Award season is in full swing with today’s Golden Globe nominations, announced today at 8AM Eastern time. Just a bit of background (thanks to Wiki) on one of the industry’s most important event: The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in motion pictures and television. Now, just WHO are the folks that make up HFPA and why do they matter? Well, it’s an organization composed of working journalists who cover the United States film industry for a variety of outlets, including newspapers and magazines in Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. Today, the 90 members of the HFPA represent at least 55 countries and have a combined readership of more than 250 million.
Thanks to Moviefone for the comprehensive list (though they misspelled Romola Garai’s name – missing the ‘i’), the motion picture nominees seem to be in line with the previously announced Independent Spirit Awards and Critics Choice Awards.
So here are the full nominees:
Best Motion Picture, Drama
- Black Swan
- The Fighter
- Inception
- The King’s Speech
- The Social Network
Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
- Alice in Wonderland
- Burlesque
- The Kids Are All Right
- Red
- The Tourist
Best Director – Motion Picture
- Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
- David Fincher – The Social Network
- Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech
- Christopher Nolan – Inception
- David O. Russell – The Fighter
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
- Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
- Colin Firth – The King’s Speech
- James Franco – 127 Hours
- Ryan Gosling – Blue Valentine
- Mark Wahlberg – The Fighter
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
- Halle Berry – Frankie and Alice
- Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole
- Jennifer Lawrence – Winter’s Bone
- Natalie Portman – Black Swan
- Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Comedy
- Johnny Depp – Alice in Wonderland
- Johnny Depp – The Tourist
- Paul Giamatti – Barney’s Version
- Jake Gyllenhaal – Love and Other Drugs
- Kevin Spacey – Casino Jack
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Comedy
- Anne Hathaway – Love and Other Drugs
- Julianne Moore – The Kids Are All Right
- Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
- Emma Stone – Easy A
- Angelina Jolie – The Tourist
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
- Christian Bale – The Fighter
- Michael Douglas – Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
- Andrew Garfield – The Social Network
- Jeremy Renner – The Town
- Geoffrey Rush – The King’s Speech
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
- Amy Adams – The Fighter
- Helena Bonham Carter – The King’s Speech
- Mila Kunis – Black Swan
- Melissa Leo – The Fighter
- Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
- 127 Hours
- The Kids Are All Right
- The King’s Speech
- The Social Network
- Inception
Best Animated Feature Film
- Despicable Me
- How to Train Your Dragon
- The Illusionist
- Toy Story 3
- Tangled
Best Foreign Language Film
- Biutiful
- The Concert
- The Edge
- I Am Love
- In a Better World
Best Original Song – Motion Picture
- Bound to You – Burlesque
- Coming Home – Country Strong
- I See the Light – Tangled
- There’s a Place for Us – Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me – Burlesque
Best Original Score – Motion Picture
- Alexandre Desplot – The King’s Speech
- Danny Elfman – Alice in Wonderland
- A.R. Rahmin – 127 Hours
- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross – The Social Network
- Hans Zimmer – Inception
Best Television Series, Drama
- Boardwalk Empire
- Dexter
- The Good Wife
- Mad Men
- The Walking Dead
Best Televison Series, Comedy or Musical
- 30 Rock
- The Big Bang Theory
- The Big C
- Glee
- Modern Family
- Nurse Jackie
Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama
- Steve Buscemi – Boardwalk Empire
- Bryan Cranston – Breaking Bad
- Michael C. Hall – Dexter
- Jon Hamm – Mad Men
- Hugh Laurie – House
Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama
- Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife
- Elisabeth Moss – Mad Men
- Piper Perabo – Covert Affairs
- Katey Sagal – Sons of Anarchy
- Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer
Best Actor in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical
- Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock
- Steve Carell – The Office
- Thomas Jane – Hung
- Matthew Morrison – Glee
- Jim Parsons – Big Bang Theory
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Hope Davis – Special Relationship
- Jane Lynch – Glee
- Kelly McDonald – Boardwalk Empire
- Julia Stiles – Dexter
- Sofia Vergara – Modern Family
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Scott Caan – Hawaii Five-0
- Chris Noth – The Good Wife
- David Straithairn – Temple Grandin
- Eric Stonestreet – Modern Family
- Chris Colfer – Glee
Best Actress in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical
- Toni Collette – United States of Tara
- Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie
- Tina Fey – 30 Rock
- Laura Linney – The Big C
- Lea Michelle – Glee
Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
- The Pacific
- Carlos
- Temple Grandin
- You Don’t Know Jack
- The Pillars of the Earth
Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Dennis Quaid – The Special Relationship
- Ian McShane – The Pillars of the Earth
- Édgar Ramírez – Carlos
- Al Pacino – You Don’t Know Jack
- Idris Elba – Luther
Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
- Claire Danes – Temple Grandin
- Hayley Atwell – The Pillars of the Earth
- Jennifer Love Hewitt – The Client List
- Judi Dench – Return to Cranford
- Romola Garai – Emma
I’ll have my full reaction to the nominees posted sometime tomorrow, but you can pretty much guess my reaction to The Tourist nomination! Are you flippin’ kiddin’ me?? The only thing that might amend such absurdity would be seeing Rufus Sewell under the category Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for Pillars of the Earth! Alas…
Anyhoo, what are your thoughts about the Golden Globe nominations?
