| January 15, 2007 |
| "Borat, "The Queen," odd couple at Golden Globes |
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British actress Helen Mirren, who knows how to play a queen, and British actor Sacha Baron Cohen, who is a prince at playing boors, may dominate the 64th annual Golden Globe awards on Monday -- an event that likes to think of itself as a precursor to the Oscars.
The awards, which are voted on by 83 members of the minuscule Hollywood Foreign Press Association, are indeed a major stop on the road to the February 25 Academy Awards. The show is televised around the world and is filled with high fashion and high spirits -- just like the Oscars.
But whether it is truly predictive is an open question. Last year only two films the Globes nominated in its two best film categories went on to make the Oscars' list of five best film nominees. And the Globes did not even nominate the picture that won the Oscar -- "Crash."
As the show business newspaper Variety recently noted, this year could be different because many of the movies the Globes have nominated also are being well-received by Oscar voters, most notably Martin Scorsese's "The Departed," Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Babel," British director Stephen Frears' "The Queen," starring Mirren as you-know-who, and Cohen's "Borat," in which he portrays a boorish, anti-Semitic, sexist Kazakh journalist touring America. |
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