Best Picture: Drama
Winner: BOYHOOD
Acceptance Speech:
RICHARD LINKLATER: Wow. Okay. I’ve already been up here once tonight. I’m going to turn this over to a guy ‑‑ this film wouldn’t exist if he didn’t take the biggest leap of faith in film history and give us money every year for 12 years to make this movie. Jonathan Searing. Get up here.
JONATHAN SEARING: Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. To work with somebody like Richard, it’s a once‑in‑a‑lifetime opportunity. I’ve had that opportunity three times. When he came to us 12 years ago with this project, 14 years ago, we said yes because the man has such humanity. He’s so humble. He put so much of his own life into this movie. This is all Richard. But to our great cast, our great family, thank you very much. To AMC Networks, thank you for backing us. To IFC Films, you’re so great. To our cast and crew, city of Boston, the great state of Texas, thank you. And to my own boyhood, my lovely wife Louise, and our wonderful kids: James, Kellen, and Tyler. It’s what made me buy into the movie. Thank you very much.
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Winner: Eddie Redmayne – THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Acceptance Speech:
EDDIE REDMAYNE: Oh, my God, what an extraordinary thing. Thank you to the HFPA. It’s a great privilege for me to be in this room. I’ve had to spend most of the evening trying to prevent myself from falling over a legend of actors I’ve long admired. I apologize because I haven’t been highly successful, but being here in amongst this group of actors particularly in this category is an extraordinary thing. This was a huge privilege Stephen, Jane, Jonathan and the Hawking family allowed us into their lives and entrusted us with their story. Getting to spend time with Steve Hawking who, despite all of the obstacles put in his way, has lived passionately and fully and with great humor was one of the great, great honors of my life. I would like to thank our producers, my wonderful director James Marsh who held my hand as I had panic attacks daily. Felicity Jones, the most formidable actress who raised my game.
(Applause.)
My wondrous team, wondrous team of agents and Hannah, my wife of about a couple of weeks ago. We had to cut our honeymoon short to come to Los Angeles. I promised the sunshine. It wasn’t so great today. But I thank you. I thank the HFPA for giving me and us a night at the end of our honeymoon we will remember. Thank you.
(Applause.)
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: Julianne Moore – STILL ALICE
Acceptance Speech:
JULIANNE MOORE: Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, the Hollywood Foreign Press. When Lisa Genova wrote this book, she told me that no one wanted to make it into a movie because she said no one wanted to see a movie about a middle‑aged woman. So I want to thank the people who actually made the movie: James Brown, Lex Lutzus, Sony Classics, and my good, good friends at Killer Films and this amazing cast; and mostly our filmmakers who, in the middle of their own crisis with a degenerative disease, ALS, decided that they wanted to make movies because they wanted to celebrate who we are and what we value and who we love. And my mother, you know, Rich ‑‑ I’m sorry. I didn’t say their names ‑‑ Wash Westmoreland and Rich Glatzer. So I want to thank them so much. My mother always told me that a happy person was someone who had work and love, and I want to thank Rich and Wash for this extraordinary opportunity to work. And I want to thank Bart and Cal and Liv for all that love. Thank you.
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Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Winner: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
Acceptance Speech:
WES ANDERSON: Thank you. Thank you. I’m not going to spend many of my few seconds up here thanking people like Steven Rails and Scott Rudin and Jim Gianopulos and Nancy Utley and Steve Gilula, Tremon and Owen, Ralph and Hugo, Jeremy, and Bill Roman and Jason, Randy and Edward and Adrian and Jeff and Tilda, Jim and Rich, and especially James L. Brooks and Polly Platt. Instead of I’m going to focus on the membership of the Hollywood Foreign Press: Yorum and Dagmar and Yukiko and Mounawar, Lorenzo, Armando, Houssan, Jean Paul, Hans, Helmut. These are the people I want to thank tonight and many others with names nothing like theirs, but equally captivating: Heerpi, Ehrpi, Anka, and so on. I thank you for this Golden Globe.
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: Michael Keaton – BIRDMAN
Acceptance Speech:
MICHAEL KEATON: Thank you very much. Thank you.
(Applause.)
Thanks. The reason people go on about thanking so many people is that there are always so many people to thank. I took care of it personally and privately, most everyone except for Nancy and Brad. And I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for even having a comedy category.
(Laughter.)
(Applause.)
Really, man, really. If I can carry that flag for even a night, I’m proud to do so. Alejandro, there’s not a person in this room who won’t show up for your next gig, my brother.
(Laughter.)
I’m telling you, you just name the place, you name the time. Not just me. There’s not an actor or an actress in this room who won’t show up.
