Diversity and laughter score big at the 71st Golden Globe Awards

Somewhere it is a written rule that if once you host the Golden Globe Awards really bad, the Hollywood Foreign Press would invite you to host it again. "Welcome to the 71st annual Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's Lee Daniels' 'The Butler' Golden Globe Awards.”, proclaims Amy Poehler (Parks & Recreation) along with her co-host Tina Fey (30 Rock) when opening the award ceremony. So, how does one call Matt Damon a “garbage person” and get away with it? Well, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler did it when hosting the show for the second consecutive year. The hosts also had quite a few insightful theories, one being “the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age”. Amongst the best parts, the most strikingly hilarious was deliberately pronouncing Tom Hanks as Tam Honks, highlighting all the difficult nominees’ names. On the film adaptation of the critically acclaimed play, August: Osage County, Fey said, this proves that there are still great parts in Hollywood for Meryl Streeps over 60. Another victim of their mockery was the former Seinfeld actress, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, just because she was sitting “with the movie crowd”. "Hi Julia, you know us from TV." Cut to Julia smoking an e-cigarette in sunglasses and shoving away Reese Witherspoon, who's trying to take a photo with her. Amy says, "She has really changed." Tina quickly reverts, "She's gross." Later in the broadcast, Fey and Poehler called Louis-Dreyfus out for "slithering back over to the TV section," as the camera panned to the Veep star shoveling a hot dog into her mouth. Since Matthew McConaughey had to lose 45 pounds to star in Dallas Buyers Club, Fey announced to the audience that, “he lost 45 pounds, or what actresses call, being in a movie.” But, the laughter was not for long, for Jacqueline Bisset had won for her role as Lady Lavinia Cremone in Stephen Poliakoff’s Dancing On The Edge the supporting actress in a series, miniseries or TV movie award (given the equally deserving competition, if not higher) and then rambled on, sometimes as if she'd lost her train of thought numerous times, and let out a swear word that slipped past the censors. The only thing that was making the audience a wee bit restless was that Bisset wouldn't leave the stage and it took forever for the show to play her off, which is when in the middle of the winner’s speech you’d hear the orchestra starting to blare. In the same category of a series, miniseries or television movie, Elizabeth Moss took home the Globe for Best Actress for Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake, while Michael Douglas took away the Best Actor award for portraying piano prodigy Liberace in the HBO Original film, Behind the Candelabra. Behind the Candelabra also won the Best Miniseries or Best Television Film award. Saturday Night Live’s former cast mate, Andy Samberg won the Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy series for the freshman comedy, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Amy Poehler, much to the host’s surprise, won the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy series for the first time after having been nominated thrice for the same role, leaving her completely stunned while receiving the globe, which resulted in her repeating the fact that she couldn’t believe she won, she’s never won anything. Also taking home the Best Actor in Drama Series award for the first time, have having been nominated multiple times was Bryan Cranston for his portrayal of Walter White in Breaking Bad. The cult blockbuster also scored the Best Drama Series title. American Hustle topped the film awards with three wins, including the Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy award. Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence won the Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Musical of Comedy respectively. Dallas Buyers’ Club quickly followed suit with two wins, one for Matthew McConaughey as the Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, while his co-star Jared Leto won the Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture award. Cate Blanchett won the Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her role in the Woody Allen directed film, Blue Jasmine and Leonardo DiCaprio won the Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for Wolf of Wall Street. Amongst the other awards, 12 Years a Slave won the Best Picture – Drama award, while Alfanso Cuaron won the Best Director award for his space epic, Gravity. Spike Jonze’s Her won him the Best Screenplay award. Newcomer and former band mate Alex Ebert won the Best Original Score award for the Robert Redford survival film, All is Lost. U2’s Ordinary Love won the Golden Globe for the Best Original Song, while Frozen snagged the Best Animated feature award and Italy’s The Great Beauty won the Best Foreign Language Film. Amidst the pool of talent, glitter and gold, had there not been the technical errors which at times made the show seem imbalanced, the award ceremony might have been the best this year. You can watch the primetime telecast of the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards tonight at 9 p.m. on VH1.