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.

http://www.vtunnel.com/index.php/1010110A/e052bfc3422d465ae2401ea4dd56ce90062a8c7e94e99597ee1f2db49042b344504cc36de61e11f015800