Traffic. - Best Actor for Starman (1984).
Winner: F. Murray Abraham for Amadeus. - Best Supporting Actor for Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974).
Director: Michael Cimino.
Cast: Clint Eastwood. Jeff Bridges.
Winner: Robert De Niro for The Godfather: Part II. - Best Supporting Actor for The Last Picture Show (1971).
Director: Peter Bogdanovich.
Cast: Timothy Bottoms. Cybill Shepherd. Jeff Bridges. Cloris Leachman. Ben Johnson. Ellen Burstyn.
Winner: Ben Johnson for The Last Picture Show.
This year, Jeff Bridges is the favorite to take home the Best Actor Oscar for Crazy Heart.
Upcoming Jeff Bridges movies
Jeff Bridges will be next seen opposite Garrett Hedlund in Joseph Kosinski’s TRON: Legacy; Bridges had one of the leads in Steven Lisberger’ 1982 TRON, which turned out to be a box office disappointment. Also in the original movie’s cast: Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, and Cindy Morgan.
Later in the year, Bridges will be seen in Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit, a remake of Henry Hathaway’s 1969 Western that won John Wayne a Best Actor Oscar. Also in the remake’s cast: Hailee Steinfeld (in the old Kim Darby role), Matt Damon (in the old Glen Campbell role), and Josh Brolin.
Bridges will probably be much better than Wayne in the role of Rooster Cogburn, though he’s looking more and more like Buffalo Bill. Perhaps a remake of the Robert Altman-Paul Newman Western Buffalo Bill and the Indians is in the works?
Jeff Bridges photo: Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA.
T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham: Golden Globe winners.
T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham
Besides Jeff Bridges’ Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy win, Crazy Heart was also handed another Golden Globe: Best Song for “The Weary Kind,” written by T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham (who also has a supporting role in the film).
In the coming weeks, T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham should be taking home the Best Song Academy Award as well.
T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham photo: Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA.
Golden Globe winner Mo’Nique feels like crying.
Best Supporting Actress Mo’Nique: Emotional speech
Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe winner Mo’Nique – for Lee Daniels’ Precious – delivered a highly emotional speech that some found the most touching of the evening. Alternately choking up and bursting out, she talked about her dreams of becoming a star, eventually dedicating her award to women who have been sexually abused.
In Precious, she plays Gabourey Sidibe’s abusive mother. Also in the cast: Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, and Lenny Kravitz.
Mo’Nique feels like jumping for joy, as presenter Nicole Kidman gives her some extra room just in case.
Nicole Kidman, Mo’Nique photos: Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA.
Golden Globes: winners & nominations
BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
* AVATAR
Lightstorm Entertainment; Twentieth Century Fox
THE HURT LOCKER
Voltage Pictures; Summit Entertainment
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
The Weinstein Company / Universal Pictures; The Weinstein Company
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE
A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Group Production;
Lionsgate
UP IN THE AIR
Paramount Pictures; Paramount Pictures
2. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
EMILY BLUNT
THE YOUNG VICTORIA
* SANDRA BULLOCK
THE BLIND SIDE
HELEN MIRREN
THE LAST STATION
CAREY MULLIGAN
AN EDUCATION
GABOUREY SIDIBE
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE
3. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
* JEFF BRIDGES
CRAZY HEART
GEORGE CLOONEY
UP IN THE AIR
COLIN FIRTH
A SINGLE MAN
MORGAN FREEMAN
INVICTUS
TOBEY MAGUIRE
BROTHERS
4. BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
(500) DAYS OF SUMMER
Watermark Pictures; Fox Searchlight Pictures
* THE HANGOVER
Warner Bros. Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures
IT’S COMPLICATED
Relativity Media, Scott Rudin Productions; Universal Pictures
JULIE & JULIA
Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures Releasing
NINE
The Weinstein Company/Relativity Media/Lucamar Productions/Marc Platt Productions; The Weinstein Company
5. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
SANDRA BULLOCK
THE PROPOSAL
MARION COTILLARD
NINE
JULIA ROBERTS
DUPLICITY
MERYL STREEP
IT’S COMPLICATED
* MERYL STREEP
JULIE & JULIA
6. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
MATT DAMON
THE INFORMANT!
