Golden Globes website gaffe may tip Hathaway as winner
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Actress Anne Hathaway, at the Critics' Choice Awards on Thursday, where she tied for the best actress prize with Meryl Streep. It remains to be seen whether she repeats the feat at Sunday's Golden Globes. (Dan Steinberg/Associated Press)Organizers of the Golden Globes are red-faced over an internet blunder that could be interpreted to indicate Anne Hathaway won the best actress prize, days ahead of Sunday's awards ceremony.
An asterisk appeared next to Hathaway's name — nominated in the drama section for Rachel Getting Married — on the list of nominees on the Globes website Thursday.
A nominee was "randomly marked as a winner" by mistake, a statement on the Golden Globes website said Friday.
"In the process of preparing for Sunday's Golden Globe Awards, a technician working on the … website made a mistake and a name of a nominee was randomly marked as a winner," the statement said.
The statement said that didn't mean 26-year-old actress had won the award for her performance as a recovering drug addict in director Jonathan Demme's film.
It reiterated that only four executives from the accounting firm of Ernst & Young know the identity of the winners prior to the opening of the envelopes on Sunday's live telecast.
Other nominees in the same category are:
- Angelina Jolie for Changeling.
- Meryl Streep for Doubt.
- Kristin Scott Thomas for I've Loved You So Long.
- Kate Winslet for Revolutionary Road.
Luminaries presenting the 66th annual awards, sponsored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, include Sting, Johnny Depp, David Duchovny, Eva Longoria and Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan.
The awards, which honour film and television, will be handed out Sunday evening at a gala in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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