Friday, December 15, 2006

Golden Globe Nominations...

This year's Golden Globe nominations were announced today. Here are the categories I'm most interested in...

Best Picture, Drama: Babel, Bobby, The Departed, Little Children, The Queen

Best Actress, Drama: Penelope Cruz, Volver ; Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal; Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sherrybaby; Helen Mirren, The Queen; Kate Winslet, Little Children

Best Actor, Drama: Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond; Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed; Peter O'Toole, Venus; Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness; Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Best Picture, Musical or Comedy: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Little Miss Sunshine, Thank You for Smoking

Best Actress, Musical or Comedy: Annette Bening, Running With Scissors; Toni Collette, Little Miss Sunshine; Beyonce Knowles, Dreamgirls; Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada; Renee Zellweger, Miss Potter

Best Actor, Musical or Comedy: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan; Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest; Aaron Eckhart, Thank You for Smoking; Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kinky Boots; Will Ferrell, Stranger than Fiction

Best Supporting Actress: Adriana Barraza, Babel; Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal; Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada; Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls; Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Best Supporting Actor: Ben Affleck, Hollywoodland; Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls; Jack Nicholson, The Departed; Brad Pitt, Babel; Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

Best Director: Clint Eastwood, Flags of Our Fathers; Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima; Steven Frears, The Queen; Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Babel; Martin Scorsese, The Departed

It's too early yet to make predictions, but there will be plenty of commentary at a later date!

Peace. Out.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm surprised to see Ben Affleck get a best supporting nod...because, if my memory serves me correctly, the movie and his performance did not get rave reviews. Interesting.

amy

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