The Red Carpet

The best part I enjoy about the Golden Globes Awards, or Cannes Festival or the Academy Awards, is the red carpet scene. Don't you enjoy watching the celebs walking through the door and posing for the cameras? Oh my god, the thing is they are all so phony. However, I enjoy watching them. I observe their clothing styles, how they talk and smile and all. When I was a kid (probably at fourth grade or something) I used to give my own awards to the celebs. Isn't that funny :) First, I used to nominate them for topics like best outfit, best diction, best posture etc.

And than I gave the awards for them, which is eating a cookie for all the winners :) The press loves the red carpet also. They just love showing themselves to the celebs. I bet no one is thinking "Oh, wow, E Entertainment is here", or like "Wow, Fox Huh?". Or otherwise, I hope :)

Best and Worst Fashion in Golden Globes

Best: Untouchable

In 2006, Scarlett Johansson's curve-hugging crimson Valentino dress had even homosexual men (Isaac Mizrahi!) daring to cop a feel, but the most sizzling side came when she turned around -- cascading ruffles down the back added even more sex appeal.

Best: Lighten Up

No one sets red carpets ablaze quite like Angelina Jolie, but after nabbing headlines and a win for 'Gia' in 2000, the Golden Globes vet abandoned her usual dark look for the 2001 show in a form-fitting, tattoo-flaunting platinum satin Versace strapless gown.

Best: Proud Peacock

Always stunning Nicole Kidman took fashion into her own hands on the 2005 red carpet, daring to embellish her peacock blue Gucci ensemble with a brilliant plume from the dress' avian inspiration. The result? Another feather in her stylish cap.

Worst: Global Domination

Leave it to Sharon Stone to wear highly inappropriate, head-to-toe leather dominatrix duds to the 2003 Golden Globes. The attention-loving actress looks like a biker chick with majorly wind-blown hair whose skirt layers shredded and unraveled in the wind.

Worst: Something's Not Right

'There's Something About Mary' funny lady Cameron Diaz might've been nominated in 1999, but she continued to provide amusement when she walked the red carpet in this floor-length floral housecoat. Too bad no one was laughing with her ...

Best Movies for watching with your family:

1- Juno
2- The Incredibles
3- No Reservations
4- Meet Me In St. Louis
5- Journey To The Center of The World

Best Movies for Wathing with your Friends:

1- Love Actually
2- Mean Girls
3- How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days
4- Holiday
5-The Dark Night

Best Horror Movies

1- Th Exorcist
2- Alien
3- Dawn of the Dead
4- Haloween
5- Night of the Living Dead
6- The Shining
7- Nightmare on Elm Street
8- Phsyco
9- Friday the 13th
10- Evil Dead


Best Movies To Cry

1. Terms of Endearment
2. Schindler's List
3. Sophie's Choice
4. Titanic
5. Philadelphia

Best Romantic Movies
1- Casablanca
2- Nothing Hill
3- Dirty Dancing
4- The Notebook

FOR "FİLMAHOLİCS"

Aaah... The movies... I just love watching them. I usually watch three or four movies in a week. Isn't that a lot? People sometimes call me as "filmaholic" just because I enjoy watching. In my spare time, I watch movies with my dad, who is also a movie maniac -he has like a thousands of DVDs in his "private DVD case"- and after watching the movies we may argue sometimes. We don't argue in a bad way don't worry :) It's just like a discussion. Like he said after watching He's not just that into you, "Oh my god, people are so ruining their reputation when they play in such films. Look at Scarlett Johanson!" I totally don't agree! I think actresses or actors should play in some soft movies, to give a break sometimes. He also said something similar after watching Marley & Me. My dad -god, he's sometimes too right- usually doesn't enjoy watching family films or high school films because he thinks that they are stupid and nonsense. However, he has a perfect taste of movies. He once listed, he was all right, the nominations for Oscars. This year he predicted some award for Benjamin Button, in the Best Scenairo or something but, sorry dad, he was wrong :(



Another best things about watching films is watching them with your friends. For example, in a slumber party! That's like the most fun thing to do. Prepare your popcorns, turn the light off, wear your favorite pjama... Wow, now you are ready for a rocking slumber party :) Either watch a girly movie, or a high school comedy, or a horror movie, don't worry you'll have SO MUCH FUN :)

What would I like to be famous for?

