2011 Golden Globe Nominees

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MOVIES

BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMABlack Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network

BEST MOTION PICTURE, MUSICAL OR COMEDYAlice in Wonderland
Burlesque
The Kids Are All Right
Red
The Tourist

BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
David Fincher, The Social Network
Tom Hooper, The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan, Inception
David O. Russell, The Fighter

BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Colin Firth, The King's Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours
Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine
Mark Wahlberg, The Fighter

BEST DRAMATIC ACTRESS
Halle Berry, Frankie & Alice
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

BEST ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Johnny Depp, Alice in Wonderland
Johnny Depp, The Tourist
Paul Giamatti, Barney's Version
Jake Gyllenhaal, Love & Other Drugs
Kevin Spacey, Casino Jack

BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Anne Hathaway, Love & Other Drugs
Angelina Jolie, The Tourist
Julianne Moore, The Kids Are All Right
Emma Stone, Easy A

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christian Bale, The Fighter
Michael Douglas, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Andrew Garfield, The Social Network
Jeremy Renner, The Town
Geoffrey Rush, The King's Speech

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech
Mila Kunis, Black Swan
Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom

BEST ANIMATED FILMDespicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Tangled
Toy Story 3

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTUREBiutiful
The Concert
The Edge
I Am Love
In a Better World

BEST SCREENPLAY127 Hours
The Kids Are All Right
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Alexander Desplot, The King's Speech
Danny Elfman, Alice in Wonderland
A.R. Robin, 127 Hours
Trent Reznor, The Social Network
Hans Zimmer, Inception

BEST SONG
"Bound to You," Burlesque
"Coming Home," Country Strong
"I See the Light," Tangled
"There's a Place For Us," The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
"You Haven't Seen the Last of Me," Burlesque

TELEVISION

BEST TV SERIES, DRAMABoardwalk Empire
Dexter
The Good Wife
Mad Men
The Walking Dead

TV SERIES, MUSICAL OR COMEDY30 Rock
The Big Bang Theory
The Big C
Glee
Modern Family
Nurse Jackie

BEST ACTRESS, TV DRAMA
Julianna Margulies The Good Wife
Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men
Piper Perabo, Covert Affairs
Katey Sagal, Sons of Anarchy
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

BEST ACTOR, TV DRAMA
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House

BEST ACTOR, TV MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Thomas Jane, Hung
Matthew Morrison, Glee

BEST ACTRESS, TV MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Toni Collette, United States of Tara
Laura Linney, The Big C
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Lea Michele, Glee
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie

BEST MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISIONCarlos
The Pacific
Pillars of the Earth
Temple Grandin
You Don't Know Jack

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Hayley Atwell, Pillars of Earth
Claire Danes, Temple Grandin
Judi Dench, Return to Cranford
Romola Garai, Emma
Jennifer Love Hewitt, The Client List

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Idris Elba, Luther
Ian McShane, The Pillars of the Earth
Al Pacino, You Don't Know Jack
Dennis Quaid, The Special Relationship
Edgar Ramirez, Carlos

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Hope Davis, The Special Relationship
Jane Lynch, Glee
Kelly Macdonald, Boardwalk Empire
Julia Stiles, Dexter
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Scott Caan, Hawaii Five-0
Chris Colfer, Glee
Chris Noth, The Good Wife
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
David Strathaim, Temple Grandin

CECIL B. DEMILLE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Robert De Niro

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Michael Sheen at BFI

Michael at the BFI’s preview screening of The Special Relationship.

For those of you who couldn’t be there yesterday, here’s a short summary of Michael’s answers during the Q&A… I do recommend you to read it all with Michael’s usual and healthy dose of irony in mind. 

Michael, you have met Tony Blair. Did he make a good impression on you?
MS: No… (jokingly) He gave me a good old look up and down. And he says he hasn’t seen the films, yet he has an incredibly good working knowledge of them. I now understand that he quotes from the films in his own book… which I haven’t read.

Did you believe him when he said that he hasn’t seen the films?
MS: No, but I understand why he says that. Because if he says that he’s seen them, then people could ask him whether various things are true or not. And he just wants to bypass that, which is fair enough. So I don’t find it ridiculous that he says he hasn’t seen the films. But, I mean, clearly he has.

Did he tell you which one he liked best?
MS: (laughs) I think he probably likes The Queen best. I couldn’t imagine that he likes The Deal very much.

