The Golden Globes will be presented on January 10th live on NBC.
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In total, digital originals account for 12 nominations at this year’s Golden Globes, nearly double from last year’s list.
The film picked up nods for best drama, actresses Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, director Haynes and its score.
The movie has been nominated in the best motion picture? drama alongside “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “The Revenant”, “Spotlight” and “Room“.
The Big Short and Revenant both received four nominations; and Room, Ridley Scott’s The Martian, Tarentino’s The Hateful Eight, and The Danish Girl each received three. Aside from “Carol“, which leads the nominees with five nods, “The Big Short” is close behind with four.
There were no nominations this year for such early-touted awards-hopeful films as “Black Mass”, “Macbeth” (Fassbender fans in the HFPA either preferred his “Steve Jobs” performance or haven’t seen his Shakespeare adaptation yet), or “Sicario” (even though it’s one of the year’s biggest indie hits).
Six streaming series from online venues Netflix, Amazon and Hulu were the heavy nominees for TV awards.
Apart from a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies was completely overlooked by the Golden Globes this year.
While “Spotlight” received multiple nods, including best picture drama, the cast – including Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams – got bupkis.
Cartoon fans will probably be miffed that “Minions” was left off the list of Best Animated Feature nominees, apparently in favor of “Shaun the Sheep Movie”.
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. “I mean, I had five movies I thought were sure-fire best picture nominees and only one of them won a SAG ensemble nomination”.
Comedians Amy Schumer and Melissa McCarthy are up for the best actress in a comedy award for their films “Trainwreck” and “Spy“, which are also competing in the best comedy category.
Premium rival Showtime suffered a falloff, too, with last year’s nine nominations shrinking to three. If I may call upon a description I once wrote and still stand by, “The Golden Globes are a fundamentally goofy proposition, given out by a tiny club of journalists at a ceremony that’s famous for the fact that everyone gets hammered”.
Will Smith, whose upcoming “Concussion” has drawn headlines for its depiction of head trauma in football, joined the best actor, drama, nominees. Christian Bale and Steve Carell each received nominations for Best Actor for the film. Al Pacino (“Danny Collins”), Maggie Smith (“The Lady in the Van”), Lily Tomlin (“Grandma”), Jane Fonda (“Youth”) and Helen Mirren (“Trumbo“) all earned nods.
Besides “Veep”, others nominated in the best TV series- comedy are “Casual”, “Mozart in the Jungle”, “Orange Is the New Black”, “Silicon Valley” and “Transparent”.
The nominees for best TV drama are Empire, Game of Thrones, Mr. Robot, Narcos, and Outlander.
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