What would I like to be famous for? I would like to be famous for my talent actually. I would like to be an actress, maybe get a golden globe or an academy award. Sometimes I dream myself as a celebrity, not that I want to be a celebrity, I wonder how I would be like if I become a widely-recognized celebrity. It is not too hard to think. Although, being so famous and rich looks easy and perfect, it isn't. Reading about yourself in a gossip column can be considered as the worst thing in the world. And especially if it is about something that you haven't done. To be watched always by paparazzi, and to always be recognized by people when you go for a walk isn't that good when think deep. You need a break sometimes, all that interest and excitement sometimes bores you. I read about the celebrities sometimes, especially their inverviews. They complain about having the attention on them always. It is bad. You can't talk like the way you want, you always have to look great, you always have to pay attention to the way you sit and stand up... You don't have a private life actually and it is the worst thing ever in the world; not enjoying your life. Although they look like they enjoy it, they surely complain more than us. However, if I had to be famous, I would like to an actress like I said before. I would like to be famous for my talent, not for my money and not for my outfit. Only for my talent. Because I think the one's that deserves this money and fame are the one's who are really talented. Not the one's that get attention by doing silly things and creating scandals. I would like to get the attention because of my performance in my movies not because of my ridiculous behaviours.

Who is Cecil B. DeMille?

When the Hollywood Foreign Press Association decided to establish a special, prestigious award for outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment, the members wanted it to bear an internationally recognized and respected name. So they turned to a born showman, Cecil B. DeMille, who accepted the idea graciously, and the first Cecil B. DeMille award went to him in 1952, the year his penultimate film, The Greatest Show on Earth, premiered.
The following year, 1953, at the Tenth Annual Golden Globe Awards gala, Walt Disney received the DeMille award; the winning pictures were The Greatest Show on Earth and With a Song in My Heart while Gary Cooper, Shirley Booth, Donald O'Connor and Susan Hayward took the top acting awards (and Richard Burton was pronounced Most Promising Newcomer).
Such notables (including several future DeMille awardees) as Joan Crawford, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Stanley Kramer, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Doris Day, Samuel Fuller, Alan Ladd and others wrote warm congratulatory letters to the association on this anniversary. So did Cecil B. DeMille, to wit:

During the last ten years the members of your Association have endeared themselves to us in Hollywood for two main reasons. You have made friends with us and you have made friends for us. It's difficult to say which of these two things makes us happier. Perhaps the first, because of its personal contact—the warmth of which I have felt every time I have met any of you. Congratulations on your 10th Anniversary—I hope I shall be around to congratulate you on your 25th.Sincerely,Cecil B. DeMille

Unfortunately, Cecil didn't make it. The last Golden Globe Awards gala he attended was the 15th.
The Cecil B. DeMille award winners are chosen by the HFPA board of directors and presented each year (except for 1976). The first woman to receive the award was Judy Garland in 1962 (following Fred Astaire which delighted her no end), the next was Joan Crawford in 1970. The list of winners provides a spectrum of talented human beings who have had a definite impact on the world of entertainment, be it Alfred Hitchcock, Lucille Ball, Sidney Poitier, Sophia Loren, Sean Connery, Barbra Streisand or any one of those thoughtfully selected for the honor.

Jennifer Hudson

The last year's Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture Golden Globe went to Jennifer Hudson, after her perfect acting in the Musical The Dream Girls. She attended to America's best TV Show ever, American Idol: The Search for a Superstar, which was a competition between people from all around America, who were talented and were waiting to be discovered. Jennifer Hudson was the lucky one though. She won the show, and a prodigious career was already created for her, after she was discovered by the director of the musical The Dream Girls.

She won an Oscar and also 25 more awards in her first movie and became very famous. She played in several more movies and still she is. She became famous with her music and her amazing voice. She climbs to other accomplishments with absolute confidence.

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

HEATH LEDGER !!!!!

"I never had money, and I was very happy without it. When I die, my money's not gonna come with me. My movies will live on - for people to judge what I was as a person. I just want to stay curious."

He was a perfect actor. With the movie "The Dark Knight" he was going to reach the highest point in his acting career. Only if he hadn't died. He died from accidental overdose of prescription medications including painkillers, anti-anxiety drugs and sleeping pills in January 22, 2008. Although the reason why he took these drugs aren't fully clear yet, he was in the best years of his life, he was 28, and that his death wasn't actually a suicide.

