The stars have aligned for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. They announced their nominations for the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards. For the first time, their nominees don’t seem as blatant for trying to have the biggest stars in Hollywood join together for a dinner party. Of course, there are some glaring omissions from a few categories but many of the films and performances cited were for the most part, respectable.
Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln leads the tally with seven nominations including Best Picture and Director. Daniel Day-Lewis nabbed his seventh nomination along co-stars Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones. Lincoln remains a definite favorite to win in nearly every category. To some surprise, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained was able to grab five nominations including a double Supporting Actor citation for Leonardo DiCaprio and Christoph Waltz. Tarantino was also nominated Best Director and Screenplay. Missing in the director’s field, Tom Hooper for the dynamite musical Les Miserables, which did grab four nominations in total.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master is still able to stay afloat, at least for the time being. The three stars, Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams, were all nominated for their performances. The film however, was omitted from the Picture, Director, and Screenplay lineups. A sign that not even the HFPA could warm up to the film. Perhaps those Best Picture nomination chances are dimming by the minute.
Talk about the little film that could, Lasse Hallstrom’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, which was released back in March was nominated for three Golden Globes this morning. Stars Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt were both nominated for Lead Actor and Actress in a Comedy or Musical as well. Unfortunately, those mentions came at the cost of films like The Perks of Being a Wallflower and the utterly talented Logan Lerman.
The race for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical) seems to be a very heated race indeed. Along with Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Les Miserables, Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, John Madden’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook were cited by the HFPA. In the Best Picture (Drama) category, Lincoln and Django Unchained will do battle with Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, Ben Affleck’s Argo, and Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty. The Best Director lineup matched the Best Picture lineup, five for five.
The big misses today included anyone involved with Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild. Quvenzhane Wallis and Dwight Henry were both snubbed along with the musical score for the film which should have been an easy get for the Fox Searchlight hopeful. Emmanuelle Riva from Amour, a performance that seemed assured just a few days ago, was left off in place of Helen Mirren in Hitchcock and Naomi Watts in The Impossible. It’s interesting how we judge these nominations in comparison with yesterday’s SAG announcement. With Mirren showing up in both precursors and Riva missing, is it safe to say Mirren is officially in the Best Actress lineup? Nearly a week after Rachel Weisz won NYFCC for her work in The Deep Blue Sea, she scored an Actress in a Drama mention. Momentum may be on her side in the end.
What’s surprised me about many of the guilds thus far is the inclusion of Nicole Kidman for her work in Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy, a film that was panned by critics. Kidman’s work is impressive but standing next to other contenders that missed today and yesterday like Ann Dowd, Samantha Barks, and even Kelly Reilly, it’s surprising to see her embraced by her peers this much. And our nail in the coffin today seems to be for Matthew McConaughey’s Oscar chances as many, including myself, believed that his nomination for Magic Mike from the Globes was locked and ready to go. Put his omission next to his snub from SAG yesterday and his chances are no longer looking good, even with New York citing.
My personal gripes of the day include the finger given to Ted, a film that screams brilliant, raunchy comedy. I thought the Globes would have loved to cite the film in Best Picture. Though split with critics and audiences, Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths wasn’t able to muster any mention for the film or stars Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, and Sam Rockwell.
Who lied to the Hollywood Foreign Press and told them that Hotel Transylvania was a better film than ParaNorman? That snub was the most head scratching but I blame Focus Features who have not campaigned their arsenal, including Promised Land, the way they should during Phase 1.
Also, where was Jonny Greenwood’s mention for The Master, who was finally deemed eligible for Oscar consideration recently. Alexandre Desplat is probably the composer of the year delivering in Argo, Moonrise Kingdom, Rise of the Guardians, and Zero Dark Thirty. It looks like Argo may be his representation for the year if he is indeed nominated for an Academy Award. Desplat is probably the most overdue composer and the favorite to win.
Things I personally LOVED today:
I held onto the notion of Richard Gere scoring his first nomination earlier in the season but as Hugh Jackman is solidifying himself by the day, Gere’s chances have dwindled to nearly nothing. His work in Arbitrage is one of his best performances and it was nice that his mention for the year will be at the Globes. If SAG cited him, I’d be singing a different tune but perhaps this is a reminder to some voters as they start filling out their ballots.
I love that the Globes didn’t run for Javier Bardem’s good, not great, work in Skyfall in Supporting Actor in place for Christoph Waltz who is brilliant in Django Unchained.
My absolute favorite mention of the day was when the tri-composers of Cloud Atlas landed their deserved nomination in Original Score. Hopefully many voters will feel the same way and feel compelled to check the film off for Oscar.
The Golden Globes are set to air on NBC, Sunday, January 13 @ 8:00ET.
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It’s a crazy season indeed. But it’s great though because that’s what awards seasons are meant to do. Every single film listed here and in contention for the Oscars is brilliant. Personal opinions aside. So when you see the race shifting and going separate ways it makes it for an interesting season indeed.
GL(Quote) (Reply)
I definately agree. I feel this is the first year in a while where anything can really happen heading in to Oscar night, and it’s actually exciting talking about the possibilities. My only complaint is that a lot of people (staff here included) seem to think that Lincoln is the film to beat this year…. It’s not. Come Oscar night, I’d say its hopes are slim to win in any of its categories (Other than best Actor.)
