Golden Globe Nominations Announced
Babel led the pack with seven nominations, including Best Drama and Best Supporting Actor for Brad Pitt. Dreamgirls was nominated for Best Comedy or Musical - Beyoncé, Jennifer Hudson, and Eddie Murphy all received noms in their respective categories. Helen Mirren was nominated in The Queen, which also took a nod for Best Drama.
Check 'em out, after the jump...
BEST DRAMA
Babel
Bobby
The Departed
Little Children
The Queen
BEST COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Borat
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank you for Smoking
BEST ACTOR IN A DRAMA
Leonardo DiCaprio ("Blood Diamond" and "The Departed")
Peter O'Toole ("Venus")
Will Smith ("The Pursuit of Happyness")
Forest Whitaker ("The Last King of Scotland")
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMA
Penelope Cruz ("Volver")
Judi Dench ("Notes on a Scandal")
Maggie Gyllenhaal ("Sherry Baby")
Helen Mirren ("The Queen")
Kate Winslet ("Little Children")
BEST ACTOR IN COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Sasha Baron Cohen ("Borat")
Johnny Depp ("Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest")
Aaron Eckhart ("Thank You for Smoking")
Chiwetel Ejiofor ("Kinky Boots")
Will Ferrell ("Stranger Than Fiction")
BEST ACTRESS IN COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Annette Bening ("Running with Scissors')
Toni Collette ("Little Miss Sunshine")
Beyonce Knowles ("Dreamgirls")
Meryl Streep ("The Devil Wears Prada")
Renee Zellweger ("Miss Potter")
BEST DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood ("Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima")
Stephen Frears ("The Queen")
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("Babel")
Martin Scorsese ("The Departed")
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ben Affleck ("Hollywoodland")
Eddie Murphy ("Dreamgirls")
Jack Nicholson ("The Departed")
Brad Pitt ("Babel")
Mark Wahlberg ("The Departed").
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Adriana Barraza ("Babel")
Cate Blanchett ("Notes on a Scandal")
Emily Blunt ("The Devil Wears Prada")
Jennifer Hudson ("Dreamgirls")
Kikuchi Rinko ("Babel")
BEST FOREIGN FILM
Apocalypto
LEtters from Iwo Jima
The Lives of Others
Pan's Labyrinth
Volver
BEST SCREENPLAY
Babel
Little Children
Notes on a Scandal
The Departed
The Queen
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House
BEST TV DRAMA SERIES
24
Big Love
Grey’s Anatomy
Heroes
Lost
BEST DRAMA ACTOR
Patrick Dempsey, Grey’s Anatomy
Keifer Sutherland, 24
Bill Paxton, Big Love
Hugh Laurie, House
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
BEST DRAMA ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette, Medium
Evangeline Lilly, Lost
Edie Falco, The Sopranos
Ellen Pompeio, Grey’s Anatomy
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
BEST COMEDY SERIES
Ugly Betty
Weeds
Entourage
The Office
Desperate Housewives
BEST COMEDY ACTOR
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
Jason Lee, My Name is Earl
Zach Braff, Scrubs
BEST COMEDY ACTRESS
America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
Marcia Cross, Desperate Housewives
Felicity Huffman, Desperate Housewives
Julie Louis-Dreyfuss, New Adventure of Old Christine
Mary Louise Parker, Weeds
It seemed like a generally very weak year for film, particularly after last year. Grey's Anatomy should be replaced by BG on the list. It's too pretentious for anyone's good health.
Posted by: Anon | Dec 14, 2006 12:50:52 PM
'Little Children' was wonderful.
However, for the life of me I cannot understand the love for 'The Queen'. Granted Helen Mirren was, as always, wonderful, but the movie itself was like sitting through a TV movie of the week.
Posted by: peterparker | Dec 14, 2006 12:52:56 PM
Michael Sheen should have been nominted for "The Queen"... his portrayal of Tony Blair was every bit as strong as Helen Mirren's queen. Somehow, I still think he'll get an Oscar nomination. Same goes for Ryan Gosling.
Posted by: Chesnut | Dec 14, 2006 1:07:15 PM
There is a shift from last year's overcrowding of males in the great acting department, to this year's overcrowding in the female arena. Strange.
Posted by: Colin | Dec 14, 2006 1:18:50 PM
Babel was a great film, tho perhaps not a great movie.
definitely not golden globe material, but oscar-worthy.
Posted by: A.J. | Dec 14, 2006 1:30:53 PM
Chestnut, Michael Sheen was submitted in the Lead category (as Jake Gyllenhaal was last year), and like Jake G. didn't make the cut. He will very likely get an Oscar nom for Supporting though. The Queen is basically the Capote of this year.
And Greg, good thing you saved your pee because Cate Blanchett (in Babel) had enough to go around for everyone. :P
Posted by: Erik | Dec 14, 2006 2:11:49 PM
Oh, thank god. While most seventeen-year-old high school girls are getting their news from CosmoGirl and "The Real World", I'm lucky enough to have Towleroad. I know it's "the blog for modern gay men", but inexplicably it also has the best selection of news items in terms of my interests. Thank you, Mr. Towle! Because I care an awful lot about the Golden Globe noms, in all honesty, and like some other people here, couldn't find a list anywhere else.
