Rahaman nominated for Golden Globe Awards

MUMBAI: A. R. Rahaman – the musical genious from India – has been nominated in the Best Original Score for Motion Picture category for the 2011 Golden Globe Awards. The nomination of Rahaman is for his work in Danny Boyle”s 127 hours.

The composer himself reacted to the nomination by saying “This is a blessing beyond words.”

The Chennai based composer is a double Oscar winner. The two Oscars had been awarded to him in 2009 for the music in Slumdog Millionaire. Slumdog Millionaire too had been Danny Boyle”s film. AR Rahaman had also won a Golden Globe in the same year for the same film.

The Golden Globe Awards is being hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for the 68th time in January 2011.

Today, the Golden Globes recognize achievements in 25 categories; 14 in motion pictures and 11 in television.

Danny Boyle”s 127 Hours is nominated in two other categories – Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama) and Best Screenplay (Motion Picture).

”The King”s Speech” leads obvious Globe field

LOS ANGELES: “The King”s Speech” is precisely the kind of film that has long appealed to awards voters: It”s historical, focuses on royalty, depicts a character overcoming physical adversity and features a classy cast.

So it should come as no surprise that it received the most Golden Globe nominations Tuesday with seven, including best picture, on a morning when there were few surprises to be found. The film”s director, Tom Hooper, was also among the nominees, as were stars Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter.

Based on the story of how King George VI (Firth) battled a stammer with the help of an unorthodox speech therapist (Rush) just prior to World War II, “The King”s Speech” hits all the right notes and does it with impeccable polish. But beneath the flawless production values and period trappings is a relevant story about uplift – always popular come awards time.

Other top nominees were David Fincher”s “The Social Network,” which traces the origins of Facebook, and David O. Russell”s “The Fighter,” inspired by the true story of Boston-area boxer “Irish” Micky Ward. Both films received six nominations, including best picture and best director. “The Social Network” has been racking up top honors from critics groups across the country in recent days, including those in New York and Los Angeles.

These may all sound vastly different, but Rush, a supporting-actor nominee, sees a uniting thread among the front-runners.

“When I look at the films that have been nominated and the films that have been emerging through festivals in the last couple of months, it”s fascinating to me. Somebody actually did comment online that maybe we”re going back to the great old days of the ”70s where films had a bit of meat and a bit of bite and a bit of social commentary,” he said.

“The themes seem to be, particularly with our film, themes about leadership, communication, friendship – qualities that I think people are yearning for on some kind of grander scale. And that applies to certainly the ones I”ve seen, like ”The Social Network” or the individual ruggedness through ”127 Hours,” it”s quite fascinating how these things become the zeitgeist.”

The visceral, intimate “127 Hours,” based on the true story of a hiker who was trapped beneath a boulder for that duration, has also been a favorite so far, but it only received three Golden Globe nominations: best actor in a drama (James Franco), screenplay and original score. Still, it”s been in the mix among awards prognosticators and critics filling out their top-10 lists.

Even some of the wackier picks that had people all worked up Tuesday morning – the flashy but critically panned “Burlesque” and “The Tourist” earning three nominations each, including best musical or comedy – also make some sense historically. Yes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which hands out the awards on Jan. 16, has been more in alignment with Academy Awards voters over the past decade or so. But the group – composed of about 85 critics and reporters for overseas outlets – also likes its international superstars.

And so we have Johnny Depp receiving not one but two nominations, competing against himself as best musical or comedy actor for “Alice in Wonderland” and “The Tourist,” and his “Tourist” co-star Angelina Jolie is a best-actress nominee.

“Three Golden Globe nominations for ”The Tourist” is a dream come true,” said German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, who was also a Golden Globe nominee and Academy Award winner for his 2007 debut, “The Lives of Others.” “No one is more fun to watch than Johnny and Angelina. They are great artists, and in my book, they deserve every nomination and award on the globe.”

Two songs from the guilty-pleasure “Burlesque” were nominated, ones sung by Cher and Christina Aguilera. Other glamorous surprise nominees include Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal for “Love and Other Drugs” and Halle Berry for “Frankie and Alice.” Meanwhile, the Coen Brothers” acclaimed remake of the Western “True Grit” was oddly shut out.

It”s highly unlikely those lighter, frothier titles will surface again when Oscar nominations are announced Jan. 25 – after all, the Golden Globes are divided into drama and musical/comedy categories, so there”s room for a wider range of films. If any of the five best comedy nominees is likely to be included among the 10 best-picture slots at the Academy Awards, it”s “The Kids Are All Right,” starring Annette Bening and Julianne Moore, who were both nominated for playing a lesbian couple.

Still, while the obviousness of the Golden Globes doesn”t necessarily make it a surefire Oscar predictor, it can be pretty close. All four acting winners at the Academy Awards this past year had won previously at the Globes. But then there was the behemoth “Avatar,” which won at the Globes, while the independent “The Hurt Locker” quietly gathered steam and took home the best-picture Oscar.

One thing that”s certain: With Ricky Gervais hosting, and the drinks flowing as always, Golden Globe night will at least be entertaining to watch, even if not all of the nominated films themselves are.

