2018 Golden Globes: With Riz Ahmed out, Benedict Cumberbatch or Ewan McGregor may get revenge after Emmy loss

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Jeffrey Kare
TV  October 24, 2017 2:00P

At last year’s Golden Globe Awards “The Night Of” earned three nominations: Best Movie/Miniseries as well as Best Movie/Mini Actor for its two stars, Riz Ahmed and John Turturro. Though it went home empty handed at that event, Ahmed was recently able to win a Primetime Emmy for his leading role, which was among the five total prizes the crime drama took home from the television academy.

Since “The Night Of” already competed at the Golden Globes last year, it won’t be in contention this year. Therefore Ahmed won’t be able to repeat his victory from the Emmys, opening the door for a whole new winner in the Best Movie/Mini Actor race, including several he defeated at the Emmys in September. In the past 16 years the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has chosen a wide variety of winners in this category, ranging from movie stars to veterans to popular Brits to actors in biographical roles. Here are six strong contenders who fit at least one of those molds.

At last year’s Golden Globe Awards “The Night Of” earned three nominations: Best Movie/Miniseries as well as Best Movie/Mini Actor for its two stars, Riz Ahmed and John Turturro. Though it went home empty handed at that event, Ahmed was recently able to win a Primetime Emmy for his leading role, which was among the five total prizes the crime drama took home from the television academy.

Since “The Night Of” already competed at the Golden Globes last year, it won’t be in contention this year. Therefore Ahmed won’t be able to repeat his victory from the Emmys, opening the door for a whole new winner in the Best Movie/Mini Actor race, including several he defeated at the Emmys in September. In the past 16 years the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has chosen a wide variety of winners in this category, ranging from movie stars to veterans to popular Brits to actors in biographical roles. Here are six strong contenders who fit at least one of those molds.


Benedict Cumberbatch, “Sherlock: The Lying Detective”

He has contended at the Globes twice before. The first time was in this category for the second season of “Sherlock” in 2013, where he lost to Kevin Costner for “Hatfields & McCoys.” The second time was on the film side for his performance as Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game,” where he lost Best Film Drama Actor to Eddie Redmayne for “The Theory of Everything.” If Cumberbatch is nominated again this year, would a third time be the charm? HFPA members have shown love to Brits in this category six times in the past 16 years, including last year’s champ Tom Hiddleston (“The Night Manager”).

Jude Law, “The Young Pope”

After having been nominated three times before on the film side for his performances in “The Talented Mr. Ripley” (Best Film Supporting Actor, 2000), “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” (Best Film Supporting Actor, 2002), and “Cold Mountain” (Best Film Drama Actor, 2004), Law’s performance as Pope Pius XIII could make him a first-time nominee on the TV side. Like Cumberbatch, he is a Brit, and HFPA members love to award them in this category every once in a while.


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Gerard Butler films Gods of Egypt in Sydney with Geoffrey Rush

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Radio Times Staff
1:44 PM, 04 April 2014



One hundred and fifty million dollar budget film Gods of Egypt, directed by Alex Proyas (I, Robot), starring Gerard Butler (P.S. I Love You) and Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean) is currently being filmed in Sydney.

Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Home and Away Aussie actor Brenton Thwaites will also star in Gods of Egypt, which will be packed with magic, monsters and mystical legends. Australia's diverse landscape will double as the Nile River Valley, and Butler will play Set, the god of darkness who ends up embroiled in a huge battle.

Butler will also play Bodhi in a remake of Point Break, which will be filmed Down Under. It’s believed that he has been filming scenes for both movies while in Australia, and it’s rumoured that he’ll travel to the Gold Coast due to the water tank facilities at Village Roadshow studios – also used for Angelina Jolie’s feature film Unbroken.


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COLIN FIRTH to star in "King's Speech" sequel (Youtube)

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Tom Hollander: I was badly paid in Pirates of the Caribbean (TELEGRAPH)

Tom Hollander , the star of 'Rev', says he was paid 'badly' for his role as Lord Cutler Beckett in 'Pirates of the Caribbean'.

 Tim Walker7:30AM GMT 29 Mar 2013

Most British actors may hanker after parts in Hollywood blockbusters, but Tom Hollander, who is best known for playing the priest in Rev, says the experience left him feeling neither very satisfied, nor very rich.

Of his role as Lord Cutler Beckett, the “heavy” in Pirates of the Caribbean, he recalls that, while the production was “staggeringly expensive”, he was “badly” paid

Speaking at the Names Not Numbers Festival at Aldeburgh in Suffolk, the 45-year-old actor said that whenever he was allowed time off, he got as far away from the set as possible.

