Last year’s Golden Globe best comedy/musical film victor, Birdman went on to win the best picture Oscar. If anything that film should do extremely well with technical awards in effects and production.
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Scottish talent and the TV series Outlander, which is produced in Scotland, are in the running for some of Hollywood’s leading honours. 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. Judith Light (“Transparent”) and Uzo Aduba (“Orange is the New Black”) both secured nominations in the overstuffed category for supporting actress in a series, limited series or TV movie.
So did Sylvester Stallone for “Creed”, giving him a nomination for the same character (Rocky Balboa) who first earned him a Globe nomination in 1976 for “Rocky”. Leonardo DiCaprio is up for best actor and so are Michael Fassbender, Bryan Cranston, Eddie Redmayne, and Will Smith.
SNUB: Elizabeth Banks, “Love and Mercy” Although Paul Dano made the Golden Globes short list for his performance as a young Brian Wilson, Banks wasn’t so lucky for playing his wife.
Twenty-nine-year-old singer/songwriter and now actress Lady Gaga has another feather in her cap now that the list of Golden Globe nominees for have been released. Its nominations for best picture drama (over “Brooklyn”) and best director for George Miller shows that the Warner Bros. summer tentpole has staying power.
Not that “Mozart in the Jungle” or “Penny Dreadful” aren’t fine shows – they are, but it was surprising to see the little-buzzed about or watched Amazon series get a nod for best show, it’s star Gael García Bernal nominated for best actor and “Penny Dreadful” star Eva Green nominated best actress.
HBO, with seven nominations, took second place overall to Netflix, including its Emmy-winning series duo – White House comedy Veep and medieval fantasy Game of Thrones.
Also nominated in the best television drama series are “Mr Robot“, “Narcos” and “Outlander”. ABC fared the best of the lot, picking up four nominations in total, with most of those going to its high-minded anthology series “American Crime”.
The Golden Globes are chosen by a group of around 90 journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, rather than members of the film industry.
Jennifer Lawrence for “Joy”, Amy Schumer for “Trainwreck”, Lily Tomlin for “Grandma”, Melissa McCarthy for “Spy” and Maggie Smith for “The Lady in the Van”. A four-time Oscar nominee and one-time Globe victor, DiCaprio is gunning for his first Academy Award.
20th Century Fox’s moves to submit “The Martian” and “Joy” as comedy seem to pay off as the two flicks are nominated as best comedy along with “The Big Short”, “Spy”, and “Trainwreck”.
SURPRISE: Mark Ruffalo, “Infinitely Polar Bear” This Sundance dramedy, where Ruffalo plays a father battling bipolar disorder, barely registered at the box office. According to tweets from Australian film critic Simon Miraudo, the Globes’ official Twitter account kept misidentifying presenter America Ferrera as Gina Rodriguez.
The Globes nominations were announced a day after the Screen Actors Guild award contenders.
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The awards will be handed out on 10 January in Los Angeles. The show will air on NBC.
