Golden Globes nominations

[ne1410s]

Globes scorecard
Complete list of nominees for the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards
The EnvelopeDecember 13, 2007
MOTION PICTURE CATEGORIES


BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
"American Gangster"
"Atonement"
"Eastern Promises"
"The Great Debaters"
"Michael Clayton"
"No Country for Old Men"
"There Will Be Blood"

BEST MOTION PICTURE, MUSICAL OR COMEDY
"Across the Universe"
"Charlie Wilson's War"
"Hairspray"
"Juno"
"Sweeney Todd"

FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURE
"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" (Romania)
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (France/USA)
"The Kite Runner" (USA)
"Lust, Caution" (Taiwan)
"Persepolis" (France)

BEST DIRECTOR
Tim Burton, "Sweeney Todd"
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"
Julian Schnabel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Ridley Scott, "American Gangster"
Joe Wright, "Atonement"

BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR
George Clooney, "Michael Clayton"
Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"
James McAvoy, "Atonement"
Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern Promises"
Denzel Washington, "American Gangster"

BEST DRAMATIC ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Julie Christie, "Away From Her"
Jodie Foster, "The Brave One"
Angelina Jolie, "A Mighty Heart"
Keira Knightley, "Atonement"

BEST ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Johnny Depp, "Sweeney Todd"
Tom Hanks, "Charlie Wilson's War"
Ryan Gosling, "Lars and the Real Girl"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Savages"
John C. Reilly, "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story"

BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Amy Adams, "Enchanted"
Nikki Blonsky, "Hairspray"
Helena Bonham Carter, "Sweeney Todd"
Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose"
Ellen Page, "Juno"

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Casey Affleck, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Charlie Wilson's War"
John Travolta, "Hairspray"
Tom Wilkinson, "Michael Clayton"

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"
Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement"
Julia Roberts, "Charlie Wilson's War"
Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"
Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton"

ANIMATED FILM
"Bee Movie"
"Ratatouille"
"The Simpsons Movie"

SCREENPLAY
Diablo Cody, "Juno"
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"
Christopher Hampton, "Atonement"
Ronald Harwood, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Aaron Sorkin, "Charlie Wilson's War"

ORIGINAL SCORE
Dario Marianelli, "Atonement"
Howard Shore, "Eastern Promises"
Clint Eastwood, "Grace Is Gone"
Michael Brook, Kaki King, Eddie Vedder, "Into the Wild"
Alberto Iglesias, "The Kite Runner"

SONG
"Despedida" from "Love in the Time of Cholera"
"Grace Is Gone" from "Grace Is Gone"
"Guaranteed" from "Into the Wild"
"That's How You Know" from "Enchanted"
"Walk Hard" from "Walk Hard"


TELEVISION CATEGORIES

DRAMATIC TV SERIES
"Big Love"
"Damages"
"Grey's Anatomy"
"House"
"Mad Men"
"The Tudors"

BEST ACTOR, TV DRAMA
Michael C. Hall, "Dexter"
John Hamm, "Mad Men"
Hugh Laurie, "House"
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, "The Tudors"
Bill Paxton, "Big Love"

BEST ACTRESS, TV DRAMA
Patricia Arquette, "Medium"
Glenn Close, "Damages"
Minnie Driver, "The Riches"
Edie Falco, "The Sopranos"
Sally Field, "Brothers and Sisters"
Holly Hunter, "Saving Grace"
Kyra Sedgwick, "The Closer"

TV SERIES, MUSICAL OR COMEDY
"Californication"
"Entourage"
"Extras"
"30 Rock"
"Pushing Daisies"

BEST ACTOR, TV MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock"
Steve Carell, "The Office"
David Duchovny, "Californication"
Ricky Gervais, "Extras"
Lee Pace, "Pushing Daisies"

BEST ACTRESS, TV MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Christina Applegate, "Samantha Who?"
America Ferrera, "Ugly Betty"
Tina Fey, "30 Rock"
Anna Friel, "Pushing Daisies"
Mary-Louise Parker, "Weeds"

BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"
"The Company"
"5 Days"
"The State Within"
"Longford"

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Bryce Dallas Howard, "As You Like It"
Debra Messing, "The Starter Wife"
Queen Latifah, "Life Support"
Sissy Spacek, "Pictures of Hollis Woods"
Ruth Wilson, "Jane Eyre"

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Adam Beach, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"
Ernest Borgnine, "A Grandpa for Christmas"
Jim Broadbent, "Longford"
James Isaacs, "The State Within"
James Nesbitt, "Jekyll"

