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Aaron Sorkin and Kate Winslet pick up Golden Globes for Steve Jobs; Michael Fassbender misses out

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The movie Steve Jobs last night won two of the four Golden Globes awards for which it was nominated. Aaron Sorkin picked up the award for Best Screenplay, and Kate Winslet won Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. However, Michael Fassbender lost out to Leonardo DiCaprio in Best Performance by an Actor. Daniel Pemberton, who wrote the score for the movie, was also beaten by Ennio Morricone for The Hateful Eight.

Fassbender being beaten to the best actor award by DiCaprio had a certain degree of irony: DiCaprio had previously been offered and turned down the title role in Steve Jobs.

Despite claiming to be lost for words, Sorkin managed a wry acknowledgement of the fact that the movie bombed at the box office …

The title of the movie changed to ‘Box Office Failure Steve Jobs’ after its third week. It took some of the air out of the pride that we were feeling. We didn’t want that to be the epithet of the movie. This is just very, very nice.

The movie almost certainly lost a lot of money, Variety estimating total production and marketing costs at around $60M, meaning that (once the theater share was taken into account) it would have needed to gross $120M to break even.  It has so far earned just $17.7M in the USA, reports the Guardian, with only a handful of theaters still showing it.

Sorkin said that his favorite reaction to a screening by someone close to Steve had been key Macintosh system software designer Andy Hertzfeld.

When we screened it for him, he said: ‘This is unbelievable – not all of that happened, but it’s all true.’

Hertzfeld had previously said that the movie “deviates from reality everywhere” but “exposes deeper truths.” Tim Cook and Jony Ive notably didn’t share this view.

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Comments

  1. tincan2012 - 8 years ago

    Now can we retire this film to the Walmart Golden Globe DVD clearance bin?

  2. rogifan - 8 years ago

    Just shows what a joke the golden globes are.

    • taoprophet420 - 8 years ago

      The Social Network did shit at theaters and won awards why should Steve Job’s be any different?

  3. Samuel A. Maffei - 8 years ago

    Sorkin for a screenplay that was at least 50% pure BS. Winslet for a character that really didn’t play consort for Jobs’s conscience. Figures…

    Another award show that amounts to patting each other for mediocrity.

    • Yeah because every other competing screenplay was 100% true facts.
      It’s a movie man, not a documentary, so chill out.
      I have to say I haven’t seen it yet, but the amount of hate for this movie on here is just ridiculous.

  4. Hollywood award shows are a total joke. Does anyone believe only the best movies get the awards? This movie for example was a critical and box-office flop, total artistic puke that sorkin vomited up in a dream.It had no connection to the story wanting to be told about a ruthless business man who helped shape the landscape of the technology we use everyday.But the industry refuses to acknowledge how garbage this piece of crap was.

    • taoprophet420 - 8 years ago

      it had a 85 on rotten tomatoes, so how the fuck is it a critical flop. Social Network didn’t make money until afterGolden Globe and Oscar buzz and was released for the home.

      • yojimbo007 - 8 years ago

        that 85 comes from those who are clueless about Sorkinns blatent misportrail of a legendery character . …or dont care about truth and reality.
        Once and if they find out about the fact that this movie is more about Sorkinns ego than Steve Jobs… And its a total fiction Disguised as a biography Ratings will change…

        Once they know..

      • yojimbo007 - 8 years ago

        PS..
        I think what Sorkin has done should be deemed criminal….. To lie to the whole world… Without any acountability … And No Disclaimer at the opening of the movie:
        This movie is total fiction… All names and charaters similarities are pure coincidence and are not depictions of real personaliies, events and lives )

        Put that on the trailer , posters and the beginning of the movie…
        Lets see how many tomatos it will get ??

  5. bdkennedy11 - 8 years ago

    Awards have been given. Now this movie can officially die.

  6. yojimbo007 - 8 years ago

    I guess blatent lies and misrepresentations have paid off for Sorkin as they have/did for samsung .

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