The 2008 Golden Globe Winners Are…
January 14, 2008 by Kath Skerry
Talk about anti-climactic – the 2008 Golden Globe Awards were presented tonight and it was a snoooooozefest. In place of the glitz and glamour that the stars on the red carpet normally provide, we had the “personalities” from TV entertainment news shows like Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight announcing the winners. As sad and depressing as it was for us watching from home (or in my case on board Virgin America Airlines), can you imagine how it was for the winners…especially those who won for the first time? Geesh.
There were definitely a few surprises tonight. The good? MAD MEN and its star Jon Hamm taking home top honors in the Drama categories as well as Tina Fey taking home the award for Best Actress in a Comedy. I had hoped EXTRAS would pull out the win for Best Comedy but I wasn’t convinced – so yay! And the not so good surprises? How about David Duchovney taking home the award for Best Actor in a Comedy…say what? Also not surprising was Glenn Close‘s Best Actress award (was there ever any doubt?)
Here’s a list of the winners. What did YOU think of this year’s Golden Globes?
Best Series, Drama
Big Love
Damages
Grey’s Anatomy
House
Mad Men
The Tudors
Best Series, Comedy or Musical
30 Rock
Californication
Entourage
Extras
Pushing Daisies
Best Actor, Drama Series
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, The Tudors
Bill Paxton, Big Love
Best Actress, Drama Series
Patricia Arquette, Medium
Glenn Close, Damages
Minnie Driver, The Riches
Edie Falco, The Sopranos
Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters
Holly Hunter, Saving Grace
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
Best Actress, Comedy or Musical Series
Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Anna Friel, Pushing Daisies
Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds
Best Actor, Comedy or Musical Series
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
David Duchovny, Californication
Ricky Gervais, Extras
Lee Pace, Pushing Daisies
Best Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or TV Movie
Rose Byrne, Damages
Rachel Griffiths, Brothers & Sisters
Katherine Heigl, Grey’s Anatomy
Samantha Morton, Longford
Anna Paquin, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Jaime Pressly, My Name Is Earl
Best Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or TV Movie
Ted Danson, Damages
Kevin Dillon, Entourage
Jeremy Piven, Entourage
Andy Serkis, Longford
William Shatner, Boston Legal
Donald Sutherland, Dirty Sexy Money
Best Miniseries or TV Movie
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
The Company
Five Days
Longford
The State Within
Best Actress, Miniseries or TV Movie
Bryce Dallas Howard, As You Like It
Debra Messing, The Starter Wife
Queen Latifah, Life Support
Sissy Spacek, Pictures of Hollis Woods
Ruth Wilson, Jane Eyre
Best Actor, Miniseries or TV Movie
Adam Beach, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Ernest Borgnine, A Grandpa for Christmas
Jim Broadbent, Longford
Jason Isaacs, The State Within
James Nesbitt, Jekyll
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I didn’t care much for the news conference, but when Tina Fey’s name was announced as winner, it was then that I really wish there was an awards show just to hear her acceptance speech for her first acting win.
I agree with Jules, I miss Tina Fey’s speech, althought I’m very happy for her, I love 30 Rock.
Yeah, nothing I watch won. Oh well. I didn’t watch them and am glad of it
Very boring telecast, but happy for Tina Fey, Glenn Close, and Jon Hamm. Although I thought that Mad Men was very good, I don’t think it was as uniformly strong as some of the other contenders. But congrats to them. No surprise about Extras, the Globes honored The Office when it was still relatively unknown. Here’s hoping that the Oscars don’t come to the same dreary fate.
Had a hard time taking them seriously when I saw some of the nominees. William Shatner for Best Supporting Actor – TV? Are you KIDDING me?
Consistently, the most brilliant work in that category was turned in by John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer in ‘The Office’. When neither of them even got nominated I stopped caring about the GGs.
Very, very boring awards show. I was only able to watch the ones with Access Hollywood, and good gracious did it suck.
Very sad to see that Lee, Anna, and Pushing Daisies didn’t win the awards it so deserves. But I am almost okay with Tina Fey stealing Anna’s award. Tina Fey rocks at everything she does.
Being a Canadian with basic cable, there were a TON of shows and actors I had never even heard of, and this made me angrier about their wins. Too bad nobody consulted me.
Happy for Liz Lemon. Very happy for Extras. The Office will hopefully have many more chances to win (being on the air for 8 more years!). I love Ricky Gervais. I would have loved to see him win. I heard David Duch. is hilarious in his role but I haven’t seen it. Glad to see it’s not just a popularity contest. I wish Rose Byrne would have won for Damages. That show is like an extra long suspense feature film. Very good show! I just miss my Chuck and Life and The Office. And it’s winter. sigh
I’m glad the annoucements were over in 30 min so I could get on with my night. Although, being on the west coast, we actually did have the option to watch the TAPE DELAYED version on NBC in primetime with (no doubt) commercials added. What, am I really that dumb? Yes, it’s on 47 other channels at 6pm, but I’m going to wait until 8pm to catch it tape delayed. Ha-ha. Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press for taking over and letting the other channels get involved. I wish that was the format every year (quick with no song and dance), but with the winners present.
Supporting actor roles are the toughest, since, obviously there are more supporting characters than lead characters out there. Hopefully Jim and Pam will get a chance to do some “flashback” episodes to when they first started dating and get some funny and emotional scripts so that they will catch the voters attention!!!!!