The nominations for the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards, which are scheduled to be held on 15 January, 2007, have been announced. Brad Pitt starrer Babel leads the contenders list with a total of seven nominations, including best dramatic picture.
Mel Gibson’s bloody Mayan epic Apocalypto has been nominated for best foreign-language flick. On the other hand, Clint Eastwood has grabbed two nominations for best director for Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima.
Leonardo DiCaprio has also been nominated twice in the best dramatic film actor category for The Departed and Blood Diamond.
Helen Mirren has been nominated for best-actress for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen as well as for best actress in a TV miniseries or movie for Elizabeth I and Prime Suspect: The Final Act. Along with Mirren, the others who have been nominated in the best-actress are Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Kate Winslet.
Martin Scorsese has bagged the best director nomination for The Departed. Previously, Scorsese has been nominated five times for best director at the Oscars but hasn’t managed a statuette as yet. The Departed followed Babel with six nominations, including nominations for actors Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg.
Additionally, this is for the first time that the Golden Globes have an award for best animated feature film. Contending in this category are Cars, Happy Feet and Monster House.
India, however failed to find a nomination at the Golden Globes. The films that were contending are Lage Raho Munnabhai, Omkara and Rang De Basanti. Meera Nair’s Water was also in the running from Canada.
The full list of the the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards nominations is as follows:
Best Motion Picture – Drama – Babel (Paramount Pictures), Bobby (Bold Films; The Weinstein Company), The Departed (Warner Bros. Pictures), Little Children (New Line Cinema) and The Queen (A Granada Production; Miramax Films).
Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture – Drama – Penelope Cruz (Volver), Judi Dench (Notes On A Scandal), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Sherrybaby), Helen Mirren (The Queen) and Kate Winslet (Little Children).
Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture – Drama – Leonardo DiCaprio (Blue Diamond and The Departed), Peter O’Toole (Venus), Will Smith (The Pursuit Of Happyness) and Forest Whitaker (The Last King Of Scotland).
Best Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical – Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan (One America; Twentieth Century Fox), The Devil Wears Prada (Twentieth Century Fox), Dreamgirls (DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount Pictures), Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight Pictures) and Thank You For Smoking (Fox Searchlight Pictures).
Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical – Annette Bening (Running With Scissors), Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine), Beyoncé Knowles (Dreamgirls), Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada) and Renee Zellweger (Miss Potter).
Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical – Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan), Johnny Depp (Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest), Aaron Eckhart (Thank You For Smoking), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Kinky Boots) and Will Ferrell (Stranger Than Fiction).
Best Animated Feature Film – Cars (Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studio); Happy Feet (Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures) and Monster House (Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures Releasing).
Best Foreign Language Film – Apocalypto (USA) (Touchstone Pictures/Icon Productions; Buena Vista Pictures Distribution), Letters From Iwo Jima (USA/Japan) (Warner Bros. Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures), The Lives Of Others (Germany) (Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion; Sony Pictures Classics), Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico) (Estudios Picasso/Tequila Gang/Esperanto; Picturehouse) and Volver (Spain) (El Deseo; Sony Pictures Classics).
Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture – Adriana Barraza (Babel), Cate Blanchett (Notes On A Scandal), Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada), Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) and Rinko Kikuchi (Babel).
Best Performance By An Actor In A Supporting Role In A Motion Picture – Ben Affleck (Hollywoodland), Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls), Jack Nicholson (The Departed), Brad Pitt (Babel) and Mark Wahlberg (The Departed).
Best Director – Motion Picture – Clint Eastwood (Flags Of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima), Stephen Frears (The Queen), Alejandro Gonzalez, Iñárritu (Babel) and Martin Scorsese (The Departed).
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture – Guillermo Arriaga (Babel), Todd Field and Tom Perrotta (Little Children), Patrick Marber (Notes On A Scandal), William Monahan (The Departed) and Peter Morgan (The Queen).
Best Original Score – Motion Picture – Alexandre Desplat (The Painted Veil), Clint Mansell (The Fountain), Gustavo Santaolalla (Babel), Carlo Siliotto (Nomad) and Hans Zimmer (The Da Vinci Code).
Best Original Song – Motion Picture – “A Father’s Way” — The Pursuit Of Happyness (Music By: Seal And Christopher Bruce, Lyrics By: Seal), “Listen” — Dreamgirls (Music & Lyrics By: Henry Krieger, Anne Preven, Scott Cutler And Beyoncé Knowles), “Never Gonna Break My Faith” — Bobby (Music & Lyrics By: Bryan Adams, Eliot Kennedy And Andrea Remanda), “The Song Of The Heart” — Happy Feet (Music & Lyrics By: Prince Rogers Nelson) and “Try Not To Remember” — Home Of The Brave (Music & Lyrics By: Sheryl Crow).
Best Television Series – Drama – 24 (Fox), Big Love (HBO), Grey’s Anatomy (ABC), Heroes (NBC) and Lost (ABC).
Best Performance By An Actress In A Television Series – Drama – Patricia Arquette (Medium), Edie Falco (The Sopranos), Evangeline Lilly (Lost), Ellen Pompeo (Grey’s Anatomy) and Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer).
Best Performance By An Actor In A Television Series – Drama – Patrick Dempsey (Grey’s Anatomy), Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Hugh Laurie (House), Bill Paxton (Big Love) and Kiefer Sutherland (24).
Best Television Series – Comedy Or Musical – Desperate Housewives (ABC), Entourage (HBO), The Office (NBC), Ugly Betty (ABC) and Weeds (Showtime).
Best Performance By An Actress In A Television Series –Comedy Or Musical – Marcia Cross (Desperate Housewives), America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (The New Adventures Of Old Christine), Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds).
Best Performance By An Actor In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical – Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Zach Braff (Scrubs), Steve Carrell (The Office), Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl), Tony Shalhoub (Monk).
Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made For Television – Bleak House (PBS), Broken Trail (AMC), Elizabeth I (HBO), Mrs. Harris (HBO), Prime Suspect: The Final Act (PBS).
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 and 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).
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