Overall, it was a satisfying night at the Golden Globes as Brokeback Mountain took Best Picture, Best Director for Ang Lee, Best Screenplay for Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry, and Best Song to Gustavo Santaolalla and Bernie Taupin for “A Love that Will Never Grow Old.”

Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams were both shut out of their acting categories, Ledger by the very deserving Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote, and Williams by Rachel Weisz from The Constant Gardner. Despite what others might have thought I wasn’t throwing myself from a window when Ledger lost. I was thrilled to see Hoffman’s brilliant performance acknowledged. It certainly made Capote one of the best films of the year. I haven’t seen The Constant Gardner so I can’t say Weisz did a great job but I was sad to see Michelle Williams left out.

I was also happy to see Felicity Huffman win for Transamerica. Huge for that film.

And there was something very satisfying about Mary Louise Parker’s win for Weeds as all four of the Desperate Housewives looked on. You could almost hear snubbed housewife Nicollette Sheridan’s satisfied clucks as the schadenfreude settled over that table.

The other very satisfying moment of the show was when Dennis Quaid introduced Brokeback Mountain by saying “it rhymes with chick flick” and nobody laughed, thereby exposing himself as the biggest “dick” in the room.