Phill(Quote) (Reply)
Actually it has a pretty big chance. SAG, Globes, and BFCA have gone bananas for the film, which is usually a sign. Does that mean the race is done? No, Lincoln hasn’t won a major BP victory yet. Spielberg was not even mentioned during the NYFCCA which is a major sign that it’s not going to be a unanimous vote like in the past couple of years. Finally I don’t think the staff is really rooting for Lincoln that much, I think this year they seem to be evenly spread out. Some supporting Les Mis, others ZDT etc. My biggest complain though is how whoever is writing on their twitter and fb accounts needs to stop posting their misoginist messages relating to Kidman’s noms. We get it, you didn’t like the movie. But your comments like this, “Here’s a lesson for all Actresses trying to get an #Oscar nom – Masturbate in front of John Cusack or pee on a teen star and it can happen.” are uncalled for, immature, and not a good representation of the kind of material discussed in this forum.
GL(Quote) (Reply)
It’s Twitter, and social media is completely unedited. You can’t stop anyone from expressing their opinion no matter how unpleasant it may be. A piece of advice – don’t visit their Twitter/Facebook page if it bothers you so much. I am a woman and I certainly didn’t think it was misogynist (check your spelling).
By the way, there is a running joke that if you’re an actress and you want to get nominated for an Oscar, you need to take your kit off on screen (not sure if it works anymore though). Anne Hathaway herself had remarked upon this fact on Oscar night two years ago. And sometime during the ’90s, three of the five Best Actress nominees had portrayed prostitutes (this fact was mentioned very specifically during Oscar night). So, I don’t understand what’s so misogynistic about mentioning certain truths, especially with regard to the kind of roles that actresses take up, thereby landing them an Oscar nomination. And in Kidman’s case, right now, it’s certainly heading in that direction.
Divya(Quote) (Reply)
Yeah, but there is a difference between “taking off your kit” and saying some of the vulgar things he mentioned. It doesn’t really bother me much, but it’s still childish. Is the staff saying it? Or is it just random people commenting on their page?
Phill(Quote) (Reply)
Well I don’t know or care for the amount of respect you have for yourself, so whether you like the jokes or not really doesn’t concern me. What I think is wrong with those comments is, being factual or not, joke or not, they relate to putting women on this spot where they fit into a very crude mold. Let’s take factual datas aside and just say that for a woman director to be nominated for the Oscar they better butcher up and make war movies. You could of course make that case, but it’s not a message you want to represent a full out fair thought, which would be, “Why is that only women that make war movies can get into Oscar contention.”
I know who controls that FB and Twitter pages for the site, and my critic of it was more towards raising an issue rather than pointing fingers. And I don’t think having a dissenting opinion should make me unfollow a website I care about and have been part of for a long time.
GL(Quote) (Reply)
I thought the Nominations were near perfect this year. It definately cheered me up after the disaster from the SAGs yesterday. There a couple things I believe we can take out of this. Put the nail in the coffing on Beast of the Southern Wild. It isn’t making it in any major category. Django Unchained (while not being in much of any contention to win) will get it’s love in it’s respective categories (although I don’t think this is enough to get him a directors nod. Maybe if DGA hops on board. The Master (while snubbed in the two biggies) will do just fine come Oscar night. I see it entering the race much like The Tree of Life entered last year. No a lot of love from pre cursors, but will get its mentions come Oscar time.
Also, I loved seeing The Newsroom nods in the TV categories.
Phill(Quote) (Reply)
I’ll give them credit for not including anyone/anything that’s especially atrocious this year…
Joey Magidson(Quote) (Reply)
It’s really a good year for Golden Globes. HFPA didn’t go for “Dark Shadows”, “Magic Mike”, “To Rome With Love” and the rest of movie which were dissappointing and missunderstood….
Genadijus(Quote) (Reply)
ParaNorman is way better than Hotel Transylvania!
Do you think Ang Lee or Tarantino deserved to be there instead of Hooper?
Alex(Quote) (Reply)
That’s what seems so surprising. It’s as if the HFPA didn’t even look at the Comedy/Musical category when it came to Best Director. All the Best Director nominees are from the films nominated for Best Picture (Drama). Even if Hooper didn’t get nominated, at least David O Russell could’ve been nominated for Best Director for SLP. That, along with Nicole Kidman’s nomination, are two of my biggest disappointments in this list.
Divya(Quote) (Reply)
Oh no, Mary Elizabeth Winstead was left out. T.T
James(Quote) (Reply)
Can you blame the love for Kidman though? She was a force of nature in The Paperboy. Blew everyone off the screen.
Ann Dowd doesn’t even compare.
Barry(Quote) (Reply)
Oh yeah, Kidman was really a “force of nature” alright…
Divya(Quote) (Reply)
Kind of disappointing there were no nominations for Magic Mike, 21 Jump Street and Ted. Especially since Wahlberg gave the best performance of the year that was really a comedic one. I mean, he had funny and believable comedy timing with a character that was completely CGI.
Pretty lame that instead the GGs picked two films about white British people learning about those brown people in the Middle East.
Aaron McMahon(Quote) (Reply)