The Golden Globes? After all that noise– and what a boring show with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler gagged from joking about the HFPA–it all means little when it comes to the Oscars.

The winners from last night who will translate over to the Academy Awards– Cate Blanchett and Jared Leto. But Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Lawrence–good as they were– will likely not repeat themselves. Neither will Amy Adams or Leonardo DiCaprio.

Vying for an Oscar for Best Actor are Bruce Dern and Robert Redford. If they split the vote, the winner will be Chiwetel Ejiofor. Tom Hanks, so eloquent in “Captain Phillips,” will settle for a nomination.

Best Supporting Actress will now turn to Lupita Nyongo and June Squibb. Oprah Winfrey, if she’s nominated on Thursday morning, should win.

Best Picture: The Globes endorsed “American Hustle” and “12 Years a Slave.” They actually passed over “Gravity.” The Oscar for Best Picture is wide open again, I think, with “Gravity” losing gravitas. “Inside Llewyn Davis” and “Nebraska” move down to 10th and 9th, I think. We’ll see. “Philomena” may be the surprise of the season.

Director Martin Scorsese has been embroiled in a big debate the last couple of weeks over the characters depicted in his “Wolf of Wall Street.” Does the movie celebrate and endorse the debauchery and criminal activity brought on by Wall Street trader Jordan Belfort? That’s a conversation that has pulled audiences into theaters to see what the heck this is all about.

But yesterday I had a long talk with Scorsese at the annual BAFTA/LA tea at the Four Seasons hotel. He said, “No one’s asking me the important questions.”

I responded: “Do you consider these people villains? Has anyone asked you that?”

Scorsese: “Not really. And the answer is I definitely consider them villains. But I’m presenting them to you. I’m not endorsing them. After all the stock market scandals of 2008, I was fascinated by these kinds of people. I wanted to know what was behind it, what made them tick. I’m not saying people should behave like that. But who are they?”

We talked about Jordan  Belfort’s decision to become that person, the moment we see Leonardo DiCaprio enter the Long Island ‘boiler room’ run by Spike Jonze in the movie. Belfort had been out of work for quite a while after the 1987 stock market crash. Belfort didn’t hesitate to sit down, pick up the phone, and start conning people out of their money.

“Would I do it? Could I do it?” Scorsese asked me rhetorically. “That’s what I was thinking.”

Could he?

“Never. My parents, my values? My father would never have allowed such a thing. But isn’t it interesting how that never occurs to Jordan?”

And what about all the sex in “Wolf”? The orgies. The naked people?

“Did you see some of those people?” Scorsese asked. “There’s nothing sexy about them. Some of them should never take their clothes off!”

Scorsese got into a couple of long conversations at BAFTA, with Cate Blanchett and with “Captain Phillips” director Paul Greengrass. I managed to snap a picture of Marty and Cate. Remember, he directed Blanchett to her first Oscar– supporting– for “The Aviator” ten years ago.

The BAFTA/LA tea was filled with stars, as usual. Sandra Bullock, Jacqueline Bissett, Joan Collins, Diane Baker, “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes, and Leonardo DiCaprio all caused traffic jams in he Four Seasons ballroom. So many people stop Fellowes to ask him different characters, he’s like a rock star! Also: the great actor James Frain held court, legendary Michael York made the rounds, and I even met the real Philomena Lee and her daughter. Charming!

photo of Scorsese and Blanchett c2014 Showbiz411

The best thing about this weekend: Jennifer Lawrence has been let out of shooting “Hunger Games: Mockingjay” for five minutes. Here she is, in Hollywood, with her family, probably receiving a Golden Globe award tonight for supporting actress in David O. Russell’s “American Hustle.” (The hit comedy just passed $100 million at the box office this weekend.)

Lawrence was super social at last night’s very swanky Sony Pictures party at the Polo Lounge in the posh Beverly Hills Hotel. This was one of three or four mini galas held around town (Paramount at the Chateau Marmont, CBS Films at Soho House, Sean Penn’s Haiti fundraiser at the Montage) that spread the celebrities thin. You needed a helicopter to get from place to place!

