Amph 2013 Golden Globe nominations

Nominees for the 70th annual Golden Globes

See this year's nominees in every major category
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Moonrise Kindgom
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Silver Linings Playbook
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
Helen Mirren, Hitchcock
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Richard Gere, Arbitrage
John Hawkes, The Sessions
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Emily Blunt, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Judi Dench, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Maggie Smith, Quartet
Meryl Streep, Hope Springs
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Jack Black, Bernie
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Ewan McGregor, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Bill Murray, Hyde Park on Hudson
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Alan Arkin, Argo
Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Best Director
Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Best Screenplay
Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
Tony Kushner, Lincoln
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Chris Terrio, Argo
Best Animated Film
Brave
Rise of the Guardians
Frankenweenie
Wreck-It Ralph
Hotel Transylvania
Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Anna Karenina
Life of Pi
Argo
Lincoln
Cloud Atlas
Best Original Song - Motion Picture
"For You," Act of Valor, Music by: Monty Powell, Keith Urban, Lyrics by: Monty Powell, Keith Urban
"Not Running Anymore," Stand Up Guys, Music by: Jon Bon Jovi, Lyrics by: Jon Bon Jovi
"Safe & Sound," The Hunger Games, Music by: Taylor Swift, John Paul White, Joy Williams, T Bone Burnett, Lyrics by: Taylor Swift, John Paul White, Joy Williams, T Bone Burnett
"Skyfall," Skyfall, Music by: Adele, Paul Epworth, Lyrics by: Adele, Paul Epworth
"Suddenly," Les Miserables, Music by: Claude-Michel Schonberg, Lyrics by: Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg
Best Foreign Language Film
Amour
A Royal Affair
The Intouchables
Kon-Tiki
Rust and Bone
Best Television Series - Drama
Breaking Bad
Boardwalk Empire
Downton Abbey
Homeland
The Newsroom
Best Television Series - Comedy or Musical
The Big Bang Theory
Episodes
Girls
Modern Family
Smash
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Damien Lewis, Homeland
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama
Connie Britton, Nashville
Glenn Close, Damages
Claire Danes, Homeland
Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey


*commence with the complaints. I can already see several things wrong with this list (no Walking Dead or Doctor Who? Come on, man!)
Julianna Marguiles, The Good Wife
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Louis C.K., Louie
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical
Zooey Deschanel, New Girl
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Lena Dunham, Girls
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Television Movie, Series or Mini-Series
Max Greenfield, New Girl
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family
Ed Harris, Game Change
Danny Huston, Magic City
Mandy Patinkin, Homeland
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Television Movie, Series or Mini-Series
Hayden Panettiere, Nashville
Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife
Sarah Paulson, American Horror Story: Asylum
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family
Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Game Change
The Girl
Hatfields & McCoys
The Hour
Political Animals
Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock
Woody Harrelson, Game Change
Toby Jones, The Girl
Clive Owen, Hemingway & Gellhorn
Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Nicole Kidman, Hemingway & Gellhorn
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Asylum
Sienna Miller, The Girl
Julianne Moore, Game Change
Sigourney Weaver, Political Animals

 

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen? Really?

Should have gone to Mad Men.

 

The Impossible isn't even released yet, is it? There's been talk of Ewan McGregor garnering a lot of nominations for his role and I see Naomi Watts was nommed, but he wasn't.

 

Nor are half the movies that are nominated, but then again the Hollywood Foreign Press is different from the Academy Awards.

 

I saw the repeated Salmon Fishing in the Yemen nominations and immediately visualized the nominators realizing that they only know four comedies that came out this year, and frantically flipping through IMDB to find something vaguely credible.

 

The nominations aren't as wholly awful as they sometimes are, but the Golden Globes are still a joke.

 

Arrrrgh. I have issues with many of the choices that HBO made with Season 2 of Game of Thrones, but Alfie Allen deserves some sort of recognition for his portrayal of Theon.

 

Welp, I guess The Hobbit really does suck.

 

Nah, it's just me using my lofty political-entertainment influence to ensure it never wins anything ever.

 

I figured there was a chance it wouldn't as soon as it turned into a trilogy. Hollyweird only likes to reward multi - arc film series at the conclusion of them, which in the Hobbit's case will probably be sometime in 2014 after the third film is released.

 

Well, I guess it's time for the Hollywood Foreign Press to try and make itself feel it important again.

 

The Hollywood Foreign Press is never better than when Ricky Gervaise is taking the piss out of it.

 

But not this year. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have a tough act to follow.

 

Best Picture (Drama) is going to boil down to Argo Vs. Lincoln.

Life of Pi doesn't have enough clout.

They were never going to seriously consider Django Unchained.

Zero Dark Thirty has three things going against it: 1) The controversy over whether the film is pro or anti torture. 2) Most of the people who have seen it say the film is located firmly in the grey end of the morality scale without pat or easy answers. 3) Several reviews have described the film as clinical or detached without much in the way of obvious "emotional" moments. The HFPA won't like that.

 

Plus it doesn't star Hollywood SUPERSTARS that they want to buddy up with.

 

Downton Abbey for Best TV Series - Drama
Michelle Dockery for Best Actress in TV Series - Drama
Maggie Smith for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Television Movie, Series or Mini-Series
Benedict Cumberbatch for Best Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television

I don't really care about the others.