David Fincher's critically acclaimed The Social Network, being hailed by some critics as a "modern day Citizen Kane" swept the Golden Globe Awards last night without much surprise. The film won multiple awards including Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Director (Fincher), and Best Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin). Unfortunately for Fincher and his gang, none of this means they'll do well at the Oscars next month. In fact, if history is any indication, you can probably count them out of winning the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Here's a list comparing the Best Picture winners of the Oscars to the Globes, from the last decade:
2000 - Oscars: Gladiator, Globes: Gladiator
2001 - Oscars: A Beautiful Mind, Globes: A Beautiful Mind
2002 - Oscars: Chicago, Globes: The Hours
2003 - Oscars: The Return of the Kings, Globes: The Return of the King
2004 - Oscars: Million Dollar Baby, Globes: The Aviator
2005 - Oscars: Crash, Globes: Brokeback Mountain
2006 - Oscars: The Departed, Globes: Babel
2007 - Oscars: No Country For Old Men, Globes: Atonement
2008 - Oscars: Slumdog Millionaire, Globes: Slumdog Millionaire
2009 - Oscars: The Hurt Locker, Globes: Avatar
2010 - Oscars: ?, Globes: The Social Network
Six out of the last ten times, the Oscars and the Golden Globes have differed. You might be thinking, "well, that's not that much of a discrepancy." But keep in mind the two have only concurred once since The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won in 2003. Not to mention the Oscars now nominate 10 films for the Best Picture category which could make it that much harder for The Social Network to overcome the opposition. Slumdog Millionaire was the clear favorite in 2008, but there is no such favorite this time around. Many pundits believe The King's Speech is more of an Oscar friendly film and will trounce The Social Network for Best Picture at the Oscars. And then there's Black Swan. And The Fighter. And maybe even Inception.
What do you think? Will The Social Network stay golden at the Oscars? Shoot us your prediction in the comments.
The 83rd Academy Awards airs February 27 on ABC.
For a complete list of Golden Globe winners, click here.
overcome the opposition — for best picture? WHAT opposition? "the social network" at this point doesn't face ANY viable opposition for best picture.
"the social network" has won best picture for nearly EVERY critics' group across the country (and as of last night that INCLUDES the golden globes, which is yet another notch in TSN's belt).
there's never been a movie that's won as many critics' awards as TSN has. ever.
if you think TSN isn't going to win best picture, which picture do you think will win instead? where's your evidence for saying that that picture will win? which best picture awards has that picture already won?
it's a desert out there for every movie EXCEPT "the social network". read the movie news. whether you think TSN should win or not (i think it should) is a different question.
You are clearly out of touch with film if you believe The Social Network has no competition for Best Picture at the Oscars. Black Swan is much, much more deserving than The Social Network. The Social Network was a very generic and predictable film.
JoYo, how can i be "out of touch" with a movie that's supposedly about a woman "suffering for her art" — when all she needs to do is get her own apartment? movie over.
and if its camera trickery and shock cutting appeared in any ordinary horror flick you'd just yawn at the cheesy manipulation.
which critics' group has given "black swan" the award for best picture? natalie portman has won quite a number of awards for best actress, but best picture for "black swan"? where?
as for TSN being "generic", what movie is it like? many critics compared it to "citizen kane", another unique movie, some say the best american movie ever.
nobody thinks "black swan" stands up to, say, "the red shoes," a classic ballet movie.
and TSN was "predictable" only in the sense that we knew going in that zuckerberg would end up running facebook. but how he got there is what the movie digs into, and how all of us feel sitting alone at a computer screen — the world is changing, says this move, and that's an absorbing, provocative premise.