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Yes, unfortunately there is a glaring mistake in Rufus Sewell not being nominated for Pillars of The Earth. But I’m Ok with The Tourist itself and Johnny Depp being nominated, but certainly not at all with Jolie.
Let’s just agree to disagree on The Tourist… but I commiserate with you about Rufus’ absence from POTE 😦
Ah, deadly boring year at the awards as usually. A bunch of bad films and bad actors in nominations. This is why I don’t like award anymore.
Huge applause for THE KING’S SPEECH, for Judi Dench and her most amazing role in “Return to Cranford”.
I’m also satisfied with Ian McShane being nominated for his profoundly suggestive and intelligent role in THE PILLARS but I can’t understand why would they nominate the mediocre performance of Hayley Atwell in the same series.
Who do you think is the most preposterous on the list Dez? Obviously, having seen The Tourist, I can’t believe the movie and the two actors are on this list! But then again, seeing RED under Best Musical/Comedy makes me think if HFPA is making a joke about this whole thing??
YES for King’s Speech, even without seeing the film I could tell it’s a worthy one to include. I haven’t seen Hayley that much in POTE as I’ve only seen Part I but she didn’t stand out that much to me. I’d rather see Rufus as Best Supporting Actor or Matthew MacFayden.
BLACK SWAN and INCEPTION do not have quality for an award, all films in BEST COMEDY OR MUSICAL are ridiculous, Wahlberg, Halle Berry, Natalie Portman – all horrible actors. BURLESQUE having a lot of nomination – ridiculous.
I forgot to say I love Toni Collette being nominated for her absolutely outstanding and groundbreaking role in UNITED STATES OF TARA!
Ah I forgot you’re one of the few that didn’t like Inception and Natalie Portman. I can’t say anything about Black Swan as I haven’t seen it (not sure if I would actually). But YES, Toni Collette is phenomenal. If she and our lovely Cate Blanchett could do a movie together that’d be heavenly!
Absolutely terrible indeed. They could not have telegraphed it more than they nominated Depp and Jolie simply because they are huge movie stars.
Apparently someone forgot to tell HFPA that star powers have nothing to do with quality of movies! 😦
Unfortunately i can’t really comment on most nominations having seen only one movie from the list(Inception. A good movie, but i haven’t seen any of its competition, so i can’t really say whether it deserves a win). I did see Winters Bone in one of my film classes recently, and Jennifer gave a fine performance in it.
I personally think Supernatural should get a drama series nod, but considering its on the cw that wasn’t likely.
I love Inception but man, tough competition this year. Oh I’ve been wanting to see Winters Bone. Looks like Jennifer Lawrence is the ‘Carey Mulligan’ of this year.
Yeah, I think most shows that are nominated are from the major network or cable. Never seen Supernatural though so I have no opinion on that one.
Film classes? I remember having to see Kill Bill Vol. I. in Genre in 2006 (I feel old) and we needed a clearance but screened the film illegally or something. It’s interesting to see Winter’s one as a text. It’s good, but that good?
Ahah, Kill Bill as film text is even more interesting 🙂 I had just seen that Paolo, I brace myself despite the ultra violent content and it was indeed impressive.
The reason i saw Winters Bone in school is because one of my classes is focused on independent movies, and the teacher felt Winters Bne is a movie that exemplifies the spirit of independent cinema. Its a good movie, but it is slow paced and you have to pay attaention closely otherwise it is easy to miss things.
And since its a college course there aren’t much real restrictions on what the teacher can show.
I kinda wanna go off topic and ask you what other films you saw on that class.
I could email you or post a comment on your blog, whichever one is most useful
I’ll be honest, I’m a little disappointed that so many of the titles/actors chosen are only from the past 2-3 months of cinema. Not many on this list are from the Summer, or earlier part of the year. It’s almost like they’ve been forgotten about. Alot more movies came out in 2010 besides just over the last 3 months! What about titles/shows like The Book of Eli, Lost Season6, or Date Night, or Let Me In, and I agree about your other post asking about True Grit!!!! Where is that?
Oh well, It just seems pretty one-sided when it comes to which portion of the year they are picking from. Some have yet to release nationwide!!
I still say we as movie-bloggers still have our own Golden Globe Nominations!! 🙂
Good point, T, it’s as if they all have short attention span… well maybe they do. Fitz mentioned Shutter Island not being nominated and that one was released back in Feb, which is ages go it seems. I’m more surprised about True Grit’s absence considering the Coens are such award darlings.
Hey, I think closer to the actual telecast, we should have a blogathon as to who we’d like to have won… probably easier than reinventing the wheel and have ourselves an MBGA (Movie Bloggers Guild Award) 😀