It’s award season in Hollywood! On Sunday, it was time for the Golden Globe Awards. Here are some well-meant but highly biased thoughts (not just) on the women who ruled the Golden Globe Awards 2010.

A few years ago, if somebody had told me that one day, Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock would both win Golden Globe Awards, I would have believed it. What I would most certainly not have believed is that Sandra Bullock would win for Drama and Meryl Streep for Comedy.

It’s just too bad that the two actresses didn’t get to be on the same stage again, like at VH1’s Critics’ Choice Awards on Saturday. Maybe there would have been an encore kiss.

Won for the comedy “Julie & Julia”: Meryl Streep

Won for “The Blind Side”: Sandra Bullock

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Even though it weren’t Meryl and Sandra (again), there actually were two women kissing: After her show “Glee” won “Best Television Series – Comedy Or Musical”, out actress Jane Lynch kissed the woman next to her, who turned out to be her girlfriend.

Won as part of the cast of “Glee”: Jane Lynch

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Do we have to worry about our well-loved Hollywood stereotypes? Like, for example, that there’s always a stream of upcoming, young and talented actors and actresses? This year, there were as many as 3 actresses and 1 actor who were nominated twice – Sandra Bullock, Meryl Streep, Anna Paquin and Matt Damon – all of them established and well-known.

And even if there were some “newcomers” among the nominees, like Gabourey Sidibe from “Precious” or Anna Kendrick from “Up in the Air”, with the noticeable exception of Mo’nique and Christoph Waltz the winners were household names as well, most of whom had even been nominated before: Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock, Toni Collette, Julianna Margulies, Drew Barrymore, Chloe Sevigny, Jeff Bridges, Robert Downey Jr., Kevin Bacon, Michael C. Hall, Alec Baldwin and John Lithgow.

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Another Hollywood cliché used to be that your career as an actress ends or might not even take off when you are older than 40 or have a “full figure”. The list of Sunday night’s winners seems to prove that wrong, with a 60-year-old Meryl Streep and a full-figured Mo’nique leading the way. So take that, you skinny youngsters!

Won for “Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire”: Mo’nique

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Speaking of skinny, could somebody please feed Jennifer Garner and Suzy Amis? They looked like they were in desperate need of something to eat.

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If – two paragraphs later – you are still trying to figure out why you should know Anna Paquin, let me remind you that this young woman calls an Academy Award her own, which she won at the tender age of 11 for her role in Jane Campion’s “The Piano”. Other former child actors who were present at the Golden Globes (and in one case even won an award) were Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore, Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association lived up to its name once again, which includes not only “Hollywood”, but also “Foreign”. There were nominees from all over the world, especially the UK (like Helen Mirren, Kenneth Branagh, Colin Firth and many more), but also Spain (Penelope Cruz), France (Marion Cotillard) and New Zealand (Anna Paquin). But it were the Austrians who ruled – both Michael Haneke, the director of “Best Foreign Language Film” winner “The White Ribbon”, and Christoph Waltz, who won for his role in Quentin Tarrantino’s “Inglorious Basterds”, are from Austria.

Won for “Inglorious Basterds”: Christoph Waltz

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Also from Austria is the “Gouvernator”, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Add to that Sandra Bullock, who greeted her family in German, and there were at least 4 German-speaking people on the stage of the Golden Globes, and none of them was actually German. At least Germany could take the the credit for “Best Foreign Language Film”, but that was because we paid for it. Which means that even if you might not be able to actually buy a Golden Globe, you can at least buy the credit for it.

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By the way, in case you are still wondering what Sandra Bullock said in German: She told her family that they could go to bed now, but not without brushing their teeth. I wonder whether this sounded somehow familiar to Leo DiCaprio, who happened to have a German grandmother.

Sandra Bullock sends her German family to bed

Did you watch the Golden Globe Awards? If so, what were your favourite or least favourite moments? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.