(Applause.)
Thanks for be a true artist. Thanks for letting me be a part of this unbelievably gutsy unapologetic look at human nature. Thanks. It’s been a ride. This cast is tremendous. The crew was tremendous. Everybody was great. In the household in which I was raised, the themes were pretty simple ‑‑ work hard, don’t quit, be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful, also to never whine ever, never complain, and always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor. My name is Michael John Douglas. I’m from Forest Grove, Penn. I’m the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas. I don’t ever remember a time when my father didn’t work two jobs, when my mother wasn’t saying the rosary or going to Mass or trying to take care of seven kids in a rundown farmhouse. She was volunteering at the Ohio valley hospital where I was born in the hallway. I’ve got six wonderful brothers and sisters. I have some tremendous, tremendously loving and generous friends all over the world. My best friend is kind, intelligent, funny, talented, considerate, thoughtful. Did I say kind? He also ‑‑ he also happens to be my son Sean.
(Applause.)
I love with you all my heart, buddy. This is for all those people, for all of the. Sorry. Shoot. Two things I said I wasn’t going to ‑‑ cry and give air quotes. Damn.
(Laughter.)
I’m so grateful, honestly, from the bottom of my heart. You have no idea what this means to me. To come from the place where I come from, I’m proud of all my friends and my family. Thank you very, very much. I’m extremely grateful.
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: Ruth Wilson – THE AFFAIR
Acceptance Speech:
RUTH WILSON: Wow. Thank you. I am very amazed. I was nominated for a Golden Globe a number of years ago. It was the year that the writers had a strike. I sat in the Four Seasons Hotel bar watching the results. I lost. It was more than a little disappointing. So thank you to the HFPA for getting me back here and putting me on this podium. It’s amazing. I have to thank everyone at Showtime for giving me a job. Thank you. To the writers for writing one of the most complex and, shall we say, depressed characters I’ve ever played. To my most incredible cast who, each and every one of you, it was an honor and privilege working alongside you. And Dom, your ass is something of great beauty. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise, Jeff Reiner. To my wonderful team ‑‑ Alise, Katie, Connor, Sam. There’s so many of you. I can’t remember all of your names. And, finally, to my glorious, glorious, glorious parents, thank you.
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Best Director – Motion Picture
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: Richard Linklater – BOYHOOD
Acceptance Speech:
RICHARD LINKLATER: Wow. Wow. Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press Association. I mean, I’m the guy up here holding this, but I really feel like I’m representing a cast and crew of 450 people who worked on this thing, gave everything of themselves all these years during this production. You know, this was a very personal film for me. Couldn’t be more personal. But it became very personal to everyone who worked on it. It means so much to us that people have seen it and responded to it in that personal way. There’s nothing that feels better than that, to feel like we made that connection. And bottom line is we’re all flawed in this world. No one’s perfect. I just want to dedicate this to my parents and ‑‑ who gave so much love and support. I want to dedicate this to parents that are evolving everywhere and families that are just passing through this world and doing their best. Thank you very much.
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Cecil B. DeMille® Award
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: GEORGE CLOONEY
Acceptance Speech:
GEORGE CLOONEY: Thank you. I can’t say what an honor it is to be up here. I thought they were going to roast me, but to be up here on the stage with Jules and Don, I spent such a long part of my life and career with them, and it’s been an unbelievable honor to watch them grow and mature, and it’s probably been fun for them to watch me not grow and not mature over the same period of time.
(Laughter.)
Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press. You’ve always been very kind to me, and thank you for keeping small films alive. Big ones do fine. It’s the little ones that’s need an audience.
(Applause.)
And we’ll find our “Birdman.” Now, it’s always fun to come here and catch up with old friends, and now we’ve seen that everybody has been hacked, it’s also a good chance for us to meet face to face and apologize for all the snarky things we said about each other.
(Laughter.)
I’m sorry, Don.
(Laughter.)
So after coming here for several years and having lost a great ‑‑ much more than I’ve won, you start so see a pattern that happens on nights like this. All right. So you’re on your way in. You’re at the red carpet, and you’re a nominee. Everybody’s congratulating you. You’re on top of the world, literally everybody. And then within a couple of hours, four out of the five of you don’t win. Literally, 80 percent of the people in this room don’t win, and then you are a loser.
(Laughter.)
And I’m telling you, you go to the after parties. Nobody will look you in the eyes. You go to work the next day, and a guy in the crew comes over and like, “I’m sorry, pal. You’ll get them next time.” For the record, if you are in this room, you’ve caught the brass ring.
(Applause.)