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS
NINE
* ROBERT DOWNEY JR
SHERLOCK HOLMES
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT
(500) DAYS OF SUMMER
MICHAEL STUHLBARG
A SERIOUS MAN
7. BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS
Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation; Sony Pictures Releasing
CORALINE
Laika, Inc.; Focus Features
FANTASTIC MR. FOX
American Empirical Picture; Twentieth Century Fox
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG
Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
* UP
Walt Disney Pictures/PIXAR Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
8. BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
BAARIA (ITALY)
Medusa Film; Summit Entertainment
BROKEN EMBRACES (SPAIN)
El Deseo SA; Sony Pictures Classics
THE MAID (LA NANA) (CHILE)
Forastero; Elephant Eye Films
A PROPHET (UN PROPHETE) (FRANCE)
Chic Films; Sony Pictures Classics
* THE WHITE RIBBON (DAS WEISSE BAND – EINE DEUTSCHE KINDERGESCHICHTE) (GERMANY)
Wega Films; Sony Pictures Classics
9. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
PENÉLOPE CRUZ
NINE
VERA FARMIGA
UP IN THE AIR
ANNA KENDRICK
UP IN THE AIR
* MO’NIQUE
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE
JULIANNE MOORE
A SINGLE MAN
10. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
MATT DAMON
INVICTUS
WOODY HARRELSON
THE MESSENGER
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
THE LAST STATION
STANLEY TUCCI
THE LOVELY BONES
* CHRISTOPH WALTZ
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
11. BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE
KATHRYN BIGELOW
THE HURT LOCKER
* JAMES CAMERON
AVATAR
CLINT EASTWOOD
INVICTUS
JASON REITMAN
UP IN THE AIR
QUENTIN TARANTINO
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
12. BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE
NEILL BLOMKAMP, TERRI TATCHELL
DISTRICT 9
MARK BOAL
THE HURT LOCKER
NANCY MEYERS
IT’S COMPLICATED
* JASON REITMAN, SHELDON TURNER
UP IN THE AIR
QUENTIN TARANTINO
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
13. BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTURE
* MICHAEL GIACCHINO
UP
MARVIN HAMLISCH
THE INFORMANT!
JAMES HORNER
AVATAR
ABEL KORZENIOWSKI
A SINGLE MAN
KAREN O, CARTER BURWELL
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
14. BEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE
“CINEMA ITALIANO” – NINE
Music & Lyrics by: Maury Yeston
“I WANT TO COME HOME” – EVERYBODY’S FINE
Music & Lyrics by: Paul McCartney
“I SEE YOU” – AVATAR
Music by: James Horner, Simon Franglen
Lyrics by: James Horner, Simon Franglen, Kuk Harrell
* “THE WEARY KIND (THEME FROM CRAZY HEART)” – CRAZY HEART
Music & Lyrics by: Ryan Bingham, T Bone Burnett
“WINTER” – BROTHERS
Music by: U2
Lyrics by: Bono
15. BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
BIG LOVE (HBO)
Anima Sola and Playtone in association with HBO Entertainment
DEXTER (SHOWTIME)
Showtime Presents, John Goldwyn Productions, The Colleton Company, Clyde Phillips Productions
HOUSE (FOX)
Universal Media Studios in association with Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions and Bad Hat Harry
*MAD MEN (AMC)
AMC
TRUE BLOOD (HBO)
Your Face Goes Here Entertainment in association with HBO Entertainment
16. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
GLENN CLOSE
DAMAGES
JANUARY JONES
MAD MEN
*JULIANNA MARGULIES
THE GOOD WIFE
ANNA PAQUIN
TRUE BLOOD
KYRA SEDGWICK
THE CLOSER
17. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
SIMON BAKER
THE MENTALIST
*MICHAEL C. HALL
DEXTER
JON HAMM
MAD MEN
HUGH LAURIE
HOUSE
BILL PAXTON
BIG LOVE
18. BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
30 ROCK (NBC)
Universal Media Studios in association with Broadway Video and Little Stranger Inc.
ENTOURAGE (HBO)
Leverage and Closest to the Hole Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
*GLEE (FOX)
Twentieth Century Fox Television
MODERN FAMILY (ABC)
Twentieth Century Fox Television
THE OFFICE (NBC)
Universal Media Studios, Deedle Dee Productions, Reveille LLC
19. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
*TONI COLLETTE
UNITED STATES OF TARA
COURTENEY COX
COUGAR TOWN
EDIE FALCO
NURSE JACKIE
TINA FEY
30 ROCK
LEA MICHELE
GLEE
20. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
*ALEC BALDWIN
30 ROCK
STEVE CARELL
THE OFFICE
DAVID DUCHOVNY
CALIFORNICATION
THOMAS JANE
HUNG
MATTHEW MORRISON
GLEE
21. BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
GEORGIA OKEEFFE (LIFETIME TELEVISION)
Sony Pictures Television
*GREY GARDENS (HBO)
Specialty Films and Locomotive in association with HBO Films
INTO THE STORM (HBO)
Scott Free and Rainmark Films Production in association with the BBC and HBO Films
LITTLE DORRIT (PBS)
Masterpiece/BBC Co-production
TAKING CHANCE (HBO)
Motion Picture Corporation of America and Civil Dawn Pictures in association with HBO Films
22. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
JOAN ALLEN
GEORGIA OKEEFFE
*DREW BARRYMORE
GREY GARDENS
JESSICA LANGE
GREY GARDENS
ANNA PAQUIN
THE COURAGEOUS HEART OF IRENA SENDLER
SIGOURNEY WEAVER
PRAYERS FOR BOBBY
23. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
*KEVIN BACON
TAKING CHANCE
KENNETH BRANAGH
WALLANDER: ONE STEP BEHIND
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR
ENDGAME
BRENDAN GLEESON
INTO THE STORM
JEREMY IRONS
GEORGIA OKEEFFE
24. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
JANE ADAMS
HUNG
ROSE BYRNE
DAMAGES
JANE LYNCH
GLEE
JANET McTEER
INTO THE STORM
*CHLOË SEVIGNY
BIG LOVE
25. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
MICHAEL EMERSON
LOST
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
WILLIAM HURT
DAMAGES
*JOHN LITHGOW
DEXTER
JEREMY PIVEN
ENTOURAGE
Golden Globe nominations Up in the Air
Topping the crowded and highly eclectic Golden Globe field with six nominations, Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air was shortlisted as a drama, not a comedy (or musical). James Cameron’s blockbuster-in-the-making Avatar also made the cut in that category, which basically meant that Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones and Clint Eastwood’s Invictus went out the window.