Jennifer was sporting a short haircut–a bob–and I think a desire to talk to people who weren’t trying to kill her with a bow and arrow. She and her “AH” costars Amy Adams and Elisabeth Rohm had a ball in the famed Polo Lounge, chatting away and then delighting in finding a secret path to the ladies’ room.

Later Jennifer and her mom, Karen, got into a hugely funny discussion at their table with Tom Hanks, who was there with wife Rita Wilson to celebrate “Captain Phillips.” “Are you in any films this year?” I asked Tom facetiously. He held up some fingers. “Nine!” he called back.

Jennifer told me she’s trying to decide where to live after “Mockingjay” finally finishes shooting. New York maybe? “Maybe,” said the Kentucky girl. “But I need trees and grass, I need space. I’m thinking about Atlanta. There’s so much going on there, and I can breathe.”

She also told me she’d like to take a year off after making so many movies in a row. “But I think I’d be bored.” I can tell you she would be. Jennifer Lawrence has enough energy for ten people, and let’s not forget, she’s still just 23.

PS Jennifer did give me a couple of clues about who she’s liked this season among the movie performances she’s seen. “I voted for Lupita Nyongo, she’s amazing,” the Oscar winner told me with her infectious laugh. “And of course, I voted for myself!”

The Golden Globes operate as a tax exempt charity. They used to have two tax exempt numbers: one for the HFPA and one for their charitable trust. Now I can tell you exclusively that in 2011, the IRS revoked the charitable trust for not filing reports for three years.

A rep for GuideStar, the organization that the IRS submits all charities to, says:

“The Hollywood Foreign Press Association Charitable Trust (EIN: 95-3735188) was automatically revoked by the IRS on July 13, 2011 for failure to file a Form 990 for 3 consecutive years. So, as of July 13, 2011, they were no longer a charity, can’t accept donations, etc.

This falls under the Pension Protection Act of 2006, which says that if a nonprofit doesn’t file something with the IRS (even if it’s a tiny bit of info) for 3 consecutive years, their tax-exempt status is automatically revoked. The first list of revoked orgs came out in June 2011, and there were 275K, and it’s been updated monthly thereafter.”

Knowing this, the other entity- HFPA– submitted a form 990 for 2012 in July 2013. On it, they claim to have donated $1,570,000 to the charitable trust. This is notated in two places on their Form 990 for 2012– on page 25 and page 32. There is no mistake. The HFPA donated $1,570,000 to, essentially, themselves.

Each entity has a different EIN (Employer Identification Number), too. And they are not similar in any way.

There is no record of where the money went after that because there is no filing for the Hollywood Foreign Press Charitable Trust.

The HFPA gets its tax free status by making donations between $1 million and $1.5 million every year from the $7 million annual fee paid to them by NBC for the Golden Globes show. Dick Clark Productions produces the show. Last year, The HFPA paid over $12 million in legal fees in a long running losing battle with DCP.

By the time they made their 2012 donations public in August 2012, their IRS status for the charitable trust had been revoked for over 13 months. In fact, when they made their 2011 donations in August of that year, the revocation had already happened.

Peter Berg’s “Lone Survivor” is a smash hit. The Mark Wahlberg ensemble film made $14 million on Friday night. Universal should be pleased. You do wonder if they’d started earlier if “Lone Survivor” wouldn’t be more in the awards mix. It’s a terrific film. But maybe after “Battleship” tanked Universal decided to be more cautious. Berg and company went right from filming one of last year’s biggest flops to making this hit. Shows how you unpredictable filmmaking can be…

“August: Osage County” finally went into wider release. With 900 theaters, “AOC” got a warm reception. It’s going to have a nice $6mil-plus weekend. They’re off and running. “AOC” could get the SAG award next week for Best Ensemble, which it deserves. And with Oscar noms on Thursday, bigger box office could be looming.

“American Hustle” will cross $100 million this weekend. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is starting to fade. They made not cross the $55 mil line.

Go see “Inside Llewyn Davis.” Now. I command it !