The Golden Globes were last night, and The Social Network (the movie about the founding of Facebook), did pretty well, as expected. The film was nominated for six awards, and won four.
Director David Fincher (whose work also includes Seven and Fight Club) won Best Director. Aaron Sorkin (of A Few Good Men and West Wing fame) won Best Screenplay. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, who scored the film, won Best Score, and the movie itself won Best Picture, Drama.
Jesse Eisenberg, the actor who portrayed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, was nominated for the Best Actor, Drama award, but lost out to Colin Firth for his performance in the film, The King’s Speech. Andrew Garfield, who played Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, but lost to Christian Bale for his performance in The Fighter.
There has been a great deal of hype around the film since it was first screened to critics, and as awards season has officially gotten underway, it’s no surprise to see The Social Network get off to a solid start.
You can see my early review for The Social Network here. The film was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and digital download last week.
While we don’t expect to see a sequel to The Social Network, there have certainly been plenty of events surrounding Facebook to take place since the period of time in which the end of the film takes place. The first film has certainly been received well enough, so I wouldn’t rule it out entirely, but it would be surprising to see the original crew come back for another round of Facebook narrative.
See all Golden Globe winners and nominees here.
Was The Social Network good enough to win the Golden Globe for Best Movie?
Is a good movie, but is not the best of 2010, not even close. What do you think?
Yes.
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It’s like a really good TV movie, but a bad idea for a Motion Picture. The GGS should have gone more towards Inception
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No. It was decent, but I don’t believe that it was even in the top 5 best films of the year. There were movies that weren’t even nominated that I would choose over it.
I seem to be one of the only people that disliked it.
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IMHO, Inception should have had that. Its better overall and has a certain ‘blow you away’ quality.
Social network is a great movie though don’t get me wrong.
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Yeah it was good but there were other movies released that were better than it, and there were other films that did better at the box office in fact it’s not even on the top 10 list so how it won that award is beyond me. Sure it deserved some of the awards but best film should have gone to a more deserving film who did well at the box office, like Inception.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_in_film
It was a good movie and deserved to be in top 5 movies ,but its not the best one.I think The King’s Speech deserved the Best Movie award.
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I disagree with @LizE, if films were chosen by box office results, the reputations of these prestigious awards shows would go down and there will be awards given to Twilight! Wouldn’t that be terrible? Of course, everybody has their own opinions. I thought TSN deserved Best Picture. Many people think it is a movie ABOUT Facebook. Well, it isn’t. It’s about money, power, friendship, betrayal and loyalty. It evoked emotions and was very meaningful. I LOVED Inception. But it didn’t have that character depth and narrative to win Best Picture, which TSN deserved.
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I watched the four that were nominated, I don’t think the Social Network even deserved the nomination, I mean, Inception, Black Swan and The King’s Speech were GREAT, Social Network was only good, I think A Prophet would have been a better nomination, but, who cares, it’s the Golden Globes not The Oscar’s.
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I don’t believe so. The premise, storyline and screenplay were just good, and not groundbreaking. Something should be said for the stretching of the truth in this biopic to a point where even though the movie is successful, Marc Zukerberg does not accept or stand behind it. This could also be said many years ago for Citizen Kane, but it was not as thrown in your face that Hearst was the basis of the story, and being one of the greatest movies of all time and truly groundbreaking, one really can not compare. I believe Inception fits the bill of groundbreaking, deep and intriguing, with an edgy score, cinematography and a scope that is breathtaking. It’s time for Science Fiction to gets its do, and now there is no excuse because it has the backbone and is a thinking man’s film. Remember the Dark Knight snub Academy; give Nolan his due. My second selection would be The Black Swan, with Natalie Portman’s amazing performance.
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