He won several Awards for his acting in the movie "The Dark Knignt", which he calls the best role he had played in his life, including the Golden Globe Awards and Academy Awards.

I liked him a lot though, he was a perfect actor and I really cried so hard when I've heard that he was found dead in his appartment.

The director of the movie, Christopher Nolan accepted the award. Thus, Matilda Rose, his daugher, will end up with the Globe when she becomes 18.

THE AMAZING SOUDTRACK !!!

I have to tell you about that A-M-A-Z-I-N-G soundtrack of the film "Slumdog Millionaire". The percentages of the reviews for the soundtracks are above, taken from amazon.com, it looks like most of the people liked the soundtrack. I also liked it a lot. It was fanstastic. It was like a composition of Indian ad Eastern Music which amused me a lot since I had a major interest in the Eastern Music. Listening to the music will automatically have you relive the movie and i strongly insist that you buy the soundtrack :) The soundtrack was also the winner of the Golden Globe Award for "Best Original Soundtrack".

Good Job A.R. Rahman, Congratulations !!!

http://www.amazon.com/Slumdog-Millionaire-R-Rahman/dp/B001LX0JK6


1. "O... Saya" Performed by A R Rahman & M.I.A.
2. "Riots" by A R Rahman
3. "Mausam & Escape" by A R Rahman
4. "Paper Planes" Performed by M.I.A.
5. "Paper Planes" DFA REMIX Performed by M.I.A.
6. ""Ringa Ringa" by A R Rahman featuring Alka Yagnik & Ila Arun
7. "Liquid Dance" by A R Rahman featuring Palakkad Sriram & Madhumitha
8. "Latika's Theme" by A R Rahman featuring Suzanne
9. "Aaj Ki Raat" Performed by Sonu Nigam, Mahalaxmi Lyer & Alisha Chinoi
10. "Millionaire" by A R Rahman featuring Madhumitha
11. "Gangsta Blues" by A R Rahman featuring BlaaZe & Tanvi Shah
12. "Dreams on Fire" by A R Rahman featuring Suzzanne
13. "Jai Ho" by A R Rahman featuring Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah & Mahalaxmi Iyer


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Facts About The Golden Globe Awards

• The 1st Golden Globe Awards were held in January 1944 at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles. The 66th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 2008, were presented on January 11, 2009 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills California, where they have been held annually since 1961.

• The Golden Globes are awarded every January, based on votes from around ninety (as of 2008) international journalists living in Hollywood and affiliated with media outside of the United States.
  
• Meryl Streep, Angela Lansbury and Jack Nicholson hold the record for the most Golden Globe wins with six each. Meryl Streep holds the record for most nominations with twenty-three and Jack Lemmon is second with twenty-two. However, including special awards, such as the Henrietta Award - World Film Favorite Actor/Actress or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand would win with 11 awards and behind her, Jack Nicholson, with seven.

What about Milk?

Milk rests so exclusively on its performances, especially Sean Penn's marvelous characterization of Harvey Milk. It's not a great movie, but it is an refreshing and unusual one. It can be basically consideres as an "effervescent political film that also packs a knockout punch." As Milk, Penn provides the most embracing, socialist figure of an American figure since Henry Fonda's young Abe Lincoln, thus Fonda was playing Lincoln in his lawyer days. One is desired to call this figure honoring, but everything Penn does is too complicated for that. As Milk struggles to become the first openly gay man elected to high public office in a major U.S. city, the joy belongs to viewers. He may become an inspiration, but we get to see him sweat, then triumph, as he uses every means of persuasion to face with the volatility of threatened straights and the hesitation of gays.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE !!!

I've watched this film before it was released in Turkey and I was definetely sure that it was going to be a great success. The film was very tasteful in almost every respect. It was nominated for various awards in several categories, won 8 Oscars and Another 75 wins including 4 Golden Globe Awards in Best Director - Motion Picture, Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Original Score - Motion Picture and Best Screenplay - Motion Picture categories. The film tells us about the story of Jamal Malik, who grew up in the slums of Mumbai. Jamal Malik attends to this popular show, famous in all over the world including Turkey,"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?". He has only one question left for the big prize, when the show breaks for the night. The story becomes interesting when the police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, their adventures and his difficult life. He also mentions Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the questions. The Police Inspector begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this game show? When Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out...