You get to do what you’ve always dreamed to do and be celebrated for it, and that just ‑‑ it ain’t losing. I don’t remember what awards Lauren Bacall won. I just remember her saying, “You know how to whistle. Just put your lips together and blow.” And I have no idea what kind of hardware Robin Williams took home, but I sure remember, “Carpe diem and seize the day, boys.”
(Applause.)
“Make your lives extraordinary.” I’ll never forget that. So congratulations to all of you for having a very good year. I’ve had a pretty good year myself, and I’m not just referring to the fabulous reviews on “The Monuments Men.”
(Laughter.)
I’ll get you back.
(Laughter.)
Which means a whole new thing when you find someone to love.
(Applause.)
Even better when you’ve been waiting your whole life, and when your whole life is 53 years, cue, Amy, start the jokes. Amal, whatever alchemy it is that brought us together, I couldn’t be more proud to be your husband.
(Applause.)
And just one last thing I would say is just to reiterate what we’ve all been talking about, today was an extraordinary day. There were millions of people that marched not just in Paris but around the world.
(Applause.)
And they were Christians and Jews and Muslims. They were leaders of countries all over the world, and they didn’t march in protest. They marched in support of the idea that we will not walk in fear. We won’t do it. So je suis Charlie. Thank you.
(Applause.)
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: Kevin Spacey – HOUSE OF CARDS
Acceptance Speech:
KEVIN SPACEY: This is just the beginning of my revenge.
(Laughter.)
I want to thank Netflix for their incredible support of this series. Ted, all of you guys have done an incredible job. I have an extraordinary time coming to work every day with brilliant writing from Beau Willamon and his incredible writing staff, an incredible cast. Kate, Robin, it’s a joy to come to work with you every day and all of those that I work with every day. My agents at CAA, Matt DelPiano; my manager, Joanne; my business partner, Dana Brunetti. This is the eighth time I’ve been nominated. I cannot fucking believe I won.
(Laughter.)
But I want to tell you just a little story that will explain to you how I feel about this tonight. The last time that I saw Stanley Kramer, one of the great filmmakers of all time, was at the Motion Picture and Television home. I was sitting with him, and he was in a wheelchair. He was ill at this time. And as I was about to leave, I realized that I had never told him what I thought about his work, how much his work had meant to me. So I said to him, “The films you made, the subjects you tackled, the performances you got out of some of the greatest actors that have ever walked the face of the earth, the Oscars you won, your films will stand the test of time and will influence filmmakers for all time.” And I didn’t know whether he had really retained what I said or not. Sometimes he did. Sometimes he didn’t. But, as I stood up to leave, he grabbed my hand. I looked at his wife, who was across the room, and I sat back down. And he said as clear to me as anything he had ever said, “Thank you so much for saying that. That means so much to me. I just wish my films could have been better.” So as I stand here tonight as someone who has enjoyed such an extraordinary career and in large measure because of the people in this room, I just want it to be better. I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging. Thank you very much.
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Best Television Series – Drama
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: THE AFFAIR
Acceptance Speech:
SARAH TREEM: Whoa. Thank you. We are so honored just to be nominated in this category. This is unreal. We want to start, of course, by thanking Showtime: David Nevins, Gary Levine, Amy Israel. Hagai and I walked into Showtime three years ago with a show about an affair, and we said that we wanted to use it to talk about marriage. And David Nevins did not blink an eye. He just bought it in the room. So thank you for the faith. Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Thank you, Les Moonves. Thank you to this absolutely extraordinary cast behind me: Dominic West, Maura Tierney, Ruth Wilson, Josh Jackson. It is a talent ‑‑ I mean, it is a privilege and an honor to write for talent of this magnitude and one that we as writers don’t take lightly. Thank you to the writers. To my co‑creator Hagai for the inspiration. Thank you to Jeff Reiner, our executive producer, for the courage. I want to ‑‑ I want to thank my agents, Rick Rosen and Erin Junkin. It is the best thing to happen to me in this business. I’m going to thank my husband. That was at the end. My parents, my son Henry, and my husband, Jay Carson. If I have learned anything from writing a show about an affair, it’s how sacred and valuable and essential our marriages are. Thank you.
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: Maggie Gyllenhaal – THE HONORABLE WOMAN
Acceptance Speech:
MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL: Thank you so much. I gave my speech to my brother. So if I need help, he’s going to bring it up to me. Thank you so much to the Hollywood Foreign Press and to Sundance and the BBC. I think I’ve noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. When I look around the room at the women who are in here I think about the performances that I’ve watched this year, what I see actually are women who are sometimes powerful and sometimes not, sometimes sexy, sometimes not, sometimes honorable, sometimes not. What I think is new is the wealth of roles for actual woman in television and in film.
