Rings rules at the Golden Globes. The Return of the King wins four Globe awards and there are two shock wins for British sitcom The Office. [BBC News | Entertainment | World Edition]
Let's face it, Return of the King will win the Oscar for best picture because the other two films were snubbed in previous years, perhaps in anticipation of a cumulative award for the trilogy. (I mean, call them nerdy films for nerds if you want, but there's no way a piece of shit like Chicago will be remembered in five years the way The Two Towers will most certainly be remembered). Peter Jackson deserves a Best Director nod for the monumental achievement that the trilogy is. Master and Commander deserves some attention as well, but Mystic River has been completely overrated (the performances are awesome, but the story and the directing are unspectacular).
The General recognizes how meaningless The Golden Globes are in the grand scheme of things, but I'm delighted nonetheless that The Office won some awards. This BBC production may be the best TV sitcom in a decade. It spits in the face of American sitcom conventions, and succeeds gloriously in satirizing the blurred distinction between "business" and "friendship" in the contemporary office. Season 1 is on DVD: I highly recommend it. Now if only all television could be like The Office and 24....
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