The Big Short was one of three motion pictures to lead the nominations for the 73rd Golden Globe Awards, which were announced early Thursday morning.
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Meanwhile, NBC is out of the running entirely this year with no nominations for the kudocast that it will carry live on January 10.
The company’s various first run shows have racked up 8 nominations, beating the likes of HBO, Showtime as well as traditional broadcast networks in the United States.
The nominees for the 2016 Golden Globes were unveiled on Thursday morning in Beverly Hills, California. Carol, the romantic drama film directed by Todd Haynes is leading the board.
Also turning up, unexpectedly, will be Jane Fonda in “Youth”, a supporting performance that’s been buzzed about less in that film than a number of her co-stars, and both Christian Bale and Steve Carell from “The Big Short” as lead actors.
And in the “Motion Picture – Animated” category, Anomalisa, The Good Dinosaur, Inside Out, The Peanuts Movie and Shaun The Sheep Movie all received nominations.
For instance, the man who on Monday was announced as a lifetime endorser of Nike (with a deal worth many hundreds of millions of dollars to James, if not more), is a co-executive producer for the cable TV show Survivor’s Remorse. With three nominations each, “American Crime”, “Fargo”, “Mr. Robot”, “Outlander”, “Transparent” and “Wolf Hall” stand at the same spot. It’s classic Golden Globes to nominate her-since her attendance at the show will made headlines and bring in viewers.
The nominees for best actor in a drama are Bryan Cranston (Trumbo), Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant), Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl), Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs), and Will Smith (Concussion). Along with “Carol” and “The Revenant”, they are: “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “Room” and “Spotlight”.
In the area of those expected to get nominated, the space movie “The Martian”, got chosen, along with its star performer Matt Damon and its director Ridley Scot, as well as the movie, “Joy” by David O. Russell getting a nomination for best picture, as well as best comedy and for Jennifer Lawrence as best actress.
In addition to last year’s victor, “Transparent”, and Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black”, a perennial nominee, the HFPA also honored Hulu’s “Casual”, a comedy about a woman who moves in with her bachelor brother after a divorce, and Amazon’s “Mozart in the Jungle,” set in the classical music world.
“My mom and my manager @wanaynay are so emotional about our Best Actress Golden Globe Nomination and so happy for Ryan Murphy [Co-creator of “American Horror Story”] and the whole gang for HOTEL’s nomination for Best TV Series!” Nominees include box office success, indie films and the best of the best in television.
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Alejandro Inarritu, best director nominee for “The Revenant”: “I can’t believe this time a year ago we were in Calgary shooting “The Revanant”, and right now I’m in London and just heard the good news!” Two of Netflix’s nominations were for worldwide hit “Narcos” (Best Drama and Best Actor Wagner Moura), as the power of the global audience-and not just moribund Nielsen ratings-increasingly determines programming decisions in the realm of “prestige” TV.
