Awkwafina shares her oddest Golden Globes nomination congratulations text - msnNOW

Awkwafina was basking in the glow of her first ever Golden Globe award nomination at the "Jumanji: The Next Level" world premiere Monday.

© JEAN-BAPTISTE LACROIX, AFP via Getty Images US actress/singer Awkwafina arrives for the World Premiere of "Jumanji: The Next Level" at the TCL Chinese theatre in Hollywood on December 9, 2019.

The actress, real name Nora Lum, has been deluged with praise— along with the oddest kudos text she has received since the Monday morning announcement.

"The most unusual congratulations was my aunt texting me, telling me I should eat less grains. I really like ancient grains and she had read an article about grains," said Awkwafina from the red carpet. "And on the back of that (information), she gave me, 'Oh yeah, congratulations!' "

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The comedian/actress admitted it's all been like a "surreal" dream since she found about the best actress in a comedy nomination news for her poignant role in Lulu Wang’s "The Farewell" (also nominated for best foreign film).

Awkwafina insists she had slept through the early morning announcements and only found out from the calls afterwards.

"I really didn't know (the nominations) were this morning," she said. "And I ate Korean barbecue last night. A lot of Korean barbecue."

She recovered enough to send out a statement Monday saying she was "beyond grateful."

"I grew up watching the Golden Globes every year, cheering for my favorite films and actors. It is surreal that I now get to go!" she wrote. "Wait, I do get to go right?"

By Monday evening she was a little more mentally recovered, walking the red carpet for the "Jumanji" sequel in which she plays a thief video game character.

 "I'm going for the ride," she said of the awards run. "It's just a lot of fun."

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Golden Globes: Watch the Main Nominees Announced - Variety

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Golden Globes 2020: The Complete Nominations List - Variety

Netflix ruled nominations for the 77th Golden Globes, scoring nods for “Marriage Story” and “The Irishman” on the film front and “The Crown” and “Unbelievable” for television.

Tim Allen, Dakota Fanning and Susan Kelechi were on hand Monday morning to announce nominees for the Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual celebration to recognize the year’s best in both TV and film.

Noah Baumbauch’s “Marriage Story” landed a leading six nominations for film, followed by Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” with five each.

HBO’s “Chernobyl,” Netflix’s “The Crown” and “Unbelievable” swept TV nominations with four a piece. HBO’s “Barry,” “Succession” and “Big Little Lies,” Amazon’s “Fleabag,”  FX’s “Fosse/ Verdon,” Netflix’s “The Kominsky Method” and Apple TV’s “The Morning Show” each secured three.

Ricky Gervais will host the 2020 Golden Globe Awards ceremony on Jan. 5, live from the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.

Check out the full nominations list below:

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Christopher Abbott (“Catch-22”)
Sacha Baron Cohen (“The Spy”)
Russell Crowe (“The Loudest Voice”)
Jared Harris (“Chernobyl”)
Sam Rockwell (“Fosse/Verdon”)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Kaitlyn Dever (“Unbelievable”)
Joey King (“The Act”)
Helen Mirren (“Catherine the Great”)
Merritt Wever (“Unbelievable”)
Michelle Williams (“Fosse/Verdon”)

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
“Catch-22″ (Hulu)
“Chernobyl” (HBO)
“Fosse/Verdon” (FX)
The Loudest Voice (Showtime)
“Unbelievable” (Netflix)

Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language
“The Farewell” (A24)
“Pain and Glory” (Sony)
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Pyramide Films)
“Parasite” (CJ Entertainment)
“Les Misérables” (BAC Films, Amazon)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Alan Arkin
Kieran Culkin (“Succession”)
Andrew Scott (“Fleabag”)
Stellan Skarsgård (“Chernobyl”)
Henry Winkler (“Barry”)

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy
“Barry” (HBO)
“Fleabag” (Amazon)
“The Kominsky Method” (Netflix)
“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon)
“The Politician” (Netflix)

Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Daniel Pemberton (“Motherless Brooklyn”)
Alexandre Desplat (“Little Women”)
Hildur Guðnadóttir (“Joker”)
Thomas Newman (“1917”)
Randy Newman (“Marriage Story”)

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Noah Baumbach (“Marriage Story”)
Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (“Parasite”)
Anthony McCarten (“The Two Popes”)
Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”)
Steven Zaillian (“The Irishman”)

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“Beautiful Ghosts” (“Cats”)
“(I’m Gonna) Love Me Again” (“Rocketman”)
“Into the Unknown” (“Frozen II”)
“Spirit” (“The Lion King”)
“Stand Up” (“Harriet”)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Patricia Arquette (“The Act”)
Helena Bonham Carter (“The Crown”)
Toni Collette
Meryl Streep (“Big Little Lies”)
Emily Watson (“Chernobyl”)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Michael Douglas (“The Kominsky Method”)
Bill Hader (“Barry”)
Ben Platt (“The Politician”)
Paul Rudd (“Living with Yourself”)
Ramy Youssef (“Ramy”)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy
Christina Applegate (“Dead to Me”)
Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”)
Kirsten Dunst (“On Becoming a God in Central Florida”)
Natasha Lyonne (“Russian Doll”)
Phoebe Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag”)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama
Brian Cox (“Succession”)
Kit Harington (“Game of Thrones”)
Rami Malek (“Mr. Robot”)
Tobias Menzies (“The Crown”)
Billy Porter (“Pose”)