(Applause.)
That’s what I think is revolutionary and evolutionary, and it’s what’s turning me on. So I want to thank a couple of wonderfully complicated women in my life ‑‑ my mom and Courtney Kivowitz and Amanda and Elise and Michelle and my daughters who will one day be great women. I also just want to ‑‑ I want to thank my brother, who’s an amazing date that’s telling me to wrap up. I’m sure that’s not a surprise to anyone. I’ve got to thank Hugo Blick who wrote, directed, and produced every minute of “The Honorable Woman.” I share this with you. And to my husband, who is a lover of complicated women obviously, I could never have done this without you. Thank you so much.
(Applause.)
Backstage Interview:
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Best Foreign Language Film
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: LEVIATHAN (Левиафан) (Russia)
Acceptance Speech:
ANDREY ZVYAGINTSEV. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. We are absolutely happy.
ALEXANDRE RODNIANSKI: While indeed this is an incredibly happy moment for all of us, for our beloved families, our gifted cast and crew. The more we think about the fortunate fate of our movie, the more we believe that it doesn’t matter whether you are Korean, American, Russian, or French. A tragic story of an ordinary man who comes face‑to‑face with an indifferent system is absolutely universal. We are very grateful to the Hollywood Foreign Press. We want to especially thank Michael Barker and Tom Bernard and Sony Pictures Classics and their team for bringing this film for a wider audience. And thank you very much all of you guys.
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: Jeffrey Tambor – TRANSPARENT
Acceptance Speech:
JEFFREY TAMBOR: Hello. Oh, this is big. This is much bigger than me. Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press for putting us on the map and making people aware of our story. Jill Soloway, you have changed my life. For the better, by the way.
(Laughter.)
And thank you for the gift and thank you for the responsibility of Maura Pfefferman from the Pacific Palisades. Thank you, magnificent, stellar, innovative cast. You led me all the way. You told me all the way. You inspired me all the way. Rhys Ernst, Zachary Drucker, Jenny Boylan, thank you. You led me through the steps to find more of Jeffrey than I’ve ever known in my entire life. To Amazon, my new best friend.
(Laughter.)
To Joe Lewis, my new best friend. To my wife, Kasia Tambor. If it weren’t for you, honey, I wouldn’t be standing up here tonight. Check that. I would not be standing. And finally, if I may, I would like to dedicate my performance and this award to the transgender community.
(Applause.)
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your courage. Thank you for your inspiration. Thank you for your patience. And thank you for letting us be a part of the change. Thanks.
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Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo – BIRDMAN
Acceptance Speech:
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ IÑÁRRITU: How do end up here?
(Laughter.)
Everything was about the eagle guys and really that voice was getting us crazy while we were doing this script. Work with these guys ‑‑ Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo, and Nicolás Giacobone ‑‑ the best experience in my life because every time we’d come in. We’d slap each other and say, “I wrote that line. That’s a great joke.” It was material for us. So if it sounds familiar, you know, the idea behind the script was that you “cinemize” a mirror that we all can be reflected in a way we wanted that none of us can be reflected there because we all are inside that mirror, and that was very fun. But I have to say that whatever we have wrote there, you know, words don’t have any meaning if there’s no actors like that. So Mr. Michael Keaton, wow.
(Applause.)
Edward Norton, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts, Andrea Riseborough, and Amy Ryan did the job by themselves. I want to thank Fox Searchlight, New Regency, New World, and all the people that made this film possible and the master Lubezki and Antonio Sanchez. And I already got in trouble because there’s so many people I would like to thank. My wife, my kids are down there, and all of you, and the Hollywood Foreign Press ‑‑ sorry. My English is terrible, my God ‑‑ anyway, for giving us this recognition. Thank you very much.
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Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: Patricia Arquette – BOYHOOD
Acceptance Speech:
PATRICIA ARQUETTE: Sorry. I’m really nervous with the piece of paper. I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press for this great honor, my fellow nominees, the beautiful Jessica, Keira, Emma, and Meryl. I’m honored to call you my peers. Meryl, thank you for giving me a hug. I hope your DNA transfers to me. Thank you to IFC, Josh Sapan, Jonathan Steering for funding this experiment when you knew you couldn’t see a profit for at least 13 years. To John Sloss, Cathleen Sutherland, our cast and crew for all of your hard work. To my on‑screen family, Ethan Hawke, the amazing Ethan Hawke ‑‑
(Applause.)
