The Awards ( Nominations and Wins)

[Jamie]

The live feed and chat tonight on Awards Circuit was quite good. There were some Les Mis fans so the haters got shafted really fast with lots of typed cheering when Hugh won. Even the ones who didn't like the film were grumpy but not insulting www.awardscircuit.com/

[ocjackie]

I can't believe how excited I am!! The entire building must have heard me. I'm wondering if any of you did. I knew Hugh could do it and when Anne won I was in tears. Did you see the way she hugged Hugh? She knew he could make it too! Now it's on to the Oscars. I know he can do it. Again, just like he promised. Congratulations Hugh!! You have made all of our Ozalots very proud and very very happy tonight. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

[jo]

This is not to diss LINCOLN at all -- but I think I know what Kris Tapley meant when he said its campaigning was strong-arm tactics. Getting an ex-President to announce the movie on the Golden Globes was a bit too much. Too much pushing for it. Unfortunately, it was not LINCOLN's night to celebrate.

Jo

[rmtndew]

I didn't know where to post these photos, so I hope they're okay here.






- Alicia

[broadwaygal]

CONGRATULATIONS to Hugh and to Anne and the entire cast and crew of Les Mis!
SO thrilled for them!!

I am also thrilled for Ben Affleck and the cast of Argo for winning both the Critics Choice and
the Golden Globe! I thought it was one of the best films of the year, and I'm glad they got the recognition.

Cheryl

[jo]

Hugh Jackmanþ@RealHughJackman

My beautiful wife at the golden globes. A night to remember! pic.twitter.com/sKjGERra





What a lovely and happy couple!!

Jo

[jo]

Joyous 'Les Miserables' celebration at NBC-Uni party

Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY6:10a.m. EST January 14, 2013


For 'Les Miserables' people the stars showed lots of smiles -- and award hardware -- at the NBC-Uni Golden Globes party.


The bash: The NBC-Universal Golden Globes After Party
The venue: The Beverly Hilton Rooftop
The stars: The entire Les Miserables crew in full celebration mode -- stars Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, director Tom Hooper. Stars Isla Fisher, Ewan McGregor, Bill Murray and Josh Gad.

Scene and heard

The hot zone: In the tented party, the stars of Les Miserables celebrated with Golden Globes in hand along with fellow winners (Jessica Chastain) and nominees (Ewan McGregor) and a British contingent (including Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs). The stars clustered in a small VIP area flanked by white couches as gawkers on the outside captured every move Jackman made with their smartphones.

Murray made an early exit from the party, taking a blonde woman by the arm and announcing, "We're going to Weinsteins." But the Les Miz cast, Chastain (who did some couch dancing with hands in the air) and McGregor partied late into the evening.

Shock and awe: Les Miserables director Tom Hooper spent much of the evening with an awestruck look of happiness.

"It was like being struck by lightning," Hooper said of the win for best picture, musical or comedy. "I so didn't expect it."

The surprise was so great that Hooper was carrying the gold envelope which had heralded the win. He looked at it periodically over the evening.

"Here it is on this piece of paper," he said. "I feel I have to check to make sure it's the right name."

He opened it again. The inside stated "Les Miserables" in bold letters.

"You can see, it clearly is the right name," Hooper added. "So we're good."

The envelope will have a prized position in Hooper's home.

"It's going to go next to a similar envelope which says that Tom Hooper won an Oscar for The King's Speech," he said.

Winners circle: Hooper spent significant time with Jackman and Chastain, each holding best actiing Golden Globes of their own.

Hooper told Jackman "that we wouldn't have made the film without him, I reminded him he's the only reason the film happened."

And he had praise for Chastain who is part of Zero Dark Thirty, one of the Oscar picture contenders. "She is extraordinary in that film."

Better than Pattinson: Les Miserables producer Debra Hayward remembers that she was sitting with star Redmayne in the ballroom when the best picture award was announced.

"I was trying to pluck up the courage to ask Robert Patinson who was at the next table for his autograph for my daughter," says Hayward. "And Eddie (Redmayne) dug his elbow into me and and said, 'You just won best picture.' That was my moment."

Food stop: 1600 Penn star Josh Gad made a beeline for the fried shrimp at the buffet table, and it wasn't the first time.

"The best part of this party is that one man entered this party hungry and one man will leave full," said Gad. "I just had a short spurt of fried. Whatever was fried, I put in my mouth. I'm going back for seconds. You're stopping me."

But he did give time for reflection for being at the Globes.

"On my way to the party, I walked past the entire cast of Zero Dark Thirty. I thought this is so wonderful," said Gad. "It's very cool to be here."