“It was a way of getting my own back. When they changed the schedule at the last minute, I would say, 'That’s fine, but I’m in Calcutta’, and they would say 'No problem’, and I would be airlifted out of the Third World in Lufthansa first class.”

He felt that there was a camaraderie among the character actors involved in the project and they all tended to compare notes in the smoking room of Miami airport.

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Colin Firth: We’re Quite Looking Forward To ‘The King’s Speech’ Sequel [PHOTOS] (SOCIALITE LIFE)

Can you really blame Livia Firth for staring at her husband?  Damn it, that man gets better with age.  Seems like only yesterday he was standing like a fool in Mrs. Jones’ sitting room, wearing a reindeer jumper and sticking his nose up at the turkey curry buffet.

Colin Firth walked the red carpet tonight at the BFI London Film Festival, looking dishy as hell in his suit.

Did you know that Firth will reprise his Oscar-winning role as King George VI in a sequel to The King’s Speech?  The UK Press Association (via Moviefone), confirms that the film is in the “very early stages,” but that Firth and co-stars Helena Bonham Carter (who played the Queen Mother) and Geoffrey Rush (who played Lionel Logue) are likely to return.

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Colin Firth, Helen Mirren: Colin Firth And Helen Mirren To Reprise British Monarch Roles In Separate Gigs (MOVIE LINE)

NEWSWIRE || BY: BRIAN BROOKS || SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 03:25 PM EDT


Colin Firth won an Oscar playing Britain's King George VI in the 2010 historical drama The King's Speech. And Dame Helen Mirren won her Academy Award playing the current U.K. monarch Queen Elizabeth II back in 2006 for her role in The Queen. Now both are set to wear their crowns again in two separate projects.

Firth played Elizabeth II's father, George VI in the Tom Hooper-directed feature about the WWII-era king who ascended the throne after his more dashing older brother abdicated in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson in a scandal that rocked the British Empire even as the clouds of war gathered in Europe. Also starring Helena Bonham Carter as his wife, Elizabeth, the film focused on the shy George VI, known to relatives and close friends as Bertie, who overcame a severe speech impediment to help lead his country to face the Nazi threat.


Mirren, meanwhile, will take on the role of George VI's heir, Queen Elizabeth II in a new stage play written by The Queen author Peter Morgan, according to The Guardian. Stephen Daldry will direct The Audience, which will explore her confidential meetings with her long line of British Prime Ministers from her first as a young Queen, Winston Churchill, to the current office holder, David Cameron. In The Queen, she meets with '90s-era P.M. Tony Blair (played by Michael Sheen) around the time of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales capturing a period of great tumult for the British royal family.

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Colin Firth is back for P-p-p-part II of The King’s Speech Actor to return to royal role (THE SUN) EDITED BY GORDON SMART Colin Firth is back for P-p-p-part II of The King’s Speech Actor to return to royal role In talks for another Speech ... Colin Firth and on-screen wife Helena Bonham Carter By GORDON SMART

IT’S good Colin Firth doesn’t fumble his lines at awards dos.

He’s agreed to return as stammering monarch George VI for a sequel to The King’s Speech – the role that earned him a stack of trinkets including a Best Actor Oscar.

Stars of the original — Helena Bonham Carter, who played George’s wife Queen Elizabeth, and Geoffrey Rush, who was the king’s speech therapist — have also said they are desperate to return, along with director Tom Hooper.

A movie source said the sequel will be set during the carnage of World War Two’s Blitz.

Amazingly it will not focus on how George struggled to control his stammer as bombs rained down on London. The insider said: “The sequel is going to be about the experience of families during the Blitz. It will focus on how the privileged Royal Family was hit by the crisis, compared to the more ordinary family of George VI’s speech therapist.

“The focus will be on George but it will also show how the whole royal household was affected. There’s still amazing interest in the Blitz. The movie is still in the very early stages but everyone’s keen to get going soon.”


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Colin Firth singing on Piers Morgan from Mama Mia

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Colin Firth: The King's Speech to hit the West End (SUPERBREAK)

The famous play turned Oscar-winning film will be taking up residency at Wyndham's Theatre from Thursday, March 22nd after it finishes its UK tour.

Charles Edwards assumes the role of the stuttering monarch, King George VI, whose battle against his stammer is fought alongside speech therapist Lionel Logue, played by Jonathan Hyde.

David Seidler originally wrote the script for stage, yet it was as a film starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter that brought the tale to prominence. The film version, released in 2010, won four Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay and made £261 million worldwide.

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Colin Firth: Rerun - Colin Firth named Digital Spy's Best Actor of 2011 (DIGITAL SPY)

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Colin Firth has been voted the best actor of 2011 in Digital Spy's end of year reader poll.

More than 100,000 voted in the survey, which asked Digital Spy users to pick their favorite movies, music, gaming, tech and showbiz highlights from the past 12 months.

