With there being so many critics' group awards now, and their winners announced at a pretty steady clip from December all the way through the Academy Awards, the impact of something like the Golden Globes is considerably less than it used to be. Always one of the more interesting televised broadcasts, due to its outsider nature and the fact that most of the celebrities use it as the place where they drunkenly practice their Oscar speeches, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association have just announced the nominees for the 70th annual Golden Globes, and there are more than a few surprises.
Zero Dark Thirty continued its impressive run, scoring four nominations including Best Picture-Drama, Best Director, and Best Actress-Drama for Jessica Chastain. Rachel Weisz scored a nomination for Best Actress for Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea, while Richard Gere was a thrown a bone in the Best Actor category for his underrated turn in Arbitrage. Lincoln led all with seven total nominations, while Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained scored five, including two for Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio in the Best Supporting Actor group. With the wind of the BFCA nominations at its back, Richard Linklater's Bernie picked up one more for Jack Black in the Best Actor-Comedy category. But most surprising was the solid showing of the mostly forgotten rom-com, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, which received nominations for Best Picture and for stars Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor.
The Golden Globe winners will be announced on January 13th 2013. See the full list of nominees below....
Best Picture - Drama
"Argo"
"Django Unchained"
"Life Of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
Best Picture - Comedy/Musical
"Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"
"Les Miserables"
"Moonrise Kingdom"
"Salmon Fishing In The Yemen"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Director
Ben Affleck - "Argo"
Quentin Tarantino - "Django Unchained"
Ang Lee - "Life Of Pi"
Steven Spielberg - "Lincoln"
Kathryn Bigelow - "Zero Dark Thirty"
Best Actress - Drama
Rachel Weisz - "The Deep Blue Sea"
Helen Mirren - "Hitchcock"
Naomi Watts - "The Impossible"
Marion Cotillard - "Rust And Bone"
Jessica Chastain - "Zero Dark Thirty"
Best Actor - Drama
Richard Gere - "Arbitrage"
Denzel Washington - "Flight"
Daniel Day-Lewis - "Lincoln"
Joaquin Phoenix - "The Master"
John Hawkes - "The Sessions"
Best Actress - Comedy/Musical
Judi Dench - "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"
Meryl Streep - "Hope Springs"
Maggie Smith - "Quartet"
Emily Blunt - "Salmon Fishing In The Yemen"
Jennifer Lawrence - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Actor - Comedy/Musical
Jack Black - "Bernie"
Bill Murray - "Hyde Park On Hudson"
Hugh Jackman - "Les Miserables"
Ewan McGregor - Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
Bradley Cooper - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Best Supporting Actress
Anne Hathaway - "Les Miserables"
Sally Field - "Lincoln"
Amy Adams - "The Master"
Nicole Kidman - "The Paperboy"
Helen Hunt - "The Sessions"
Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin - "Argo"
Christoph Waltz - "Django Unchained"
Leonardo DiCaprio - "Django Unchained"
Tommy Lee Jones - "Lincoln"
Philip Seymour Hoffman - "The Master"
Best Screenplay
Chris Terrio - "Argo"
Quentin Tarantino - "Django Unchained"
Tony Kushner - "Lincoln"
David O Russell - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Mark Boal - "Zero Dark Thirty"
Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat - "Argo"
Dario Marianeli - "Anna Karenina"
Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil - "Cloud Atlas"
Mychael Danna - "Life Of Pi"
John Williams - "Lincoln"
Best Original Song
Keith Urban - "For You" ("Act Of Valor")
Taylor Swift - "Safe & Sound" ("The Hunger Games")
Hugh Jackman - "Suddenly" ("Les Miserables")
Adele - "Skyfall" ("Skyfall")
Jon Bon Jovi - "Not Running Anymore" - ("Stand Up Guys")
Best Animated Feature Film
"Brave"
"Frankenweenie"
"Hotel Transylvania"
"Rise Of The Guardians"
"Wreck-It Ralph"
Best Foreign Film
"Amour"
"The Intouchables"
"Kon-Tiki"
"A Royal Affair"
"Rust & Bone"
