The 2012 Golden Globe Awards kick off at 5pm tonight, and not only will British comedian Ricky Gervais host the ceremony once again, but stars like Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Jessica Biel, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Natalie Portman and Reese Witherspoon are set to present, and Madonna, Channing Tatum, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr. and Jake Gyllenhaal are also confirmed to attend.

Nominees include Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Rooney Mara and Ryan Gosling, so it's definitely going to be a star-studded show you won't want to miss!

Be sure to check back on X17online.com for red carpet photos and a winners list later this evening!

The Artist picked up six nominations at today's Golden Globe Award nominations announcement. Harvey Weinstein's silent film is a front-runner this awards season.

But the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made some decidedly different choices than the Screen Actors Guild yesterday, with that organization's award nominations announcement. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was snubbed Wednesday by SAG, while the film picked up two nods today for -- one for Mara Rooney in the Best Drama Actress category and for Best Score.

The Globes has set up an interesting face-off between Ides of March co-stars George Clooney and Ryan Gosling, both nominated in the Best Actor category, though Clooney for The Descendants. But Clooney's got enough other chances to pick up a prize ... he was also nominated for Best Director for Ides and the film is named in the Best Motion Picture and Best Original Screenplay categories. Clooney's dramedy The Descendants is also vying for Best Motion Picture. And Gosling also has a chance to win an award with his Best Comedy-Musica Actor nom for Crazy Stupid Love.

The Help picked up five nods, as did Clooney's Descendants.

Brad Pitt (Moneyball) and Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar) scored Best Drama Actor nominations.

Other notable noms are those in the Best motion Picture, Comedy-Musical category -- Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, Bridesmaids, The Artist, 50/50, and My Week With Marilyn.

For a full list of nominees, click through!

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Lookin' good Gervais. Is this to fight off all the "chubby" jokes from Sunday's show?

While most of Hollywood is in an uproar over the awesomely funny, yet totally controversial comments made by Ricky Gervais during his now-infamous Golden Globes hosting gig, the original Office star spent the better part of Monday lounging in Ellen DeGeneres' underwear on a hotel balcony in LA. Loves it!

DeGeneres recently shared via her Twitter: "Please enjoy this photo of Ricky Gervais in my underwear", and we can't thank her enough for this shot. Our new favorite funny guy will be stopping by Piers Morgan's new CNN interview show tonight, and we can't wait to hear what he's going to say about the backlash from Sunday.

Morgan Tweets:

"One thing I can guarantee - Mr Gervais won't be offending me, whatever he does during our interview. More outrageous the better."

We will definitely be watching.

Everyone was getting their flirt on last night!

Despite the fact that Jake Gyllenhaal took former girlfriend (and Rilo Kiley singer) Jenny Lewis to the Golden Globes last night as his date, the hunky Love and Other Drugs actor is rumored to have been chatting up Camilla Belle, according to online reports.

Clearly he's over poor Taylor Swift!

Meanwhile, Country Strong stars Leighton Meester and Garrett Hedlund were "inseparable the entire night," a party guest tells Us.

The young lovers attended HBO's GG after party at the Beverly Hilton Hotel's Circa 55 and spent the evening with their arms wrapped around each other. Two cute!

Meester split from her Gossip Girl co-star Sebastian Stan last year.

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It seems Golden Globes host Ricky Gervais' cracks about the Hollywood Foreign Press Association accepting bribes to nominate films like The Tourist weren't too far off.

Former GG lead publicist Michael Russell, who had held his position since 1993, filed a $2 million lawsuit Thursday after he and his company were immediately fired for accusing the HFPA of accepting "payola", aka bribes, in connection with the show.

The suit also claims HFPA president Philip Berk, who is named as a defendant, refused to end the alleged "unethical and potentially unlawful deals" many of the 90-some members engage in.

The suit states:

"Berk expressly acknowledged to Russell that these activities were problematic and the HFPA was a corrupt organization, that it’s members are only out to use the organization to generate income for themselves and that many conflicts of interest exist with regard to the above-specified activities of the HFPA and it’s members."

