Golden Globes Speeches: Ranking the Winners' Oscar-Worthiness (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post     First Posted: 01/15/12 09:24 PM ET   Updated: 01/16/12 08:40 AM ET

The peculiar logic of awards season requires all would-be Oscar winners to prove their Kodak Theater-worthiness by delivering a series of increasingly tasteful, humble, entertaining, and moving speeches over the course of several dozen black-tie events. So while you may think the Golden Globes victories are meaningless for the movie stars involved, there's actually quite a bit of pressure on the Academy Awards frontrunners not to do anything to disqualify themselves. With that in mind, Moviefone rated their speeches on a scale of 1 (shot themselves in the foot) to 10 (made Academy members literally drool).

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Christopher Plummer, Best Supporting Actor ("Beginners")
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Plummer has never won an Oscar, partly because he's spent his entire career blowing off the people you need to butter up. This time, he knows the statuette is his to lose, so he's approaching the role of humble elder statesman like the great actor he is. He began his Globes speech with a possibly calculated senior moment, mumbling something irrelevant about "King Kong" and "Rin Tin Tin" (give him credit for not simply shouting, "Who else in this category starred in 'The Sound of Music,' bitches?"), then went on not only to praise his "distinguished competitors" but to "apologize" to them, "most profusely." He did a cute grandfatherly thing with Ewan McGregor -- calling him a "scene-stealing swine," but in an affectionate way -- and ended with a heartfelt tribute to his wife of 42 years, "whose bravery and beauty haunts me still." Bottom line: He killed it. We'll see him again in February. Score: 8
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The peculiar logic of awards season requires all would-be Oscar winners to prove their Kodak Theater-worthiness by delivering a series of increasingly tasteful, humble, entertaining, and moving speech...
The peculiar logic of awards season requires all would-be Oscar winners to prove their Kodak Theater-worthiness by delivering a series of increasingly tasteful, humble, entertaining, and moving speech...
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12:48 AM on 01/16/2012
She looks an angel. Yeah. Hope she can find the right man soon. Saw her dating at millionaire and celeb dating site ___ KissMillionaires (0 m____ It's where wealth and beauty mingle. She deserves a successful wealthy guy
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10:51 PM on 01/15/2012
I was so happy to see Octavia Spencer win best supporting actress. She was a huge part of "the help" .....and she sure baked one mean chocolate pie! Congrats Octavia - you earned it!
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