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Sidelights - as reported by Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood:


www.deadline.com/2013/01/golden-globes-2013-winners-reactions/

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The Golden Globe comedy musical win for Les Miserables comes at a prime time for the film, following its record UK opening, not to mention, right in the middle of its steady domestic run which has minted an estimated $119.2 million as of today. Bringing the film in at a lengthy 157 minutes, Tom Hooper was faced with the difficult choice of what to keep and what to cut. “‘I Dreamed A Dream’ — I think that’s the greatest of Anne’s performances. I was beholden to that cut. Who would want to cut it? But the most painful edit I had to make was a little scene after Gavroche was shot dead and Eddie Redmayne’s Marius shoots the soldier dead.” One thing director Hooper didn’t do during the filming of Les Miserables was shut down the production every time someone got a sore throat. This was the case when Sacha Baron Cohen lost his voice on set. Hooper sent the comedic actor home on voice rest. “This was an ensemble piece with 204 actors, and I certainly wasn’t going to shut down the set 204 times. We would still be in production. But, one guy (Sacha) proved he didn’t have the vocal stamina!” joshed Hooper who was joined backstage with castmembers Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Hugh Jackman, Baron Cohen, songwriters Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg as well as producers Debra Heyward, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner...

An ebullient Hugh Jackman positively danced into the press room following his win for best actor in a motion picture — comedy or musical for Les Miserables. He called the experience of making the film “unforgettable” and continues to “thank my lucky stars that I got this role.” Pointing at director Tom Hooper, he said, “Luckily I didn’t piss this guy off too much and luckily he cast me.” Jackman said he still marvels at what they were all able to achieve in making the film. He called making a movie musical “the Mount Everest of filmmaking” while adding, “These guys were crazy enough to do it. I think Tom Hooper and the others have redefined the movie musical. I’m just proud to be a part of that. How will I celebrate? Come on, I’m Australian!” He also shared a story about how he tried during shooting of Les Miserables to lose 10 pounds by not drinking any liquid for 36 hours. “What I’ll tell everyone is, never do this.” Jackman also took a moment to defend the masculinity of a man who sings and dances in a musical. “All my mates at home make fun of me constantly,” he admitted. “But for the record, the idea that singing and dancing isn’t masculine is about the craziest thing I’ve heard in my life. Fifty years ago, a man who couldn’t sing and dance never got a girl.” He called his Les Miserables character Jean Valjean “one of the great literary characters of all time…To me, he is the epitome of a man.”


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Jo

[birchie]

Jan 13, 2013 23:04:42 GMT -5 jo said:

Whaddaya know -- LINCOLN lost to ARGO for Best Drama Movie!!

When Affleck won over Spielberg for Best Director, I thought - hey, Lincoln is vulnerable...And so it happened!

Does this increase the chances of Les Miserables and Hugh Jackman at the Oscars?


Jo

I thought the same thing! I thought Argo was better than Lincoln but was very surprised that it won the GG over that highly touted juggernaut! I was nauseous that they went so far as to have a former president introduce the movie and even give a speech!

I still think Les Miserables was the best picture of the year and I hope tonight is an indication of a change in the direction from hype to reality.
Sue

[birchie]

So happy for Hugh, Anne and everyone involved with this beautiful movie! I love how everyone acknowledged Tom Hooper too. I think it's disgusting that he's not nominated for these 2 awards (GG & Oscar) because he had much more of a challenge than any of the nominated directors had for their movies. He not only met the challenge he surpassed the expectations of most.

Sacha Baron Cohen was a disgrace. I hope he isn't at the Academy Awards. His comments on the movie and his co-stars were disgusting. I don't know how long that out of control train is going to be allowed to run but to me he was the one bit of casting I was most concerned about. As it turned out I think he was the weakest link in the movie so to see him putting everyone else down for the sake of a couple "jokes" was completely uncalled for and not funny!

I was pleasantly surprised that Argo won over Lincoln. I thought it was the better movie of the two but didn't expect it to win. I thought Les Miserables was better than both of them. I hope the members of the AMPAS voted for the best movie and NOT the best hype! I still have fingers crossed for Les Miserables, Hugh & Anne to win Oscars.

Again, congratulations to Hugh, Anne and everyone involved with Les Miserables for winning the GG awards and for making a superb movie!
Sue

[birchie]

I forgot to mention the song!!! If anyone else had done the Skyfall song I doubt that it would be getting all the attention it's getting. To me it was just an excuse to put a 5 minute music video at the beginning of the movie while the credits ran. I actually was annoyed by it. That may be why I'm not much of a bond fan although I don't know if the big number is usually done that way. I seem to recall a couple that were done at the end of the movie. This movie spent 10 minutes getting you excited with a great opening scene and then 'Oh let's pause now for this music video' takes you right out of the movie. I actually liked the movie except for that!