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Rose Byrne, "Damages"
Rachel Griffiths, "Brothers and Sisters"
Katherine Heigl, "Grey's Anatomy"
Samantha Morton, "Longford"
Anna Paquin, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee "
Jaime Pressly, "My Name Is Earl"

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Ted Danson, "Damages"
Kevin Dillon, "Entourage"
Jeremy Piven, "Entourage"
Andy Serkis, "Longford"
William Shatner, "Boston Legal"
Donald Sutherland, "Dirty Sexy Money"

CECIL B. DEMILLE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Steven Spielberg

[peacock2121]

I have to get out more.

I have also never seen some of those TV shows.

[earendel]

I have to get out more.

I have also never seen some of those TV shows.

Many of the movies haven't made it to the "heartland of America' yet (Sweeney Todd comes to mind) - they get a limited release so they're eligible for the various awards.

As to the TV shows, some of them are on cable channels that I don't get, others are ones that didn't particularly hold any interest. And some I have never heard about.

[ne1410s]

"The Pictures of Hollis Woods" was terrific. Sissy Spacek was fabu. And the girl who played "Hollis" held her own against some big guns. YMMV

[tanstaafl2]

Haven't been to a movie in a couple of years probably and none of these have made it to PPV or DVD yet so I haven't seen any of these.

On this entire list of TV shows the only show I have watched regularly is "Pushing Daisies".

We apparently have different tastes.

Not that mine is particularly good. Kid Nation proved that...

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

I am glad that Pushing Daisies and The Tudors were nominated.
I would have liked to see Friday Night Lights on the list. I feel like it's always in danger of being cancelled. It's a good show (and the actor that plays Tim Riggins is really hot).

[KillerTomato]

Based solely on buzz (since I haven't seen many of these movies yet, and some (like the aforementioned "Sweeney Todd") haven't even OPENED yet), here are some very very very early predictions:

BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
"American Gangster"
"Atonement"
"Eastern Promises"
"The Great Debaters"
"Michael Clayton"
"No Country for Old Men"
"There Will Be Blood"

I'm betting for either "No Country" or "There Will Be Blood".

BEST MOTION PICTURE, MUSICAL OR COMEDY
"Across the Universe"
"Charlie Wilson's War"
"Hairspray"
"Juno"
"Sweeney Todd"

If "Sweeney" is half as good as it looks, it's a lock.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURE
"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" (Romania)
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (France/USA)
"The Kite Runner" (USA)
"Lust, Caution" (Taiwan)
"Persepolis" (France)

Probably "Persepolis".

BEST DIRECTOR
Tim Burton, "Sweeney Todd"
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"
Julian Schnabel, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Ridley Scott, "American Gangster"
Joe Wright, "Atonement"

The Coens deserve a win. I love their stuff. But don't count Burton out (see above)

BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR
George Clooney, "Michael Clayton"
Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood"
James McAvoy, "Atonement"
Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern Promises"
Denzel Washington, "American Gangster"

The Globes love Clooney.

BEST DRAMATIC ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Julie Christie, "Away From Her"
Jodie Foster, "The Brave One"
Angelina Jolie, "A Mighty Heart"
Keira Knightley, "Atonement"

Rumor has it you can engrave Julie Christie's name on both the Globe and the Oscar already.

BEST ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Johnny Depp, "Sweeney Todd"
Tom Hanks, "Charlie Wilson's War"
Ryan Gosling, "Lars and the Real Girl"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Savages"
John C. Reilly, "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story"

Depp (although they may give an Annual Achievement Award to Hoffman.

BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Amy Adams, "Enchanted"
Nikki Blonsky, "Hairspray"
Helena Bonham Carter, "Sweeney Todd"
Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose"
Ellen Page, "Juno"

Buzz is that this one will go to Cotillard, but Page could be a spoiler.


SUPPORTING ACTOR
Casey Affleck, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford"
Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Charlie Wilson's War"
John Travolta, "Hairspray"
Tom Wilkinson, "Michael Clayton"

Rumor again that Bardem is a shoo-in for the Globe and Oscar.

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There"
Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement"
Julia Roberts, "Charlie Wilson's War"
Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"
Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton"

Blanchett as Dylan...gotta be award-worthy.

ANIMATED FILM
"Bee Movie"
"Ratatouille"
"The Simpsons Movie"

Personally, I'd go with "Ratatouille".


