Golden Globes 2013: Best and worst moments

The Hollywood Foreign Press is made up of voters representing publications from many countries, and perhaps not coincidentally, performers from foreign countries did well at the Golden Globes. Christoph Waltz, above, Maggie Smith, Damian Lewis, Adele, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Day-Lewis and the producers of “Les Miserables” all picked up awards.  (Paul Drinkwater / Associated Press)

It’s hard to find something new to do as host of an awards show these days, but Tina Fey, left, and Amy Poehler managed to do just that by, among other things, sitting in the audience in pretty obvious disguises. Why were they obvious? Crooked teeth and bad hair -- this is Hollywood, of course. No way those people would have been let in the front door.  (Paul Drinkwater / Associated Press)

Mel Gibson made an unexpected public appearance at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, sitting at a table in the front row, but looking exceedingly uncomfortable. He couldn’t have been too uncomfortable, though. Ricky Gervais wasn’t there to rip him.  (Paul Buck / EPA)

There are a lot of jokes made about the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., but the appearance by HFPA president Dr. Aida Takla O’Reilly won’t do much to dispel that notion. O’Reilly asked the cameras to scan the room to take in the assembled talent (they didn’t). Then she made reference to disappearing into the “delta twilight” and finally ended with a personal message to nominee Bradley Cooper. “Call me, baby.” Cooper’s response? He could be seen mouthing the words, “Wow. OK.”  (Imeh Akpanudosen / Getty Images)

Spoiler alert! Not everyone is caught up on “Homeland.” We stay off Twitter, we carefully avoid message boards and lightly scan TV sites. Then the show wins for drama series at the Golden Globes and executive producer Alex Gansa gets up there and lays a pretty big spoiler on us without so much as a warning. He revealed actors whose characters were “sacrificed at the altar of story.” Time to start avoiding awards show acceptance speeches now. On second thought, not a bad thing.  (Paul Drinkwater / Associated Press)

And the evening’s surprise guest is ... Hillary Rodham Clinton’s husband. Former President Clinton appeared onstage to introduce pal Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” to the audience. The man striding out prompted a standing ovation from the room, a salute from Spielberg and looked to be pushing Lena Dunham close to tears. Many speculated it was a bit of one-upmanship between competitors Spielberg and “Django Unchained” producer Harvey Weinstein, who are heading into the Oscar race after this. Amy Poehler kept things in perspective by acknowledging the former president as “Hillary Clinton’s husband.”  (Paul Drinkwater / Associated Press)

Jennifer Lawrence raised her share of eyebrows when she beat out Meryl Streep for the Globe for actress in a musical or comedy for “Silver Linings Playbook,” but she raised even more eyebrows when she began her speech by telling the room, “What does this say? I beat Meryl.” No word on Streep’s reaction -- she was reportedly home with the flu.  (Jordan Strauss / Invision / Associated Press)

The showstopping acceptance speech of the night came from Jodie Foster, who accepted the Cecil B. DeMille award for life achievement in cinema. After an in-jokey intro from Robert Downey Jr. (with an assist from her tablemate Mel Gibson), Foster took the stage to confuse the entire audience. Did she finally publicly come out of the closet? Sort of. Not really. Did she announce her retirement from acting? Sort of. Not really. She did clear some things up, however. She is not Honey Boo Boo, she said. So we can all agree on that. Everything else is up for interpretation.  (Paul Drinkwater / Associated Press)

Lena Dunham, obviously overwhelmed by her win for actress in a comedy series for “Girls,” took a moment to thank the fellow actresses in her category for helping her get through middle school. Globe hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, who were also nominees in the category, took that opportunity to start the drinking. “Congratulations, Lena,” Fey said. “I’m glad we got you through MIDDLE SCHOOL.”  (Jordan Strauss / Invision / Associated Press)

Ben Affleck may have been snubbed by the film academy, but the foreign press loves him and gave him the award for director for “Argo” as well as the Globe for best drama. That sound you heard was Oscar prognosticators around town reshuffling their ballots in the best picture race.  (Paul Drinkwater / Associated Press)

Anne Hathaway won her supporting actress Globe for “Les Miserables” and gave her by-now-standard super-sincere acceptance speech. But one spin at the microphone wasn’t enough. When the film won in the comedy or musical category, she grabbed the mike once again to thank even more people, before even the producers of the movie could say a thing. Next time, perhaps she should take a cue from her hair and cut it short.  (Paul Drinkwater / Associated Press)