"House" should definitely, definitely have been nominated for Best Television Drama. It far surpasses "Grey's Anatomy"...
Posted by: Hope | Dec 14, 2006 2:16:09 PM
I just noticed some of the categories are missing.
BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
BLEAK HOUSE (PBS)
BBC and WGBH Boston Prod. i.a.w. Deep Indigo
BROKEN TRAIL (AMC)
Butchers Run Films and Once Upon a Time Films i.a.w. Sony Pictures Television
ELIZABETH I (HBO)
Company Pictures and Channel 4 i.a.w. HBO Films
MRS. HARRIS (HBO)
Killer Films, Number 9 Films and John Wells Prod. i.a.w. HBO Films
PRIME SUSPECT: THE FINAL ACT (PBS)
Granada and WGBH-Boston Prod.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
GILLIAN ANDERSON
BLEAK HOUSE
ANNETTE BENING
MRS. HARRIS
HELEN MIRREN
ELIZABETH I
HELEN MIRREN
PRIME SUSPECT: THE FINAL ACT
SOPHIE OKONEDO
TSUNAMI, THE AFTERMATH
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
ANDRÉ BRAUGHER
THIEF
ROBERT DUVALL
BROKEN TRAIL
MICHAEL EALY
SLEEPER CELL: AMERICAN TERROR
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR
TSUNAMI, THE AFTERMATH
BEN KINGSLEY
MRS. HARRIS
BILL NIGHY
GIDEON'S DAUGHTER
MATTHEW PERRY
THE RON CLARK STORY
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
EMILY BLUNT
GIDEON'S DAUGHTER
TONI COLLETTE
TSUNAMI, THE AFTERMATH
KATHERINE HEIGL
GREY'S ANATOMY
SARAH PAULSON
STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP
ELIZABETH PERKINS
WEEDS
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH
BROKEN TRAIL
JEREMY IRONS
ELIZABETH I
JUSTIN KIRK
WEEDS
MASI OKA
HEROES
JEREMY PIVEN
ENTOURAGE
(from Defamer)
Posted by: EireKev | Dec 14, 2006 2:58:55 PM
Oh and a couple more:
ORIGINAL SCORE
Alexandre Desplat, "The Painted Veil"
Clint Mansell, "The Fountain"
Gustavo Santaolalla, "Babel"
Carlo Siliotto, "Nomad"
Hans Zimmer, "The Da Vinci Code"
SONG
"A Father's Way" from "The Pursuit of Happyness"
"Listen" from "Dreamgirls"
"Never Gonna Break My Faith" from "Bobby"
"The Song of the Heart" from "Happy Feet"
"Try Not to Remember" from "Home of the Brave"
(from AICN)
Posted by: EireKev | Dec 14, 2006 3:06:58 PM
That Heroes should get a nomination while The Wire, which is not only the best written (and acted) show on T.V but also the most relevent, gets nothing is kind of tragic.
Posted by: Giovanni | Dec 14, 2006 3:34:50 PM
I've seen Dreamgirls twice now, and it's a damn shame that BILL CONDON didn't get nominated for either category. he SO deserves it.
Posted by: Matt | Dec 14, 2006 4:48:12 PM
I think that Battlestar Galactica is terribly undervalued, and deserves attention. Mary McDonnell, Edward James Olmos, James Callis and Lucy Lawless all deserve quite a bit of praise for their skill. The writing also happens to be fantastic. Check it out even if you are not a Sci-Fi fan (I'm not) and be prepared to be wowed by a show that could have just been another genre project, but has for the last two years provided constantly compelling programming. (Um. Jamie Bamber is also hot beyond belief.)
Posted by: Patrick | Dec 14, 2006 4:56:31 PM
Eirekev, thanks for posting those. It was sad to see three of my favorite "movies" left out on the original list - Bleak House (AMAZING adaptation), Elizabeth I (leaps and bounds above the Blanchett version), and Prime Suspect: The Final Act (Mirren can do no wrong). If you haven't seen any of these you're missing out, especially Bleak House. Gillian Anderson's Lady Dedlock is some of the best work I've seen all year.
Posted by: Stuart | Dec 14, 2006 7:21:28 PM
The Golden Globes did a great job this year with their nominations, in my opinion.
Posted by: laster | Dec 14, 2006 8:42:56 PM
OH WHO CARES IF BABLE SUCKED!!!
The real question is will Brad and Angelina turn up on the red carpet together again *swoons*
Posted by: steve | Dec 15, 2006 6:58:23 AM
I've been on the wrong threads all day....
Thank you whoever said "Crash" was awful. Thank you to Patrick for mentioning Battlestar. It's got the sci fi stigma and most people dont realize it's really not scifi but drama.
Have no interest in seeing "Babel". Looks too much like "Syriana" and when I learned that the plot for "Syriana" was supposed to be obscure and confusing I decided to pass. I'm a bright boy but there has to be a story I can follow.
Haven't seen "Little Children" yet but want to.
Went into "The Queen" without any expectations except I had already seen Helen Mirren portray Elizabeth I and knew she could pull it off. Boy did I underestimate that movie. Hands down my favorite so far this year.
Posted by: mark m | Dec 15, 2006 5:23:45 PM
I wonder if PH only eats gay food...
Posted by: thumper | Dec 16, 2006 5:43:41 PM