2008 Golden Globes Winners: Awards are split up amongst playing field

Tonight’s manila envelope-ripping wasn’t interrupted by drunken actors, long speeches or commerical breaks, instead this half-hour quickie (and NBC’s 1 hour television non-event) made one of the more pointless award season ceremonies (to honor the previous year in Television and Film) even more obselete. Uneventful, predictable and uninteresting, the only remarks worth making are  (a.) let us hope that our beloved Oscars hopefully don’t receive the same fate, (b.) Atonement and Sweeney Todd will definitely not receive the same fate in February and (c.) did the hundred-plus members actually see There Will Be Blood? (d.) Billy Bush from Access Hollywood – the reason why I shut the television set was after your very first remark: awards shouldn’t be a sympathy vote for working for 20 years in the business.

Here is the complete list of winners for the Motion Picture categories.

MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
“American Gangster” – Imagine Entertainment/Scott Free Productions; Universal Pictures
WINNER: “Atonement” – Working Title Productions; Focus Features
“Eastern Promises” – Kudos Pictures – Uk Serendipity Point Films – Canada A Uk/Canada Co-Production; Focus Features
“The Great Debaters” – Harpo Films; The Weinstein Company/MGM
“Michael Clayton” – Samuels Media and Castle Rock Entertainment a Mirage Enterprises/Section 8 Production; Warner Bros. Pictures
“No Country For Old Men” – A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production; Miramax/Paramount Vantage
“There Will Be Blood” – A Joanne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production; Paramount Vantage and Miramax Films

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Cate Blanchett – “Elizabeth: The Golden Age”
WINNER: Julie Christie – “Away From Her”
Jodie Foster – “The Brave One”
Angelina Jolie – “A Mighty Heart”
Keira Knightley – “Atonement”

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
George Clooney – “Michael Clayton”
WINNER: Daniel Day-Lewis – “There Will Be Blood”
James McAvoy – “Atonement”
Viggo Mortensen – “Eastern Promises”
Denzel Washington – “American Gangster”

MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
“Across The Universe” – Revolution Studios International; Sony Pictures Releasing
“Charlie Wilson’s War” – Universal Pictures/Relativity Media/Participant Productions/Playtone; Universal Pictures
“Hairspray” – Zadan/Meron Prods./New Line Cinema in association with Ingenious Film Partners; New Line Cinema
“Juno” – Mandate Pictures/Mr. Mudd Production; Fox Searchlight Pictures
WINNER: “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” – Parkes/Mac Donald and Zanuck Company; Warner Bros. Pictures

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Amy Adams – “Enchanted”
Nikki Blonsky – “Hairspray”
Helena Bonham Carter – “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
WINNER: Marion Cotillard – “La Vie en rose”
Ellen Page – “Juno”

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
WINNER: Johnny Depp – “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
Ryan Gosling – “Lars And The Real Girl”
Tom Hanks – “Charlie Wilson’s War”
Philip Seymour Hoffman – “The Savages”
John C. Reilly – “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story”

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“Bee Movie” – DreamWorks Animation; DreamWorks Animation
WINNER: “Ratatouille” – Pixar; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Distribution
“The Simpsons Movie” – Gracie Films; Twentieth Century Fox

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days” (Romania) – Mobra Films; IFC First Take
WINNER: “The Diving Bell And The Butterfly” (France And USA) – A Kennedy/Marshall Company And Jon Kilik Production; Miramax/Paramount Vantage
“The Kite Runner” (USA) – Dreamworks Pictures Sidney Kimmel Entertainment And Paramount Classics Participant Productions Present A Sidney Kimmel Entertainment And Parkes/Macdonald Production Distributed By Paramount Classics
“Lust, Caution” (Taiwan) – Haishang Films; Focus Features
“Persepolis” (France) – 247 Films; Sony Pictures Classics

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
WINNER: Cate Blanchett – “I’m Not There”
Julia Roberts – “Charlie Wilson’S War”
Saoirse Ronan – “Atonement”
Amy Ryan – “Gone Baby Gone”
Tilda Swinton – “Michael Clayton”

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Casey Affleck – “The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford”
WINNER: Javier Bardem – “No Country For Old Men”
Philip Seymour Hoffman – “Charlie Wilson’s War”
John Travolta – “Hairspray”
Tom Wilkinson – “Michael Clayton”

DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE
Tim Burton – “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen – “No Country For Old Men”
WINNER: Julian Schnabel – “The Diving Bell And The Butterfly”
Ridley Scott – “American Gangster”
Joe Wright – “Atonement”

SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE
Diablo Cody – “Juno”
WINNER: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen – “No Country For Old Men”
Christopher Hampton – “Atonement”
Ronald Harwood – “The Diving Bell And The Butterfly”
Aaron Sorkin – “Charlie Wilson’s War”

ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTURE
Michael Brook, Kaki King, Eddie Vedder – “Into The Wild”
Clint Eastwood – “Grace Is Gone”
Alberto Iglesias – “The Kite Runner”
WINNER: Dario Marianelli – “Atonement”
Howard Shore – “Eastern Promises”

ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE
“Despedida” from “Love In The Time Of Cholera” – Music By: Shakira, Antonio Pinto, Lyrics By: Shakira
“Grace Is Gone” from “Grace Is Gone” – Music By: Clint Eastwood, Lyrics By: Carole Bayer Sager
WINNER: “Guaranteed” from “Into The Wild” – Music & Lyrics By: Eddie Vedder
“That’s How You Know” from “Enchanted”- Music By: Alan Menken, Lyrics By: Stephen Schwartz
“Walk Hard” from “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” – Music & Lyrics by: Marshall Crenshaw, John C. Reilly, Judd Apatow, Kasdan