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View Photo Gallery: The 69th annual Golden Globe Awards honored the year’s best in television and film, as chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
“The Descendants” and “The Artist” were named the best pictures of 2011 at the Golden Globe Awards, suggesting — perhaps — that they may be the front-runners for Oscar’s best picture.
It was no surprise to see either film — one a silent picture that triumphed as best musical or comedy, the other an Alexander Payne/George Clooney collaboration deemed best drama — win awards given the critical praise and buzz surrounding both.
More surprising was the fact that the Hollywood Foreign Press went in an entirely different direction by giving best director to Martin Scorsese for “Hugo” and and best actress to Meryl Streep — not Viola Davis.
Streep — regaled for her toothy and steely portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Lady” — even thanked Davis at the end of her speech. That was after she triggered the NBC telecast’s seven-second delay by uttering the s-word when she realized she had left her reading glasses at her table.
Streep triggered the seven-second delay instead of Ricky Gervais? Who would have thought? And she wasn’t the only winner who got a little randy onstage. Yes, we are looking at you, George Clooney.
“The Descendants” star accepted his Golden Globe for best actor in a drama by first speaking warmly of fellow nominee Brad Pitt, then acknowledging the, uh, endowments of Michael Fassbender, nominated for his compelling (and frequently naked) portrayal of a sex addict in “Shame.”
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