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| Meryl Streep earns her 27th Golden Globe nom for Hope Springs |
The Oscar race is heating up! Things are getting
very exciting, and every bit as frustrating. The Golden Globes announced their
nominees this morning and started things with a big tease by acknowledging
Dario Marianelli’s excellent score for Anna
Karenina. “Huzzah!” I thought, “Keira Knightley made it in.” Then the
nominations got to the major categories and Knightley was snubbed for… Helen
Mirren. #Yawn. There were some pleasant surprises, though, like nominations
Richard Gere in Arbitrage and for
Nicole Kidman in The Paperboy, which
redeems the SAG and should silence the naysayers. It’s a great performance and
Kidman should win when the trophies are handed out. (But I’ll be every bit as
happy if the prize goes to Helen Hunt.) Other goodies are a 27th
nomination for the great Meryl Streep in Hope
Springs. Hope Springs was
surprisingly snubbed for lesser fluff like Salmon
Fishing in the Yemen. Also showing up was SAG nominee Marion Cotillard, who
I guess is now my Best Actress hopeful now that Knightley’s great work is going
unrewarded. Lincoln leads the
nominations with 7, for Picture, director, actor, supporting actor, supporting
actress, screenplay and score. Following Lincoln are Argo and Django Unchained with five, and Silver
Linings Playbook and Les Mis tied
in the Comedy/Musical category with four apiece.
The nominees:
Best
Picture – Drama
Django Unchained
Zero
Dark Thirty
Les Misérables
Best
Director
Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Best
Actor – Drama
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Richard Gere, Arbitrage
John Hawkes, The Sessions
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight
Best
Actress – Drama
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
Naomi Watts, The
Impossible
Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea
Best
Actor – Comedy/Musical
Jack Black, Bernie
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Hugh Jackman, Les
Misérables
Ewan McGregror,
Salmon
Fishing in the Yemen
Bill Murray, Hyde Park
on Hudson
Best
Actress – Comedy/Musical
Emily Blunt, Salmon
Fishing in the Yemen
Judi Dench, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Maggie Smith, Quartet
Meryl Streep, Hope Springs
Best
Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Argo
Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django
Unchained
Best
Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy
Best
Screenplay
Argo,
Chris Terrio
Django
Unchained, Quentin Tarantino
Lincoln ,
Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook,
David O’Russell
Zero
Dark Thirty, Mark Boal
Best
Score
Anna Karenina,
Dario Marianelli.
Argo,
Alexandre Desplat
Cloud Atlas, Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek,
Tom Tykwer
Life of Pi,
Mychael Danna
Lincoln , John
Williams
Best
Song
“For You” from
Act of Valour
“Not Running Anymore” from Stand Up Guys
“Safe and Sound,” The Hunger Games
“Skyfall” from
Skyfall
“Suddenly” from Les
Mis
Best Foreign Language
Film
Amour – Austria/France
The Intouchables – France
Kontiki – Norway
A Royal Affair –
Denmark
Rust and Bone – France
Best Animated Film
Brave
Frankenweenie
Frankenweenie
Hotel Transylvania
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck it Ralph
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck it Ralph