| 65th Golden Globe Awards | |
|---|---|
| Date | January 14, 2008 |
| Site | Beverly Hilton Hotel Beverly Hills,Los Angeles,California |
| Highlights | |
| Best Film: Drama | Atonement |
| Best Film: Musical or Comedy | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
| Best Drama Series | Mad Men |
| Best Musical or Comedy Series | Extras |
| Best Miniseries or Television movie | Longford |
| Most awards | (2)Atonement No Country for Old Men Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |
| Most nominations | (7)Atonement |
The65thGolden Globe Awards, honoring the best infilm andtelevision of 2007, were presented by theHollywood Foreign Press Association on January 14, 2008.
Due to threats of boycotts and picketing of the event due to the then-ongoingWriters Guild of America strike, the traditional awards ceremony did not take place; instead, the winners were announced during apress conference atThe Beverly Hilton that was open to all media outlets. The ceremony's usual broadcasterNBC carried alternate programming hosted byBilly Bush andNancy O'Dell ofAccess Hollywood, including an hour-long results special.
The nominees were announced on December 13, 2007.[1][2] The television filmLongford was the most-awarded, with three awards including Best Miniseries or Television Movie. The filmAtonement entered the Golden Globes with the most nominations, and won the awards for best drama film and original score. It was tied for the most-awarded film withThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly (best foreign language film, and best director forJulian Schnabel),No Country for Old Men (best screenplay, and best performance by a supporting actor forJavier Bardem), andSweeney Todd (winner of best musical or comedy film, and best performance in a musical or comedy film forJohnny Depp)— which all received two.
The Association attempted to reach an interim agreement with the Writers Guild to allow its members to write for the ceremonies. When a compromise fell through, striking writers threatened topicket the event; almost all of the celebrities planning to attend, including members of theScreen Actors Guild who pledged their support for the strike, promised to boycott the ceremony rather than cross the picket lines. On January 8, 2008, the HFPA chose to cancel the ceremony, and replace it with apress conference at theBeverly Hilton Hotel, held on January 13, 2008, at 6:00 p.m.PT.[3][4]
NBC initially announced plans to be the exclusive broadcaster of the press conference, with its coverage hosted byBilly Bush andNancy O'Dell of the NBC-syndicated entertainment news programAccess Hollywood. However, the network balked afterDick Clark Productions—who normally produces the ceremony and telecast—reportedly demanded that the network pay an additional "license fee" between $1.5 and $2 million for the privilege. DCP defended the allegations, having stated that it was inappropriate for NBC to hold "an exclusive three-hour broadcast special disguised as a news conference that would bar all other media" without paying the HFPA and DCP a "nominal license fee". There were also reports that NBC came into conflicts with the HFPA over the presentation of the event, centering upon the involvement ofAccess Hollywood.[5]
Due to the conflict, the HFPA took full control over the press conference, and announced that it would not impose any restrictions on who may televise it.[5][6]E! andTV Guide Network—two cable channels known for theirred carpet coverage during awards season—both carried the press conference, but also reduced the extent of their overall coverage due to the lack of ceremony. TV Guide Network aired a two-hour pre-show and a one-hour post-show, anchored byChris Harrison andMaria Sansone from the network's studio, as opposed to its traditional red carpet coverage hosted byLisa Rinna andJoey Fatone.[7][8][9] E! did not broadcastLive from the Red Carpet at all, and scheduled amarathon ofKeeping Up with the Kardashians with a break for live coverage of the press conference.[5][10]
NBC did not air the official, 32-minute press conference, and instead presented the results over the course of an hour-longNBC News special hosted by Bush and O'Dell from theAccess Hollywood studio. The results program was preceded by a two-hourDateline special hosted byMatt Lauer,Going for Gold, which featured interviews with nominees, and guest predictions from comedianKathy Griffin, andTiki Barber,Jerome Bettis, andCris Collinsworth ofFootball Night in America. The results show was followed by anAccess Hollywood special, where Bush and O'Dell visited the venues of the cancelled after-parties.[10][11][12][13][7]
Rob Owen of thePittsburgh Post-Gazette felt that NBC's resulting programming was an "over-produced mess", and that one could have learned the results quicker by watching the roughly half-hour press conference onCNN, E!, or TV Guide Network instead (as opposed to NBC's hour-long program with commercial breaks, whose results were increasingly delayed from the actual announcements). He also noted that TV Guide Network's pre-show had a stronger focus on the impact of the WGA strike on the show and the entertainment industry. By contrast, Owen described the aforementionedDateline special as "sort of a long, drawn-out 'Barbara Walters Special' without the soft-focus, tears or 'What kind of a tree would you be?' questions", and sarcastically acknowledged its inclusion of analysis from the "noted film critics" of theFootball Night in America panel.[7]
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These are the nominees for the 65th Golden Globe Awards. Winners are listed at the top of each list.
The following films and programs received multiple nominations:
| Nominations | Series |
|---|---|
| 4 | Damages |
| Longford | |
| 3 | 30 Rock |
| Bury My Heart a Wounded Knee | |
| Entourage | |
| Pushing Daises | |
| 2 | Big Love |
| Brothers & Sisters | |
| Californication | |
| Extras | |
| Grey's Anatomy | |
| House | |
| Mad Men | |
| The State Within | |
| The Tudors |
The following films and programs received multiple wins:
| Wins | Film |
|---|---|
| 2 | Atonement |
| No Country for Old Men | |
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | |
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |
| Wins | Series |
|---|---|
| 3 | Longford |
| 2 | Mad Men |
the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Monday that the festive awards dinner will be replaced by a news conference at 9 p.m. Eastern time next Sunday night to announce the actual winners