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Noah Baumbach (“Marriage Story”)
Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won (“Parasite”)
Anthony McCarten (“The Two Popes”)
Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”)
Steven Zaillian (“The Irishman”)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama
Jennifer Aniston (“The Morning Show”)
Olivia Colman (“The Crown”)
Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve”)
Nicole Kidman (“Big Little Lies”)
Reese Witherspoon (“Big Little Lies”)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Tom Hanks (“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”)
Anthony Hopkins (“The Two Popes”)
Al Pacino (“The Irishman”)
Joe Pesci (“The Irishman”)
Brad Pitt (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
Kathy Bates (“Richard Jewell”)
Annette Bening (“The Report”)
Laura Dern (“Marriage Story”)
Jennifer Lopez (“Hustlers”)
Margot Robbie (“Bombshell”)

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Daniel Craig (“Knives Out”)
Roman Griffin Davis (“Jojo Rabbit”)
Leonardo DiCaprio (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”)
Taron Egerton (“Rocketman”)
Eddie Murphy (“Dolemite Is My Name”)

Best Motion Picture – Animated
“Frozen II” (Disney)
“How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” (Universal)
“Missing Link” (United Artists Releasing)
“Toy Story 4” (Disney)
“The Lion King” (Disney)

Best Director – Motion Picture
Bong Joon-ho (“Parasite”)
Sam Mendes (“1917”)
Todd Phillips (“Joker”)
Martin Scorsese (“The Irishman”)
Quentin Tarantino (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”)

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Christian Bale (“Ford v Ferrari”)
Antonio Banderas (“Pain and Glory”)
Adam Driver (“Marriage Story”)
Joaquin Phoenix (“Joker”)
Jonathan Pryce (“The Two Popes”)

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Awkwafina (“The Farewell”)
Ana de Armas (“Knives Out”)
Cate Blanchett (“Where’d You Go, Bernadette”)
Beanie Feldstein (“Booksmart”)
Emma Thompson (“Late Night”)

Best Television Series – Drama
“Big Little Lies” (HBO)
“The Crown” (Netflix)
“Killing Eve” (BBC America)
“The Morning Show” (Apple TV Plus)
“Succession” (HBO)

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Cynthia Erivo (“Harriet”)
Scarlett Johansson (“Marriage Story”)
Saoirse Ronan (“Little Women”)
Charlize Theron (“Bombshell”)
Renée Zellweger (“Judy”)

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (Sony)
“Jojo Rabbit” (Fox Searchlight)
“Knives Out” (Lionsgate)
“Rocketman” (Paramount)
“Dolemite Is My Name” (Netflix)

Best Motion Picture – Drama
“The Irishman” (Netflix)
“Marriage Story” (Netflix)
“1917” (Universal)
“Joker” (Warner Bros.)
“The Two Popes” (Netflix)

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Golden Globe nominations 2020: Who will be chosen? - CNN

As was anticipated, "The Irishman," "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" and "The Crown" received some love.

Nominations for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual ceremony, which honors achievement in film and television, are viewed as the unofficial kickoff to awards season.

The awards telecast will air at 8 p.m. EST on January 5 on NBC.

Ricky Gervais is set to host.

Here is a list of the nominees:

Television:

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Christopher Abbott ("Catch-22")

Sacha Baron Cohen ("The Spy")

Russell Crowe ("The Loudest Voice")

Jared Harris ("Chernobyl")

Sam Rockwell ("Fosse/Verdon")

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Kaitlyn Dever ("Unbelievable")

Joey King ("The Act")

Helen Mirren ("Catherine the Great")

Merritt Wever ("Unbelievable")

Michelle Williams ("Fosse/Verdon")

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

"Catch-22″ (Hulu)

"Chernobyl" (HBO)

"Fosse/Verdon" (FX)

The Loudest Voice (Showtime)

"Unbelievable" (Netflix)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Patricia Arquette ("The Act")

Helena Bonham Carter ("The Crown")

Toni Collette

Meryl Streep ("Big Little Lies")

Emily Watson ("Chernobyl")

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Alan Arkin

Kieran Culkin ("Succession")

Andrew Scott ("Fleabag")

Stellan Skarsgård ("Chernobyl")

Henry Winkler ("Barry")

Best Television Series -- Musical or Comedy

"Barry" (HBO)

"The Kominsky Method" (Netflix)

"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" (Amazon)

"The Politician" (Netflix)

Best Motion Picture -- Foreign Language

"The Farewell"

"Pain and Glory"

"Portrait of a Lady on Fire"

"Parasite"

"Les Misérables"

Best Screenplay -- Motion Picture

Noah Baumbach ("Marriage Story")

Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won ("Parasite")

Anthony McCarten ("The Two Popes")

Quentin Tarantino ("Once Upon a Time in Hollywood")

Steven Zaillian ("The Irishman")

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Silicon Valley: The series finale splits the difference between the show's beginnings and what it eventually became. - Slate

Bummer.

