Golden Globe nominations [R]

[Ghost]

Yeah, they're a crock.... but they're a somewhat influential crock, vis a vis the Academy.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/12/14/entertainment/e064025S50.DTL

MOTION PICTURES:


Picture, Drama: "Babel,""Bobby,""The Departed,""Little Children,""The Queen"


Actress, Drama: Penelope Cruz, "Volver"; Judi Dench, "Notes on a Scandal"; Maggie Gyllenhaal, "Sherrybaby"; Helen Mirren, "The Queen"; Kate Winslet, "Little Children"


Actor, Drama: Leonardo DiCaprio, "Blood Diamond"; Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Departed"; Peter O'Toole, "Venus"; Will Smith, "The Pursuit of Happyness"; Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland"


Picture, Musical or Comedy: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,""The Devil Wears Prada,""Dreamgirls,""Little Miss Sunshine,""Thank You for Smoking"


Actress, Musical or Comedy: Annette Bening, "Running With Scissors"; Toni Collette, "Little Miss Sunshine"; Beyonce Knowles, "Dreamgirls"; Meryl Streep, "The Devil Wears Prada"; Renee Zellweger, "Miss Potter"


Actor, Musical or Comedy: Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"; Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"; Aaron Eckhart, "Thank You for Smoking"; Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Kinky Boots"; Will Ferrell, "Stranger than Fiction"


Supporting Actress: Adriana Barraza, "Babel"; Cate Blanchett, "Notes on a Scandal"; Emily Blunt, "The Devil Wears Prada"; Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"; Rinko Kikuchi, "Babel"


Supporting Actor: Ben Affleck, "Hollywoodland"; Eddie Murphy, "Dreamgirls"; Jack Nicholson, "The Departed"; Brad Pitt, "Babel"; Mark Wahlberg, "The Departed"


Director: Clint Eastwood, "Flags of Our Fathers"; Clint Eastwood, "Letters from Iwo Jima"; Steven Frears, "The Queen"; Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, "Babel"; Martin Scorsese, "The Departed"


Screenplay: Guillermo Arriaga, "Babel"; Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, "Little Children"; Patrick Marber, "Notes on a Scandal"; William Monahan, "The Departed"; Peter Morgan, "The Queen"


Foreign Language: "Apocalypto," USA; "Letters from Iwo Jima," USA/Japan; "The Lives of Others," Germany; "Pan's Labyrinth," Mexico; "Volver" Spain


Animated Film: "Cars,""Happy Feet,""Monster House"


Original Score: Alexandre Desplat, "The Painted Veil"; Clint Mansell, "The Fountain"; Gustavo Santaolalla, "Babel"; Carlo Siliotto, "Nomad"; Hans Zimmer, "The Da Vinci Code"


Original Song: "A Father's Way" from "The Pursuit of Happyness"; "Listen" from "Dreamgirls"; "Never Gonna Break My Faith" from "Bobby"; "The Song of the Heart" from "Happy Feet"; "Try Not to Remember" from "Home of the Brave"


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TELEVISION


Series, Drama: "24," Fox; "Big Love," HBO; "Grey's Anatomy," ABC; "Heroes," NBC; "Lost," ABC


Actress, Drama: Patricia Arquette, "Medium"; Edie Falco, "The Sopranos"; Evangeline Lilly, "Lost"; Ellen Pompeo, "Grey's Anatomy"; Kyra Sedgwick, "The Closer"


Actor, Drama: Patrick Dempsey, "Grey's Anatomy"; Michael C. Hall, "Dexter"; Hugh Laurie, "House"; Bill Paxton, "Big Love"; Kiefer Sutherland, "24"


Series, Musical or Comedy: "Desperate Housewives," ABC; "Entourage," HBO; "The Office," NBC; "Ugly Betty," ABC; "Weeds," Showtime


Actress, Musical or Comedy: Marcia Cross, "Desperate Housewives"; America Ferrera, "Ugly Betty"; Felicity Huffman, "Desperate Housewives"; Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "The New Adventures of Old Christine"; Mary-Louise Parker, "Weeds"


Actor, Musical or Comedy: Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock"; Zach Braff, "Scrubs"; Steve Carrell, "The Office"; Jason Lee, "My Name is Earl"; Tony Shalhoub, "Monk"


