Every year members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) vote on the Golden Globe awards. But the HFPA is a small organisation of foreign journos with questionable membership requirements. It’s time we stopped listening, writes Dan Barrett.
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Jacki Weaver snags Golden Globe nomination
Fresh from a win at the AFI Awards last weekend, veteran Australian actress Jacki Weaver has received a Golden Globe nomination for her frame chewing performance as a crime family matriarch in Melbourne-based drama Animal Kingdom. Three other Aussies were also nominated, writes Luke Buckmaster.
Media briefs: Courier Mail in a spin … early Globes picks …
The spin on Hauritz’s sale. Yesterday, The Courier Mail had a scoop on its back page — dumped Test spinner Nathan Hauritz was selling his cricketing wares, resigned, apparently, to never donning the baggy green again: “In a scene both normal and bizarre, there was Australia’s premier spin bowler sitting in front of a cardboard box on […]
Chinese censors pull the plug on Avatar
Hollywood may love it, but the Chinese don’t. The Chinese government has decided to stop screening Avatar on the advice of the censors, who say that it may cause unrest, explains Peter Craven.
PHOTO GALLERY: The best beards of the 2010 Golden Globes
The must-have accessory at this year’s Golden Globes was a face full of fuzz. From goatees to full-blown bushes, The Envelope rounds up the best beards to grace the red carpet.
PHOTO GALLERY: Dressing down the Golden Globes’ red carpet
Sequins, frilly dresses and umbrellas, oh my! It may be raining at LA’s Golden Globes ceremony, but Gawker reigns over the pithy insults about celebs wearing borrowed dresses and diamonds.
Crikey’s form guide to the Golden Globetrotters
A blow-by-blow guide to the Golden Globe awards, often seen as a form guide to the Oscars.
The Golden Globes: The moment celebrity got pwned
Yesterday, you were starved of a routine and dazzling conceit. The specious but shimmering Golden Globes was pared down. Beloved Comrades of the Writers’ Guild continue their daring struggle, writes Helen Razer.
Blogwatch: The not so Golden Globes
Golden evolution … All a little lacklustre … The host with the most? … Jumping the shark … Behind the “scenes” …
The week in trash
The dodgiest of all Awards will, this year, honour the young. Keira Knightley, it seems, is up for everything at the Golden Globes. And so is a raft of smug young directors. Helen Razer reports on the goss that was.