Do you need to have a form of sympathy for Blair, as a character to play?
MS: Yeah, of course. Well, cards on the table, he’s a character that I play. I love him, because I love every character that I play. It’d be ridiculous if I didn’t. I’m not going to sit here and say ‘Oh, I don’t like Blair…’. He’s gone way beyond a politician or a leader… It’s a character I’ve played three times and the whole point of my job is that I have to connect with this character. Now, I don’t know Tony Blair, I’ve met him just once. I can’t say anything I know about him, but I do know this character that I play and that character has developed and evolved and changed and gone in various directions.

Are you going to do a fourth Blair film?
MS: “I am not and have never been a member of the Communist party”

If you were his ghost, what question would you really like to ask him?
MS: If I’d been whose ghost? If I’d been Tony Blair’s ghost? (mass confusion) Oh, you mean ghost writer? If I’d been Tony Blair’s ghost writer… what would have been…

If you had been his autobiography’s ghost writer, what would you really have asked him?
MS: Oh, I see… (He actually didn’t answer the question at this stage. Interviewer said they’d come back on it later on)

Which Peter Morgan movie, that you’ve been in, is your favourite?
MS: The Damned United. Clough’s my favourite guy. It’s true! I mean, I like them all… They’re all brilliantly written. And I’m brilliant in them all. (laughs) But that’s my favourite.

Was it a conscious decision to dismiss the negative press that Cherie Blair has gotten?
PM: I think I probably write her more as an interrogating figure towards Blair, like his conscience. So she is written a bit like Rosa Luxemburg.
MS: And she’s always good value comedy-wise. We always talk about how she’s really useful and I think you can’t help but making her funny. All these characters have to fulfill formal functions as well as be the actual character. Like in The Queen, Blair is the one taking us on the journey through it, so he’s fulfilling that function as well as being true to the character of Blair. I think, ultimately you always have certain types of characters in any story: someone is going to be the funny one and so on. And Cherie is a really great character for that particular function. I can imagine that sometimes, in the middle of a scene, you think ‘Oh, I wish I could get Cherie in this and get something funny out of that’.

By the way, regarding the earlier question… I don’t have a specific answer to it, but the one thing I would love to talk to him about is religion. And how that has affected certain things. I think it would be very difficult, because that’s the one area he doesn’t go into much. It’s the one area that we’ve not really explored.

Could you tell us about anything that you really enjoyed during the production of the movie?
MS: What I found interesting about this story, from the beginning, was the idea of trying to find a kind of through-line. Certainly in America, people think of Blair as this really great, intelligent guy… and then he did this weird thing that we never quite understood. And I was always interested in looking at the consistency of it all. And there’s a kind of plotting all the things that empowered Blair, things that gave him a sense of right and wrong and that justified the choices he made. Nevertheless, within that, it’s not like we want to bring across a certain point of view. I’m still playing a living person that’s three-dimensional, flawed and as much a mystery to himself as anyone else. Because that’s how I feel about myself. So it would be unfair for me to play someone who is different to me, because that would be lying… If it hasn’t happened to me or I can’t relate to it, then I won’t play it, because I’d be rubbish and dishonest.

In the earlier films, you showed more of Blair’s typical mannerism. Was it a conscience decision to tone them down for this one?
MS: Nah, I just can’t be arsed… (laughs) When we did The Deal, that was the first time I’d ever played a real person that people were familiar with. When I now watch that movie, I cringe, because it seems all too much. In The Queen, it started to settle in a bit and then for this one… Having met him has really made a difference. Just being in the same room as him, seeing how he moves the air, how he is with people… Something shifted for me. Throughout the three films, I backed off a lot and personally I also think I just got better at playing him. I’m now focusing on different areas.

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Emmy Nominations

Congrats to Michael Sheen and Nurse Jackie and Lost (Emilie De Ravin).

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie

A Dog Year • HBO • Duopoly in association with HBO Films

Jeff Bridges as Jon Katz

The Prisoner • AMC • AMC, ITV Productions and Granada

Ian McKellen as Two

The Special Relationship • HBO • A Rainmark and Kennedy/Marshall Production in association with HBO Films

Michael Sheen as Tony Blair

The Special Relationship • HBO • A Rainmark and Kennedy/Marshall Production in association with HBO Films

Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton

You Don't Know Jack • HBO • Bee Holder, Cine Mosaic and Levinson/Fontana Productions in association with HBO Films

