Golden Globes: 'Homeland' wins for the best TV drama

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE, FilmInchThe Artist" - Ludovic BourceBEST DRAMA"Homeland" (Showtime)ACTOR, DRAMAKelsey Grammer - "Boss"ACTRESS Inside A Small-SERIES OR MOTION PICTUREKate Winslet - "Mildred Pierce"BEST Small-SERIES OR FilmInchDownton Abbey" (PBS)ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICALLaura Dern - "Enlightened"BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, MOTION PICTUREChristopher Plummer - "Beginners"Film, DRAMA"The Descendants""The AssistanceInchInchHugo""The Ides of March""Moneyball""War Equine"Film, COMEDY OR MUSICAL"50/50""The Artist""Bridesmaids""Night time in Paris""My Week With Marilyn"ACTOR , DRAMAGeorge Clooney - "The Descendants"Leonardo DiCaprio - "J. Edgar"Michael Fassbender - "Shame"Ryan Gosling - "The Ides of March"Kaira Pitt - "Moneyball"ACTRESS , DRAMAGlenn Close - "Albert Nobbs"Viola Davis - "The AssistanceInchRooney Mara - "The Lady Using the Dragon Tattoo"Meryl Streep - "The Iron Lady"Tilda Swinton - "We have to Discuss Kevin"ACTOR , COMEDY OR MUSICALJean Dujardin - "The Artist"Brendan Gleeson - "The Guard"Frederick Gordon-Levitt - "50/50"Ryan Gosling - "Crazy, Stupid, Love"Owen Wilson - "Night time in Paris"ACTRESS , COMEDY OR MUSICALJodie Promote - "Carnage"Charlize Theron - "Youthful Adult"Kristen Wiig - "Bridesmaids"Michelle Williams - "My Week with Marilyn"Kate Winslet - "Carnage"BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, MOTION PICTUREBerenice Bejo - "The Artist"Jessica Chastain - "The AssistanceInchJesse McTeer - "Albert Nobbs"Octavia Spencer - "The AssistanceInchShailene Woodley - "The Descendants"BEST DIRECTOR, MOTION PICTUREWoody Allen - "Night time in Paris"George Clooney - "The Ides of March"Michel Hazanavicius - "The Artist"Alexander Payne - "The Descendants"Martin Scorsese - "Hugo"BEST ANIMATED FEATURE"The Adventures of Tintin: The Key from the Unicorn""Arthur Christmas""Cars 2""Puss in Boots""Rango"BEST Script, FilmInchThe Artist" - Michel Hazanavicius"The Descendants"- Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash"The Ides of March" - George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Love Willimon"Night time in Paris" - Woodsy Allen"Moneyball" - Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin, Michael LewisFOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM"The Flowers of War" ("Jing Ling Shi San Chai") - China"Within the Land of Bloodstream and Honey" - USA"The Little One with Bike" ("Le Gamin au Velo") (Belgium)"A Separation" ("Jodaeiye Nader az Simin") - Iran"Your Skin My Home IsInch ("La piel que habito") - SpainBEST ORIGINAL SONG, FilmInchHi Hello" - "Gnomeo & Juliet" - Music by: Elton John Lyrics by: Bernie Taupin"The Keeper" - "Machine Gun Preacher" - Music & Lyrics by: Chris Cornell"Lay Your Mind Lower" - "Albert Nobbs" - Music by: John Byrne Lyrics by: Glenn Close"The Living Proof" - "The AssistanceInch - Music by: Mary J. Blige, Thomas Newman, Harvey Mason, Junior. Lyrics by: Mary J. Blige, Harvey Mason, Junior., Damon Thomas"Masterpiece" - "W.E." - Music & Lyrics by: Madonna, Julie Frost, Jimmy HarryBEST COMEDY OR MUSICAL"Enlightened" (Cinemax)"Episodes" (Showtime)"Glee" (Fox)"Modern Family" (ABC)"New Girl" (Fox)ACTRESS, DRAMAJuliana Margulies - "The Great Wife"Claire Danes - "Homeland"Mireille Enos - "The Killing"Madeleine Stowe - "Revenge"Callie Thorne - "Necessary Roughness"ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICALAlec Baldwin - "30 Rock"David Duchovny - "Californication"Johnny Galecki - "The Large Bang Theory"Thomas Jane - "Hung"Matt LeBlanc - "Episodes"ACTOR Inside A Small-SERIES OR MOTION PICTUREHugh Bonneville - "Downton Abbey"Idris Elba - "Luther"William Hurt - "Too Large to Fail"Bill Nighy - "Page Eight"Dominic West - "The Hour"SUPPORTING ACTOR Inside A SERIES, Small-SERIES OR MOTION PICTUREPeter Dinklage - "Bet on Thrones"Paul Giamatti - "Too Large to Fail"Guy Pearce - "Mildred Pierce"Tim Robbins - "Cinema Verite"Eric Stonestreet - "Modern Family"SUPPORTING ACTRESS Inside A SERIES, Small-SERIES OR MOTION PICTUREJessica Lange - "American Horror Story"Kelly Macdonald - "Boardwalk Empire"Sofia Vergara - "Modern Family"Maggie Cruz - "Downton Abbey"Evan Rachel Wood - "Mildred Pierce"THE CECIL B. DEMILLE AWARDMorgan Freeman Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com

