Sum Up Film: Claire Danes

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Claire Danes - Then & Now

Claire Danes' career started on TV seventeen years ago and for some reason she just seems to get her best roles on the small screen. No complaints, though. She's always worth watching as an actress & she's always been a smart, self-deprecating acceptance speech giver.

Best Actress Golden Globe back in 1995 for My So-Called Life

& in 2012, for Homeland

And just for fun - from the 1995 Golden Globe archives:
Creepy mid-90s styles, actors who now make bad movies & terrible, terrible jokes via Beau Bridges. Trippy. (After the cut)

Golden Globe Winners

The 2012 Golden Globe film winners are all as to be expected: Christopher Plummer & Octavia Spencer take the lead for Supporting Actor & Supporting Actress; George Clooney & Jean Dujardin battle it out to the end for Best Actor; Michelle Williams is Meryl Streep's strongest competition for Best Actress & if it weren't for The Artist, The Descendants would be the film to watch for Best Picture.

On the TV front, however, it's all newcomers. Claire Danes takes an expected win for Homeland - incidentally that is three for three for Danes at the Globes for TV: My So-called Life in 1994, Temple Grandin in 2010 & now Homeland - seems her career is best suited to TV for some reason; old favourite Kelsey Grammar becomes only the second actor to possess a Golden Globe as Best Actor in both a TV Comedy & TV Drama (the other being David Duchovney, for The X-Files & Californication) by winning for Chicago Mayor Drama Boss; Matt LeBlanc makes a frankly surprising comeback, winning Best Actor in a TV Comedy for Episodes & Laura Dern takes home the gold for another new series, Enlightened.

Not happy about Madonna now having two Golden Globes, though.

Best Picture: Drama

The Descendants

Best Actor: Drama

George Clooney - The Descendants