‑‑ Ellar Coltrane, the beautiful Lorelei Linklater. I love you all. Many thanks to our visionary director, Richard Linklater, for allowing me to be part of something so human, so simple and groundbreaking and significant in the history of cinema. You placed in my hands the part of Olivia, an underappreciated single mother. Thank you for shining a light on this woman and the millions of women like her and for allowing me to honor my own mother with this beautiful character. To my parents, Luis and Marty, who are no longer with us, you were very inspirational to me on this whole project, and Ethan reminded me so much of my own father. My siblings ‑‑ Rosanna, Richmond, Alexis, and David ‑‑ and my friends who watched my kids while I was trying to build a carrier as a 20‑year‑old, single mother. To my man, Eric White, happy anniversary. Thank you for loving me. To David D. Kimalow [sp] and Molly Madden, it must ‑‑ especially to my kids, Enzo and Harlow, who I love and respect with all my heart. My favorite role in this whole life has been being your mom. Thank you.
Backstage Interview:
ROUGH:
MS. ARQUETTE: Sweet Lord, whoever knew. Am I calling on your hands?
Q. Congratulations. Are you getting pitched for other films for another 12 years?
MS. ARQUETTE: The last year I was so sad we were finishing that I said to Richard, you know, I’m the mom, and the mom doesn’t agree that it’s 12 years. It’s actually a 20-year movie and then I tried to push it even further like you can finish this movie when I’m an old dead woman. That’s when you can finish making this movie. He said No, baby, we are making a movie. We have all tried to get him to continue, but this is what we got.
Q. Congratulations. You talked on the red carpet about Richard being a cool customer. Were you a cool customer when it came time to that category and then when you heard your name. I mean, I do feel like I am having some sorted of panic sweat possibly. I felt pretty calm all day and okay. I felt like I should prepare a speech just to be responsible because I was in a category with Meryl Streep so God knows good luck to you, but I still felt like I needed to be responsible, but when they started reading it I got scared, and then I got scared when I had to go up. I also feel like somebody shot me full of adrenaline. It is an amazing feeling?
Q. How are you going to be celebrating your win?
MS. ARQUETTE: Well, I am going to hang out with my cast mates and it’s my anniversary so I’ll be with my boyfriend and just hanging out together, celebrating our movie and incredible experience, which I really feel is all of ours. Is he worked so collaboratively together. In a way you really don’t work on movies. The level of intimacy we establish with each other, this really is all of our work and it is blurred lines as to who starts where and who ends where.
Q. Yesterday you told me it was impossible to beat the greatest actress ever, Meryl Streep, and you did. So how does it feel?
MS. ARQUETTE: It feels really surreal. I don’t even know if I am awake yet. This is an amazing dream that I am having that continues on. It is amazing. Her work in Iron Weed may be some of the best work I have ever seen on earth so it is a great honor.
Q. You continue to get respect as an actress, which must mean a lot. You continue to get better. Can you tell us what contributes to your getting better and better? You have played such a range of roles in so many stages of your life. Can you tell us what brings you to this stage and what makes you better and better?
MS. ARQUETTE: I am a fourth generation actor and my father supported us job to job and not having a job and feeding five kids and how do you do that. I saw the difficult side of acting, that it really was hard. I feel like I grow at every job. I don’t think I am the greatest at each job, I feel like hopefully do you the best you can. Some material is more difficult than other material, but I do feel like this is my life right now. I want to work with other actors and work with directors and grow and learn. I feel like at this age you come to a position where you kind of know yourself and you want to explore territory in a deep, rugged raw way maybe. So I am excited about this part of my life.
Q. Congratulations. I am wondering if you can sort of talk about what it was like watching Ellar grow up and then going back and watching it on screen and having it condensed in that way. You said you were the mom, did you take on a maternal role with him ?
MS. ARQUETTE: I wouldn’t say mother, but a maternal role with Ethan. His mother is a dancer and works with horses and autistic people. He has a solid parent group, but Ethan and I definitely were like family xfigures and we still are and I hope we always will be. Watching him grow up was exceptional because he seemed like this dreamer, this innocent, hopeful, not the kind of people you usually cast in a movie. It was pretty incredible to see him grow up but then you were sticking with him in realtime, and you watch the movie and revisited when he was a baby. I remember the first weekend I went to meet them I had them alone with me the whole weekend, I put them to bed, drew their baths, dinner. Through the years you get this I’m hungry, make me a sandwich. So you had that caretaking component, but they both grew into beautiful people.