Logan set to adapt 'Jersey Boys' tuner

LoganThe Jersey Boys stage show has won four Tonys and grossed more than $1 billion on Broadway. John Logan has been tapped to adapt the musical "Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons," with GK Films' Graham King and Tim Headington producing.King and Headington, who snagged feature rights to "Jersey Boys" in October 2010, plan to use much of the same music and lyrics in the stage play including such hits as "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Rag Doll" and "Oh What a Night." Valli and Bob Gaudio are exec producing.It's anticipated that the project will be produced in partnership with Columbia Pictures, with Col handling worldwide distribution of the project except for some international territories that GK may potentially sell.The Four Seasons -- Valli, Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi -- sold 175 million records worldwide before they were 30. The stage show has grossed more than $1 billion since opening on Broadway in 2005 and won four Tonys.Logan wrote "Hugo," which received a Writers Guild of America nomination for adapted screenplay last week; King and Headington were producers. He also penned the adaptation of Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" and, along with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, wrote the next James Bond film "Skyfall." Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

'Star Trek 2' Villain Benedict Cumberbatch: Who Is He Playing?

It's gotta be pretty awesome to be Benedict Cumberbatch right about now. People love his take on "Sherlock," he's about to take flight as the iconic Smaug in "The Hobbit," and as if all that wasn't cool enough, the British actor has just been announced as the new villain in "Star Trek 2." Not a bad way to kick off 2012! Which "Star Trek" villain is Benedict Cumberbatch playing? The question remains, though: who is Cumberbatch playing? We tackled that very question in this week's edition of Talk Nerdy to Me, and you can see our thoughts by clicking the video above. But the speculation doesn't end there. We reached out to some of our favorite "Trek" fans across MTV Movies, MTV Geek and NextMovie for their insight into Cumberbatch's character. Read on for what they had to say! Valerie Gallaher, MTV Geek "Who I hope Cumberbatch plays: one of the classic quirky original 'Trek' villains such as Charlie X and Gary Mitchell. Basically, any character with the ability to warp reality with his brain, as Cumberbatch is so delightfully cerebral. I'd also be really happy with Q. Who I don't want Cumberbatch to play but there's a good chance he will: Khan Noonien Singh or a new Klingon villain with a name like G'Kahk, leading to a WTF action figure in the bargain bin." Jordan Hoffman, NextMovie's Planet Fanboy "I hope Benedict Cumberbatch is playing ... a new character! I thought the first film did a fantastic job of updating the luminary figures from original series, but now that the launch has happened I say let the ship fly freely! If 'Trek' 2.0 continues to simply make callbacks to what we already know, it will never truly succeed as its own, um, Enterprise." Kevin P. Sullivan, MTV Movies "Like many people, I want to see Cumberbatch play Khan, but I think his arc will take a different shape than Ricardo Montalban's did in 'Wrath of Khan.' The alternative timeline set up by Abrams' first 'Trek' will definitely result in an unfamiliar Khan, but I'd love to see him start off as an ally to Kirk, eventually turning into the villain we all love." Kara Warner, MTV Movies "I am as excited as anyone about the 'Star Trek' sequel. I am not excited about obsessing over plot details and character descriptions. I prefer to remain as blissfully ignorant as possible, so I can go into the theater expecting to be as surprised as I am entertained. That being said, I do not wish to speculate about what role Benedict Cumberbatch has landed. As a huge fan of the rising star, going way back to his role in 2006's 'Starter For 10,' a smaller British film which co-starred a bunch of future stars like James McAvoy, Rebecca Hall and Alice Eve, I'm just thrilled he's in the movie. End of story." Alex Zalben, MTV Geek "First guess: he's playing a new character named Noonidict Khanberbatch. Second guess: he's reprising his role as Smaug in 'The Hobbit,' because the new 'Star Trek' and 'The Hobbit' movies secretly cross over, and every geek's brains will literally melt in the theaters. Third, more reasonable guess: he's playing some sort of new Vulcan character. Given his propensity for emotionless geniuses (Sherlock), and the idea that maybe 'Star Trek 2' is a direct continuation of the first movie, rather than a standalone adventure, it might make sense to have a survivor of the destruction of Vulcan as a heavy in the sequel... Though I'm still holding out hope for a dark, gritty version of Harry Mudd." Who do you think Cumberbatch will play? Sound off in the comments and on Twitter!