In case you're wondering what these alleged "bribes" entail, here are a list of allegations from the suit:

-HFPA members accept lavish vacations, junket lodging, gifts and awesome freebies provided by studios, in exchange for their support in nominating specific films.

-Members sell their media credentials for cash by offering space on the red carpet.

-Members offer low profile or unknown media outlets an opportunity to cover the Globes, in exchange for cash.

-Members accept payment from studios and producers for "representing" films

-Members accept payment in exchanged for promoting other HFPA members for Globe nominations and awards.

Reps for the HFPA released a statement claiming the "allegations are completely without merit," and reveal, "this is no more than the case of a disgruntled former consulting firm, whose contract was not renewed, attempting to take advantage once again of the Globe’s international stage for their own gain.”

Those Golden Globes don't come for free!

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As for the British comedian's off-colored remarks during the ceremony, Berk tells the Hollywood Reporter:

"Some of the things he said were totally unacceptable. He definitely crossed the line. And some of the things were totally unacceptable. But that's Ricky."

The HFPA has reportedly been fielding numerous calls from reps who are saying their A-list clients were offended by his jokes. Berk is denying that the HFPA knew what Gervais would be saying during the show. He adds:

"I had absolutely no idea what Ricky was going to say so anything I heard was heard was the same time you heard it. When you hire Ricky Gervais, you expect the unexpected."

Berk also denies the host was lectured during the show saying the claim is "ridiculous." He tells the HR, "He was never called on the carpet, or given a warning or anything else."

The HFPA wouldn't comment on whether Gervais would be asked back next year to host.

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Ricky Gervais' controversial hosting style has not only raised a few eyebrows, but also the ratings for The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Close to 17 million viewers tuned in to watch the British comedian blast certain celebrities with off-colored remarks. That's a five percent increase from last year's 16.98 million. Last night's highly-rated awards show secured NBC a win for the 8 - 11pm time slot.

As for whether the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will ask Gervais to host the 2012 Golden Globes, he tells USA Today:

"That's ominous, isn't it? So I probably won't be here next year. I'll go f**king mental."

So far, x17online voters think Ricky could have gone further with his jokes with 60% saying they love his humor.

Looks like controversy equals ratings.

Ricky Gervais didn't hold back while hosting this weekend's Golden Globes ... taking numerous jabs at several A-Listers sitting in the celebrity-filled audience. But many are now asking ... did he go too far?

Charlie Sheen was his first target. When describing the award show, Gervais commented:

"It's going to be a night of partying and heavy drinking. Or, as Charlie Sheen calls it, breakfast."

The British comedian, who has served as host for the past two years, then took a shot at The Tourist starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. When commenting on the critically-panned flick, Gervais told the audience:

"I'm jumping on the bandwagon, because I haven't even seen The Tourist. Who has?"

He also said the Hollywood Foreign Press Associated nominated Jolie just so they could hob-nob with her:

"There's this ridiculous rumor going around that the only reason The Tourist was nominated was so that the Hollywood Foreign Press could hang out with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie. That's rubbish; they also accepted bribes."

When talking about Jim Carrey's, I Love You, Phillip Morris, the Gervais made a thinly-veiled reference to Tom Cruise and John Travolta saying:

"Two heterosexual actors pretending to be gay. Sort of the complete opposite of some famous Scientologists then."

After Cher took home her award for the song You Haven't Seen The Last Of Me, he joked that the HFPA were bribed with tickets to the singer's Vegas show but then questioned why that would sway anyone's vote since no one would have wanted to go to a Cher concert since 1975.

While introducing Robert Downey Jr. to the stage, the host not only mentioned the actor's many film credits, but said:

"But many of you in this room probably know him best from such facilities as the Betty Ford Clinic and Los Angeles County Jail."

Downey later countered by calling the tone of the show "hugely mean-spirited with sarcastic undertones."

During the Globes, Gervais seemed to go missing for at least an hour, leaving many to wonder if he had been fired midway through the broadcast. Even CNN host Piers Morgan tweeted the following, "Gervais not seen for an hour now." Commenters on X17online's live-blog of the event were asking the same thing.

Despite his off-colored remarks, the actors who were present seemed to react to his jabs with a smile.