Missing: Golden Globe Nominees!

Of the 67 actors who turned in performances in 2008 deemed excellent enough to score a nomination at the 66th Annual Golden Globes, a whopping ten of them didn’t even bother to show up at the Beverly Wilshire hotel to attend last night’s ceremonies. For those of you without handy access to a calculator, that’s a fairly high No-Show Rate of 14.9 percent (and, if you were wondering, this figure doesn’t even include Heath Ledger’s tragic absence). While we may never know what led Philip Seymour Hoffman, Judi Dench, Kevin Spacey, Dianne Wiest, Gabriel Byrne (who was a surprise winner for his work on HBO’s In Treatment, which left a stunned and possibly illiterate Hayden Panettiere to frantically beg Zac Efron to read the TelePrompTer for her), Mariska Hargitay, Frances McDormand, Rebecca Hall, and James Franco to each decide they had better things to do on a Sunday night than go to an awards show with an open bar, there was one no-show whose reasons for not showing up are well documented. That person being, of course, Hollywood’s No.1 friend of the press: Mr. Sean Penn.

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