Golden Globes

The Golden Globes (further deemed irrelevant this year being reduced to press conference) has bestowed their annual statues. While I disapprove of most of their selections (not an uncommon thing) at least they branched out from the boredom and redunduncy of the critical selections.

BEST PICTURE (Drama)

Atonement

BEST PICTURE (Musical or Comedy)
Sweeney Todd

BEST DIRECTOR
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell & the Butterfly

BEST ACTOR (Drama)
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood

BEST ACTRESS (Drama)
Julie Christie, Away From Her

BEST ACTOR (Musical or Comedy)
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd

BEST ACTRESS (Musical or Comedy)
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Pure outright category fraud-- she doesn't sing (that's Ms. Piaf's voice) nor tell jokes-- if she won the drama award I wouldn't be so outraged. I'm just bitter that she stole it away from Ellen Page whose hilarious and wonderous in Juno.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There

BEST SCREENPLAY
No Country For Old Men- Ethan Coen & Joel Coen

BEST FOREIGN FILM
The Diving Bell & the Butterfly

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Ratatouille

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Atonement- Dario Marianelli

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Guaranteed," Into the Wild

What does this all mean-- who knows? Everybody's all but ruled out Atonement and Sweeney Todd by now, but maybe they're not completely dead yet. No awards for Juno, which upsets me dearly, but maybe it's great box office and geniune good will will overule the foolishness of HFPA. The Diving Bell & the Butterfly is going place. But c'mon-- Atonement over No Country and There Will Be Blood... what the @$!%?