New Zealanders Still Talking About Anna Paquin’s Win For True Blood
January 19, 2009
It has been a week since Anna Paquin won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Drama in her portrayal of Sookie Stackhouse in Alan Ball’s successful HBO TV series “True Blood” and the papers in New Zealand continue to post information about her win and reactions. The papers claim that although Anna is back in the spotlight again with her award she has still remained humble and down-to-earth. The papers focused on her comments following the her win as an indication that although she is a big hollywood star she has not forgotten her roots and remained modest. Anna commented to the press about her win “I was the pale brunette from New Zealand, and I’m playing this Southern tanned blonde, essentially a Hooters waitress.” She went further to say that this award is “100 percent cooler” than her Best Supporting Actress Oscar win for The Piano at age 11. “I don’t even remember that, it was very blurry and crazy,” Paquin says. “This is quite blurry and crazy too, but at least I’m old enough to drink and stay out past 10pm.
SOURCE: What the Kiwi gossip mags say
(Photo credit: AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
Congratulations to Anna Paquin’s Golden Globe Win From the Brentwood Theatre
January 16, 2009
We here at truebloodnet.com are proud to receive from the Brentwood Theatre a press release congratulating Anna Paquin for her Golden Globe win for Best Actress in a TV Drama for her portrayal of Sookie Stackhouse in Alan Ball’s hit HBO TV series “True Blood”. The Brentwood Theatre is a wonderful community theatre located in Brentwood, Essex, England that provides for over forty groups a regular place to showcase their performances and accommodates for over 15000 visitors every year to enjoy a wide variety of productions. Many of the shows are performed by non-professional (‘amateur’) companies who rehearse at local halls, arrange for their own costumes and scenery and rely on this theatre as a place to showcase their hard work and dedication to the performing arts. True Blood’s Stephen Moyer is the theatre’s First Patron and is personally involved in the fundraising initiatives. We here at truebloodnet.com are proud sponsors of the Brentwood Theatre.
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True Blood’s Anna Paquin Golden Globe Associated Press Interview
January 16, 2009
True Blood’s Anna Paquin is interview by the Associated Press after winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Drama. Her interview begins a 2:21 where she describes the shock of her name being announced to the point that she was not even sure she heard right until she noticed everyone was looking at her. She did worry about the usual things when you go up on a stage, don’t trip, don’t fall down and I hope I didn’t forget anyone in my speech.
Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer Clip at the HBO After Party
January 16, 2009
Hollywood411.com was out on patrol at the various Golden Globe after party venues and in this particular video the interviewer caught up with Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and the rest of the cast from Alan Ball’s hit HBO TV series “True Blood”. It is a very short clip that starts at 57 seconds but Stephen Moyer makes such a funny comment that I had to include it in the news.
Anna Paquin Interview with The Insider
January 16, 2009
Since winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Drama more videos of Anna Paquin attending various interviews are popping up on the internet. This latest one came up from The Insider and in it Anna discusses her reaction to winning the award.
True Blood’s Stephen Moyer Praises Anna Paquin’s Win
January 13, 2009
Stephen Moyer from Alan Ball’s hit TV series “True Blood” had high praise for Anna Paquin’s Golden Globe win for Best Actress in a TV Drama. Stephen stated that “I am so pleased for Anna. This series has been so well received in America and it is great that the critics recognize its impact.” When asked about the the second season of “True Blood” Stephen mentioned that they have just begun filming and that he will be in Los Angeles until July, however, he stated that he will return to Brentwood for the premiere of “True Blood” on the FX channel in April. Fans of Stephen Moyer and True Blood have donated in just only the past two months 4000 pounds (money) to the Brentwood Theatre for its restoration where Stephen is the Patron of the Theatre.
SOURCE: Tribute to Golden Globe award winner
(Photo credit: AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
True Blood’s Anna Paquin Golden Globe Press Conference
January 13, 2009
After winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Drama on Alan Ball’s hit TV series “True Blood,” Anna Paquin answered questions at a press conference from various media outlets. One of the reporters asked her how was this win different from winning the Oscar for “The Piano.” Anna Paquin stated that due to her age at the time (11) she was really unaware of what was going on and at least now she can comprehend it and stay up past 10:00pm. Another reporter tried to pry from Anna any information about what may happen in Season 2. Anna teased them by stating that she couldn’t tell them and they will have to wait and see.