Helmers war for way ahead for figures

While 'The Adventures of Tintin' and 'Rango,' were created by director-driven teams, 'Puss in Boots' emerged from Dreamworks' established culture.This Year's animated feature race can be a culture clash.Live-action helmers Steven Spielberg and Gore Verbinski, working outdoors established animation art galleries, built unique creative cultures personalized for his or her movies.People established companies -- Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks -- in addition to their established creative cultures have extended been the backbone in the animation business. This year, though, people established cultures allow us, possibly reflecting a maturation in the feature animation industry.At DreamWorks Animation, for example, "Puss in Boots" director Chris Burns describes the studio culture weight reduction filmmaker-driven than ever before. "Previously of DreamWorks, Jeffrey Katzenberg actually was hands-on," states Burns. "Now he's enabling us to discover our personal way, in addition to fall on our faces -- anything.InchBurns cites his "Shrek" spinoff "Puss in Boots" for example. "There's a readiness to supply this character their very own world apart from 'Shrek,' and permit the comedy be driven by character, not by satire. Jeffrey let us do that.InchVerbinski and also the "Rango" team went anti-corporate, creating a cloistered workspace at Verbinski's old house inside the slopes above La. The goal wound up being to insulate people artists from studio or producer notes, and liberate those to take risks. It absolutely was a greater-wire act from the very first day.InchNobody had any animation experience," designer Mark "Crash" McCreery confesses. "I had been individually distinct, your house, and nobody stopped us."Verbinski's team spent yearly creating a "story reel" -- an early on version in the entire picture, however with simple art and temporary appear. It fell to Industrial Light & Miracle, that have never done an animated feature before, to produce that story reel to existence in CG animation. "Gore spoken to ILM's artists as if they were stars. He permit them to embrace a personality and bought it.Inch ILM learned to think about if this involves entire sequences, not just individual shots, but ultimately, states McCreery, "nothing changed within the animatic Blind Wink attempted for the final product."Spielberg, who might even use ILM, rather teamed with Peter Jackson's Weta Digital the first time on "The Adventures of Tintin: The Important Thing in the Unicorn." Each side aided another.Spielberg hadn't required to capture stars in the blank "volume" before, and Weta aided him by delivering him with rough CG reference imagery on monitors."That no less than grounded me," Spielberg has remarked (Daily Variety, November. 16). "I used to be wanting that we could bring a couple of from the filmmaking tools of my trade with a medium that we hadn't looked into before, which really labored.InchWeta, however, hadn't done stylized figures, and Spielberg preferred and also hardwearing . graphic kind of Herge's original books. States Weta partner Joe Letteri: "We needed to try and recognition the foundation material but nonetheless create a unique look on film."Letteri credits Jackson with getting heavily involved in the beginning. Jackson, whose pictures built Nz-based Weta in to a world-class vfx studio, reduced the street for Weta and Spielberg."He (Jackson) understood the job of taking a character design and which makes it a 3 dimensional character that you'd like to find out onscreen," Letteri states. Letteri notes that although Spielberg were living half world from Weta, he labored with constantly via videoconferencing. "It absolutely was an incredibly great way to operate.InchPossibly most likely probably the most unusual combined culture this year paired the stop-motion artists at Aardman while using 3d-CG artists in the new the new sony Animation and Imageworks for "Arthur Christmas."To mesh such different studio cultures, The brand new the new sony artists labored at Aardman in the uk throughout story development, and "Aardman West" was put into L.A. throughout production."We preferred to appear just like a grew to become part of-up studio and not a vendor," describes director Sarah Cruz. "Inside a small studio like Aardman, you consider the totality from the project. You're always -- within your mind -- purchasing and selling one part of the process against another, if this involves what's crucial that you you."It is sometimes complicated for people in the visual effects pipeline like Sony's to accomplish this kind of holistic thinking. Been there been a classic 'vendor' relationship, imaginable a number of equine-purchasing and selling. But getting our teams connected with each other completely through, we are in a position to to keep that 'big picture' thinking." nPixar's story-driven culture is brought by its famous "brain trust" of collaborators which is policy of inviting comments from everyone inside the studio's rank and file. Even John Lasseter, who built that culture, and who could most likely ignore such notes with impunity if he so preferred, took in for their critiques of "Cars 2," recalls producer Denise Ream."There has been uncomfortable times when issues were elevated by crew people -- like all instances where people felt the film layed out on violence. It's a spy movie, and then we certainly required to have stakes. It can't are actually credible once we didn't. But John certainly heard what Pixar people required to say, making changes."RELATED LINKS: Seed items of genius Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch Joins Twitter

First Published: January 2, 2012 12:53 PM EST Credit: AFP LONDON, U.K. -- Caption Rupert Murdoch poses on the red carpet during the opening ceremony of the Shanghai International Film Festival in Shanghai on June 11, 2011Yes, it really is Rupert Murdoch and not an impostor on Twitter. A man using the media moguls name started tweeting over the New Years holiday, and a spokeswoman at his News International company confirmed Monday the account which has the handle rupertmurdoch is genuine. The embattled chief of the sprawling News Corp. media conglomerate says on Twitter that his resolutions for 2012 are to try to maintain humility and to diet. The 80-year-old added that he wants to stay curious. He also sounds bored with his holiday: Back to work tomorrow, he says. Enough idling! Murdoch may face questioning later this year from the Leveson Inquiry, which is investigating criminal wrongdoing at Murdochs British newspapers, including the now-closed News of the World tabloid. Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.