- HFPA
WHEN THAT EARLY MORNING PHONE CALL BREAKS THE NEWS
September 27, 2010
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HFPA
Nominations for the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards will be announced live at 5:00 am (PST), Tuesday, December 14, 2010.
“We’re waxing up our lederhosen already. We hear that’s what you wear. Because it’s foreign press. Right? So you wear, you dress, as your favorite nationality.”
– Chris Miller and Phil Lord, the co-writers/co-directors of Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
“I dig being dug, man!”
– Jeff Bridges, best actor nominee for Crazy Heart
“The Hollywood Foreign Press has been mighty fine to me over the past 30 years, and this year is especially sweet. I’m happy to share this nom with my buddies T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham for our ‘Crazy Heart’ theme song, and with our writer-director Scott Cooper and co-stars Maggie, Bob and Colin who helped make Bad Blake such a genuine character. I would like to dedicate this recognition to the memory of the late, great Stephen Bruton who brought his musical touch to every part of the picture.”
– Jeff Bridges, best actor nominee for Crazy Heart
“I think it’s just the way I’ve been puke drunk myself, you know, just looking at my own experiences being hung over.”
– Jeff Bridges, best actor nominee for Crazy Heart
“I’m watching it with my roommates, with my manager and all these people, and we’re watching at the same time, and we all jumped. Well, I jumped, certainly, because Justin Timberlake said my name. It’s not just that I’m excited because he said my name, but I love that he said my name in the context of me possibly winning an award for this movie.”
– Gabourey Sidibe, best actress nominee for Precious
“Maybe this year CBS or Fox will give me a new car. Didn’t they do that with all the ‘Will and Grace’ people once?”
– Neil Patrick Harris, supporting actor nominee for How I Met Your Mother
“I’m grateful for anything that helps the show.”
– Alec Baldwin, best actor nominee for 30 Rock
“I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for this tremendous honor. Congratulations to Clint Eastwood and Matt Damon on their nominations, and I extend my deepest gratitude to my producing partner Lori McCreary, and the entire cast and crew of ‘Invictus’ for their tireless work to make a film befitting of Nelson Mandela’s legacy. Playing Mandela was the greatest honor of my career, and I hope that I have done him proud.”
– Morgan Freeman, best actor nominee for Invictus
“I did notice Sir Paul McCartney was in there. Isn’t that right? And U2? It’s a formidable group. I would say we have to be the underdog in that group.”
– T Bone Burnett, songwriter for Crazy Heart
“This nomination is like icing on the cake. But I thought the icing on the cake was that we were in Sundance. Then I thought the icing was that we won Sundance and then Oprah calling was icing on the cake. Right now I’m almost stuffed from all this icing I’ve been putting down.”
– Lee Daniels, Precious
“Each time is unique in its own way. It was my dream as a kid to be in an American musical. It’s an amazing movie and a very special movie, and I hope that people will be made more aware of it by this.”
– Marion Cotillard, best support actress nominee for Nine
“I’m pumped! It’s been a four-and-a-half-year journey, and this is not typically the kind of film that critics love, it being a genre movie and been seen as a big commercial movie.”
– James Cameron, Avatar
“Thank you very much to the Hollywood Foreign Press for making my mum cry in the grocery store. I’m honored and completely speechless.”
– Carey Mulligan, best actress nominee for An Education
“It’s lovely to be recognized, particularly by the foreign press, from all the different countries. You don’t think of awards. … If you happen to get one, it’s awfully nice. But you don’t worry about it.”
– Christopher Plummer, best supporting actor nominee for The Last Station
“The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20 year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.”
— Colin Firth, best actor nominee for A Single Man
“I am so honored and thrilled to be among the Golden Globe nominees this year. I am happy for everybody – particularly my friend Colin Firth!”
— Julianne Moore, best supporting actress nominee for A Single Man
“I’m an idiot … I had a couple of drinks last night and forgot it was this morning. I was running late. I was in the shower. I was wondering why the phone kept ringing, and then I went, ‘Oh my God. I know why the phone is ringing!'”
– Jason Reitman, director/screenwriter of Up in the Air
“We’re flattered and honored with the support we’ve received for Up throughout the year, and this is a humbling, happy year-end moment for us. We spend years making these films and you never know how people will receive them, and we continue to be thrilled with the response. Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press for this incredible honor.”
— Peter Doctor, writer/director of Up
“We are completely thrilled to be nominated for a Golden Globe. The Globes have a long and illustrious history…we are happy to spoil that. Thank you HFPA.”
— Todd Phillips, producer/director of The Hangover
“Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press who have transported me from the unbelievable into the unimaginable.”
– Christoph Waltz, best supporting actor nominee for Inglourious Basterds
“Although I’ve received nominations before and I’ve even won Golden Globes in the past, every new nomination comes to me as a big and pleasant surprise. Every time seems harder to get it and this nomination for BROKEN EMBRACES makes me even happier than the ones I’ve had before, so I thank the members of the HFPA for making my day!
— Pedro Almodovar, writer/director of Broken Embraces
“This nomination is, first of all, very moving for me. It proves that a movie can travel, that we don’t just make a film for one’s own country, for our “home.” For an American, that might seem obvious, less so for a Frenchman. Also, if I make films, it is because I’ve seen films and read film reviews. I belong to a generation of cinephiles for whom seeing films and reading about them went hand in hand. Filmmakers opened your eyes and film critics helped you think. I loved that. Now today, my film is nominated for a Golden Globe and I am naturally very proud.”
– Jacques Audiard, co-writer/director of A Prophet
“A hearty thank you to the members of the HFPA. I am delighted and very grateful to be included. Congratulations to all fellow nominees and eternal thanks to Rob Marshall.”
— Daniel Day-Lewis, best actor nominee for Nine
“We’re so thrilled to be included in such a varied and exciting year
for film. I am incredibly proud of this extraordinary cast and the
amazing amount of dedication and passion they gave. Working with all
of them was pure joy for me.”
— Rob Marshall, director of Nine
“Everybody keeps asking me what I think this means for the future and I’m trying to enjoy this now, this moment. It’s really exciting and apparently the first thing I’m supposed to do is talk to a bunch of journalists. (Laughs.) I’m starting to feel as though journalists are my family because every time I get good news I talk to journalists first. I’ll invite you all around for Thanksgiving.
– Anna Kendrick, best supporting actress nominee for Up in the Air
“My heartfelt thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press for this wonderful nomination. I share this honor with Jude Law and all of my cast-mates, my great director Guy Ritchie and the rest of the team whose collaboration and camaraderie helped make this new incarnation of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ possible.”
– Robert Downey, Jr., actor nominee for Sherlock Holmes
“I’m thrilled to be in such great company and it underlines my conviction that the best writing for women today is on television. I know I wouldn’t have received this great nomination if it weren’t for our writers on ‘Damages.'”
– Glenn Close, best actress nominee for Damages
“I wanted to learn the feeling of not being able to relate to civilians and real people. The whole movie was a real exploration of trying to imagine the unimaginable and asking yourself what you would do in different scenarios.”
– Tobey Maguire, best actor nominee for Brothers