And so did our predictions for the Golden Globes’ Best Picture – Drama category. Indeed, the only two movies we got right were Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker and Lee Daniels’ dysfunctional family drama Precious.
It’s an outrage. Really, how could the Hollywood Foreign Press Association voters pick something dark and violent like Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds instead of something sunny and genteel like (our prediction) Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station, which has Helen Mirren, Christopher Plummer, and Leo Tolstoy?
‘Best Picture – Comedy or Drama’ category
Besides, the Golden Globes often have dramas in the more sparsely populated comedy or musical category, but this year they just had to go the other way.
Not that Up in the Air is an out-and-out comedy – and there’s certainly nothing funny about the current unemployment figures in the U.S. – but we felt that the HFPA would classify Reitman’s film as such so as to leave more room in their Best Picture – Drama category for the likes of The Last Station, The Lovely Bones, and the uplifting “We Are the World, We Are the People” Invictus.
Now, at this stage, things don’t look at all lovely for The Lovely Bones, which has received several negative (or quasi-negative) reviews, while being basically ignored by U.S.-based voting groups. At the Golden Globes, this supernatural drama about a murdered girl in heaven and her murderer on Earth received only one nod: Best Supporting Actor for Stanley Tucci’s psycho child-hater.
Would-be Best Picture – Drama nominees
And here are other possibilities in the Best Picture – Drama category that were left off of the HFPA roster, thus somewhat diminishing their awards season publicity and, potentially, Oscar chances:
- Lone Scherfig’s An Education.
- Jim Sheridan’s Brothers.
- Jane Campion’s Bright Star.
- Kirk Jones’ Everybody’s Fine.
- John Hillcoat’s The Road.
The last three, in fact, were left completely Golden Globe nominationless. An Education, for its part, managed to get one nod for star Carey Mulligan, while Brothers earned nods for Tobey Maguire and for the U2 song “Winter.” And that means … Bono at the party?
Update: Check out the full list of the 2009 Golden Globes’ winners & nominees.
Golden Globe presenters: Julia Roberts & Jennifer Aniston
Update: Golden Globe winners Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, and Mickey Rourke have been set as presenters at the 2010 Golden Globes ceremony, to be held on Sunday, Jan. 17.
Hosted by Ricky Gervais, in the U.S. the show will be broadcast live coast to coast on NBC (5–8 p.m. PT/8–11 p.m. ET) from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Aniston, Roberts, and Rourke join the previously announced Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, who will present the Cecil B. DeMille Award to their, respectively, Taxi Driver and The Aviator director, Martin Scorsese.
Current Golden Globe nominee & three-time winner Julia Roberts
This year, Julia Roberts is a surprise nominee in the Best Actress – Musical or Comedy category for the box office disappointment Duplicity. Directed by Tony Gilroy and featuring Roberts’ Closer costar Clive Owen, Duplicity follows a pair of corporate spies attempting to con their own bosses.
To date, Roberts has seven Golden Globe nominations; she won three times:
- Best Supporting Actress for Steel Magnolias (1989).
- Best Actress – Musical or Comedy for Pretty Woman (1990).
- Best Actress – Drama for Erin Brockovich (2000), which also earned her a Best Actress Oscar.
Back in 2003, Jennifer Aniston won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy for her work in the hit series Friends.
Mickey Rourke isn’t up for any Golden Globes this year, but he did win in the Best Actor – Drama category last year for Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler. The Best Actor Oscar, however, went to Sean Penn for Gus Van Sant’s Milk.
Golden Globes website.