(Photo credit: Reuters/Lucy Nicholson, United States)
True Blood’s Anna Paquin After Award Show TV Guide Interview
January 13, 2009
After winning Best Actress in a TV Drama for her portrayal of Sookie Stackhouse on Alan Ball’s HBO hit TV series “True Blood,” Anna Paquin sat down with TV Guide to talk about how she felt about winning the Golden Globe against such competition. Anna stated that she was extremely excited and happy and that she was honoured to be nominated with a group of women that she holds in high esteem. They discussed the differences between this win and her win back when she was 11 when she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her work in “The Piano.” In closing the interviewer asks what are her plans for the rest of the night and Anna’s response was “to go hang out with the people I work with, everybody is here.”
(Photo credit: REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson UNITED STATES)
Could Anna Paquin’s Golden Globe Win Foretell a Possible Emmy?
January 12, 2009
Well, it’s possible but not very likely. The Golden Globes are substantially different from the Emmy’s, where in the last five years just 4 winners of the Globes in a major category have gone on to win Emmy’s.
The Golden Globes are awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). HFPA was founded in 1943 but they didn’t begin handing out television awards until 1955, and, as can be seen by the seating arrangements at last nights 66th Golden Globe Awards, they still treat television as an afterthought. The Globes are an odd little award show, which seems to have historically been instituted in order to garner more attention from the studios for the foreign press corps. The membership of HFPA is quite small, about 90 people total.
The Eligability requirements for TV shows, as posted on the HFPA website basically detail the hours and number of episodes that a program must air and that it must be generally available for TV viewing. Oh, and it has to be at least partly of US origins. This is all well and good but then there is this portion:
“*Registration: *
An entry form must be duly completed and returned to the HFPA as early as possible, but no later than the date given in the official 66th Golden Globe Awards Timetable.”
Followed by this hidden at the bottom:
“Throughout the year, the HFPA will meet with cast of selected television series, mini-series and motion pictures made for television to journalistically cover these shows. This is at the discretion of the Television Committee and all requests must be submitted by September 1 of each calendar year.
IN ALL INSTANCES, THE FINAL DECISION ON ALL ELIGIBILITY ISSUES RESTS WITH THE HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION.”
This made me curious, so I started digging and found out that this is really a giant shell game. The studios nominate their shows (through the registration form) then this group of grade B entertainment critics, many of whom are not even full time reporters, decides who they will let schmooze them this year. The studio of the HFPA chosen shows are expected to feed this group described as “more star-struck fans and moochers than serious reporters.” in an expose movie called “The Golden
Globes: Hollywood’s Dirty Little Secret” released in 2003 and directed by Vikram Jayant.
L.A. Weekly film critic John Powers said the group’s members are “essentially just bottom-feeders around the industry, who’ve somehow been inflated to this point where their judgment is supposed to be very, very important.”
According to MSNBC, “If stars and filmmakers fail to turn up for a schmooze session with the HFPA, it generally kills a movie’s chances for Golden Globe nominations, which draw attention that can boost a film’s Oscar prospects.”
After digging this information up I couldn’t help but reflect on my first reaction when I heard that Anna was nominated for a Golden Globe and that Stephen wasn’t. I was totally befuddled. No matter how one feels about Anna’s performances, the general consensus is that Stephen Moyer’s performances have been pure magic, the glue that holds the show together and the only reason that many watch. Could it all be so simple as Stephen wasn’t there, perhaps he was back in England during the True Blood schmooze fest set up for the HFPA? Or is it just that since they value movie actors so much more than television, Anna got the nod due to her prior work while Stephen was ignored? Potentially they could have voted on whom to nominate having seen neither a single episode nor even a single scene with Vampire Bill in it. According to Wikipedia, some years the decision on who wins has been made by as few as 22 voting members!
Twenty-two part time movie fans getting all this attention. Evidently you need to be recommended by someone already in the association in order to join as well. HFPA: a nice neat little fraternity of career assassins in the making.
I don’t blame Alan Ball for playing the game but I am sorely disillusioned after learning all this. The award isn’t worthless because it brought True Blood even more visibility, something very valuable to me as a fan of the show. It was wonderful to see all of the great talent in one place enjoying themselves. Which brings us back to the original
question: Could Anna Paquin’s Golden Globe win foretell a Possible Emmy? Apparently not. Apparently, any similarity to an actual achievement award, living or dead, is purely coincidental and unintentional. Void where prohibited by transparency laws. Some dissemblance is required.
True Blood’s Anna Paquin Interview at the HBO After Party
January 12, 2009
After winning the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a TV Drama, Anna Paquin still seemed in shock and in awe at winning the award. During the HBO After Party Mark Steines from ET had the opportunity to catch up with Anna Paquin and the rest of the cast of “True Blood” and talk to her about her win and ask her where she plans to hide her award. Anna stated that she does not plan to hide it and her co-star joked around stating that it was going to be in every scene. It was wonderful to hear Anna praise the show and the hard work that her fellow cast members contribute to the show.
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