I think it won't be fair enough to tell the end of the story for the readers who haven't watched the film yet. However, all that i can say is that you better prepare yourself to be overtaken by emotions as varied as joy, pity, happiness, anger, surprise, and an breathtaking conclusion rarely seen in movies anymore.

TAKE A LOOK AT THE NEXT POST TO LEARN MY THOUGHTS ABOUT "MİLK"

To watch the trailer of this film, click to the link below.

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Pictures from the Red Carpet

Supercouple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie dazzles on the red carpet.

Heath Ledger was a posthumous Golden Globe winner for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight.

Christopher Nolan accepts Heath Ledger’s Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe.

Vicky Christina Barcelona took home the golden globe for the best picture Musical or Comedy.

The cast and creators of Slumdog Millionaire celebrate their Golden Globe for Best Picture backstage.

It was a double dose of Golden Globe victory for Kate Winslet, who also took home Best Actress for Revolutionary Road.

Golden Globe Awards 2009

The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards

Nominations & Winners

Best Motion Picture - Drama
Nominations
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures
Frost/Nixon
Imagine Entertainment, Working Title, Studio Canal; Universal Pictures
The Reader
Mirage Enterprises; The Weinstein Company
Revolutionary Road
An Evamere Entertainment BBC Films Neal Street Production; DreamWorks Pictures in Association with BBC Films and Paramount Vantage
Winner
Slumdog Millionaire
Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros.; Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Nominations
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie – Changeling
Meryl Streep – Doubt
Kristin Scott Thomas – I've Loved You So Long
Winner
Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road


Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Nominations
Leonardo DiCaprio – Revolutionary Road
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn – Milk
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Winner
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler


Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Nominations
Burn After Reading
Working Title/Releasing Company; Focus Features in association with Studio Canal
Happy-Go-Lucky
Summit Entertainment, Film4, Ingenious Film Partners, Miramax Films; Miramax Films
In Bruges
Blueprint Pictures; Focus Features
Mamma Mia!
Relativity Media, Playtone, Littlestar; Universal Pictures
Winner
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Mediapro; The Weinstein Company


Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Nominations
Rebecca Hall – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Frances McDormand – Burn After Reading
Meryl Streep – Mamma Mia!
Emma Thompson – Last Chance Harvey
Winner
Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky


Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Nominations
Javier Bardem – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
James Franco – Pineapple Express
Brendan Gleeson – In Bruges
Dustin Hoffman – Last Chance Harvey
Winner
Colin Farrell – In Bruges

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Nominations
Amy Adams – Doubt
Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis – Doubt
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
Winner
Kate Winslet – The Reader

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Nominations
Tom Cruise – Tropic Thunder
Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
Ralph Fiennes – The Duchess
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
Winner
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight

Best Animated Feature Film
Nominations
Bolt
Walt Disney Pictures; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Kung Fu Panda
DreamWorks Animation SKG; Paramount Pictures
Winner
Wall-E
Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios; Motion Pictures

Best Foreign Language Film
Nominations
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Germany - The Country of Germany (DER BAADER MEINHOF KOMPLEX) Constantin Film Produktion GmbH; Summit Entertainment, LLC
Everlasting Moments
Sweden, Denmark - The Country of Sweden and The Country of Denmark (MARIA LARSSONS EVIGA ÖGONBLICK) Final Cut Productions Aps; IFC Films
Gomorrah
Italy - The Country of Italy (GOMORRA) Fandango; IFC Films
I've Loved You So Long
France - The Country of France (IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T’AIME) UGC YM/UGC Images/France 3 Cinema/Integral Film; Sony Pictures Classics
Winner
Waltz With Bashir
Israel - The Country of IsraelBridgit Folman Film Gang/Les Films D'Ici/Razor Films/Arte France/ITVS International; Sony Pictures Classics


Best Director - Motion Picture
Nominations
Stephen Daldry – The Reader
David Fincher – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
Sam Mendes – Revolutionary Road
Winner
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Nominations
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Written by Eric Roth
Doubt
Written by John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon
Written by Peter Morgan
The Reader
Written by David Hare
Winner
Slumdog Millionaire
Written by Simon Beaufoy


Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Nominations
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Composed by Alexandre Desplat
Changeling
Composed by Clint Eastwood
Defiance
Composed by James Newton Howard
Frost/Nixon
Composed by Hans Zimmer
Winner
Slumdog Millionaire
Composed by A. R. Rahman

Best Original Song - Motion Picture
Nominations
Down To Earth - Wall-E
Music By: Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman. Lyrics By: Peter Gabriel
Gran Torino – Gran Torino
Music By: Clint Eastwood, Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens. Lyrics By: Jamie Cullum
I Thought I Lost You – Bolt
Music & Lyrics By: Miley Cyrus and Jeffrey Steele
Once In A Lifetime – Cadillac Records
Music & Lyrics By: Beyoncé Knowles, Amanda Ghost, Scott McFarmon, Ian Dench, James Dring and Jody Street
Winner
The Wrestler – The Wrestler
Music & Lyrics By: Bruce Springsteen


Best Television Series - Drama
Nominations
Dexter SHOWTIME
House FOX
Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions and Bad Hat Harry Productions in association with Universal Media Studios
In Treatment HBO
Sheleg, Closest To The Hole Productions and Leverage in association with HBO Entertainment
True Blood HBO
Your Face Goes Here Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
Winner
Mad Men AMC
Lionsgate

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama
Nominations
Sally Field – Brothers & Sisters ABC
Mariska Hargitay – Law & Order
January Jones – Mad Men AMC
Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer TNT
Winner
Anna Paquin – True Blood HBO

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama
Nominations
Michael C. Hall – Dexter (SHOWTIME)
Jon Hamm – Mad Men (AMC)
Hugh Laurie – House (FOX)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers – The Tudors (SHOWTIME)
Winner
Gabriel Byrne – In Treatment (HBO)


Best Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
Nominations
Californication - SHOWTIME
Showtime Presents in association with Aggressive Mediocrity, and Then…, Twilight Time Films
Entourage - HBO
Leverage and Closest to the Hole Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
The Office - NBC
Deedle Dee Productions/Reveille/NBC Universal Television Studio; NBC
Weeds - SHOWTIME
Showtime/Lionsgate Television/Tilted Productions, Inc.; SHOWTIME
Winner
30 Rock - NBC
Universal Media Studios in association with Broadway Video and Little Stranger Inc.


Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
Nominations
Christina Applegate – Samantha Who? ABC
America Ferrera – Ugly Betty ABC
Debra Messing – The Starter Wife USA
Mary-Louise Parker – Weeds SHOWTIME
Winner
Tina Fey – 30 Rock NBC


Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy
Nominations
Steve Carell – The Office NBC
Kevin Connolly – Entourage HBO
David Duchovny – Californication SHOWTIME
Tony Shalhoub – Monk USA
Winner
Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock NBC

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominations
Recount HBO
Spring Creek/Mirage Productions in association with Trigger Street Productions, Everyman Pictures and HBO Films
A Raisin In The Sun ABC
Sony Pictures Television, Storyline Entertainment, and Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment
Bernard And Doris HBO
Trigger Street Independent Productions in association with Little Bird and Chicago Films and HBO Films
Cranford PBS
A Co-Production of BBC and WGBH Boston.
Winner
John Adams (HBO)Playtone in association with HBO Films

Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominations
Judi Dench – Cranford PBS
Catherine Keener – An American Crime
Shirley MacLaine – Coco Chanel
Susan Sarandon – Bernard And Doris HBO
Winner
Laura Linney – John Adams HBO


Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominations
Ralph Fiennes – Bernard And Doris HBO
Kevin Spacey – Recount HBO
Kiefer Sutherland – 24 FOX
Tom Wilkinson – Recount HBO
Winner
Paul Giamatti – John Adams HBO

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominations
Eileen Atkins – Cranford PBS
Melissa George – In Treatment HBO
Rachel Griffiths – Brothers & Sisters ABC
Dianne Wiest – In Treatment HBO
Winner
Laura Dern – Recount HBO

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominations
Neil Patrick Harris – How I Met Your Mother CBS
Denis Leary – Recount HBO
Jeremy Piven – Entourage HBO
Blair Underwood – In Treatment HBO
Winner
Tom Wilkinson – John Adams HBO