Golden Globes 2014 Winners List

Here’s the full list of winners at this years Golden Globe Award 2014. David O’Russell’s American Hustle picked up a trio of awards including best comedy, whilst 12 Years A Slave won best drama.

Top Acting honors for film went to Matthew McConaughey and Cate Blanchett. Whilst for television Bryan Cranston and Robin Wright took the dramatic awards. Andy Samberg and Amy Poehler took best actor and actress respectively in the TV comedy categories.

FILM AWARDS
Best motion picture – drama : 12 Years A Slave
Best motion picture – musical or comedy: American Hustle
Best director: Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Best actor – drama: Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club
Best actor – musical or comedy: Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf Of Wall Street
Best actress – drama: Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Best actress – musical or comedy: Amy Adams – American Hustle
Best supporting actor: Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club
Best supporting actress: Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Best screenplay: Her – Spike Jonze
Best original score: Alex Ebert – All Is Lost
Best original song: Ordinary Love – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 
Best foreign language film: The Great Beauty – Italy
Best animated feature: Frozen


TELEVISION AWARDS
Best TV series – drama: Breaking Bad
Best TV series – comedy: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Best mini-series or motion picture made for TV: Behind The Candelabra
Best actor – drama: Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad
Best actress – drama: Robin Wright – House Of Cards
Best actor – comedy: Andy Samberg – Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Best actress – comedy: Amy Poehler – Parks and Recreation
Best Actor mini-series/motion picture made for TV: Michael Douglas – Behind the Candelabra
Best Actress mini-series/motion picture made for TV: Elisabeth Moss – Top of the Lake
Best supporting actor : Jon Voight – Ray Donovan
Best supporting actress  : Jacqueline Bisset – Dancing on the Edge

The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug Fun Facts

This week sees the long awaited release of the second chapter in Peter Jackson’s big screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein’s fantasy epic The Hobbit. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventures of Bilbo Baggins as he journeys with the Wizard Gandelf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield,  on an epic quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and the lost dwarf kingdom of Erebor. 

The film features returning stars Sir Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage and Martin Freeman, alongside Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace, Luke Evans and Orlando Bloom.  Benedict Cumberbatch also lends his unmistakable vocal menace to the terrifying Dragon Smaug. Check out below some interesting facts about exactly what else went into the production of the new film and check out our own exclusive interviews with Dwarves Adam Brown  and  William Kircher.

4 Tons of Silicon were used to make the facial prosthetics used in the film.

5 Hours spent applying hair, make-up, prosthetics and wardrobe for each of the 13 dwarves.  

6 Weeks taken to build Beorn’s house set.

7 km of toupe tape were used to apply all the film’s beards to people faces.

9 weeks were spent on location filming the trilogy.

10 kg of actual human hair was used for wig making.

14 Tons of silicon used to mold the armor and weapons used.

48 FPS the revolutionary higher frame rate used to film the trilogy.

91 Wigs created just for the dwarves.

95 Musicians in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra that recorded the film’s score.

99 Studios sets built for the Trilogy.

100+ Hobbit feet were made just for Bilbo Baggins.

263 Beards used in the whole production.

400 Costumes created for the inhabitants of Lake-Town.

547 Traveling weapons made for the 13 Dwarves.

752 Wigs used in the whole production.

1200 Extras cast in the Hobbit trilogy.

2000 Hand-spun goblets created for Smaug’s Lair.

8900 hours of continuous work from the art department to build, decorate and tear down sets.

11,862 Prosthetics made for the entire Hobbit Trilogy

170,000 Aluminium gold plated coins trickled over Smaug’s Lair.