SCREENPLAY
Diablo Cody, "Juno"
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men"
Christopher Hampton, "Atonement"
Ronald Harwood, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Aaron Sorkin, "Charlie Wilson's War"

The Coens again, although screenplay awards usually go to the more obscure, smaller pictures, so it might be Harwood's.


ORIGINAL SCORE
Dario Marianelli, "Atonement"
Howard Shore, "Eastern Promises"
Clint Eastwood, "Grace Is Gone"
Michael Brook, Kaki King, Eddie Vedder, "Into the Wild"
Alberto Iglesias, "The Kite Runner"

Judging solely by the soundtrack, I'm guessing "Into the Wild".

SONG
"Despedida" from "Love in the Time of Cholera"
"Grace Is Gone" from "Grace Is Gone"
"Guaranteed" from "Into the Wild"
"That's How You Know" from "Enchanted"
"Walk Hard" from "Walk Hard"

Ditto for "Guaranteed".

I have very little in the way of a prediction for the TV awards, other than to say that Jeremy Piven should win every year for as long as "Entourage" is on the air.

[TheConfessor]

Based solely on buzz (since I haven't seen many of these movies yet, and some (like the aforementioned "Sweeney Todd") haven't even OPENED yet), here are some very very very early predictions:

How do they nominate stuff that hasn't even opened? The process sounds rigged to me.

[KillerTomato]

Based solely on buzz (since I haven't seen many of these movies yet, and some (like the aforementioned "Sweeney Todd") haven't even OPENED yet), here are some very very very early predictions:

How do they nominate stuff that hasn't even opened? The process sounds rigged to me.

Well, it IS just the Hollywood Foreign Press, who once gave "Best Newcomer" to Piz Zadora.

Basically, just because the public hasn't seen a movie doesn't mean the critics haven't. The LA Critics and NY Critics have both already given their awards, for instance.

Like the presidential primaries, it's all about timing. Since the Oscars moved up their broadcast, the HFPA moved up the Globes. And to give the members time to vote, they have to have the nominations out before the end of the year. Since the studios don't roll out the serious Oscar contenders until the last couple of weeks of the year, there are some (like "Sweeney," "Walk Hard," and "There Will Be Blood") that haven't opened yet. And others that have opened in NY and LA that haven't gotten to the flyover yet.

[silverscreenselect]

Based solely on buzz (since I haven't seen many of these movies yet, and some (like the aforementioned "Sweeney Todd") haven't even OPENED yet), here are some very very very early predictions:

How do they nominate stuff that hasn't even opened? The process sounds rigged to me.

At this time of year, the critics have seen all the films that are likely to get end-of-the-year awards like Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood, Charlie Wilson's War and Juno. They are usually asked by the studios to avoid giving out reviews of the films until they premiere. In recent years, a number of critics have been dropping bigger and bigger "hints" about what they think about these movies, usually in online columns. Already this year about a half dozen reputable critc's groups have given out end-of-year awards.

Sweeney Todd will be opening wide on Christmas. Juno has already opened in a couple of cities and will probably hit most major cities (in arthouse theaters) by the end of the year. There Will Be Blood will premiere in New York and LA Christmas week to qualify for the Oscars, then roll out gradually in January.

The Globes are somewhat of a joke as far as serious awards are concerned. The Hollywood Foreign Press is a group of about 100 so-called journalists, many of whom are glorified stringers for European publications. Their awards show is a big diner party with lots of booze flowing, and they often nominate people just to get photogenic faces to display, which explains why John Travolta was nominated and Hal Holbrook wasn't. Plus, by splitting the film and acting categories into drama and musical subcategories, they manage to get even more people into their awards show (each nominated film usually brings its own celebrity entourage). Ironically, the supporting actor, screenplay and director categories are not split up in any way, not even original vs. adapted screenplays. Somehow, they managed to nominate seven dramas this year to get twelve "best film" candidates (plus three animated movies).

Although the Globes are a bit of a joke, that won't stop films for the next month prominently playing up the number of Globe nominations they receive in their newspaper and TV ads.

Surprisingly, the inclusion of George Clooney on the nomination lists is not an attempt by the Foreign Press to suck up. He has actually won a couple of critics awards Best Actor votes this year and is probably a close runnerup to Daniel Day Lewis as Oscar favorite at this point. I really can't see that. I know he is popular in Hollywood, but Michael Clayton was nothing more than a slick liberal-minded thriller with a decent, but by no means award-worthy performance by Clooney. The best acting job in the film was by Tilda Swinton, who will probably get a Supporting Actress nomination but has no chance for the award against Cate Blanchett and a career performance by heretofore unknown Amy Ryan.

