McSTREAMY.COM (01/11/2015) – J.K. Simmons shined as Tina Fey and Amy Poehler kept the Golden Globes Awards ceremony delightfully moving along in the Sunday night NBC televised event. There were a number of highlights during the two hour show.
One of the surprises of the evening came early on when a veteran television actor won the award for best supporting actor in a motion picture. J.K. Simmons (shown in above photo) won for the performance he gave in the music movie, “Whiplash.” Although this was Simmons first Golden Globes nomination in the supporting actor in a motion picture category, he is not a stranger to TV viewers and has portrayed characters in other movies before the supporting actor award for his work in “Whiplash”.
The selection of J.K. Simmons to win the Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Golden Globe honor was equally surprising, considering the company he was in. Fellow nominees were Ethan Hawke (Boyhood), Edward Norton (Birdman), Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher), and Robert Duvall (The Judge).
Scene From “Whiplash” with Miles Teller, left, and J.K. Simmons on right.
Whiplash is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. The film stars Miles Teller as a young jazz drummer who attends one of the best music schools in the country under the tutelage of the school’s fearsome maestro of jazz (J. K. Simmons). It also stars Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoist, Austin Stowell, Jayson Blair, and Kavita Patil.
60 year old Simmons has had several recurring and regular parts on the various Law and Order programs, played the Police Chief in the highly popular “The Closer”, was the father in “Juno”, and has acted in more than 73 film projects since 1994, including three Spider-Man movies (as J. Jonah Jameson), plus over 63 television projects, and he is included as a character in at least five video games, and does cartoon voices.
Joanne Froggatt won for Best Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie for her performance in Masterpiece’s “Downton Abbey”. She, too, had not been nominated before. Froggatt’s competition included Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black), Kathy Bates (American Horror Story: Freak Show), Allison Janney (Mom), and Michelle Monaghan (True Detective).
Best mini-series or TV movie went to FX’s “Fargo,” over the acclaimed “True Detective” from HBO. Both series will return for another season, but with fresh casts and new stories, a relatively new format for TV.
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