Steven Spielberg’s Civil War epic “Lincoln” led the Golden Globes on Thursday with seven nominations, among them best drama, best director for Spielberg and acting honors for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones.
Tied for second-place with five nominations each, including best drama are Ben Affleck’s Iran hostage-crisis thriller “Argo” and Quentin Tarantino’s slave-turned-bounty-hunter tale “Django Unchained.”
Other best-drama nominees are Ang Lee’s shipwreck story “Life of Pi” and Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama bin Laden manhunt thriller “Zero Dark Thirty.”
Nominated for best musical or comedy were: the British retiree adventure “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”; the Victor Hugo musical “Les Miserables”; the first-love tale “Moonrise Kingdom”; the fishing romance “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”; and the lost-soul romance “Silver Linings Playbook.”
Globe attention can give contenders a boost for Hollywood’s top honors, the Academy Awards, whose nominations come out Jan. 10, three days before the Globe ceremony.
The directing lineup came entirely from dramatic films, with Affleck, Bigelow, Lee, Spielberg and Tarantino all in the running.
“It’s very gratifying to get this many nominations from the HFPA for a film I worked so hard on and am so passionate about. I look forward to having fun at the Golden Globes with my cast mates and fellow nominees,” Tarantino said in a statement.
Filmmakers behind best musical or comedy nominees were shut out for director, including Tom Hooper for “Les Miserables” and David O. Russell for “Silver Linings Playbook.”
Along with Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln in Spielberg’s epic, best dramatic actor contenders are Richard Gere as a deceitful Wall Streeter in “Arbitrage”; John Hawkes as a polio victim trying to lose his virginity in “The Sessions”; Joaquin Phoenix as a Navy veteran under the sway of a cult leader in “The Master”; and Denzel Washington as a boozy airline pilot in “Flight.”
Dramatic-actress nominees are Jessica Chastain as a CIA analyst hunting Osama bin Laden in “Zero Dark Thirty”; Marion Cotillard as a whale biologist beset by tragedy in “Rust and Bone”; Helen Mirren as Alfred Hitchcock’s strong-minded wife in “Hitchcock”; Naomi Watts as a woman caught up in a devastating tsunami in “The Impossible”; and Rachel Weisz as a woman ruined by an affair in “The Deep Blue Sea.”
For musical or comedy actress, the lineup is Emily Blunt as a consultant for a Mideast sheik in “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”; Judi Dench as a widow who retires overseas in “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”; Jennifer Lawrence as young widow in a new romance in “Silver Linings Playbook”; Maggie Smith as an aging singer in a retirement home in “Quartet”; and Meryl Streep as a wife trying to save her marriage in “Hope Springs.”
Nominees for musical or comedy actor are Jack Black as a solicitous mortician in “Bernie”; Bradley Cooper as a troubled man fresh out of a mental hospital in “Silver Linings Playbook”; Hugh Jackman as Hugo’s long-suffering hero Jean Valjean in “Les Miserables”; Ewan McGregor as a British fisheries expert in “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen”; and Bill Murray as Franklin Roosevelt in “Hyde Park on Hudson.”
Competing for supporting actor are Alan Arkin as a Hollywood producer helping a CIA operation in “Argo”; Leonardo DiCaprio as a cruel slave owner in “Django Unchained”; Philip Seymour Hoffman as a mesmerizing cult leader in “The Master”; Tommy Lee Jones as firebrand abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens in “Lincoln”; and Christoph Waltz as a genteel bounty hunter in “Django Unchained.”
The supporting-actress picks are Amy Adams as a cult leader’s devoted wife in “The Master”; Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln in “Lincoln”; Anne Hathaway as a mother fallen into prostitution in “Les Miserables”; Helen Hunt as a sexual surrogate in “The Sessions”; and Nicole Kidman as a trashy mistress of a Death Row inmate in “The Paperboy.”