The song itself had nothing to do with the movie! In the red carpet interviews I listened to Jon Bon Jovi describe how he worked for months to make sure his song fit into the movie he wrote it for because that was the rule!!! Suddenly also was written to fit the movie and did the job of fitting the scene beautifully! So how could a song that was just made for a music video win the GG and be mentioned as almost a sure thing for the Oscar too? Do the voters even read the rules?
Sue

[klenotka]

I love this entire cast. They seem genuinely love each other. I loved Anne´s speech - I think she simply loves Hugh. And Hugh sounded sick and seemed nervous. I think it was for the first time he looked nervous. But how he explained his love to Deb by the story, it was sooooo cute.

I couldn´t help but notice that with Homeland, they seemed a little strained....and maybe I am just biased because I am "Breaking Bad" girl and wanted Bryan Cranston to win I love Damian Lewis (he was great in "Life") but I still haven´t seen Homeland so I am terribly biased at this point

[jo]

Please do not proceed if you are easily annoyed by stuff like Nikki Finke's notorious snarking! ;D

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Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood is known for her snarking comments during the awards season - but DH remains the most widely read film site ( even among the Hollywood movers and shakers, as she does have an excellent track record for the inside track and scoops). This is how she wrote about her live coverage of the GGolden ceremonies ---

www.deadline.com/2013/01/golden-globes-2013-winners-live-blog/

She opens with :

Nikki Finke: Live-Snarking Golden Globes: ‘Argo’ Upsets ‘Lincoln’ While Everyone Upsets Everybody (Even Steven & Harvey)

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday January 13, 2013 @ 10:42pm PSTTags: Golden Globes

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My live-snark of the 70th Annual Golden Globes started at 5 PM tonight based on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 2013 nominations. Come for the cynicism. Stay for the subversion. Add your comment. Warning: Not for the easily offended or ridiculously naive.



Continues, etc., until we come to this --

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BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
ANNE HATHAWAY, LES MISERABLES

I’m so sick of Anne Hathaway’s ‘Ooh-I’m-so-insecure’ shtick. But in reality, when she co-hosted the Academy Awards with James Franco in 2011 and both bombed badly, she counted every single line to make sure she had an equal number to his. Can you blame James for mentally and physically checking out of the broadcast halfway through given her asshole-ian behavior?

This is about the point in every awards show when I lose the will to live...



Too bad Sacha Baron Cohen isn’t even mildly humorous anymore. Gerard Depardieu losing 40 pounds during a visit to the toilet? Russell Crowe’s singing lessons (“That was money well spent.”) Implicating Helena Bonham Carter gave out blow jobs? Last year on the Red Carpet he spilled stuff all over Ryan Seacrest and almost made the Viscount Of Vapidity cry. Now that’s comedy!...



BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
HUGH JACKMAN, LES MISERABLES

So here’s how it works: Harvey obviously ran out of payoff money and then Universal stepped up its cash payments to the HFPA. Then again Hugh Jackman is a much bigger celebrity overseas than Bradley Cooper who can’t even open a movie domestically. That’s why Jackman won the Globe.

Is there even one NBC primetime show promo-ed tonight you wanna watch? Not me.


BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
LES MISERABLES
Universal Pictures, A Working Title Films/Cameron Mackintosh Productions; Universal Pictures

TOLDJA! Next time, Harvey will beg Burkle for even more moolah to schmooze the HFPA. That said, did the members actually hear Russell Crowe sing? His warbling sounded like a cat being strangled.


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So, she says Harvey got a dose of his own medicine ( Burkle is Harvey's partner/financier) -- who cares -- Hugh Jackman deserved his award 101%. She didn't say Hugh did not deserve his award but implies there were other factors involved. Take it with a grain of salt

No one in the mostly cynical/snarky 286 comments questioned the Hugh win ...but there is some real hate for poor Annie. And some asked if Nikki actually even saw Les Miserables!


Jo

[jo]

Interview with Richard Wilkins, the Australian media personality who has followed Hugh's career from the beginning.

video.au.msn.com/watch/video/hugh-jackman-takes-home-a-golden-globe/x6j8cdf?from=sharepermalink-twitter%252cdest_en-au&src=v5%253ashare%253atwitter%253a

Hugh always mentions Tom Hooper's role in the filmization of the movie musical. They seem to have bonded extraordinarily well!

