That also means that the Golden Globes and the Emmys are able to expand their nominees to them as TV shows and can award them the same awards they previously only gave to on-air networks, given they were the only ones in the distant past that aired original content. The big victor, most filmgoers and observers could agree, was audacity itself, as two equally bold sensibilities got the visibility and box office business that, without awards chatter, would otherwise have eluded them.
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Forced to consider an intimidating number of strong series made available through broadcast, cable, and digital outlets, the HFPA came up with some idiosyncratic choices in the best comedy and drama series categories.
The Best Picture category is another tough one with Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, Spotlight, Room, and Carol all in the race for the gong.
The nominees for best actress in a comedy or musical are Jennifer Lawrence (Joy), Melissa McCarthy (Spy), Amy Schumer (Trainwreck), Lily Tomlin (Grandma), and Maggie Smith (The Lady in the Van).
The nominees for TV movie or limited series are “American Crime”, “American Horror Story: Hotel”, “Fargo”, “Flesh and Bone”, and “Wolf Hall”. Disney’s (DIS – Get Report) ABC snatched up five nominations, Fox received four, and CBS snagged only one nomination, ahead of Comcast’s (CMCSA – Get Report) NBC, which grabbed absolutely none. It picked up nods for best drama, actress Brie Larson and its screenplay.
“To see Mad Max in there in best drama, that proves that a movie that does really well can also do well in the award season”, Karger says. There are plenty of viewers who will be pleased by the three nominations for “Outlander”, Ron Moore’s ambitious adaptation of Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling romance novels.
After the Screen Actors Guild Awards passed over Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo on Wednesday, the Globes did, too.
It’s not Hollywood glamorous, but Will Smith insists he was sleeping early Thursday morning when the Golden Globe nominations were taking place.
Viola Davis is nominated in the best performance by an actress in a television series? drama category for her work in “How to Get Away with Murder”.
-Actor, Drama: Liev Schreiber, “Ray Donovan”; Wagner Moura, “Narcos”; Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”; Rami Malek, “Mr. Robot”; Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”. Not surprising, ratings at the Big Four networks are slipping, according to Nielsen.
The movie may have been met with critical acclaim, but the film was overlooked in the Best Motion Picture Drama category. HBO’s “Game of Thrones” stood first with 28.2 million expressions, almost twice more than Netflix’s Narcos, which held 14.3 million expressions.
Jenji Kohan, creator of best TV comedy nominee “Orange Is The New Black”: “Very cool to be recognised by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association”.
The impressive showing among the streaming services comes a day after Netflix surpassed awards kingpin HBO at a major award contest for the first time. What we did in that movie is rare, we all went deep to serve the film and shine as a whole.
It is the second Golden Globe nomination for the 21-year-old, who is now hotly tipped to receive an Oscar nomination when they are announced in January.
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One notable Golden Globes snub was for Johnny Depp’s performance as Boston criminal Whitey Bulger in “Black Mass”, which earned him a best actor SAG nomination.
