"The Golden Globes are just like the Oscars without all that esteem. The Golden Globes are to the Oscars what Kim Kardashian is to Kate Middleton. Bit louder, bit trashier, bit drunker, and more easily bought. Allegedly. Nothing's been proved."

said Ricky Gervais last night while hosting the 2012 Golden Globes.

The Golden Globes' first ceremony was on 1944 and has since increased in size, formality, and aura. These awards unlike the Oscars and the Emmys are given out for achievements in film and television.
The categories for awards have grown in increasing size as well. Though the most prominent award still remains the Cecil B. DeMille award given for "outstanding contributions to the world of entertainment."The year of the awards inception, it was obviously given to its namesake. However, the next year which was the 10th anniversary of the Golden Globes it was given to Walt Disney. This year's winner was Morgan Freeman.
Some thoughts from this year's show: I was pleased to see Martin Scorcese win Best Director of a Motion Picture with Hugo. I was slightly surprised to see how many television shows were nominated from HBO and other movie type channels.
Possibly most noteworthy in this year's Golden Globes, was Spielberg's acceptance speech. I have not seen The Adventures of Tintin which won Best Animated Feature Film, but that didn't exactly matter. The most important part of this win happened to be the speech. Spielberg talked about film majors and how lucky we (as in Kimberly and other film majors) are through their cell phones aka production studios. Youtube according to Spielberg is our new movie theatre. Spielberg likes this advantage we are given and even gets to watch short films sent to him by fans.

Video courtesy of youtube

This is of course the best possible outcome when it comes to making movies with friends and throwing them on youtube. I am not sure this is a great gift. It might be like Wall-E or Blade Runner when there is too much it all becomes trash. People would have to sort through that trash to find the diamond in the rough of sorts. Additionally, with all these people having access to youtube and their own "production studios" that fit in their pockets the competition gets more intense. Although, I now can have a demo reel and place it on youtube or vimeo which would make life easier in future job searches. In an industry where you usually must know someone who knows someone to break into, I guess there is no real answer to this debate on whether youtube is making the path easier for us future film makers (fingers crossed) or harder.

Kimberly

Note: Deb would like to add while it is great that some of the best actors, actresses and directors of our day are being recognized for their work, these award shows are nothing more than a PR ploy to keep names in the media.

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