The nominees for the best television drama series are: “Empire”, “Game of Thrones”, “Mr. Robot”, “Narcos” and “Outlander”. The film will compete against “Spotlight”, “The Revenant”, “Mad Max: Fury Road” and “Room” for best motion picture drama.
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The TV network is also absent in the running for best comedy series.
The nominees for best motion picture comedy or musical are The Martian, Trainwreck, The Big Short, Joy, and Spy. The announcement comes as yet another indication of who might be up for an Oscar this year following Wednesday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations.
Actors Angela Bassett, America Ferrera, Chloe Grace Moretz and Dennis Quaid will announce the nominations for honors for tops television and film awards bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
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.
The nominations also saw “The Big Short”, Leonardo DiCaprio-starrer “The Revenant” and Danny Boyle’s “Steve Jobs” garner four nominations each.
Blanchett and Mara will be up against Brie Larson for “Room”, Saoirse Ronan for Irish immigrant tale “Brooklyn” and Alicia Vikander for transgender movie “The Danish Girl” in the best actress race.
It was also runner-up for Best Film at the L.A. Film Critics’ Awards, following Spotlight, and the LAFC have a almost 100 percent success rate of predicting Academy nominations, with many runner-ups also following suit. ‘I am nominated as an actress for a Golden Globe what a dream is in that this real!’Afterward, she let go a proper assertion to EW: ‘I’m too excited for words at this recognition for my work! Perhaps it’s the result of a decision to campaign the ensemble in the supporting categories, causing Keaton and Ruffalo to cancel each other out.
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Steve Jobs, despite its poor box office performance, did receive four nods: Kate Winslet for best actress in a supporting role, Michael Fassbender for best performance by an actor, Aaron Sorkin for best screenplay and best original score. “I was awakened by my wife screaming, ‘You were nominated for a Golden Globe!!’ I think I am the only person that was ever told they were nominated in that particular fashion”. PBS’ “Downton Abbey”, CBS’ “The Good Wife”, Netflix’s “House of Cards” were all Globe drama series nominees last year, but not this year. Ironically, NBC which will air the awards show live on January 10, 2016 has zero nomination this year, AceShowbiz reports. “Birdman” ultimately edged out “Boyhood” for the flawless image Oscar.