Jo

[jo]

Victory dance with the host of EXTRA, Maria Menounos ;D

www.extratv.com/2013/01/14/video-hugh-jackmans-golden-globes-victory-dance/

Tom Hooper is watching with a big smile -- he probably did not fully realize the extent of his star's triple threat talent! Valjean never got to dance! I hope if they ever worked together again and it is a musical, that sing/dance/act will all be part of the role


Jo

[jo]

The scene that they were rehearsing that caused Hugh that moment of doubt about playing Valjean --

www.ibtimes.com/hugh-jackman-admits-wife-helped-him-stay-les-mis-video-1014568

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Hugh Jackman took home the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for “Les Miserables” at the awards show Sunday, but it might never have happened if not for his wife.

Following his win, the Australian, who pays Jean Valjean, told Billy Bush of Access Hollywood he got a bit of advice from his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, when he was about to quit the musical, directed by Tom Hooper.

“It was a really bad day,” he said. “It was a scene at the end. It was the very scene -- spoiler alert -- when I die. I had this dual thing of having to sing, and then at the end of the song, die, and make it believable. Not a lot of people choose song in their last minute-and-a-half, right?"

“So, Tom is like, 'Do it this way, that way,” Jackman continued. “It just wasn't working, and I just went, 'Debra (sic) - it's just too much.' I'll never forget it, she said, 'If you don't feel doubt playing Jean Valjean, then you were never meant to play the role. I went, 'So, I should do it?" And she went, 'Absolutely. You do it.' That was it.”

The actor discusses the constant support he's gotten from his wife through nearly 20 years of marriage.

“I feel so lucky. ... She's the greatest woman. ... I've always felt that we shared it, all the ups and downs. We've been there together, no matter what. Having the security and knowledge that someone you love, who loves you for exactly who you are, whether you're successful, whether you're not successful. In those moments of real doubt ... she was the only one who could really pull me off that cliff,” Jackman told Bush.

“We've been together 17, 18 years now, and it just gets better every year.” ...

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And the finale is supposed to be one of the most poignant scenes in the movie!

Incredible!


Jo

[mamaleh]

Dare I say it--the finale in the convent is my favorite scene in the movie. He deserves the Oscar just for that scene; it is that powerful.

Ellen

[karppool]

Ditto Ellen. Based on the Soliloquy and the death scene alone, he has earned that Oscar!
While I loved Lincoln, and DDL was terrific, the portrayal did not demand the scope or breadth of talent that was demanded for JVJ. I hope the Academy recognizes this unique and incredible performance.

[birchie]

Jan 15, 2013 11:48:52 GMT -5 karppool said:

Ditto Ellen. Based on the Soliloquy and the death scene alone, he has earned that Oscar!
While I loved Lincoln, and DDL was terrific, the portrayal did not demand the scope or breadth of talent that was demanded for JVJ. I hope the Academy recognizes this unique and incredible performance.

I agree with you both. I've seen it a few times now (yes I found an uploaded screener) and I tear up at the end every time! And as for the Academy that's been my view from day one of seeing Lincoln. DDL give nothing close to the performance of Hugh and the movie itself is not as completely mesmerizing as I found Les Miserables to be. I really hope the voters vote(d?) on the reality of these movies and not the hype.

I've seen it in the theater twice and I still hope for one more time!! It's astounding on the big screen. On a tiny humorous note...I've mentioned a few times that I have a rather playful fun relationship with my older son. He was the first one I called when I found the screener and of course he was the one who took me to see it Christmas day, so I called him yesterday and told him that JVJ had gone to heaven, he said "yes, and I'm sure he'll be going again tomorrow and the next day"...ah he knows me so well!
Sue

[klenotka]

Poor Anne can´t seem do anything right. She could just stand there and do nothing and they would still dizz her. As much as annoyed I was when she got all the attention, I still like her and she obviously loves and admires Hugh (she always mentions him specifically in her speeches and interviews) and doesn´t deserve any of it.
Hugh seems to get some hate as well but since he doesn´t care and people will forget about all the chaos after the Oscars, all that matters in the end is that he is an Academy Award nominee and a GG winner

EDIT: AFter finally watching GG...I don´t believe Sacha Cohen didn´t tell them he was gonna make fun of them. They didn´t seem offended or surprised. I am not his fan (not my style of a humour) but come on, he has to work wit these people in the future, he can´t tell those things without them allowing him to make fun of them. The Russel Crowe joke obviously didn´t work too much (I don´t think he was bad) but "Hugh Jackson" was exactly what is happening all the time (I never understand why) and it was a little weird, but they didn´t seem to mind at all

[technopagan]

Happiness is...a friend in SAG (Screen Actor's Guild) who just received in the mail his screener's copy of Les Miserables. Happier still? Said friend will be lending me his DVD.