Miniseries or movie: "Bleak House," PBS; "Broken Trail," AMC; "Elizabeth I," HBO; "Mrs. Harris," HBO; "Prime Suspect: The Final Act," PBS


Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Gillian Anderson, "Bleak House"; Annette Bening, "Mrs. Harris"; Helen Mirren, "Elizabeth I"; Helen Mirren, "Prime Suspect: The Final Act"; Sophie Okonedo, "Tsunami, The Aftermath"


Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Andre Braugher, "Thief"; Robert Duvall, "Broken Trail"; Michael Ealy, "Sleeper Cell: American Terror"; Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Tsunami, The Aftermath"; Ben Kingsley, "Mrs. Harris"; Bill Nighy, "Gideon's Daughter"; Matthew Perry, "The Ron Clark Story"


Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Emily Blunt, "Gideon's Daughter"; Toni Collette, "Tsunami, The Aftermath"; Katherine Heigl, "Grey's Anatomy"; Sarah Paulson, "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"; Elizabeth Perkins, "Weeds"


Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Thomas Haden Church, "Broken Trail"; Jeremy Irons, "Elizabeth I"; Justin Kirk, "Weeds"; Masi Oka, "Heroes"; Jeremy Piven, "Entourage"

[Ombak]

Where's Battlestar Galactica? Do these people not watch TV? And if so, do they not listen to critics???

[TheSlipperyOne]

Re: Movies:

I was glad to see someone (even if it is the HFP) agree with me that Thank You For Smoking is deserving of acclaim.

Bobby? Wow, they are cracked.

Leo getting 2 nods? Looks like Ryan Gosling will be left attending the IFC Awards for his statue this year.

Mark Wahlberg getting a nod for having about 15 lines.

No love for A Scanner Darkly in the Animated category?

At first I thought they hadn't screened Letters From Iwo Jima because of all the rave reviews it's getting, but then remembered GG has a foreign language category unlike the Academy which has a foreign film category.

Re: TV:

Big Love getting nods is good, but Paxton over Leary isn't right.

Go Weeds and ML Parker!

Alec Baldwin deservedly got his nomination and should crush. But Jason Lee, Zach Braff, Steve Carrell and Tony "How Does My Show Stay On The Air" Shaloub is good competition.

[riverplate]

Where's Battlestar Galactica? Do these people not watch TV? And if so, do they not listen to critics???

Genre bias.

[needs]

Where's Battlestar Galactica? Do these people not watch TV? And if so, do they not listen to critics???

Or The Wire.

And nominating Letters from IJ and Apocalypto for best foreign language film is lame, lame, lame.

[Ombak]

Or The Wire.

And nominating Letters from IJ and Apocalypto for best foreign language film is lame, lame, lame.Damn, I didn't even notice the Wire was missing too!

And even though I realize there's some genre bias going on here I was hoping that despite that the good reviews the show has consistently gotten over 3 years would have some impact on these awards shows...

[argentine soccer fan]

Actor, Drama: Leonardo DiCaprio, "Blood Diamond"; Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Departed"; Peter O'Toole, "Venus"; Will Smith, "The Pursuit of Happyness"; Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland"

Actor, Musical or Comedy: Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"; Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"; Aaron Eckhart, "Thank You for Smoking"; Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Kinky Boots"; Will Ferrell, "Stranger than Fiction"




Leonardo DiCaprio, Will Smith, Sacha Cohen, Will Ferrell...

We've come a long way since Marlon Brando.

[Ringo]

does judi dench just automatically get nominated for an award? I mean, is it written in her contract? do people just nominate her out of habit? she could walk on screen and fart and some critic would nominate it.

[Ghost]

does judi dench just automatically get nominated for an award? I mean, is it written in her contract? do people just nominate her out of habit? she could walk on screen and fart and some critic would nominate it.


Well, she is a tremendous actress. But as far as her performance in Notes on a Scandal ....eeeeeehuhhh ........ I think she brought a real note of warmth and humor to Casino Royale.