What I am looking forward to at the Awards show this year is to see how many of the winners and presenters take an opportunity to back the writers vs. the studios if the strike is still going on.

[Ritterskoop]

I saw the first hour of La Vie En Rose last night. I know there is more coming, so I can't make a final judgment. But for now, I do not agree with the over-the-top adoration for Marion Cotillard's performance.

She's very good.

But she is playing an existing person, which is a matter of getting the copying right, which I'm sure she has. But I have always been slightly less impressed when you have a template.

She does not do much of her own singing, which I understand. You can learn to sound like Johnny Cash, with enough time. This voice, no way.

She is playing a drug addict, which always impresses voters but not me. It's a turnoff, in fact. I have a lot of trouble sympathizing with this particular kind of addiction, which compensates for the pressures of fame. You can just step away from the fame.

I think it's fair to be impressed with the movie and the music and the storytelling. But I don't see her performance as nuanced or challenging. It's a big, loud, selfish person in a small body, and she's playing her that way.

I'll give her high marks for some early scenes when Piaf was not yet a star. And I won't mind if she wins stuff. I just think in what I've seen so far, she's very good but not great.

[SportsFan68]

Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern Promises"

Viggo's on all three nights this weekend with the Lord of the Rings. All the performances are wonderful, and my favorites occur in pairs -- Merry and Pippin, Legolas and Gimli, Gandalf and Saruman.

[SportsFan68]

BEST ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Savages"

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Charlie Wilson's War"

Wow! He could win two awards in the same year!

[Ritterskoop]

I just think in what I've seen so far, she's very good but not great.

I finished it. This rating stands. Grade A but not A+.

Very mild spoilers...

Spoiler

The music is compelling, of course, and Cotillard plays Piaf in several stages, from age 20 to her death, which was very young but she looked and walked four decades older. The movie's ending is particularly well done. But when you sing you have no regrets, it's hard to do any better than that.

[silverscreenselect]

I just think in what I've seen so far, she's very good but not great.

I finished it. This rating stands. Grade A but not A+.

I've always had a tough time figuring out how to judge people who portray real celebrities whose faces, voices and mannerisms are very familiar. I don't think that merely mimicking the voice is enough, or that it's even necessary. Otherwise Rich Little would have won several Oscars by now.

If Cate Blanchett plays Queen Elizabeth I, we don't judge her on how much she looks, sounds, or moves like Queen Elizabeth, because we don't know how Elizabeth moved or sounded and the paintings we have were probably very favorably painted by court painters. So should we judge her portrait of Bob Dylan the same way?

I wasn't that impressed by Blanchett's Oscar winning role as Katherine Hepburn, which I saw more as very accurate mimicking then as portraying a real person with real feelings. I felt the same way when Jon Voight played Howard Cosell.

On the other hand, I was very impressed by Jaime Foxx as Ray Charles, Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash, Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin and Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II. In all those cases, I felt you saw a real person on screen, not just a celebrity imitator. Frankly, the best performance as a celebrity I've seen in a long time was Anthony Hopkins as Nixon. He was made up to look a bit like Nixon, but he made no effort to mimick Nixon's voice at all. Still, he suggested Nixon's paranoia perfectly.

Edith Piaf is not that familiar in the US, but she is a legend in France, so portraying her in a French movie is somewhat akin to playing Elvis here. I was stunned by Cotillard's performance. I've seen Julie Christie's performance, and it was good, but not on the same level as Cotillard (who is best known here for playing Russell Crowe's girlfriend in last year's seldom seen A Good Year). It was showy, but Piaf was a showy person. The emotions seemed genuine and the difference in her physical appearance from one part of Piaf's life to another was stunning. Piaf was a woman who died before the age of 50, essentially from dissolute living.

I think that an English speaking audience has a bit of trouble judging a foreign language performance because we can't match up the words to the pace, emphasis, and facial mannerisms. When Hamlet says "to be or not to be, that is the question," it's all in the timing and the emphasis. But if we hear a sentence in a foreign language film and see a subtitled translation (which is seldom a really accurate word-for-word translation), we can't tell which words get emphasized, where the pauses are and how the gestures match the words.

If I had a vote, I'd give Cotillard the Oscar hands down. The film itself is entertaining, sad, and a bit overblown, but her performance is stunning.