Kidman was a dual nominee, also in the running as best actress in a TV movie or miniseries for “Hemingway & Gellhorn.” ”Quartet” star Smith also had a second nomination, for supporting actress in a TV series, miniseries or movie for “Downton Abbey.”
Snubbed completely was the low-budget critical darling “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” which won top honors at last January’s Sundance Film Festival. Also shut out was the stripper hit “Magic Mike,” which had good buzz for supporting player Matthew McConaughey, who also earned acclaim for roles in “Bernie” and “Killer Joe.”
With three nominations, “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” was a surprise, since the film had virtually no awards buzz behind it.
Globe acting winners often go on to receive the same prizes at the Oscars. All four Oscar winners last season — lead performers Streep of “The Iron Lady” and Jean Dujardin of “The Artist” and supporting players Octavia Spencer of “The Help” and Christopher Plummer of “Beginners” — won Globes first.
The Globes have a spotty record predicting which films might go on to earn the best-picture prize at the Academy Awards, however.
The Globes feature two best-film categories, one for drama and one for musical or comedy. Last year’s Oscar best-picture winner, “The Artist,” preceded that honor with a Globe win for best musical or comedy.
But in the seven years before that, only one winner in the Globe best-picture categories — 2008’s “Slumdog Millionaire” — followed up with an Oscar best-picture win.
Along with 14 film prizes, the Globes hand out awards in 11 television categories.
The nominees for best television drama series are: “Boardwalk Empire,” ”Breaking Bad,” ”Downton Abbey,” ”Homeland” and “The Newsroom.” And the nods for best TV comedy series are: “The Big Bang Theory,” ”Episodes,” ”Girls,” ”Modern Family” and “Smash.”
Jodie Foster, a two-time Oscar and Globe winner for “The Accused” and “The Silence of the Lambs,” will receive the group’s Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Jan. 13 ceremony.
There will be some friendly rivalry among the hosts at the Globe ceremony, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Both were nominated for best actress in a TV comedy, Fey for “30 Rock” and Poehler for “Parks and Recreation.”
Fey and Poehler follow Ricky Gervais, who was host the last three years and rubbed some Hollywood egos the wrong way with sharp wisecracks about A-list stars and the foreign press association itself.
With stars sharing drinks and dinner, the Globes have a reputation as one of Hollywood’s loose and unpredictable awards gatherings. Winners occasionally have been off in the restroom when their names were announced, and there have been moments of onstage spontaneity such as Jack Nicholson mooning the crowd or Ving Rhames handing over his trophy to fellow nominee Jack Lemmon.
Here’s a rundown of nominations:
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— Picture, Drama: “Argo,” ”Lincoln,” ”Life of Pi,” ”Django Unchained,” ”Zero Dark Thirty.”
— Picture, Musical or Comedy: “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” ”Les Miserables,” ”Moonrise Kingdom,” ”Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,” ”Silver Linings Playbook.”
— Actor, Drama: Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln”; Richard Gere, “Arbitrage”; John Hawkes, “The Sessions”; Joaquin Phoenix, “The Master”; Denzel Washington, “Flight.”
— Actress, Drama: Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty”; Marion Cotillard, “Rust and Bone”; Helen Mirren, “Hitchcock”; Naomi Watts, “The Impossible”; Rachel Weisz, “The Deep Blue Sea.”
— Director: Ben Affleck, “Argo”; Kathryn Bigelow, “Zero Dark Thirty”; Ang Lee, “Life of Pi”; Steven Spielberg, “Lincoln”; Quentin Tarantino, “Django Unchained.”
— Actor, Musical or Comedy: Hugh Jackman, “Les Miserables”; Jack Black, “Bernie”; Bradley Cooper, “Silver Linings Playbook”; Bill Murray, “Hyde Park on Hudson”; Ewan McGregor, “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen.”
— Actress, Musical or Comedy: 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.”
— Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, “Argo”; Leonard DiCaprio, “Django Unchained”; Philip Seymour Hoffman, “The Master”; Tommy Lee Jones, “Lincoln”; Christoph Waltz, “Django Unchained.”
— Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, “The Master”; Sally Field, “Lincoln”; Anne Hathaway, “Les Miserables”; Helen Hunt, “The Sessions”; Nicole Kidman, “The Paperboy.”
— Foreign Language: “Amour,” ”A Royal Affair,” ”The Intouchables,” ”Kon-Tiki,” ”Rust and Bone.”
— Animated Film: “Brave,” ”Frankenweenie,” ”Hotel Transylvania,” ”Rise of the Guardians,” ”Wreck-It Ralph.”
— Screenplay: Mark Boal, “Zero Dark Thirty”; Tony Kushner, “Lincoln”; David O. Russell, “Silver Livings Playbook”; Quentin Tarantino, “Django Unchained”; Chris Terrio, “Argo.”
— Original Score: Mychael Danna, “Life of Pi”; Alexandre Desplat, “Argo”; Dario Marianelli, “Anna Karenina”; Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil, “Cloud Atlas”; John Williams, “Lincoln.”
— Original Song: “For You ” (music and lyrics by Keith Urban), “Act of Valor”; “Not Running Anymore” (music and lyrics by Jon Bon Jovi), “Stand Up Guys”; “Safe & Sound” (music and lyrics by Taylor Swift, John Paul White, Joy Williams and T Bone Burnett), “The Hunger Games”; “Skyfall” (music and lyrics by Adel and Paul Epworth), “Skyfall”; “Suddenly” (music by Claude-Michel Schonberg and lyrics by Schonberg and Alain Boublil), “Les Miserables.”
TELEVISION
— Series, Drama: “Boardwalk Empire,” ”Breaking Bad,” ”Downton Abbey,” ”Homeland,” ”The Newsroom.”
— Actor, Drama: Steve Buscemi, “Boardwalk Empire”; Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad”; Jeff Daniels, “The Newsroom”; Jon Hamm, “Mad Men”; Damian Lewis, “Homeland.”
— Actress, Drama: Connie Britton, “Nashville”; Glenn Close, “Damages”; Claire Danes, “Homeland”; Michelle Dockery, “Downton Abbey”; Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife.”
— Series, Musical or Comedy: “The Big Bang Theory,” ”Episodes,” ”Girls,” ”Modern Family,” ”Smash.”
— Actress, Musical or Comedy: Zooey Deschanel, “New Girl”; Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Veep”; Lena Dunham, “Girls”; Tina Fey, “30 Rock”; Amy Poehler, “Parks and Recreation.”
— Actor, Musical or Comedy: Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock”; Don Cheadle, “House of Lies”; Louis C.K. “Louie”, Matt LeBlanc, “Episodes”; Jim Parsons, “The Big Bang Theory.”
— Miniseries or Movie: “Game Change,” ”The Girl,” ”Hatfields & McCoys,” ”The Hour,” ”Political Animals.”
— Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Nicole Kidman, “Hemingway & Gellhorn”; Jessica Lange, “American Horror Story: Asylum”; Sienna Miller, “The Girl”; Julianne Moore, “Game Change”; Sigourney Weaver, “Political Animals.”
— Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Kevin Costner, “Hatfields & McCoys”; Benedict Cumberbatch, “Sherlock (Masterpiece)”; Woody Harrelson, “Game Change”; Toby Jones, “The Girl”; Clive Owen, “Hemingway & Gellhorn.”
— Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Hayden Panettiere, “Nashville”; Archie Panjabi, “The Good Wife”; Sarah Paulson, “Game Change”; Maggie Smith, “Downton Abbey”; Sofia Vergara, “Modern Family.”
— Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Max Greenfield, “New Girl”; Ed Harris, “Game Change”; Danny Huston, “Magic City”; Mandy Patinkin, “Homeland”; Eric Stonestreet, “Modern Family.”
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Previously announced:
Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award: Jodie Foster.
