My First Golden Globes

Fourteen years after Sandra Bullock was nominated for her role in the romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping, she’s still going strong: this year, Bullock won Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama for her role in The Blind Side.

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This year, Penelope Cruz was nominated for her role Nine. Back in 2007, she got her first Golden Globe nomination in 2007 for her performance in Pedro Almodovar's Volver.

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Eleven-time nominee and four-time winner Jessica Lange won her first Golden Globe for her role as a damsel in distress in the 1977 remake of King Kong. This year, she was nominated for her performance as Edith Bouvier Beale in HBO’s Grey Gardens, but lost to her co-star, Drew Barrymore.

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She’s won every Golden Globe she’s been nominated for since 2008, but this year Tina Fey lost to Toni Collette for United States of Tara in the category of Best Actress in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical.

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This year, Emily Blunt was nominated for the title role in Young Victoria. But she’s still a newbie on the Globes carpet: Blunt won her first Golden Globe in 2007 for her performance in the miniseries Gideon’s Daughter.

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Three-time nominee Drew Barrymore got her first Golden Globe nod in 1985 for her supporting role in Irreconcilable Differences. This year, she picked up the award for Best Actress in a Mini-series for her role as Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens. "I didn't know the etiquette of coming up here when you win these awards because I don’t know and yet I’ve been meeting with the Hollywood Foreign Press for like 97 years and I’ve been in this room since I was seven years old,” she joked in her acceptance speech.

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First nominated in 1997 role in The Crucible, Joan Allen was nominated again this year for her role as the legendary American painter Georgia O’Keeffe.

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This year, Julianna Marguiles won the award for Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama for her role in The Good Wife. But she’s been to the Golden Globes many times before: the seven-time nominee was first recognized with a nomination in 1996 for her work on E.R.

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Helen Mirren won her first Golden Globe when she was nominated in 1997 for the TV movie Losing Chase. This year, she was nominated for her tenth Golden Globe for her performance as Leo Tolstoy’s wife in The Last Station.

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After winning her first Golden Globe in 1990 for her supporting role in Steel Magnolias, Julia Roberts won again the next year in the comedic category for Pretty Woman. This year she was nominated for her comeback performance in the romantic spy romp Duplicity.

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Seven-time nominee Kyra Sedgwick was first nominated in 1995 for her performance in the TV Mini-Series Miss Rose White. She only won her first Golden Globe in 2007, for her role in The Closer—which she was nominated for again this year.

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Ten years ago, Chloë Sevigny scored her first Golden Globe nomination for her role in Boys Don’t Cry. And Sunday night, she took home the award for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries for her performance as a scheming sister-wife in Big Love.

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Nominated this year for her performance in Prayers for Bobby, two-time Golden Globe winner Sigourney Weaver was first nominated in 1987 for her star-turn as Ellen Ripley in James Cameron’s Aliens.

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My First Golden Globes

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