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The King's Speech star emerged as the number one pick ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2's Daniel Radcliffe and Ryan Gosling, whose packed 2011 saw him appear in Blue Valentine, Drive and Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Harry Potter's Alan Rickman is at number four, followed by Rise of the Planet of the Apes's Andy Serkis in five. Serkis's performance capture turn as primate rebel Caesar has prompted calls for an Oscar nomination from studio 20th Century Fox and director Rupert Wyatt.

Firth won the 'Best Actor' Oscar in February this year for his portrayal of King George VI in The King's Speech. The monarch overcomes a crippling stammer with the help of Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush) to lead Britain to war.

Digital Spy readers' top 10 actors of 2011 are:

 

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The King's Speech - Reel vs. Real: THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Eve Best as Wallis Simpson

In the original King's Speech script, Best didn't have a single line. Screenwriter David Seidler ended up giving her some dialogue.

Wallis Simpson

She divorced twice before marrying former King Edward VIII, six months after he abdicated the throne. Essentially exiled from the royal family, she and her husband remained controversial celebrities for the rest of their lives as the Duchess and Duke of Windsor.

Guy Pearce as King Edward VIII

He has said growing up in Australia aided him in perfecting the role. "An English actor might have been a bit more fearful about being so raw with this character and possibly irritating that famous royal family that lives down the road. But I'd already been shipped out to Australia. They couldn't ship me any farther," said Pearce.

King Edward VIII

He reigned for less than 11 months before abdicating in 1936 in favor of marrying American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

Geoffrey Rush as Lionel Logue

He scored a best supporting actor Oscar nomination for his role. "As an Australian, I'm as excited to be recognized and honored by the Academy as my character must have been when his London speech therapy business flourished when the future King of England happened to pop by one day," he tells THR.

Lionel Logue

Though he had no medical degree or professional training, Lionel Logue successfully cured the King of his stammer. Their friendship lead to his knighthood as member of the Royal Victorian Order.

Helena Bonham Carter as Queen Elizabeth

"I wanted to do her justice," the British actress tells THR of playing the Queen (she earned a best actress Oscar nomination). "Not just make her the archetypical woman behind the man in the background ... [I wanted to give her] some authority."

Queen Elizabeth

She was the Queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until her husband's death in 1952, accompanying him husband on diplomatic tours to France and the United States in the run-up to World War II. She also supported him as he conquered his stammer and stood by his side as he delivered his rousing 1939 speech.

Colin Firth as King George VI

Though he is most likely to win the best actor Oscar, Firth tells THR, "I was full of doubt a lot of the time" while shooting. "Doubt because we couldn't really know all the history, doubt because I wasn't always sure I was getting to the bottom of things, and I really wanted to."

King George VI

He took over the British throne following his older brother's abdication in 1936. Because of a crippling stutter, he was terribly shy. With the help of an unorthodox Australian speech therapist, he conquered the stammer and famously addressed millions of people around the world in a live radio broadcast on Sept. 3, 1939, after Britain declared war on Germany. A call to patriotism, it was one of the best speeches he had ever made.

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Globes (Film): Supp. Actor - Overview

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If a man wants to be nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards, one of the easiest ways is to win the same category at the Golden Globes the month before. It has been 35 consecutive years, that this Globe winner has at least been nominated at the Oscars, and many have gone on to win the bigger prize.

Among the top contenders this year are Kenneth Branagh ("My Week with Marilyn"), Armie Hammer ("J. Edgar"), John Hawkes ("Martha Marcy May Marlene"), Viggo Mortensen ("A Dangerous Method"), Christopher Plummer ("Beginners"), and Max von Sydow ("Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"). Of these, Branagh, Mortensen and Plummer are previous nominees.
Past Globe winners who are on the ballot are: Jim Broadbent ("The Iron Lady"), John Goodman ("The Artist"), Tom Hanks ("Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"), Ben Kingsley ("Hugo"), Nick Nolte ("Warrior"), Brad Pitt and Sean Penn ("The Tree of Life"), Alan Rickman ("Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"), Geoffrey Rush ("The Eye of the Storm"), and Christoph Waltz ("Carnage"). The political drama "The Ides of March" features three previous winners: George Clooney, Paul Giamatti, and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Other potential nominees include Albert Brooks ("Drive"), Robert Forster ("The Descendants"), Ben Foster ("Rampart"), Jonah Hill ("Moneyball"), John C. Reilly ("Carnage"), Corey Stoll ("Midnight in Paris") and both Patrick Wilson and Patton Oswalt ("Young Adult").

