Best Motion Picture
Drama
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
Up in the Air

Musical or comedy
(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover
It's Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine

Best Performance - Drama
Actor
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
George Clooney - Up in the Air
Colin Firth - A Single Man
Morgan Freeman - Invictus
Tobey Maguire - Brothers

Actress
Emily Blunt - The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
Helen Mirren - The Last Station
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious

Best Performance - Musical or Comedy
Actor
Matt Damon - The Informant!
Daniel Day-Lewis - Nine
Robert Downey, Jr. - Sherlock Holmes
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - (500) Days of Summer
Michael Stuhlbarg - A Serious Man

Actress
Sandra Bullock - The Proposal
Marion Cotillard - Nine
Julia Roberts - Duplicity
Meryl Streep - It's Complicated
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Performance
Actor
Matt Damon - Invictus
Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
Christopher Plummer - The Last Station
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

Actress
Penelope Cruz - Nine
Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
Mo'Nique - Precious
Julianne Moore - A Single Man

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
James Cameron - Avatar
Clint Eastwood - Invictus
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

Best Screenplay
District 9
The Hurt Locker
It's Complicated
Inglourious Basterds
Up in the Air

Best Original Score
Up
The Informant!
Avatar
A Single Man
Where the Wild Things Are

Best Original Song
"Cinema Italiano" - Nine
"(I Want To) Come Home" - Everybody's Fine
"I See You" - Avatar
"The Weary Kind" - Crazy Heart
"Winter" - Brothers

Best Animated Feature Film
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
Up

Best Foreign Language Film
Baarìa - La porta del vento • Italy
Broken Embraces • Spain
The Maid • Chile
A Prophet • France
The White Ribbon • Germany

Best Television Series - Drama
Big Love
Dexter
House
Mad Men
True Blood

Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy
30 Rock
Entourage
Glee
Modern Family
The Office

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama
Simon Baker - The Mentalist
Michael C. Hall - Dexter
Jon Hamm - Mad Men
Hugh Laurie - House
Bill Paxton - Big Love

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama
Glenn Close - Damages
January Jones - Mad Men
Julianna Margulies - The Good Wife
Anna Paquin - True Blood
Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy Best
Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
Steve Carell - The Office
David Duchovny - Californication
Thomas Jane - Hung
Matthew Morrison - Glee

Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Toni Collette - United States of Tara
Courtney Cox - Cougar Town
Edie Falco - Nurse Jackie
Tina Fey - 30 Rock
Lea Michele - Glee

Best Mini-Series or TV Film
Georgia O'Keeffe
Grey Gardens
Into the Storm
Little Dorrit
Taking Chance

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or TV Film
Kevin Bacon - Taking Chance
Kenneth Branagh - Wallander: One Step Behind
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Endgame
Brendan Gleeson - Into the Storm
Jeremy Irons - Georgia O'Keeffe

Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Film
Joan Allen - Georgia O'Keeffe
Drew Barrymore - Grey Gardens
Jessica Lange - Grey Gardens
Anna Paquin - The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
Sigourney Weaver - Prayers for Bobby

Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Film
Michael Emerson - Lost
Neil Patrick Harris - How I Met Your Mother
William Hurt - Damages
John Lithgow - Dexter
Jeremy Piven - Entourage

Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Film
Jane Adams - Hung
Rose Byrne - Damages
Jane Lynch - Glee
Janet McTeer - Into the Storm
Chloë Sevigny - Big Love
[Edited 12/15/09 15:50pm]

How are so many movies that aren't released or recently released nominated???

for real.

sherlock holmes
avatar
nine
it's complicated

DesireeNevermind said:

What kinda crooked ass shit is THIS???

SCNDLS said:

The Press sees the movies long before the General Public does.

sticky

I'm so behind this year.

Paris9748430 said:

I know that but I'd still think there's a release cut off before the nominations of who's eligible like the Grammys and Oscars.

August is the cutoff for the Grammys and they just announced nominees a few weeks ago. For the Oscars, December 31st is the cutoff and nominees are usually announced at the end of January or in February.

To nominate something before it's even released is just wrong IMO.

SCNDLS said:

Is it really that big a deal?

All the movies are coming out by the end of the year anyway.

Paris9748430 said:

I'm not saying it's a big deal but it does seem assbackwards and I can't recall the last time so many nominated movies weren't even released yet. It's definitely odd IMO.

This article is old but interesting

Today the nominees for the 2006 Golden Globe Awards are announced.