Ricky Gervais Golden Globes

Latest news updates about Ricky Gervais Golden Globes :- Moments after the last Golden Globe was handed out and the final acceptance speech was made, an army of famous faces spilled out into the Beverly Hilton lobby, selecting their partying options for the evening. One of the most popular was the annual Weinstein Company bash, where the guest of honor was a brand-new “little basterd.”

“Everyone knew from the beginning that there was something special about that performance,” recalled “Inglourious Basterds” star Omar Doom, speaking with us moments before Christoph Waltz walked into the party holding his Best Supporting Actor statue. “I knew [he'd win] from the table read. Everyone, all the actors in ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ had a small murmur afterwards, going, ‘Oh my God! He was so amazing! He was so scary!’ And all he was doing was reading it off the pages.”

“It was my first time at the Golden Globe Awards, and I can see why everyone’s drunk,” laughed another “Basterds” star, Eli Roth. “They don’t really feed you — it’s just champagne. Everyone’s drinking it all night. It’s incredible. You look around, and there’s Fergie and Mariah Carey and Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman.”

As the Weinstein Company spent a rainy evening celebrating not only “Basterds,” but also “Nine” and “A Single Man,” stars like Nicole Kidman, Pierce Brosnan, Fergie, Julianne Moore and The Edge partied — and reflected on a fun evening.

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Ricky Gervais Golden Globes was first posted on January 18, 2010 at 7:08 pm.

Streep Breaks Record With Win Golden Globes Seventh Time

HOLLYWOOD: Meryl Streep is the new queen of the Golden Globes as her win for best actress in a comedy or musical for “Julie & Julia” gives her seven statuettes to the half dozen owned by Jack Nicholson and Angela Lansbury.

Streep set the record for most nominations last year when her double lead actress nods for “Doubt” (drama) and “Mamma Mia!” (comedy/musical) gave her 23 in total, breaking the tie with Jack Lemmon who racked up 22 lead nods and 4 wins.

This year, she was also a double nominee bringing her total tally to 25 competing against herself in the comedy-musical actress with a bid for “It’s Complicated” as well.

From her 21 movie nominations, Streep had won five Golden Globes for her Oscar winning roles in “Kramer vs. Kramer” (supporting, 1979) and “Sophie’s Choice” (lead drama, 1982) as well as “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” (lead drama, 1981), “Adaptation” (supporting, 2002) and “The Devil Wears Prada” (lead comedy/musical, 2006). Streep’s other Golden Globe came for a small screen role lead actress in a TV movie or mini (“Angels in America,” 2004).

All of Nicholson’s six Globes and 17 nominations came for his work in the movies. He has won in all three movie acting categories: lead actor (drama) for “Chinatown” (1974), “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975) and “About Schmidt” (2002), lead actor (comedy-musical) for “Prizzi’s Honor” (1985) and “As Good as It Gets” (1997), and supporting actor for “Terms of Endearment” (1983).

Lansbury won both of her supporting actress in a movie bids — “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1945) and “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) — and four of her 10 races for best actress in a TV drama series for “Murder She Wrote” (1984, 1986, 1989, 1991).

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Streep Breaks Record With Win Golden Globes Seventh Time was first posted on January 18, 2010 at 4:55 pm.

Wedding bells for Rani Mukherjee soon?

MUMBAI : The wedding bells for Rani Mukerji and her beau Aditya Chopra might ring sooner than you think! After facing years of animosity and cold vibes from the Chopra clan, the stunner has found the blessings and approval of her lover’s parents Yash and Pamela Chopra.

Beaming with joy at the reconciliation, Rani seems to have finally crossed the last hurdle on her way to a ‘happy ever after’.

Even though papa Yash Chopra had made his peace with his son’s choice long ago, his mother Pamela was much averse to their union. But things seem to have changed for good as at a recent award function Rani was seen exchanging warm greetings with the senior Chopras.

The actress sure seemed relieved with the latest development as sources state that it was Pam’s resistance towards the beauty that was acting as a hurdle to Aditya and Rani’s marriage.

As for Aditya’s ex-wife Payal, a source says, “Payal still frequently visits YRF Studios. She and Aditya are on talking terms. Yash and Pam still love her very much. Ab bahut time ho gaya hai, things settle down with the passage of time.”

Well if not for her movies, Rani Mukerji sure has enough reason to celebrate for this ‘family’ development.

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Wedding bells for Rani Mukherjee soon? was first posted on January 14, 2010 at 6:35 pm.

Brad and Angelina to Skip Golden Globes

Brad and Angelina to Skip Golden Globes, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will not be attending the Golden Globes.
Reports claimed Hollywood’s golden couples are avoiding the awards ceremony because Pitt is not nominated for his role in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Other rumours suggested they do not want to risk running into Pitt’s ex-wife, actress Jennifer Aniston. She is expected to appear at the 67th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Sunday.

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Brad and Angelina to Skip Golden Globes was first posted on January 14, 2010 at 7:47 pm.

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