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The season finale of Silicon Valley aired Sunday night on HBO, and if you’re looking for a quick gut-check about how much the world has soured in the last five years, you could do worse than taking another look at the series’ 2014 pilot. That initial episode, “Minimum Viable Product,” promised a standard workplace comedy about an extremely eccentric workplace, populated by a gang of socially maladroit but basically likeable people. There’s a running joke about Silicon Valley founders baselessly asserting that they are “making the world a better place,” but there’s not much suggestion that they are deliberately making the world a worse place—the joke is that they keep attaching world-shaking importance to extremely esoteric advances in computer programming. A speech given by a programmer whose company has just been purchased by Google neatly captures the show’s relationship with its subject at inception:

You know, a few days ago, when we were sitting down with Barack Obama, I turned to these guys and said, “Okay. We’re making a lot of money. And yes, we’re disrupting digital media. But most importantly, we’re making the world a better place, through constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility.”

That’s an extremely silly thing to say, but it’s not actively deceptive or malicious. But you couldn’t possibly make a show about Silicon Valley in 2019 that treated the tech industry as a positive or even a neutral actor, and so Mike Judge and Alec Berg didn’t. Silicon Valley has been consistently getting darker over the years, but in its final season, the show’s once-lovable hackers were dragged before Congress over privacy concerns, distributed a video game that was a trojan horse for a surveillance network/blackmail engine, had to decide whether or not to accept blood money, and accidentally created a paperclip-maximizer-style artificial intelligence that threatened the very concept of privacy. The entire first season was structured around Richard Hendricks, the would-be Zuckerberg played by Thomas Middleditch, making an enormous technological breakthrough while eagerly chasing after Silicon Valley money. The last season is built around Hendricks and his friends destroying their best work at great financial cost after getting a closer look at the moral abyss at the center of their industry. So how on earth do you find an ending for a story that began as Horatio Alger and turned into Frankenstein? Before you submit your answer, remember: It also has to be funny.

Silicon Valley’s innovative solution to this impossible problem is “Exit Event,” written and directed by Alec Berg, and it mostly works. Berg splits the difference between the show’s beginnings and its end by framing the story of Pied Piper’s collapse with a “Where Are They Now” documentary set ten years in the future. That creates plenty of space for guest stars like Kara Swisher and Bill Gates to pull talking head duty, but more importantly, it pulls the characters out of the moral dilemma that powers the contemporary section of the finale (and the season that led to it). That lets the show and its characters strike a more season-finale-appropriate “wistful and nostalgic about the television program Silicon Valley” tone, instead of the slightly less welcoming “let’s seriously consider destroying the planet for money” plot machinations of the final season. The epilogue does justice to Silicon Valley’s characters in surprising but immediately believable ways—Berg’s solution to the problem of T.J. Miller’s departure, in particular, is hilariously elegant—and fans hoping to spend one more episode hanging out with the show’s characters should be more than satisfied, particularly by Josh Brener’s final turn as Nelson “Big Head” Bighetti. But if you look closely, even the callbacks to Silicon Valley’s early days demonstrate how much the show’s perspective has changed. Besides a reappearance from the Hoberman Switch Pitch, the most explicit echo of Silicon Valley’s beginnings is this line, delivered by a Stanford student pitching a startup:

I’m making the world a better place through an intelligent, semi-autonomous agent, powered by distributed DNA-based compute that automates personal planning and scheduling.

On the surface, that looks like the same joke that opened the series, but its meaning has changed: The speaker is not using tech gobbledygook to overplay the world-saving virtues of her get-rich-quick plan; she’s using it to wildly underplay the many ways her idea could go horribly, horribly wrong. She seems to be planning to build an artificial intelligence that uses protocells for hardware, repurposing DNA to perform computing operations, and she’s giving that AI the explicit goal of telling human beings what to do and when to do it. As Martin Starr’s Gilfoyle puts it, “It sounds like an atrocity.” It’s a long road from “move fast and break things” to “first, do no harm,” but as its series finale shows, Silicon Valley traveled it. If only Silicon Valley would do the same.

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Selena fans trash Ally Brooke's performance during the Miss Universe pageant - Yahoo Celebrity

Ally Brooke, of Fifth Harmony fame, kicked off the Miss Universe pageant Sunday night with a stellar performance of her song “No Good,” but unfortunately for Brooke, it’s a later performance that garnered the most attention. While the top ten finalists were introduced, Brooke sang the 1995 hit “Dreaming of You” by the late legend Selena Quintanilla, and the performance was not well received.

Although some viewers only had negative things to say, there were still those who were moved by the performance.

Brooke is a big fan of Selena, and even gave a passionate performance to “Dreaming of You” on Dancing With The Stars earlier this year. And despite what many viewers thought about it, Selena’s sister Suzette was appreciative of the tribute Sunday night.

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