‘The Social Network’ takes out Best Picture at the Golden Globes

• Tuesday, 18 January 2011
• By Amy Scott
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You could be excused for thinking that Facebook had taken over the world at the moment. Not content with monopolizing the social networking arena, the Facebook movie ‘The Social Network’ walked away from the Golden Globes last night the unrivalled champion with an impressive four awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Score. Seriously, who knew Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails could compose an award-winning score? Certainly not I!

In a world where everything is instant and communication is rarely face-to-face, ‘The Social Network’ highlights the grand irony that the world’s largest social networking site was created by a Harvard misfit who remained socially inept even after his resulting billions of dollars and millions of online ‘friends’ he amassed in the process.

Said the movie’s producer, Scott Rudin, in his acceptance speech for Best Picture:

“I want to thank everybody at Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg for his willingness to allow us to use his life and work as a metaphor through which to tell a story about communication and the way we relate to each other.”

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Slightly off topic, but did anyone else enjoy watching Ricky Gervais spectacularly burn his bridges in Hollywood quite as much as I did? I could care less that it was slightly bitter and terribly mean-spirited: it was goddamn hilarious.

Click here to watch Ricky Gervais' opening monologue insulting Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise and the entire cast of Sex And The City, to name but a few.