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Best Animated Feature Film
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2
Acceptance Speech:
BONNIE ARNOLD: Wow. This is incredible. Thank you so much. We’re so excited. On behalf of over 400 people who worked on this film, from the bottom of our hearts, we thank the Hollywood Foreign Press. We’d love to thank the leadership at Dreamworks: Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ann Daly, and Bill Damaschke. To our amazing partners who were with us on the distribution of it: Jim Gianopulos and all the great people at Fox. To Cressida Cowell, who actually created the whole world that we’ve been able to play in. She’s the author of the books. And to our incredible cast, our incredible crew, to our incredible producer, Bonnie Arnold. Thank you so much to our families, to Dave Wirtschafter and Jeff Bourne at William Morris to Linda Lichter and Peter Nichols, our attorneys. We thank you so much.
BONNIE ARNOLD: This is a dream come true. Thank you all so much.
Backstage Interview:
ROUGH:
MS. ARNOLD: Bonnie Arnold producer.
MR. DEBLOIS: Dean Deblois. I am the writer director.
Q. Last time I saw you there was a discussion about if there was going to be a 3 or 4, Jeffrey wanted 4, how does that stand today?
MR. DEBLOIS: I think I have convinced them that a third part of the trilogy is enough to complete the story. That’s what we are doing. If there are further adventures in the dragon world, that’s yet to be seen, but this specific story will wrap up.
Q. I hate to tell you how many times I have seen your movie and love it. What is it that people respond to, what do you write for, does that make sense?
MR. DEBLOIS: I think we write for the complete audience, there are many of themes in there for the adults and the kids. I think any time the film starts to get a little romantic or mature in its theme we try to make sure there’s something going on at least in the background to entertain the younger members of the audience. We try for the broadest reach.
Q. You have taken on a big role at DreamWorks animation, is there any nervousness for you transitioning from producer to being an executive?
MS. ARNOLD: I think largely my job will entail getting artists’s vision to the screen and that’s what I do best and I am really excited by it.
Q. Is there a special significance in this category with everything that went on this past week in France?
MR. DEBLOIS: Yeah, we work with so many of the top artists in the world and many of them come from the background of comic and news print. I think it touches each and every one of us, the draws, being able to put our own kind of subversive ideas and comedic ideas and hopefully broaden minds and not narrow them: We have several talented artists, including our production designer who is intimately communicated to French artists, and I know it was a big hit to our group.
MS. ARNOLD: I just wanted to say we wanted to dedicate this award to Nadia Bronson which is a member of Hollywood Foreign Press and worked very closely with DreamWorks and say a special thank you to her and her memory.
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: Amy Adams – BIG EYES
Acceptance Speech:
AMY ADAMS: To say that I’m ill‑prepared for this moment is a huge understatement, like huge. I didn’t even re‑apply lip gloss. So, wow, thank you so much. I feel so fortunate to be here and fortunate to play Margaret Keane, a woman who has such a quiet voice and such a strong heart and such a strong artistic vision and, ultimately, was able to use her voice. I’m lucky because I get to stand here tonight with a man who stands beside me, Darren, who would never silence my voice, and I’m just so fortunate. So thank you, Darren. Thank you, Stacy. Thank you, Michelle (phonetic). Thank you, Meghan (phonetic), at home nurturing twins in her womb. Sorry, it’s getting weird.
(Laughter.)
But I’m really just so lucky. I have so many wonderful female role models here tonight looking out in the audience. I’m really ill‑prepared. But I also ‑‑ it just so wonderful that women today have such a strong voice. And I have a four‑and‑a‑half year old, and I’m so grateful to have all the women in this room. You speak to her so loudly. She watches everything, and she sees everything, and I’m just so, so grateful for all of you women in this room for such a lovely, beautiful voice. And speaking to my daughter, thank you so much. And thank you Weinstein Company. Thank you, Tim Burton, and thank you Christoph. I love working with you. You’re just the best. You really are. You’re so charismatic. Your wife’s a lucky gal. Anyway, I really appreciate this. Thank you for this moment. Thank you so much.
Backstage Interview:
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: Matt Bomer – THE NORMAL HEART
Acceptance Speech:
MATT BOMER: Wow. Thank you so much, Hollywood Foreign Press for acknowledging this film and including me along with these incredible actors in this category, all of whom I admire so much. Ryan Murphy, thank you for believing in me and trusting me with this role, walking me through it every day. Larry Kramer, thank you for your anger and your passion and writing this story that changed so many lives. Mark Ruffalo, I don’t know where you are, but you are the best actor anybody could ever hope to have as a scene partner, and I thank you on behalf of the whole cast for providing the heart and soul of this movie. To my husband, Simon Halls, and our three kids, Kit, walker, Henry, I love you putting up with me when I was 130 pounds and really grumpy when you ate pizza in front of me. To everyone at HBO, thank you for making films like this continually that need to be heard. To Bryan Lourd, Kevin Hovana, everyone at CAA, Tony Lipp, for making this happen to me. And to the generation that we lost and the people we continue to lose due to this disease, I just want to say we love you, we remember you. Thank you.