One thing about actress nods is that there seems to be an established hierarchy. Dench is near the top, as is Blanchett and Winslet. Theron will always get nominated. Naomi Watts is somehow insanely the victim of the system. SHe may be the only real rival to Blanchett's record over the past five or six years, but she's only been nominated maybe once (21 Grams). She's going to get robbed again this year, although not quite as badly as in the past.

[TheSlipperyOne]

Sacha Baron Cohen's statement on the Borat nomination:

“I am extremely honored. I’m very proud as well for my fellow writers as well as our director Larry Charles, and our producer Jay Roach, and am very thankful for the HFPA’s belief and acknowledgment of our film. I have been trying to let Borat know this great news but for the last 4 hours both of Kazakhstan’s telephones have been engaged. Eventually, Premier Nazarbayev answered and said he would pass on the message as soon as Borat returned from Iran, where he is guest of honor at the Holocaust Denial Conference.”

[Ringo]

Well, she is a tremendous actress. But as far as her performance in Notes on a Scandal ....eeeeeehuhhh ........ I think she brought a real note of warmth and humor to Casino Royale.

One thing about actress nods is that there seems to be an established hierarchy.

it's like offensive lineman in the pro bowl. you get in once, you're in for life.
and i'm not saying she's not talented, she just seems to be nominated every year, whether she deserves it or not.

[SirManchester]

another awards show that snubbed Jackass Two. :rolleyes:

[Ghost]

it's like offensive lineman in the pro bowl. you get in once, you're in for life.
and i'm not saying she's not talented, she just seems to be nominated every year, whether she deserves it or not.

Yep. But this won't be her year, I don't think. The reason is that this character is going to spark opposition with certain interest groups.

[Charge!]

does judi dench just automatically get nominated for an award? I mean, is it written in her contract? do people just nominate her out of habit? she could walk on screen and fart and some critic would nominate it.

She has the same deal as Edie Falco, I think. :p

[Charge!]

Grey's Anatomy: General Hospital with a bigger budget. WHO'S WIT ME? :D

Mary McDonnell called, Ellen; she wants her best drama series actress nomination back. :mad:

[patrickdavila]

Where's Battlestar Galactica? Do these people not watch TV? And if so, do they not listen to critics???
Here Here! At they very least they should of nominated Michael Hogan for Exodus. I bet RDM bitches about this (rightly so) in the podcast.

[That Phat Hat]

Good to see both Baldwin and Carrell get noms. Baldwin just might be the greatest deliverer of the deadpan in television history.

Also, Entourage so doesn't deserve to get nominated. I'm a fan, but the show is junk TV, basically the male Sex and the City (which explains why it gets nominated).

[Ghost]

OK, here's my little gripe about Dreamgirls and its Oscar campaign. If there's an intellectual shred running through Dreamgirls, it's about how horrible it is that in our appearance-driven society, the plump woman with talent gets pushed aside in favor of the gorgeous woman with half-talent. So what's happening in the Oscar campaign? The plump woman who gives the best performance is getting placed in the supporting Oscar race, while the beautiful starlet with little acting talent is getting pushed for the lead role EVEN THOUGH THE PLUMP WOMAN IS CLEARLY THE LEAD CHARACTER! Partly, that has to do with the fact that the supporting role is seen as the easy W, whereas the lead Oscar would be tough for a newcomer to win this year. Still, it looks TERRIBLE.

[TheSlipperyOne]

OK, here's my little gripe about Dreamgirls and its Oscar campaign. If there's an intellectual shred running through Dreamgirls, it's about how horrible it is that in our appearance-driven society, the plump woman with talent gets pushed aside in favor of the gorgeous woman with half-talent. So what's happening in the Oscar campaign? The plump woman who gives the best performance is getting placed in the supporting Oscar race, while the beautiful starlet with little acting talent is getting pushed for the lead role EVEN THOUGH THE PLUMP WOMAN IS CLEARLY THE LEAD CHARACTER! Partly, that has to do with the fact that the supporting role is seen as the easy W, whereas the lead Oscar would be tough for a newcomer to win this year. Still, it looks TERRIBLE.

It's the gay male Lord of the Rings.

[Ghost]

It's the gay male Lord of the Rings.

It's true. you half expect them to come out and do a version of "It's Raining Men."