Yeah, the easiest thing to say about award shows is that they are glorified fashion displays masquerading as boring, pompous escapes of endless self-flagellation. There's nothing wrong with this. In exchange, the rest of us get a refreshing alternative to watching, say, the fruits (no pun intended) of their labor.

What we need to talk about though is who on EARTH got the idea that the Golden Globes are a "major" forecaster for both the Academy Award nominees and winners? Every darn winter I have to read endless mainstream press lineage that tosses in this line like gospel. Honestly, this point is about as factually accurate as "guns kill people" (attention: the trigger doesn't pull itself. I realize this fact would leave do-gooders like Michael Moore with a lot less to complain about but that's just the way it is...)

The Golden Globes are nothing but a glorified PR machine. The nominees and winners are all determined by this thing called the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. While this sounds like some kind of international consortium of critics and entertainment figures, nothing is farther from the truth. The membership is comprised of "international" writers – yes, writers – who reside full-time in Southern California (Residency in La-La Land is actually a requirement for both being and remaining a member.) Practically none of the members actually write in the area of film criticism and none actually work in any of the industry trades. In fact, few even see movies at all (outside of "press junkets" paid for by the studios whereby you get to spend 2-5 minutes interviewing cast members, but you certainly don't get to see the actual movie.)
So how do they nominate? Pretty simple. They read press hype. If you look throughout the history of the nominations, the bulk of the films nominated are commercially released after U.S. Thanksgiving. In fact, some of those films aren't even released until after they are nominated because the nomination deadline is well prior to the Christmas film season. Don't believe it? Let's see how many virtually unreleased nominations are flogged this time around ie, "King Kong" and "Munich" – ironic since "King Kong" has had only one preview screening in New York after the nomination deadline and the only people (studio included) who have seen "Munich" are Steven Spielberg and, maybe, his mother.

In fact, in the category of "Best Picture", the HFPA is about as predictive as I am on the outcome of Namibian horse races (if Namibia even has a track.) That's a pretty stupendous feat considering the Golden Globes actually sub-categorize the acting and film categories into two (drama and comedy or musical.) Just last year, the two awards were bestowed on "The Aviator" and "Sideways" (the Oscar went to "Million Dollar Baby".)

Do you want to know the Golden Globe nominees? Don't waste your time waiting for the broadcast. Gather the press clippings of the last six weeks and highlight the most prevalent names in yellow. The only exception is if some "A-lister" that the HFPA wants to salivate over in the pre-show dinner had a studio dumb enough to spring his/her picture in, like, June (in case you're wondering why Renee Zelwegger will squeeze in for "Cinderella Man" or Cameron Diaz pops up for "In Her Shoes" even though her performance and the film itself didn't meet anywhere near the hype and expectations that preceded it.) So you just damn well know that Renee, Cameron, and Reese Witherspoon are locks in a category where they can join such famous past winners as Pia Zadora (no kidding.)

There's nothing wrong with a glorified party passing itself off as entertainment. But the Golden Globes is less a party, and more of a big, expensive, glossy Hollywood brochure. While the name sounds internationally prestigious, they should just be honest and give it the name it deserves. Something like "the Annual Film Suck ‘n Blow Fest" sounds about right...

SCNDLS said:

A lot of these movies that aren't out yet will be either by this week, or Christmas.

TA-DA!!!

Paris9748430 said:

Again, I know that.

Why do you have a problem with me expressing MY opinion on this matter??? I've stated several times "I think" or IMO, so what's your deal?
[Edited 12/15/09 18:42pm]

SCNDLS said:

[snip - CarrieMpls]

Paris9748430 said:

[snip - CarrieMpls]

Golden Globes is a scam anyway...just like the Oscars....bunch of folks voting for their friends. I don't think it's about real talent so much as who's got the IN this year.

SCNDLS said:

well I'm glad that Mo'nique is nominated! Even though I haven't seen the movie yet. I have been slacking this year something terrible.

I hope District 9 wins best screenplay. But of course it won't.

BklynBabe said:

Even tho, Monique makes my ass hurt, I'll be rooting for her. I haven't seen Precious yet tho. I'ma wait til it comes on cable so I can have my breakdown in private

SCNDLS said:

Right??

how and why is this a sticky?

GLEE!

japanrocks said:

Threads are made sticky when a mod wants a thread to be noticed. Sometimes it’s cause we’re highlighting a particularly good or newsworthy thread (like adoption announcements awww! ) and sometimes it’s because something prominent in the news happened and we want to point out there’s already a thread on the subject that’s easy to find (like when celebrities die).

The Golden Globes generally fit into the above criteria. We’ve stickied them in the past, as well as threads for the Oscars.