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The Golden Globes were announced through a live press conference hosted by Giuliana Rancic. No celebrities were there and there weren’t any parties afterwards out of reverence for the Writer’s Guild Strike, which had threatened to picket the Globes if they went on as usual.

The Globes press conference only lasted a half an hour, but NBC tried to draw it out with asanine commentary by Billy Bush and Nancy O’Dell. They failed:

Due to the ongoing strike by the Writers Guild of America, the usual glitz-and-glamor brouhaha could not be staged this year. Sunday’s Globes presentation was reduced to a recitation of winners, and you could pick your poison: On E!, there was a 30-minute long, bone-dry reading of the winners. On NBC’s one-hour broadcast, “The Golden Globes Winners Special,” the gratingly perky “Access Hollywood” hosts Nancy O’Dell and Billy Bush sped through the lists of nominees and the naming of the trophy-getters.

The duo made us suffer through their frequently idiotic banter regarding each victor, but before you could roll your eyes, they were off and running again.

In this review, as in the Globes special, brevity is of the essence, but I’d like to take a moment to nominate Billy Bush for most-emptyheaded TV personality of our time.

[From The Chicago Tribune]

Atonement took home best picture out of seven nominations, and Daniel Day Lewis won best actor for There Will Be Blood. Julie Christie beat out Keira Knightley for Best Actress in a drama for her performance in Away From Her:

Here’s a list of the winners:

Best film (drama): Atonement

Best film (musical or comedy): Sweeney Todd

Best director – film: Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best actor (drama): Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood

Best actress (drama): Julie Christie - Away from Her

Best actor (musical or comedy): Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd

Best actress (musical or comedy) : Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose

Best supporting actor: Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men

Best supporting actress: Cate Blanchett - I’m Not There

Best foreign language film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (France and US)

Best animated feature film:

Best screenplay: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen - No Country for Old Men

Best original score: Dario Marianelli - Atonement

Best original song: Guaranteed - Into the Wild

[From MTV]

The Canadian Press notes that all the Golden Globes parties were canceled. Ernest Borgnine, the oldest Golden Globe nominee of all time, threw a party at his house in Beverly Hills. The 90 year-old actor was nominated for best actor in a miniseries for the Hallmark Channel’s “A Grandpa for Christmas.” When he lost out to Jim Broadbent he said “Hey, I already got one… You don’t have to win them all. And I’ve got the big guy too.”

Whether we’ll get to watch the big guy get handed to the celebrities this year or we’ll have to settle for accounts of press conference house parties remains to be seen. We hope for entertainment’s sake that the strike is concluded by then, but it’s not looking good. The Oscars are set to air February 24.

Ernest Borgnine is shown at the “Night of 100 Stars” party after the Academy Awards, presumably last year, for Dick Van Patten’s Eatables Dog Food. Picture from Natural Balance Inc..