Meanwhile, Rachel Bloom (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”), the Hulu show “Casual” and the entertaining “Mozart on the Jungle” all startled with nominations. Although most pundits were (rightfully) quick to point out the ridiculousness of who exactly makes up the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, there’s no denying how much the Academy Awards nominations echo the Globes’.
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Still, while it’s great to see non-tradtional broadcasters receive attention, we’ll have to wait to find out how well they actually do when the awards ceremony airs January 10.
As always, though, the HFPA made some smart decisions in its nods for the 2016 event (Jan. 10, hosted by Ricky Gervais) and some totally ridiculous ones-and that’s not even including multiple mispronunciations from Dennis Quaid as he read off some of the nominees. Yet the critically loved box office hit about the influential hip-hop group got no love from the HFPA.
“The number one reaction to these kinds of nominations is, ‘Oh, thank God”. I assumed when it started doing that, that either something very good or very bad had happened.
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Tied with four is the Aaron Sorkin-scripted “Steve Jobs”, though it failed to join the best picture nominees.
“Casual” will compete for the best comedy Globe with Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle” and “Transparent”; Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black”; and HBO’s “Silicon Valley” and “Veep”. (Globe voters also nominated it for Best Director and Screenplay.) Then again, the SAGs, whose nominations were announced yesterday, also put “Spotlight” on their list for Best Ensemble (their equivalent of Best Picture) without nominating any individual members from it except Rachel McAdams.
– Actor, Movie or Limited Series: Oscar Isaac, “Show Me a Hero”; Patrick Wilson, “Fargo”; Idris Elba, “Luther”; David Oyelowo, “Nightingale”; Mark Rylance, “Wolf Hall”. Scotland-set Outlander, too, got a more welcome lift, landing nominations both as a series and for lead Catriona Balfe.
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Most of the expected contenders came away with something to show from the Globes, including the science-nerd space adventure “The Martian”. “Narcos” was also nominated for Best TV Dramatic series. HFPA thankfully didn’t forget about “Spy”, throwing the nod for Best Picture and Best Actress for Melissa McCarthy. The haul for “Mad Max” also included a nod for best director for George Miller. Apparently displaced was Johnny Depp’s chilly Whitey Bulger in “Black Mass”. The others in the category were Michael Fassbender (“Steve Jobs”), Eddie Redmayne (“The Danish Girl”) and Bryan Cranston (“Trumbo”). A day after receiving supporting actress nominations from the Screen Actors Guild Awards, for example, Rooney Mara (“Carol”) and Alicia Vikander (“The Danish Girl”) will be considered for a best actress Globes nod. Rather, the old guard benefited from the resurgence of the miniseries form, which neither the broadcast networks nor the streaming services have caught up with. The film also landed a Best Score nomination.