Backstage Interview:
ROUGH:
MR. BOMER: Do I talk or do you? I am not familiar with this. This is my first time. Do I speak?
Q. You said you would come to my theater company. Is that still on?
MR. BOMER: Offer is still on the table. I got a break after February.
Q. Congratulations. How are you?
MR. BOMER: Over the moon. I didn’t expect this at all. I came to have a good time and thrilled to be in the company of all those incredible actors in the category. So I am kind of just in an endorphin rush right now.
Q. What went through your mind when you heard your name called?
MR. BOMER: I think initially shock because I didn’t expect to win and then just joy and then trying to make sure I didn’t get too emotional before I got up on stage and to collect myself to remember who I needed to thank and remember to thank in the speech.
Q. First of all, thanks for stopping on the carpet. Real quick question, White Collar, that was huge and I know you have movies coming out, is the plan to go back to television or focusing on film now that White Collar is done?
MR. BOMER: I don’t discriminate between mediums. I think like that’s gone. I feel like we live in a golden age of television where a lot of the writing I see on series net network and cable format and now on demand, I don’t know what you call it when it’s on Amazon and Netflix and all that, but it is on par with or better than the writing you read in a lot of film scripts. For me it is about the story and the director and the writing and the character and whatever medium that takes me to, whether it is theater or film or TV, I am happy to be there.
Q. Congratulations. As a theater person, I am interested in how you approach the role and how different it was from the stage play that Larry Kramer’s class. What motivated you or felt brought you closer to the part that you played?
MR. BOMER: I read this play the first time when I was 15 years old in high school in Suburban Texas and it opened my eyes to so many things and woke me up to what was actually going on in the world that nobody around me wanted to talk about. So it had always been close to my heart. I would have been happy doing the play regionally. The fact that I got to do it as a film for HBO kind of several dreams come true at once. I did feel a responsibility to this being a theater piece. I don’t know identify told the Hollywood Foreign Press this, but I actually rented a theater space, ramshackled theater space for about two months and I went in and I performed it as a play. I would get actors I knew to help me out and do the scenes with me. The theatricality of it felt important to have in my bones when I walked on to set. That has its pluses and minuses because then you started to build ideas of how a scene should go or a set should look like which you should never do. I did feel an inherent responsibility to the piece, but not only to the people, but the inherent theatricality of the piece.
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Best Original Song – Motion Picture
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: “GLORY” – SELMA, Music & Lyrics by: John Legend and Common
Acceptance Speech:
COMMON: I want to thank God and the Hollywood Foreign Press.
(Laughter.)
The first day I stepped on the set of “Selma,” I began to feel like this was bigger than a movie. As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights movement, I realize I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote. I am the caring white supporter killed on the front lines of freedom. I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand but instead was given a bullet. I am the two fallen police officers murdered in the line of duty. “Selma” has awakened my humanity, and I thank you, Ava. Ava, you are a superhero. You used the art to elevate us all and bring us together. I want to thank CAA. I want to thank Paramount for having the heart to make this movie. And Plan B, Jeremy, you know we love hip‑hop, and we brought music and art and soul here. Thank you, Plan B. Oprah, for what you do for the people from the past and creating for the future. We look to the future, and we want to create a better world. Now is our time to change the world. “Selma” is now.
JOHN LEGEND: I want to thank this man. He called me up, and he said, “John, I want you to help me write a song for this film.” And I’m so honored ‑‑ I was brought on at the last minute but I’m so honored to be a part to of this amazing film that honors such amazing people that did great work and is so connected to what’s happening right now. We still are in solidarity with those who are out there fighting for justice right now, and we’re so grateful to write this song, hopefully, as an inspiration to them. Thank you very much.
COMMON: Thank you.
Backstage Interview:
ROUGH:
COMMON: Good evening.
Q. You talked about how struggle was universal you identify with the fallen police officers and some of the other victims. Can you expand on that?
COMMON: Being able to be a part of this film actually opened me up to allotted of things. I didn’t know there was that multi culture, black, white, there are different people from religious backgrounds and sexual orientation that came in with part of the civil rights movement. That opened my mind up obviously getting to see what happens right now in present day you see people coming from different backgrounds, no matter what color, they want justice and humanity. They care for the individual whether it is a young black kid or Latino or Asian or Jewish or white person, it’s all love. Basically the expansion is basically saying we all have to do this together. We have to come to an understanding and respect each other. I know it sounds basic and simple and repeated but when put into practice it works.
