The Golden Globe Awards,
Indy's Adventure, and More!
January 2007 News
The 64th Golden Globe Awards: Seen by many as the precursor to the Academy Awards (although the latter executives always disagree that they are related), the Golden Globes is an important entertainment event in its own right. Below is a truncated list of nominees for each of the categories. I would predict that at least some of the below do show up at the Academy Awards as nominees as well. The ceremony is scheduled to take place on January 15th.
Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Dreamgirls
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Thank You for Not Smoking
Best Motion Picture - Drama
• Babel
• Bobby
• The Departed
• Little Children
• The Queen
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
• Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat
• Johnny Depp (right) for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
• Aaron Eckhart for Thank You for Smoking
• Chiwetel Ejiofor for Kinky Boots
• Will Ferrell for Stranger Than Fiction
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
• Annette Bening for Running with Scissors
• Toni Collette for Little Miss Sunshine
• Beyoncé Knowles for Dreamgirls
• Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada
• Renée Zellweger for Miss Potter
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
• Leonardo DiCaprio for Blood Diamond
• Leonardo DiCaprio for The Departed
• Peter O'Toole for Venus
• Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness
• Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
• Penélope Cruz for Volver
• Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal
• Maggie Gyllenhaal for SherryBaby
• Helen Mirren for The Queen
• Kate Winslet for Little Children
Best Director - Motion Picture
• Clint Eastwood for Flags of Our Fathers
• Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
• Stephen Frears for The Queen
• Alejandro González Iñárritu for Babel
• Martin Scorsese for The Departed
Indy's Adventure Confirmed: It's official. Harrison Ford will take on the role of Indiana Jones in the latest installment, set to begin filming in 2007. George Lucas is set to direct, a script he and Steven Spielberg have worked on for quite some time. With all this star power involved you can be sure that this film will have plenty of copy. Mr. Ford last played the character back in 1989.
Terminated!: His skiing trip, that is. It wasn't guns, rockets, fists, insane robots, or even fellow politicians that took Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger down: it was a family skiing trip. The former actor had successful surgery on his leg and is now moving around with the help of crutches.
