Movie nominations: Gone fishin'
| 1 | Lincoln | 7 noms |
| 2 | Argo | 5 noms |
| Django Unchained | 5 noms |
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominees for the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Thursday morning, and Quentin Tarantino's upcoming western Django Unchained was one of the morning's biggest winners, receiving its first big boost of the awards season so far with five total nominations.
Lincoln—certainly one of the favorites for both the Golden Globes and the Oscars heading into the morning—cemented its frontrunner status by leading all films with seven nominations. Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, a film that has been collecting awards at a rapid pace over the past few weeks, hauled in another four nominations from the HFPA, while Argo, Silver Linings Playbook, Life of Pi, and Les Miserables also boosted their Oscar hopes with strong showings, including best picture nominations.
Of course, it wouldn't be the Golden Globe nominations without some head-scratching selections. HFPA members are apparently the only moviegoers to see Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (box office gross: $9 million), awarding the under-the-radar spring dramedy three nominations, including best picture. That ups the film's total nominations haul this awards season to ... well, three. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel also snuck into the best picture (comedy or musical) race, while that film's star, Maggie Smith, earned two total nominations on the morning—though neither one, oddly enough, was for that film. Nicole Kidman's nomination for the oft-ridiculed The Paperboy is also a bit surprising, though it is not without precedent; she received a SAG Award nomination for the same role yesterday. (Kidman, like Smith, received two Golden Globe nominations today, one each for TV and film.)
Who was left out? Les Miserables director Tom Hooper, for one. The Master earned three acting nominations, but none for best picture or for director Paul Thomas Anderson. Indie buzz film Beasts of the Southern Wild was completely (and unexpectedly) shut out, while crowd-pleasers such as The Dark Knight Rises and Skyfall also couldn't crack the major categories. The latter did manage one nomination in the song category, while one-time awards hopeful Anna Karenina also was held to just one music nomination (for its score). Finally, the critically acclaimed drama Amour failed to earn any nominations outside of the foreign film category.
The full list of film nominations is below.
| Best Drama | Metascore | Best Comedy or Musical | Metascore | |
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| Argo | 86 | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | 62 | |
| Django Unchained | 79* | Les Miserables | 56* | |
| Life of Pi | 78 | Moonrise Kingdom | 84 | |
| Lincoln | 86 | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | 58 | |
| Zero Dark Thirty | 98* | Silver Linings Playbook | 81 |
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TV nominations: Mad Men is no Smash with HFPA voters
| 1 | Game Change (HBO) | 5 noms |
| 2 | Homeland (Showtime) | 4 noms |
| 3 | Downton Abbey (PBS) | 3 noms |
| The Girl (HBO) | 3 noms | |
| Modern Family (HBO) | 3 noms |
In television, while last year's best series winners Homeland and Modern Family received multiple nominations again this year, it was the HBO movie Game Change that received the most nominations, with five. But the HFPA also managed to spread the bulk of this year's nominations across numerous shows, including a few newcomers. In fact, the first-year series produced some of the bigger surprises of the morning.
While HBO's Girls was expected to earn a best comedy/musical nod (which it did, along with another for star Lena Dunham), NBC's musical Smash was the unexpected name in the same category; pundits had predicted that if any first-year musical were to earn a nomination, it would have been ABC's Nashville. (The latter did pick up a couple of acting nominations, however.) On the drama side, HBO's underwhelming newcomer The Newsroom somehow earned one of the five best drama nominations, taking a spot that was expected to belong to Emmy winner Mad Men, and also edging out such shows as American Horror Story and Game of Thrones (both were nominees here last year).
The full list of TV nominations is below.
| Best TV Drama Nominees | Best TV Comedy or Musical Nominees | |
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| Breaking Bad (AMC) | The Big Bang Theory (CBS) | |
| Boardwalk Empire (HBO) | Episodes (Showtime) | |
| Downton Abbey (PBS) | Girls (HBO) | |
| Homeland (Showtime) | Modern Family (ABC) | |
| The Newsroom (HBO) | Smash (NBC) |
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More to come
The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony will be broadcast live on NBC on January 13, 2013 at 8p ET/5p PT, with competing best actress (TV comedy) nominees Tina Fey and Amy Poehler sharing hosting duties for the first time.
Don't forget to keep up with all of this year's film awards and nominations with our 2012 Film Awards Scorecard.
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