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YESTERDAY'S POLL
What Golden Globe Nominated Film SHOULD WIN Best Picture?
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - 50% Slumdog Millionaire - 29% The Reader - 12% Revolutionary Road - 8% Frost/Nixon - 2% A Fistful of Dollars - 7% In the Line of Fire - 6% A Perfect World - 3%
"Slumdog Millionaire" took its rags-to-riches storyline to the next level at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, riding an emotional groundswell to pocket the nods for best picture, director, screenplay and original score.
The top musical or comedy award went to "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
The show’s 66th installment, presented from the Beverly Hilton, was a glitzy and often emotional return to form after last year’s event was disrupted and turned into a glorified press conference due to the Writer’s Guild strike.
Clearly a sentimental favorite among the audience, "Slumdog" won all of the four categories in which it was nominated, with Danny Boyle taking home his first Globe for helming the Mumbai-based pic about a poor teenager who wins India’s version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." Pic — distribbed by Fox Searchlight and Warner Bros. — also took the screenplay award for Simon Beaufoy, while A.R. Rahman won for original score.
Mickey Rourke, as a washed-up former professional wrestler in Fox Searchlight’s "The Wrestler," won the actor in a drama honor, his first, with most of those in attendance clearly connecting to the actor’s real-life comeback story.
"The Wrestler," distribbed by Fox Searchlight, was a hit in the Globes arena, winning not only with Rourke, but also for original song, written and performed by Bruce Springsteen.
Hollywood’s top-grossing film of the year was also high on the HFPA’s radar as the late Heath Ledger won supporting actor for playing the Joker in Warner Bros.’ "The Dark Knight." The Australian-born thesp’s victory prompted a standing ovation from the audience as director Christopher Nolan accepted the award on his behalf.
GRAN TORINO WINS BOX OFFICE
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Going full throttle at the B.O., Clint Eastwood's "Gran Torino" grossed $29 million from 2,808 locations to win the weekend and rack up Eastwood's best nationwide opening of all time, both as an actor and director.
Despite bad weather in the Northeast and Midwest, where theater traffic dropped precipitously on Saturday, "Gran Torino" wasn't the only hot rod on the box office highway.
Twentieth Century Fox's Kate Hudson-Anne Hathaway comedy "Bride Wars" outpaced expectations, debuting at No. 2 and grossing an estimated $21.5 million from 3,226 runs, according to Rentrak. Pic's successful opening follows Fox's Christmas hit "Marley and Me."
Relativity/Universal's "The Unborn" scared up an impressive $21.1 million from 2,357 playdates. The Rogue Pictures title scored the best January opening for a horror title after Lionsgate's "Hostel" ($19.6 million in 2005).
WATCH FILMS
CLASSIC FILMS
BY GENRE
Doubt
The Wrestler
The Reader
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Valkyrie
Bedtime Stories
Marley and Me
Milk
Frost/Nixon
The Day the Earth Stood Still
