Globes

There are many reasons to prefer the Golden Globe Awards over the Oscars, my personal favorite is the division of major categories into comedies/musicals on the one hand and dramas on the other, and the inclusion of movies and tv side by side. That the talent is seated at tables with drinks rather than the formal theater seating of most awards presentations often makes the Globes more fun to attend and to watch.

The evening's big winners were, most surprisingly, Slumdog Millionaire (best picture-drama, best director, best screenplay, and best score) and Kate Winslet (best actress for Revolutionary Road and best supporting actress for The Reader). Less surprising were multiple awards for 30 Rock and HBO's John Adams. The evening's comeback kid was Mickey Rourke, although the west coast feed didn't include The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky flipping Rourke the finger in jest. Least surprising award of the evening was Heath Ledger's Joker from The Dark Knight, and director Christopher Nolan rose to the occasion with a brief but eloquent acknowledgement.

I also got a kick out of seeing Marty Scorsese present the Cecil B. DeMille award to Steven Spielberg, but the clear favorites in front of the microphone were Ricky Gervais and Tina Fey, who told her internet haters to "suck it." As I wrote in a post last fall, "If nothing is sexier than wit, Tina Fey is a goddess."