Golden Globes 2013: Anne Hathaway, Adele, Jennifer Lawrence win awards
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| Tina Fey, left, and Amy Poehler host the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel International Ballroom on Jan. 13, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif. / PAUL DRINKWATER/NBCUNIVERSAL VIA GETTY IMAGES |
Stars from film and television stepped out Sunday for the 70th annual Golden Globes ceremony, hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
Fey, clad in a sparkling blue gown, and Poehler, clad in red, walked out on stage together to open the show. They joked about Lena Dunham's nudity on "Girls," Ricky Gervais' Globes hosting stints and "Zero Dark Thirty" director Kathryn Bigelow.
"When it comes to torture, I trust the woman who was married to James Cameron," Poeher joked.
Speaking to supporting actress nominee Anne Hathaway, Fey said, "I have not seen anyone so alone and abandoned like that since you were onstage with James Franco at the Oscars."
The first award of the night, for supporting actor in a motion picture, went to Christoph Waltz for his role as a genteel bounty hunter who takes on an ex-slave as his apprentice in "Django Unchained." Quentin Tarantino won the best original screenplay award for the film later in the ceremony.
"Let me gasp," Waltz said. "Quentin, you know that my indebtedness to you and my gratitude knows no words."
Among TV recipients were Julianne Moore won a best-actress Globe for her role as Sarah Palin in HBO's "Game Change," which also was picked as best TV miniseries or movie. "Homeland" was named best TV drama series, and its star Damian Lewis received the TV drama actor Globe. Maggie Smith won as supporting actress for "Downton Abbey." Don Cheadle also won best actor in a comedy series for "House of Lies."
"I'd like to dedicate this to my mum, looking down on me bursting with pride telling everyone around her how well her son is doing in acting," Lewis said.
Pop star Adele and co-writer Paul Epworth won for best song for their theme tune to the James Bond adventure "Skyfall." The singer, making her first public appearance since giving birth in October, got a high-five from the film's star Daniel Craig as she went up to accept the award.
"Oh, my God!" Adele gushed repeatedly, before offering gratitude to the group that presents the Globes. "I'd like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press. I never thought I'd say that."
The prize for musical score went to Mychael Danna for the lost-at-sea tale "Life of Pi," who said he wanted to share the award with the film's director, Ang Lee.
"Ang, I will always treasure this voyage we made together," Danna said. "Thank for guiding us all to shore safely."
Jennifer Lawrence beat out Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Judi Dench and Maggie Smith to win best actress in a comedy or musical for her role as a young widow in "Silver Linings Playbook."
"I beat Meryl! Jokes aside, I'm so honored to be part of a film like this," she said, before adding to producer Harvey Weinstein: "Thank you for killing whoever you had to kill to get me up here today."
The Golden Globe for best supporting actress in a motion picture went to Anne Hathaway for "Les Miserables." She thanked her husband while accepting the award, telling him, "Thank you for the best string of yesterdays I have ever had."
The Globes are in a rare place this season, coming after the Academy Award nominations, which were announced earlier than usual and threw out some shockers that have left the Globes show a little less relevant.
Key Globe contenders lined up largely as expected, with Steven Spielberg's Civil War saga "Lincoln" leading with seven nominations and two CIA thrillers -- Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty" and Ben Affleck's "Argo" -- also doing well.
All three films earned Globe nominations for best drama and director. Yet while "Lincoln," ''Argo" and "Zero Dark Thirty" grabbed best-picture slots at Thursday's Oscar nominations, Bigelow and Affleck were snubbed for directing honors after a season that had seen them in the running for almost every other major award.
The Globe and Oscar directing fields typically match up closely. This time, though, only Spielberg and "Life of Pi" director Ang Lee have nominations for both. Along with Spielberg, Lee, Bigelow and Affleck, Quentin Tarantino is nominated for directing at the Globes. At the Oscars, it's Spielberg, Lee, "Silver Linings Playbook" director David O. Russell and two surprise picks: veteran Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke for "Amour" and first-time director Benh Zeitlin for "Beasts of the Southern Wild."
That forces some top-name filmmakers to put on brave faces for the Globes. And while a Globe might be a nice consolation prize, it could be a little awkward if Affleck, Bigelow or Tarantino won Sunday and had to make a cheery acceptance speech knowing they don't have seats at the grown-ups table for the Feb. 24 Oscars.
That could happen. While "Lincoln" has the most nominations, it's a purely American story that may not have as much appeal to Globe voters -- about 90 reporters belonging to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who cover entertainment for overseas outlets.
The Bigelow and Affleck films center on Americans, too, but they are international tales - "Zero Dark Thirty" chronicling the manhunt for Osama bin Laden and "Argo" recounting the rescue of six U.S. embassy workers trapped in Iran amid the 1979 hostage crisis.
Globe voters might want to make up for a snub to Bigelow three years ago, when they gave their best-drama and directing prize to her ex-husband James Cameron's science-fiction blockbuster "Avatar" over her Iraq war tale "The Hurt Locker."
Bigelow made history a month later, becoming the first woman to win the directing Oscar for "The Hurt Locker," which also won best picture.
Globe voters like to be trend-setters, but they missed the boat on that one. Might they feel enough chagrin to hand Bigelow the directing trophy this time?
Spielberg already has won two best-director Globes, so that might be a further inducement for the foreign-press members to favor someone else this time.
Their votes were locked in before the Oscar nominations came out. Globe balloting closed Wednesday, the day before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its awards lineup.
The Globes feature two best-picture categories -- one for drama and one for musical or comedy. Most of the Globe contenders also earned Oscar best-picture nominations, including all of the drama picks: "Argo," ''Lincoln," ''Life of Pi," ''Django Unchained" and "Zero Dark Thirty."
Yet only two of the Globe musical or comedy nominees -- "Les Miserables" and "Silver Linings Playbook" - are in the running at the Oscars. That's not unusual, though, since Oscar voters tend to overlook comedy. The other Globe nominees for musical or comedy are "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," ''Moonrise Kingdom" and "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."
Acting contenders include Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones for "Lincoln"; Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway for "Les Miserables"; Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams and Philip Seymour Hoffman for "The Master"; Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence for "Silver Linings Playbook"; Leonardo DiCaprio and Christoph Waltz for "Django Unchained"; Alan Arkin for "Argo"; and Jessica Chastain for "Zero Dark Thirty."
Globe acting recipients usually are a good sneak peek for who will win at the Oscars. All four of last season's Oscar winners -- Meryl Streep for "The Iron Lady," Jean Dujardin for "The Artist," Octavia Spencer for "The Help" and Christopher Plummer for "Beginners" -- took home a Globe first.
Jodie Foster will receive the Globes' Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the 70th Globes ceremony, airing live from 8-11 p.m. EST on NBC.
There will be a friendly rivalry between the hosts of the Globe ceremony, Fey and Poehler, who worked together on "Saturday Night Live" and co-starred in the 2008 big-screen comedy "Baby Mama." Both are nominated for best actress in a TV comedy or musical series, Fey for "30 Rock" and Poehler for "Parks and Recreation."
The Globes present 14 film awards and 11 television prizes.
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