Steven Spielberg's historical motion picture
Lincoln, about the American president's final days in office, and the
the musical epic Les Miserables, set in the French Revolution, led
the Golden Globe nominations announced Thursday by the Hollywood
Foreign Press Association in Los Angeles.
Lincoln was nominated in the category Best Picture Drama along
with Argo, Django Unchained, Life of Pi and Zero Dark Thirty.
Lincoln received nominations in three other categories: best
director, best actor, best supporting actress, best screenplay and
best original score. The political thriller Argo also received a
total of four nominations in the categories best movie, best
director, best screenplay and best score.
Les Miserables was nominated in the Best Picture Comedy or Musical
category along with Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom,
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Silver Linings Playbook. Les
Miserables also was nominated in the best actor in a musical or
comedy category.
The nominees for best director are Ben Affleck for Argo, Kathryn
Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty, Ang Li for Life of Pi, Steven Spielberg
for Lincoln and Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained.
In the best actor category the association chose performances by
Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln, Richard Gere in Arbitrage, John Hawkes
in The Sessions, Joaquin Phoenix in The Master and Denzel Washington
in Flight for the award.
Best actress nominees go to Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty,
Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone, Helen Mirren in Hitchcock, Naomi
Watts in The Impossible and Rachel Weisz in The Deep Blue Sea.
The best actor nominees in a comedy or musical are Jack Black in
Bernie, Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook, Hugh Jackman in
Les Miserables, Ewan McGregor in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Bill
Murray in Hyde Park on Hudson.
The nominees for best actress in a comedy or musical are Emily
Blunt in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Judy Dench in Best Exotic
Marigold Hotel, Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook, Maggie
Smith in Quartet and Meryl Streep in Hope Springs.
The best foreign language film nominees are Amour, A Royal Affair,
The Intouchables, Kon-Tiki and Rust and Bone.
Similar to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which
awards the Oscars, the association also nominates five actors and
actresses for their supporting roles, five screenplays, five animated
films, five scores and five songs.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association differs from the Academy
Awards in that it also recognizes television productions, presenting
Golden Globe awards in the categories best TV drama, best actor and
best actress in a TV drama, best TV comedy or musical and best actor
and best actress in a TV comedy or musical.
The nominations are made by a group of about 80 mostly freelance
writers who belong to the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. They
came a day after nominees for Screen Actors Guild Awards were
unveiled.
The Golden Globes have become the second most important
recognition in Hollywood after the Oscars. The award itself is a
golden statue in the shape of a globe.
The January 13 Golden Globe ceremony will be the 70th edition of
the gala event and will be hosted by comedians Amy Poehler and Tina
Fey.
