Best Picture: Argo
Best Director: Ben Affleck, Argo
Best Actress: Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty!
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Best Picture, Musical/Comedy: Les Miserables
Best Foreign Language Film: Amour, Michael Haneke!
Best Actress Comedy: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
best Actor Musical: Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Best Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Best Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Best Original Score: Mychael Danna, Life of Pi
Best Song: Adele, Skyfall
Best Animated Feature: Brave
Best TV Comedy: Girls
Best TV Drama: Homeland
Best Actress TV Drama: Claire Danes, Homeland
Best Actor TV Drama: Damian Lewis, Homeland
Best Actress TV Comedy: Lena Dunham, Girls
Best Actor TV Comedy: Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Best Actor: Miniseries: Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys
Best Actress Miniseries: Julianne Moore, Game Change
Best Supporting Actress Miniseries: Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Supporting Actor Miniseries: Ed Harris, Game Change
Best Miniseries: Game Change
I’m just surprised that Jennifer Lawrence gets so much love for that role. The movie is awesome, I could even see it win BP this year over the other 3-4 really big names. Also Jennifer knows how to act, she’s been very impressive in other roles. But here? Maybe because it’s comedy, but her acting is so over the top, like a child-actor would do it. It’s way too immature performance to be so glorified, IMO. Well, at least she’s gorgeous, that never hurts.
steandric
In 1998 at age 21, Jessica Chastain played Juliet to great critical acclaim in a production of Romeo and Juliet staged by TheatreWorks, a professional theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In 1999 she started her professional training at Juilliard which she completed in 2003, while there she was an active participant in the drama department and starred in several theatrical productions and student film projects.
Then for the next 5 (!) years (2003-2008) she only got one-episode guest spots in TV shows like ER, Veronica Mars, Close to Home, Law & Order: Trial By Jury. By this time she was a 31-year-old Juilliard alumna, a decade had passed since her acting debut and 5 years since her graduation.
Then she made her first feature, Jolene, in which she played the title role, but after a semi-succesful festival run in 2008, it only received a VERY limited US-release two years later in 2010.
And THEN, 13 years after her critically acclaimed Juliet, 8 years after she graduated from Juilliard, at age 34 (!!!) came her big break when she starred to great critical acclaim in 5 (!) well-received films in 2011 : The Tree of Life, The Help, The Debt, Take Shelter, Coriolanus.
If you insist comparing her to Naomi Watts, well her acting debut was in 1986 and her big break in 2001, she was 32 when Mulholland Drive debuted in Cannes, two years younger than Chastain who was 34 when her first 2011-film, The Tree of Life debuted in Cannes. 15 years compared to Chastain’s 13, although it’s worth mentioning that Watts took a 5-year break from acting in the late 80s, she returned for ‘Flirting’.
I don’t see how one should be considered luckier than the other, when the truth is BOTH had to work for a very long time to get the acclaim and status they so richly deserve.
That speech of JC could sell nothing for her.
steandric
Now you are not even making sense. So I guess unless you were ignored by the industry for at least as long as Naomi Watts was, you are automatically starlet, impressive CV and training be damned ?
Jessica Chastain’s Golden Globe winning speech:
“I’ve wanted to be an actor since I was a little girl, and I’ve worked for a really LONG time…..I’ve auditioned and struggled and fought and been on the sidelines for ‘YEARS’ “…..
I just thought she was referring to Naomi Watts, who was in the audience (smiling, with a smirk, I guess).
Chastain’s first on TV series in 2004 and first feature film – Jolene (2008)
Watts’ first on TV series in1990 and first feature film – Flirting (1991)
steandric
And how many ‘starlets’ deliver 7 critically acclaimed performances in critically acclaimed films , three in Best Picture nominees including last year’s Palme d’Or winner, receive back to back OSCAR/BAFTA/SAG/GOLDENGLOBE/CRITICS CHOICE nominations, win Best Supporting Actress awards of the three most prestigious critics groups (NYFCC, LAFCA, NSFC) AND headline their Broadway-debut, ALL THIS IN LESS THAN TWO YEARS?
It is quite simply ridiculous to call her a starlet, her classical training (Juilliard) alone makes her an ACTRESS and NEVER a starlet, but the quantity and most importantly quality of her work just further proves that she is not only an ACTRESS and most certainly NOT its lesser version (=starlet), she is also one of the VERY best actresses we have at the moment.
For anyone that is angry about Jennifer Lawrence speech everyone can be rest assured that (1) Meryl Streep was probably really sick with the flu and; (2)if present would have been smart enough to know that is was off of a movie and not an insult. As for the rest of her acceptance speech I found myself ranking hers as one of the best, even better than her competition Jessica Chastain. In fact, at this years Golden Globes the acceptance speeches were all a little off as well as the mood that was clearly playing throughout the room. This in regards to Taylor Swift, Steven Speilberg and Tommy Lee Jones’s sore looser faces all through the night. Overall it was a very odd night.
What a bore. We’ve seen this all before. Star/director gets “snubbed” by the academy; his film wins best picture at the Academy Awards. This is Hollywood falling for its own yellow brick road fantasies. Zzzzzzzzzzzz.
phantom
Chastain is 35 this year
Chastain first film 2008 (Jolene) – when she was 30
Chastain first TV 2004 – when she was 26
I don’t know what she did before 26
A starlet or not is not decided by her age, but her years in the industry.
Lawrence first TV 2006, first film 2008. Both Chastain and Chastain are therefore starlets and have a lot to learn humbly. Yes,I worship Lawrence of Arabia, one of my top 10 films.