Alan Rickman (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2) Rickman plays Severus Snape, former Potions teacher and the new headmaster at Hogwarts. He has one Globe win in one nomination.	Albert Brooks (Drive) Brooks plays Bernie Rose, a mobster who agrees to financially back a driver. He has never had a Globe nomination.	Andy Serkis (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) Serkis plays Caesar, a highly intelligent chimpanzee. He has never had a Globe nomination.	Armie Hammer (J. Edgar) Hammer plays Clyde Tolson, associate director of the FBI and rumored to be the lover of J. Edgar Hoover. He has never had a Globe nomination.	Beau Bridges (The Descendants) Bridges plays Cousin Hugh, part of the extended family to Matt King. He has two Globe wins in four nominations.	Ben Foster (Rampart) Foster plays General Terry, a man caught up in the Rampart scandals of the 1990s. He has never had a Globe nomination.
Ben Kingsley (Hugo) Kingsley plays Georges Melies, a French filmmaker known for technological achievements. He has one Globe win in six nominations.	Bill Nighy (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) Nighy plays Douglas, a retired British man who moves into a hotel in India. He has one Globe win in two nominations.	Brad Pitt (The Tree of Life) Pitt plays Mr. O'Brien, a father remembered in flashbacks from the 1950s. He has one Globe win in four nominations.	Christoph Waltz (Carnage) Waltz plays Alan Cowan, a lawyer husband in a dispute with another couple. He has one Globe win in one nomination.	Christopher Plummer (Beginners) Plummer plays Hal, an elderly sick man who comes out of the closet. He has no Globe wins in two nominations.	Colin Firth (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) Firth plays Bill Haydon, deputy chief of MI-6 in England. He has one Globe win in two nominations.
Corey Stoll (Midnight in Paris) Stoll plays Ernest Hemingway, the famous novelist visiting France. He has never had a Globe nomination.	Geoffrey Rush (The Eye of the Storm) Rush plays Basil Hunter, a man under the control of his dying mother. He has two Globe wins in five nominations.	George Clooney (The Ides of March) Clooney plays Mike Morris, Pennsylvania Governor who is running for President. He has two Globe wins in nine nominations.	J.K. Simmons (The Music Never Stopped) Simmons plays Henry Sawyer, a father of a son with a brain tumor who connects to him through music. He has never had a Globe nomination.	Jim Broadbent (The Iron Lady) Broadbent plays Denis Thatcher, husband of the first female Prime Minister of England. He has two Globe wins in three nominations.	John C. Reilly (Carnage) Reilly plays Michael Longstreet, a selfmade businessman husband in a dispute with another couple. He has no Globe wins in three nominations.
John Goodman (The Artist) Goodman plays Al Zimmer, the Kinograph Studios boss who is changing over from silent to talking movies. He has one Globe win in six nominations.	John Hawkes (Martha Marcy May Marlene) Hawkes plays Patrick, the enigmatic leader of a religious cult. He has never had a Globe nomination.	Jonah Hill (Moneyball) Hill plays Peter Brand, a bright young assistant general manager of the Oakland Athletics. He has never had a Globe nomination.	Kenneth Branagh (My Week with Marilyn) Branagh plays Laurence Olivier, the famed British actor shooting the film "The Prince and the Showgirl." He has no Globe wins in four nominations.	Max von Sydow (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) Von Sydow plays Thomas Schell, Sr., a grandfather of a boy who is mourning his father's loss in the 9/11 attacks in New York. He has no Globe wins in two nominations.	Nick Nolte (Warrior) Nolte plays Paddy Conlon, the formerly alcoholic trainer of two boxing sons. He has one Globe win in four nominations.
Patrick Wilson (Young Adult) Wilson plays Buddy Slade, the high school sweetheart of a woman who wants to win him back at a reunion. He has never had a Globe nomination.	Patton Oswalt (Young Adult) Oswalt plays Matt Freehauf, the former high school classmate who hasn't gotten over his school years. He has never had a Globe nomination.	Paul Giamatti (The Ides of March) Giamatti plays Tom Duffy, a cunning rival campaign manager. He has two Globe wins in four nominations.	Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Ides of March) Hoffman plays Paul Zara, senior campaign manager for a presidential candidate. He has one Globe win in four nominations.	Robert Forster (The Descendants) Forster plays Scott, father-in-law of Matt King. He has never had a Globe nomination.	Sean Penn (The Tree of Life) Penn plays Jack O'Brien, an architect remembering his childhood growing up in the 1950s. He has one Globe win in five nominations.
Tom Hanks (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) Hanks plays Thomas Schell, Jr., a father who dies in the 9/11 attacks in New York. He has seven Globe wins in 11 nominations.	Tom Wilkinson (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) Wilkinson plays Norman, a retired British man who moves into a hotel in India. He has one Globe win in four nominations.	Viggo Mortensen (A Dangerous Method