Golden Globe Nominations!

DRAMA
Babel
Bobby
The Departed
Little Children
The Queen




ACTRESS (DRAMA)
Penelope Cruz - Volver
Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Sherrybaby
Helen Mirren - The Queen
Kate Winslet - Little Children

ACTOR (DRAMA)
Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed
Peter O’Toole - Venus
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland

MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Borat
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You For Smoking




ACTRESS (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
Annette Bening - Running with Scissors
Toni Collette - Little Miss Sunshine
Beyoncé Knowles - Dreamgirls
Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
Rene Zellweger - Miss Potter

ACTOR (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
Sasha Baron Cohen - Borat
Johnny Depp - POC: Dead Man's Chest
Aaron Eckhart - Thank You for Smoking
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Kinky Boots
Will Farrell - Stranger Than Fiction

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Apocalypto (USA)
Letters from Iwo Jima (USA/Japan)
The Lives of Others (Germany)
Pan's Labyrinth (Mexico)
Volver (Spain)




SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Adriana Barraza - Babel
Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
Emily Blunt - The Devil Wears Prada
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi - Babel

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland
Jack Nicholson - The Departed
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
Brad Pitt - Babel
Mark Wahlberg - The Departed

DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood - Flags of Our Fathers
Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Babel
Martin Scorsese - The Departed

SCREENPLAY
Guillermo Arriaga - Babel
Todd Field & Tom Perrotta - Little Children
Patrick Marber - Notes on a Scandal
William Monahan - The Departed
Peter Morgan - The Queen




ANIMATED FILM
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

ORIGINAL SCORE
Alexandre Desplat - The Painted Veil
Clint Mansell - The Fountain
Gustavo Santaolalla - Babel
Carlo Siliotto - Nomad
Hans Zimmer - The Da Vinci Code

ORIGINAL SONG
“A Father’s Way” (Seal) - Pursuit of Happyness
“Listen” (Henry Krieger & Beyoncé Knowles) - Dreamgirls
“Never Gonna Break My Faith” (Bryan Adams) - Bobby
“The Song of the Heart” (Prince) - Happy Feet
“Try Not to Remember” (Sheryl Crow) - Home of the Brave

Complete List

Okay, I’m not down with all the Clint Eastwood love. Enough already. His lugubrious films tend to put me to sleep. Flags of Our Fathers didn’t even get a best picture nod (and could somebody please tell me how the hell that poor excuse for a film called Bobby made the final cut?). Why the need for the Clint double whammy? Anybody else would do: Pedro Almodovar, Paul Greengrass, Todd Field, Bill Condon. Just not two nods for Clint. It’s so over-the-top.

Same goes for Leo DiCaprio. Ever since Martin Scorsese crowned him the next DeNiro, he has overacted and been so damn, well… earnest. I don’t like earnest. I haven’t seen Blood Diamond, but I hear Leo’s super in it. Fine. No reason to give him a nod for The Departed as well. Spread the wealth, HFPA! I know you like to starfuck, but I didn’t realize you had the hots for Leo. You could’ve given Ryan Gosling a shoutout for Half Nelson. But that woulda been too much like right.

And thanks for snubbing Bill Condon. I guess musicals direct themselves. Yeah. Right. And while the critics dismissed Babel, HFPA spewed all over it, giving it the most nods with 7. I thought surely Dreamgirls would get the most nods. At least Eddie Murphy finally showed up and Jennifer Hudson is right where she belongs (and you got your shoutout, too, Miss Beyoncé). Here’s hoping the Babel actresses cancel each other out, Cate Blanchett’s ubiquitous year sours in voters minds, and J-Hud cruises to victory. She needs it. I’m beginning to worry about her Oscar. But I’m getting ahead of myself...

The best actor in a comedy or musical category: whacked. No Jamie Foxx? So what he has underwhelmed critics, but his performance is at least as solid as anybody else HFPA threw up in this category. And what the hell is Kinky Boots about and who the hell is Chiwetel Ejiofor?

Biggest surprises: Other than the aforemen-tioned double whammies (and did I mention no Bill Condon?), a snub for Djimon Honsou in Blood Diamond and Emily Blunt coming out of naywhere to get a nod for Devil Wears Prada in supporting take the cake.

The awards season circus is officially underway. Enjoy.

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