The Nominations for the Golden Globe Awards have been announced. The nominees are below.
Nominations Tallies
(6) Up in the Air (5) Nine (4) Avatar; Inglourious Basterds (3) The Hurt Locker; Invictus; It’s Complicated; Precious; A Single Man
The Nominations
Best Picture, Drama
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
Up in the Air Best Picture, Comedy/Musical
(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover
It’s Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine Best Actor, Drama
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Colin Firth – A Single Man
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Tobey Maguire – Brothers Best Actor, Comedy/Musical
Matt Damon – The Informant!
Daniel Day Lewis – Nine
Robert Downey Jr. – Sherlock Holmes
Joseph Gordon Levitt – (500) Days of Summer
Michael Stuhlbarg – A Serious Man Best Actress, Drama
Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious Best Actress, Comedy/Musical
Sandra Bullock – The Proposal
Marion Cotillard – Nine
Julia Roberts – Duplicity
Meryl Streep – It’s Complicated
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon – Invictus
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz – Nine
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Mo’Nique – Precious
Julianne Moore – A Single Man Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
James Cameron – Avatar
Clint Eastwood – Invictus
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds Best Screenplay
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
It’s Complicated
Up in the Air Best Animated Feature
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
Up Best Original Score
Avatar
The Informant!
A Single Man
Up
Where the Wild Things Are Best Original Song
“Cinema Italiano” – Nine
“I Want to Come Home” – Everybody’s Fine
“I Will See You” – Avatar
“The Weary Kind” – Crazy Heart
“Winter” – Brothers Best Foreign Language Film
Baria
Broken Embraces
The Maid
Un Prophète
The White Ribbon
There aren’t a lot of huge surprises, but District 9 making the Screenplay cut is certainly the best one for me. I’m rather excited. I’d love for the film to be doing better, but sci-fi has rarely ever been adequately recognized by the Academy and aside from horror, is the most denigrated and ignored of the genres.
I find it unfortunate that District 9 isn’t getting more attention. I hope Oscar doesn’t follow suit. And I hope that because it’s expanded to 10 nominees, District 9, which was critically and commercially successful, makes the cut. It certainly deserves it.
As for the GG nominees, I don’t think any of them are particularly surprising. Except maybe Sandra Bullock in The Proposal. But upon second thought, knowing the Globes, that’s really not a huge surprise.
The Nominations for the Golden Globe Awards have been announced. The nominees are below.
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