Atonement Wins Best Drama at Golden Globes Telecast

Due to the ongoing writers strike, the 2008 Golden Globes was reduced to a live telecast. No red carpets, no acceptance speeches, not even a classy press conference.  Instead, NBC gave us a Access Hollywood co-hosts Billy Bush and Nancy Dell, who announced the winners and provided hair-raising off-the-cuff commentary. Here are the movie awards, in the haphazard and incomplete order in which they were read, with a few choice bits of critical insight. Can we get the writers back soon, please?

Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett for I'm Not There
Billy Bush: “A little bit shocked, to be honest… I think, at the end of the day, it’s a woman, imitating a man.”

Best Actress - Motion Picture Comedy or Musical
Marion Cotillard for La Vie En Rose
Billy Bush expresses surprise again: "The film was not really a comedy or a musical."

Best Animated Feature
Ratatouille

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Javier Bardem for No Country For Old Men:
Nancy Dell summarizes Bardem's career: "He once worked as a stripper, things you had to know!"

Best Screenplay
Joel and Ethan Coen for No Country For Old Men
(This one was omitted -- writing isn't sexy enough to make the NBC telecast. Maybe if Diablo Cody had won.)

Best Director
Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
"A huge surprise," said Nancy. "I thought the Coen Brothers would win."

Best Foreign Film
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
In yet another slight to foreign film, this category also was not announced during the live telecast.

Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical
Johnny Depp for Sweeney Todd
Billy Bush: "Johnny is the man. He invented his character in Pirates of the Caribbean. Sweeney Todd is no different."

Best Picture: Comedy of Musical
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
"Huge," said Billy Bush. "Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are like Martin Scorcese and Leonardo DiCaprio."

Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama
Julie Christie for Away For Her
"Wow. The amazing thing here is, in a role that it's incredibly sad...  she brings dignity and it's uplifting, in a way."

Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama
Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood
"He's an actor's actor. He's really the real deal," said Billy Bush. "Very intense," added Nancy Dell.

Best Picture Drama
Atonement
No praise for fine film, just a practical observation: "The film needed this boost and it got it."