A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

HELP STING FIND HIS AIN TRUE RAZOR: [open thread for discussion of the 2009 Golden Globe awards. Feinberg liveblogs, and he and I absolutely agree on this one: "9:43 p.m. Gee, Pierce Brosnan. Thanks for spoiling the end of 'Mamma Mia!' for me."]

Full analysis tomorrow. Jai ho!

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What jumps out at me in looking at the results this morning are the names I don't see: no wins for Milk, no wins for Frost/Nixon, no wins for The Curious Case of Forrest Gump Benjamin Button. Admittedly, there are many fewer awards given out by the HFPA, and by a smaller and weirder electorate, but no film but Slumdog Millionaire is getting any momentum out of the evening.

Again: Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a bad movie. Let us never speak of its victory again. Also, Jen asked me if the results meant that she should watch HBO's Recount already. The answer is yes.

And I am happy that Kate Winslet has finally one a major award -- let alone two. Feinberg had two notes on this worth discussing -- first, that there's apparently no way her role in Kate, the Sexy Illiterate Nazi is a supporting one; and second, the question of what other role she should have won for in the past. I'd say Clementine in Eternal Sunshine, for which she lost to Annete Bening (Being Julia ?!?) at the Globes, though losing to Hillary Swank in Million Dollar Baby at the Oscars is no shame.

This trivia note: of the eight actresses who've been nominated for Oscars in lead and supporting in the same year, four claimed one of them, though none of the three most recent did (Emma Thompson, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett -- though, okay, Thompson's double loss in 1993 also had Holly Hunter double-nominated with a win for The Piano), and no actor or actress has ever won both acting Oscars in the same year.

Finally, to Mickey Rourke: next time, thank your screenwriter. That's the guy who makes sure you don't ramble like that when the camera's around.