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Golden Globe nominations announced

The Golden Globe nominations have been announced and they include some surprises.

The Golden Globe nominations have been announced and includes some surprises. Although they have been discredited in recent years they can be a useful marker for what films will win at the Oscars. But this year the Globes seem to be all over the shop. David Poland over at The Hot Blog thinks its a mess. I think he may be right – just look at the disparity between the nominees for Best Drama and Best Director category. What to draw from all of this? Steve Pond of the LA Times reminds us that there are years when the Globe nominations differ considerably from the Oscars. Brokeback Mountain with its nominations across 7 categories looks like an early favourite but I still feel Munich and King Kong have some considerable awards steam left in them. But a lot can happen over the next couple of months…

Anyway here are the nominations in full:

Best motion picture – Drama
Brokeback Mountain
The Constant Gardener
A History of Violence
Match Point
Good Night, and Good Luck

Best performance by an actress in a motion picture – Drama
Maria Bello – A History of Violence
Felicity Huffman – Transamerica
Gwyneth Paltrow – Proof
Charlize Theron – North Country
Ziyi Zhang – Memoirs of a Geisha

Best performance by an actor in a motion picture – Drama
Russell Crowe – Cinderella Man
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote
Terrence Howard – Hustle and Flow
Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain
David Strathairn – Good Night and Good Luck

Best motion picture – Musical Or Comedy
Mrs Henderson Presents
Pride & Prejudice
The Producers
The Squid and the Whale
Walk the Line

Best performance by an actress in a motion picture – Musical or Comedy
Judi Dench – Mrs Henderson Presents
Keira Knightley – Pride & Prejudice
Laura Linney – The Squid and the Whale
Sarah Jessica Parker – The Family Stone
Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line

Best performance by an actor in a motion picture – Musical Or Comedy
Pierce Brosnan – The Matador
Jeff Daniels – The Squid and the Whale
Johnny Depp – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Nathan Lane – The Producers
Cillian Murphy – Breakfast on Pluto
Joaquin Phoenix – Walk the Line

Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture
Scarlett Johansson – Match Point
Shirley MacLaine – In Her Shoes
Frances McDormand – North Country
Rachel Weisz – The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain

Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a motion picture
George Clooney – Syriana
Matt Dillon – Crash
Will Ferrell – The Producers
Paul Giamatti – Cinderella Man
Bob Hoskins – Mrs Henderson Presents

Best director – Motion Picture
Woody Allen – Match Point
George Clooney – Good Night and Good Luck
Peter Jackson – King Kong
Steven Spielberg – Munich
Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
Fernando Meirelles – The Constant Gardener

Best foreign language film
Kung Fu Hustle (China)
Master of Crimson Armor (China)
Merry Christmas (France)
Tsotsi (South Africa)
Paradise Now (Palestine)

Best original score – Motion Picture
Syriana
King Kong
Brokeback Mountain
The Chronicles of Narnia
Memoirs of a Geisha

Best television series – Drama
Commander and Chief
Lost
Grey’s Anatomy
Prison Break
Rome

Best performance by an actress in a television series – Drama
Patricia Arquette – Medium
Glenn Close – The Shield
Geena Davis – Commander and Chief
Kyra Sedgewick – The Closer
Polly Walker – Rome

Best performance by an actor in a television series – Drama
Patrick Dempsey – Grey’s Anatomy
Matthew Fox – Lost
Wentworth Miller – Prison Break
Hugh Laurie – House
Keifer Sutherland – 24

Best television series – Musical Or Comedy
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Desperate Housewives
Entourage
Everybody Hates Chris
My Name is Earl
Weeds

Best performance by an actress in a television series – Musical Or Comedy
Marcia Cross – Desperate Housewives
Terry Hatcher – Desperate Housewives
Felicity Huffman – Desperate Housewives
Eva Longoria – Desperate Housewives
Mary Louise Parker – Weeds

Best performance by an actor in a television series – Musical Or Comedy
Zach Braff – Scrubs
Steve Carrell – The Office
Larry David – Curb Your Enthusiasm
Jason Lee – My Name is Earl
Charlie Sheen – Two-and-a-Half Men

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Woody Allen – Match Point
George Clooney and Grant Heslove – Good Night, and Good Luck
Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco – Crash
Tony Kushner and Eric Roth – Munich
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana – Brokeback Mountain

Best original song – Motion Picture
A Love that will Never Grow Old – Brokeback Mountain
Christmas in Love – Christmas in Love
There’s Nothing Like A Show on Broadway – The Producers
Travelin’ Thru – Transamerica
Wunderkind – The Chronicles of Narnia

Best original score – Motion Picture
Alexandre Desplat – Syriana
James Newton Howard – King Kong
Gustavo Santaolalla – Brokeback Mountain
Harry Gregson – The Chronicles of Narnia
John Williams – Memoirs of a Geisha

Best mini-series or motion picture made for television
Empire Falls
Into the West
Lackawanna Blues
Sleeper Cell
Viva Blackpool
Warm Springs

Best performance by an actress in a mini-series or motion picture made for television
Halle Berry – Their Eyes Were Watching Me
Kelly MacDonald – The Girl in the Cafe
S Epatha Merkerson – Lackawanna Blues
Cynthia Nixon – Warm Springs
Mira Sorvino – Human Trafficking

Best performance by an actor in a mini-series or motion picture made for television
Kenneth Branagh – Warm Springs
Ed Harris – Empire Falls
Jonathan Rhys Meyers – Elvis
Bill Nighy – The Girl in the caf๏ฟฝ
Donald Sutherland – Human Trafficking

Best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a series, mini-series or motion picture made for television
Candice Bergen – Boston Legal
Camryn Manheim – Elvis
Sandra Oh – Grey’s Anatomy
Elizabeth Perkins – Weeds
Joanne Woodward – Empire Falls

Best performance by an actor in a supporting role in a series, mini-series or motion picture made for television
Naveen Andrews – Lost
Paul Newman – Empire Falls
Jeremy Piven – Entourage
Randy Quaid – Elvis
Donald Sutherland – Commander in Chief

Cecil B DeMille award
Sir Anthony Hopkins

MORE DETAIL
> The Official Nominations site of the HFPA – the organisation that dishes out the Globes
> An AP story (via CNN) that ran a couple of years ago highlighting the criticisms of the Globes & the HFPA
> Wikipedia on the Golden Globes