Al Pacino as Dr. Jack Kevorkian

Outstanding Comedy Series

Curb Your Enthusiasm • HBO • HBO Entertainment

Glee • FOX • A Ryan Murphy TV Production in association with 20th Century Fox TV

Modern Family • ABC • Twentieth Century Fox Television

Nurse Jackie • Showtime • Showtime Presents, Lionsgate Television, Jackson Group Entertainment, Madison Grain Elevator, Inc. & Delong Lumber; A Caryn Mandabach Production

The Office • NBC • Deedle-Dee Productions and Reveille LLC in association with Universal Media Studios

30 Rock • NBC • Broadway Video, Little Stranger, Inc. in association with Universal Media Studio

Outstanding Drama Series

Breaking Bad • AMC • Sony Pictures Television

Dexter • Showtime • Showtime Presents, John Goldwyn Productions, The Colleton Company, Clyde Phillips Productions

The Good Wife • CBS • CBS Productions

Lost • ABC • Grass Skirts Productions, LLC in association with ABC Network and Studios

Mad Men • AMC • Lionsgate Television

True Blood • HBO • Your Face Goes Here Entertainment in association with HBO Entertainment

Outstanding Made For Television Movie

Endgame (Masterpiece) • PBS • Channel 4, Target Entertainment Group and Masterpiece present A Daybreak Pictures Production

Georgia O'Keeffe • Lifetime • Sony Pictures Television for Lifetime Television

Moonshot • HISTORY • Produced by Dangerous Films LTD for History

The Special Relationship • HBO • A Rainmark and Kennedy/Marshall Production in association with HBO Films

Temple Grandin • HBO • A Ruby Films, Gerson Saines Production in association with HBO Films

You Don't Know Jack • HBO • Bee Holder, Cine Mosaic and Levinson/Fontana Productions in association with HBO Films

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‘The Special Relationship’ press conference pics

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Michael Sheen @ Premiere Of HBO Films "The Special Relationship"

Actor Michael Sheen attends the premiere of HBO Films "The Special Relationship" at the Directors Guild of America on May 19, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. 

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Sheen re-elected to a third term

HBO's 'Special' gives thesp another turn as Blair

It was a presidential affair for HBO's "The Special Relationship," shown at the DGA, which had been transformed May 19 into a diplomatic dinette, complete with high-backed marigold velveteen booths, dramatic table settings and Yankee or Brit flags on the catering staff's shirts.

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Prior to being offered the Bill Clinton role, Dennis Quaid never even fantasized about playing the prexy. "No, not at all," Quaid said. "In fact, I almost turned it down. I really had a fear of failure."

Michael Sheen, who has played Tony Blair before, was much more the comfortable participant. "I was there from the very beginning," Sheen said. "I was part of the development."

Apparently the former prime minister liked what he saw of himself in Sheen's "The Queen" perf.

"In the case of this film, I actually met Blair. I got to be around him and watch him and be in the same room, which really affected how I played him," Sheen said.

So did he come to like Blair?

"It's sort of beyond liking or disliking someone," the actor demurred. "He's someone I've come to know and got to play. You connect with the person you play, you find those connections and they become you." 

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People Magazine's Ad for Michael Sheen's "The Special Relationship"

 

People Magazine, May 31, 2010

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The Special Relationship Stills

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HBO Holds Press Junket For The Special Relationship

HBO have held a press junket today for The Special Relationship which is to air on HBO channel on 29th May at 9pm EST in US.

There was also a promotional photoshoot of cast members. We dont have any pictures just yet, but we have found these watermarked ones on Associated Press if you want to take a quick preview.

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Photos Michael Sheen In The Special Relationship - New Movie

THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP is a new HBO movie that will air Saturday May 29 at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT). The movie tells the tale of the relationship between Bill Clinton played by Dennis Quaid and Tony Blair played by Michael Sheen. The term "Special Relationship", which was originally coined by Winston Churchill, refers to the privileged relationship that the United States and Great Britain have from a political, diplomatic, cultural and historical relations. The movie also stars Hope Davis and Helen McCrory; Davis plays Hillary Clinton and McCrory plays Cherie Blair.

According to the press release, THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP "takes a behind-the-scenes look at the unique and sometimes turbulent political relationship between newly-installed British Prime Minister Tony Blair (Sheen) and U.S. President Bill Clinton (Quaid) as the two dynamic leaders become co-stars on the world stage."

To say that I am excited about this movie would be the understatement of century. I have to admit that I am a sucka for all things politics and am fascinated to see what this movie will reveal of those two personalities that changed the world in significant ways.

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