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“Never mind that the [Golden Globe] is considered a joke, given the dubious credentials of the 90-odd foreign journalists who pick the winners.”
-- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
“Respect? Not much, especially from other journalists, who have publicly called [the Golden Globes voters] moochers, boneheads and bottom-feeders.”
-- Andy Seiler, USA Today
“[The Golden Globe voters are] freeloaders who would sell their votes for a vodka tonic and cross the Alps for a hot dog.”
-- Film historian Aljean Harmetz
“[The Golden Globe voters are] essentially just bottom-feeders around the industry, who've somehow been inflated to this point where their judgment is supposed to be very, very important.”
-- John Powers, L.A. Weekly
“[The Golden Globes represent a case of] let's sell the public a lie."
-- Producer Michael Phillips
"The Globes have long been the entertainment industry’s dirty little secret. At the heart of the con is the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., the tiny, cliquish group of foreign entertainment journalists – and I use each of those terms liberally – whose votes determine the winners.
"The members of the association are not, generally speaking, film experts (like the people who judge the National Society of Film Critics awards) nor are they members of the creative community (like those who give out the Oscars). They’re not even representatives of prominent foreign publications, like Le Monde or the Guardian or Haaretz.
"Only a handful are full-time journalists; the rest are freelancers for mostly obscure publications, and some are simply hanging on for the parties and movie stars. To maintain their status in the organization, they need only write four articles a year."
-- Sharon Waxman, The Los Angeles Times
Read the rest of Waxman's illuminating 2008 piece on the Globes here.
The choices of organizations far more reputable than the so-called Hollywood Foreign Press Association:
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS The Hurt Locker INTERNATIONAL PRESS ACADEMY The Hurt Locker NEW YORK FILM CRITICS The Hurt Locker LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS The Hurt Locker (runner-up: Up in the Air) CHICAGO FILM CRITICS The Hurt Locker DALLAS-FORT WORTH FILM CRITICS Up In The Air (runner-up: The Hurt Locker) SAN FRANCISCO FILM CRITICS The Hurt Locker BOSTON FILM CRITICS The Hurt Locker WASHINGTON DC AREA FILM CRITICS Up In The Air HOUSTON FILM CRITICS The Hurt Locker DETROIT FILM CRITICS Up PHOENIX FILM CRITICS Inglourious Basterds ST. LOUIS FILM CRITICS Up in the Air (runner-up: The Hurt Locker) SAN DIEGO FILM CRITICS Inglourious Basterds AUSTIN FILM CRITICS The Hurt Locker FLORIDA FILM CRITICS Up in the Air INDIANA FILM JOURNALISTS Up In The Air (runner-up: Fantastic Mr. Fox) UTAH FILM CRITICS Up in the Air (runners-up (tie): The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds) BROADCAST FILM CRITICS The Hurt Locker DENVER FILM CRITICS NOMINEES The Hurt Locker A Serious Man Star Trek Up in the Air ROGER EBERT (THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES) MAINSTREAM: Bad Lieutenant Crazy Heart An Education The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Knowing Precious A Serious Man Up In The Air The White Ribbon INDEPENDENT: Departures Disgrace Everlasting Moments Goodbye Solo Julia Silent Night Sin Nombre Skin Trucker You, The Living (Special Jury Prize: Avatar) MICHAEL PHILLIPS (THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE) Up Where The Wild Things Are Waltz With Bashir Of Time and the City The Hurt Locker A Serious Man In The Loop Sugar Me and Orson Welles A Single Man MANOHLA DARGIS (THE NEW YORK TIMES) Gomorrah Tulpan Summer Hours The Hurt Locker The Beaches of Agnes Public Enemies Beeswax Ponyo The Informant! Where The Wild Things Are Fantastic Mr. Fox Avatar RUNNERS-UP: Of Time and the City Frontier of Dawn Tokyo Sonata Sugar Léon Morin: Priest Julia Star Trek Anaglyph Tom Séraphine The English Surgeon You, the Living In the Loop Import, Export Lorna's Silence A Perfect Getaway The Baader Meinhof Complex Big Fan Unmade Beds Crude A Serious Man Precious The Messenger Big River Man 35 Shots of Rum Up in the Air A Single Man Invictus Police, Adjective A.O. SCOTT (THE NEW YORK TIMES) Where The Wild Things Are The Hurt Locker In The Loop Summer Hours Of Time and the City Up In