Q. Congratulations, guys. Obviously when you wrote the song you are representing an error like Sam Cook and Nina Simone were kind of doing the same thing. Did you use that as an influence when you started this?
MR. LEGEND: Well, I thought about gospel music. Common called me and asked him to help him write this song and he threw out some title ideas and one of them was glory. As soon as I heard that word it inspired me to write the cords. I thought about the music I grew up on, gospel and I thought about how are important it was to the movie. You see so many gospel singers being inspiration to Dr. King, and they were part of the musical inspiration for the movie. I wanted to incorporate that, Sam Cook, Marvin Gay grew up singing in the church as I did and I think so many great soul singers have done that. It is the secular and putting that to music is an important part of what we do.
Q. Common, I ran into you at the hotel the other day and we talked about Milo. At that moment you seemed very happy. Did you foresee this happening tonight? It seemed like did you because you were freestyle. Were you hoping for this?
COMMON: I hoped for it and wanted it and prayed for it. You never know what could happen. I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize. I was planning for us to get it but humbly you never know what could happen. It is always best to be prepared.
MR. LEGEND: Wasn’t he prepared. This man is a leer assist. That speech was moving to me and I was just honored to be up there with him.
COMMON: John started this song off, as he said I gave him the title glory, but what he did when he played the piano and sang the words he sang, that’s what really showed me what we could do with this song. I am just grateful to have a brother in him and creative partner and is that talented and his voice really means something.
Q. Congratulations, guys. What are you guys going to be doing to celebrate tonight for both of you?
MR. LEGEND: I’m just happy and hang out with Common and my wife and my crew. Everybody is here. We are so excited and have a little bit of champagne and have a good night. I am really grateful.
COMMON: I am on a Golden Globe high, Glory high, so I don’t know what I will get into tonight but it will be fun. I want to be with my friends and loved ones, some of the family that I worked with, the Selma family. We are going to go out with everybody.
Q. Common, for you, are you going to continue music and pursue acting more? Right now what is your go to?
COMMON: God willing, both.
Q. And for John, will you go into acting at all?
COMMON: I have discovered that God willing, I can do both. I am a part of the film Selma, and we were able to do a song. I just released an album in 2014 called “Nobody Smiling” which is about social relevance going on. I am inspired to do music. I am inspired to be a great actor. It is all part of it, and I love it. Along with that activism is important for me, too.
MR. LEGEND: I feel like my job is to make impact, spread love, tell great stories, inspire people, whatever avenue we have an opportunity to do that, that’s what I am going to do. My company produces film and TV. We want to produce great stories and inspire and lift people. As a musician I want to do the same thing.
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Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin
Winner: Jóhann Jóhannsson – THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Acceptance Speech:
JÒHANN JÒHANNSSON: Well, this is a great honor. When you’re given material like “The Theory of Everything” to work with, it feels like my job is very easy ‑‑ great script, wonderful performances and all expertly directed by James Marsh, who I want to thank especially for inviting me to be a part of his team. I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press. I want to thank Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan for the title, Universal Focus Features, my wonderful team, Tim Husom, Kevin Korum (phonetic) and all of GSA, my family in Iceland and Denmark, and I want to share this with the musicians and the technicians who helped to create this score. Thank you so much.
(Applause.)
Backstage Interview:
ROUGH:
MR. JOHANNSON: Hello.
Q. Congratulations. When you’re starting to do everything for the film, what was the main thing you were thinking about through the whole process, if there was anything specific?
MR. JOHANNSON: I think it was, I mean the first thing that struck me about the film when I saw it in a rough form was the performances and the strength of the characters and the transformation that Eddie Redmayne makes, and that was really a lot — that was my oxygen really to my kind of — the thing that really inspired the music, was the performances, and the kind of interplay between Eddie and the strength of the script and the directions and the photography. It is strong material to work with and it was really, the role of the music to underline the relationships and to strengthen the emotions of the story and to kind of help tell the story and to — because this is a story about an astrophysicist, but it is mainly a love story. The music needed to reflect that. It is a film with a big scope. Sorry, that’s a very long answer.
Q. Great score for a fabulous movie. This is award season and you’re used to being in a room or into room of musicians. How have you adapted to having to appear in public, all of the care earrings on of award system, what has it taught you and changed in it?
MR. JOHANNSON: I am slowly climatizing to that. Indeed it is not my natural habitat so to speak, but I am enjoying it. You get to meet amazing people, and it’s a wonderful occasion. It is amazing to be a part of this, just to be nominated is a huge honor and it is unbelievable. It is a lot of fun.
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