Michael Hepworth
BEVERLY Hills,CA(Spiritsman)1/6/15/–Moët & Chandon has been serving up champagne at the Golden Globes for 23 years, but only this year did they finally decide to serve up a champagne cocktail, christened the Moët Golden Night.
Created by Chef Aida Mollenkamp, who was at the preview to share details about the new cocktail, the Moët Golden Night is a sophisticated, unpredictable medley of Moët Impérial, cardamom simple syrup, and pear brandy.
There were plenty of good reasons to uncork the champagne this morning in Hollywood. The nominations for the 72nd Golden Globe Awards announced this morning, honor the year’s best film and television. Here is the breakdown by film, studio and network:
Golden Globes 2015: 10 fun facts about Hollywood’s most free-spirited awards show
The nominations for the72nd were announced bright and early this morning at the Beverly Hilton hotel. During the traditional pre-dawn ceremony in Beverly Hills, HFPA president Theo Kingma introduced Kate Beckinsale, two-time Golden Globe Award-nominee Peter Krause, Paula Patton, and Golden Globe-winner and five-time nominee Jeremy Piven did the honors. The 72nd Annual Golden Globe® Awards, hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, will air on Sunday, January 11, 2015, LIVE coast-to-coast on NBC from 5:00-8:00 p.m. (PST)/8:00-11:00 p.m. (EST).
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(Still Alice)
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(Gone Girl)
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(Wild)
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(The Theory of Everything)
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(Cake)
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(The Theory of Everything)
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(Foxcatcher)
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(The Imitation Game)
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(Selma)
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(Nightcrawler)
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(Maps To The Stars)
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(Big Eyes)
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(Into The Woods)
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(The Hundred Foot Journey)
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(Annie)
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(Birdman)
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(St. Vincent)
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(The Grand Budapest Hotel)
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(Big Eyes)
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(Inherent Vice)
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(Ida)
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(A Most Violent Year)
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(The Imitation Game)
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(Boyhood)
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(Into The Woods)
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(Birdman)
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(Boyhood)
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(The Judge)
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(Birdman)
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(Whiplash)
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(Foxcatcher)
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(Selma)
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(The Grand Budapest Hotel)
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(Birdman)
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(Gone Girl)
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(Boyhood)
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(The Grand Budapest Hotel)
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(Gone Girl)
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Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo
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(Boyhood)
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(The Imitation Game)
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(The Imitation Game)
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(The Theory Of Everything)
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Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
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(Birdman)
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(Interstellar)
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(How to Get Away With Murder)
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(Homeland)
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(The Good Wife)
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(House of Cards)
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(The Affair)
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(House of Cards)
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(The Knick)
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(The Blacklist)
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(The Affair)
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(Ray Donovan)
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(Veep)
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(Nurse Jackie)
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(Jane The Virgin)
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(Girls)
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(Orange is the New Black)
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(House of Lies)
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(Shameless)
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(Derek)
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(Transparent)
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(Louie)
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(American Horror Story: Freak Show)
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(The Honorable Woman)
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(Olive Kitteridge)
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(Fargo)
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(The Missing)
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(Fargo)
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(True Detective)
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(True Detective)
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(Fargo)
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(The Normal Heart)
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(American Horror Story: Freak Show)
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(Orange is the New Black)
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(Downton Abbey)
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(True Detective)
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(Mom)
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(Ray Donovan)
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(The Normal Heart)
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(The Good Wife)
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(Fargo)
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1. The stars can eat – if they arrive on time
Even though the Globes serve a three-course meal catered by the Beverly Hilton Hotel’s chefs,dinner is served to nominees and guests closer to lunch time around 3:30 p.m. Why so early? Producers don’t want dining noises, such as the clinking of silverware, to be heard during the telecast. So by the time the show begins at 5 p.m. PST, dinner has already been served. The good news: The attendees are still served alcohol, which is why guests often seem tipsy (and get tipsier) throughout the three-hour show.
2. Drinking with the stars
The champagne will definitely be flowing during the glitzy event, with 400 magnums of Moet & Chandon made available for guests, one bottle per table. The celebs can get even get the party started early, since 1,500 bottles of Moet minis will be given out on the red carpet.
3. Mixing and mingling
During commercial breaks, the stars love to get up and mingle with each other, exchanging pleasantries, air kisses and posing for selfies. The banquet-style seating encourages these kinds of casual interactions, but since it’s a live broadcast, those freewheeling conversations sometimes mean it’s a scramble to get attendees back into their seats on time. In order to get the A-listers seated before the show comes back on air, announcements are made at mid-commercial break and at the one-minute mark so stars can make their way back to their seats.
4. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey belong to a very exclusive club
In the history of the 72-year-old awards show, just six celebrities have hosted the Golden Globes. Besides this year’s returning hosts Fey and Poehler, the show has only been emceed by four other people: Andy Williams (mid-1960s), John Larroquette and Janine Turner (1995) and Ricky Gervais (2011-2013).
5. Frank Sinatra unwittingly started an A-list tradition
The Golden Globes are hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, whose members are comprised of 100 international journalists.HFPA members were tasked with handing out the awards until the Globes were hijacked by the Rat Pack in 1958, when Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. “stormed the stage with whiskey and cigarettes in tow” to hand out the trophies. The HFPA asked the trio to repeat their performance the following year, and celebs have been tasked with giving out awards on stage ever since.
6. Celebs skipped the 2008 Golden Globes
Out of solidarity with the Writers Guild of America writers strike, no actors attended the awards show that year. Instead, the winners were announced via a live news conference hosted by entertainment news personalities. So how did the winners finally receive their awards? According to TV Guide’soral history about the 2008 Globes, “Entourage” star Jeremy Piven was given his statuette in his driveway.
7. Not a Golden Globes nominee? Good luck getting in!
The Golden Globes are hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, whose members are comprised of 100 international journalists. HFPA members were tasked with handing out the awards until the Globes were hijacked by the Rat Pack in 1958, when Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. “stormed the stage with whiskey and cigarettes” to hand out the trophies. Celebs have been tasked with giving out awards on stage ever since.
8. The Globes is also the rare awards show with empty seats
Unlike other awards shows, the Golden Globes use no seat fillers. So when Clooney goes up to collect his Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award on Sunday, no seat filler will take his place.
9. The Golden Globe weighs more than you think
When someone wins an award for the first time, he or she generally remarks on heavy the statuette feels. When it comes to the Globes, there’s a reason for this, since the trophy weighs 5.5 pounds. To give some perspective, that’s about the average weight of a bulldog puppy.
10. The event’s red carpet is almost as long as Noah’s Ark
Noah’s Ark, which in Biblical lore housed two of every animal on Earth, is generally considered to have measured 450 feet in length. Keep that in mind when you see the Golden Globe red carpet, since it measures around 437 feet – which should be just enough to fit nearly every movie and TV star in Hollywood.
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