The Air Funny People Bright Star Medicine For Melancholy Precious Coraline Avatar District 9 A Serious Man Anvil! The Story of Anvil Goodbye, Solo Sugar Gomorrah The Baader Meinof Complex RUNNERS-UP: La Danse 24 City Invictus Extract Tyson The Beaches Of Agnes Crazy Heart Still Walking Broken Embraces KENNETH TURAN (THE LOS ANGELES TIMES) Bright Star The Hurt Locker An Education Avatar The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Julie & Julia Up Up in The Air CHILDREN OF SUNDANCE: Amreeka Adventureland Big Fan Sergio DOCUMENTARIES: Afghan Star Anvil! The Story of Anvil Soul Power Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 More Than A Game Tyson Unmistaken Child HARRY KNOWLES (AIN'T IT COOL NEWS): District 9 Where The Wild Things Are Up Inglourious Basterds The Square Geu-rim-ja Sal-in (AKA Private Eye) Avatar Moon Bronson Fantastic Mr. Fox JAY KNOWLES (AIN'T IT COOL NEWS) Avatar (3-D) Thirst MicMacs Up (3-D) Lovely Bones Me and Orson Welles Where the Wild Things Are (IMAX) The Hurt Locker The Fantastic Mr. Fox The Road District 9 Kick Ass Shutter Island Sherlock Holmes Inglourious Basterds Solomon Kane Star Trek (IMAX) Invictus The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Coraline (3-D) Men Who Stare at Goats RUNNERS-UP: Daybreakers Bronson Watchmen (IMAX) Whip It STEVE PROKOPY (AIN'T IT COOL NEWS): Up In The Air District 9 Inglourious Basterds The Hurt Locker Moon Where The Wild Things Are Bad Lieutenant: POCNO An Education The Informant! Fantastic Mr. Fox Star Trek The Brothers Bloom I Love You, Man Antichrist (500) Days of Summer Adventureland World’s Greatest Dad Up Zombieland A Serious Man Ponyo In The Loop Thirst Coraline Away We Go The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus Sin Nombre Humpday Goodbye, Solo DOCUMENTARIES Tyson Anvil! The Story of Anvil Best Worst Movie The Cove An Unlikely Weapon The September Issue Food Inc. Winnebago Man Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 The Yes Men Save The World Herb & Dorothy Walt & El Grupo We Live In Public Every Little Step The Beaches of Agnes RICHARD CORLISS (TIME) The Princess and the Frog Up Fantastic Mr. Fox The Hurt Locker Up in the Air The White Ribbon A Single Man Of Time and the City District 9 Thirst PETER TRAVERS (ROLLING STONE) Precious Up In The Air The Hurt Locker An Education Up Where the Wild Things Are A Serious Man District 9 (500) Days of Summer The Messenger TIED FOR 11TH: Inglourious Basterds Capitalism: A Love Story In the Loop The Cove Invictus Public Enemies Fantastic Mr. Fox A Single Man Nine Tyson DAVID GERMAINE (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Hurt Locker Precious The White Ribbon Bad Lieutenant: Port of New Orleans Up An Education (500) Days of Summer Passing Strange Anvil: The Story of Anvil The Damned United CHRISTY LEMIRE (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Moon An Education The Hurt Locker Up District 9 A Serious Man Fantastic Mr. Fox Sugar Passing Strange Drag Me To Hell LISA SCHWARZBAUM (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY) The Hurt Locker Up Coraline Up in the Air Where The Wild Things Are Fantastic Mr. Fox A Serious Man Big Fan District 9 Everlasting Moments OWEN GLEIBERMAN (ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY) Up in the Air Inglourious Basterds Precious I Love You, Man Food, Inc. (500) Days of Summer Fantastic Mr. Fox The Girlfriend Experience The Hurt Locker Adventureland DREW McWEENY (HITFIX): Enter The Void Where The Wild Things Are Inglourious Basterds Fantastic Mr. Fox A Serious Man District 9 World’s Greatest Dad Up in the Air Avatar In The Loop AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE Coraline The Hangover The Hurt Locker The Messenger Precious A Serious Man A Single Man Sugar Up Up in the Air THE NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW An Education (500) Days of Summer The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Invictus The Messenger A Serious Man Star Trek Up Where The Wild Things Are
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And remember: if “The Hurt Locker,” “Up in the Air,” “Inglourious Basterds,” “Avatar” or “Precious” gets nominated for an Oscar this year, it’s because the bullshit Golden Globes gave it an award tonight, and NOT because Oscar voters were clued in days and weeks ago by the real critics.
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