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The Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning, with The King’s Speech leading the line with seven nods and followed closely by
The Fighter
and
The Social Network
with six apiece, all up for the prestigious Best Picture (Drama) award.
Black Swan
also gets its deserved due with nominations in the major categories including Best Picture, Natalie Portman for Best Actress, Mila Kunis for Best Supporting Actress and Darren Aronofsky for Best Director. The final Best Picture nominee is Inception, which will no doubt prove a popular vote of support for Christopher Nolan’s thriller even if its chances of winning are slim (Nolan also gets Best Director acknowledgment). The absence of the Coen Brothers’ True Grit not only from the Best Picture category, but from any categories, will no doubt be one of the major talking points in the coming weeks.
The full list of nominations follows the jump, plus definitive reasons why the Comedy or Musical categories should be rescinded immediately.
The Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning, with The King's Speech leading the line with seven nods and followed closely by The Fighter and The Social Network with six apiece, all up for the prestigious Best Picture (Drama) award. Black Swan also gets its deserved due with nominations in the major categories including Best Picture, Natalie Portman for Best Actress, Mila Kunis for Best Supporting Actress and Darren Aronofsky for Best Director. The final Best Picture nominee is Inception, which will no doubt prove a popular vote of support for Christopher Nolan's thriller even if its chances of winning are slim (Nolan also gets Best Director acknowledgment). The absence of the Coen Brothers' True Grit not only from the Best Picture category, but from any categories, will no doubt be one of the major talking points in the coming weeks.
The full list of nominations follows the jump, plus definitive reasons why the Comedy or Musical categories should be rescinded immediately.{{page_break}}
There are few surprises in any of the acting categories for Drama, with Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone) and Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine) likely to be Natalie Portman's biggest competition for Best Actress. Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole) and Halle Berry (Frank & Alice) are the outside bets. In the Best Actor category, it'd be a major shock if Colin Firth doesn't bag the award for The King's Speech, with Ryan Gosling (Blue Valentine), Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter), Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) and James Franco (127 Hours) likely to be pictured clapping ruefully from the crowd on the night.
In the Supporting categories, Actor will be contended by Christian Bale (The Fighter), Andrew Garfield (The Social Network), Jeremy Renner (The Town), Michael Douglas (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps) and Geoffrey Rush (The King's Speech). Actress will see Amy Adams (The Fighter), Helena Bonham Carter (The King's Speech), Mila Kunis (Black Swan), Melissa Leo (The Fighter) and Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom) battling out a tightly fought category.
Apart from the funny and gorgeous Emma Stone's performance in Easy A earning acknowledgement, the Comedy and Musical categories are frankly just depressing, giving three nods to the mind-numbingly incoherent The Tourist (for Picture, Johnny Depp in Best Actor and Angelina Jolie in Actress). Burlesque is another travesty contending for Best Film, with fingers crossed everywhere that lesser evils Red, The Kids Are Alright or Alice In Wonderland (which Depp gets a second Actor nod) eventually emerging triumphant.
All will be revealed when the awards are doled out in Los Angeles on January 16th. Here follows the full list of cinema-related nominations:
Best Picture (Drama)
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King’s Speech
The Social Network
Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
Alice in Wonderland
Burlesque
The Kids Are All Right
Red
The Tourist
Best Director
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)
Christopher Nolan (Inception)
David O. Russell (The Fighter)
Best Actor (Drama)
Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network)
Colin Firth (The King’s Speech)
James Franco (127 Hours)
Ryan Gosling (Blue Valentine)
Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter)
Best Actress (Drama)
Halle Berry (Frankie and Alice)
Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole)
Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone)
Natalie Portman (Black Swan)
Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine)
Best Actor (Musical or Comedy)
Johnny Depp (Alice in Wonderland)
Johnny Depp (The Tourist)
Paul Giamatti (Barney’s Version)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Love and Other Drugs)
Kevin Spacey (Casino Jack)
Best Actress (Musical or Comedy)
Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right)
Anne Hathaway (“Love and Other Drugs”)
Angelina Jolie (The Tourist)
Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right)
Emma Stone (Easy A)
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale (The Fighter)
Michael Douglas (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)
Andrew Garfield (The Social Network)
Jeremy Renner (The Town)
Geoffrey Rush (The King’s Speech)
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams (The Fighter)
Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech)
Mila Kunis (Black Swan)
Melissa Leo (The Fighter)
Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)
Best Screenplay
Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy (127 Hours)
Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right)
Christopher Nolan (Inception)
David Seidler (The King’s Speech)
Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network)
Best Animated Film
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Tangled
Toy Story 3
Best Foreign Film
Biutiful (Spain)
The Concert (France)
The Edge (Russia)
I Am Love (Italy)
In a Better World (Denmark)
Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat (The King’s Speech)
Danny Elfman (Alice in Wonderland)
A.R. Rahman (127 Hours)
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross (The Social Network)
Hans Zimmer (Inception)
Best Original Song
“Bound to You” (Burlesque)
“Coming Home” (Country Strong)
“I See the Light” (Tangled)
“There’s a Place for Us” (The Chronicles of Narnia)
“You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me” (Burlesque)