Fox’s “Glee,” last year’s Golden Globe winner for best comedy or musical, led the way this time around with five nominations and a chance to sweep the Globes’ major television categories.
“Glee” has the opportunity to repeat as best series. In fact, all the TV series and actors who picked up trophies at the Golden Globes ceremony last winter have a chance to do so again in a largely predictable set of nominations announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Tuesday.
Matthew Morrison and Lea Michele of “Glee’ earned best actor nominations in the musical or comedy category. Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch of the series have supporting nominations.
Another sophomore series that is growing in popularity, ABC’s “Modern Family” — which shows the diversity of contemporary American family life — was among eight programs to earn three nominations apiece. But that was relatively modest compared to the Emmy Awards, where five of the show’s actors were nominated in supporting roles. The Globes named only Emmy winner Eric Stonestreet and Sofia Vergara as supporting actor nominees.
The tiny AMC network beat all its rivals with two nominations for best drama series: “Mad Men,” which has won this category three years in a row; and this year’s zombie sensation, “The Walking Dead.” Other top drama nominees were Showtime’s “Dexter,” HBO’s new “Boardwalk Empire” and CBS’ “The Good Wife.”
Besides “Glee” and “Modern Family,” best comedy nominees included “The Big C” and “Nurse Jackie” from Showtime, NBC’s “30 Rock” and CBS’ “The Big Bang Theory.”
Two actors in their final years with series — Steve Carell on NBC’s “The Office” and Kyra Sedgwick of TNT’s “The Closer” — both received Golden Globe nominations.
HBO’s “Temple Grandin” and Starz’s “Pillars of the Earth” were the most honored productions in the miniseries or movie category, with three nominations each. They are nominated for best movie or miniseries, along with HBO’s “The Pacific” and “You Don’t Know Jack,” and “Carlos” from the Sundance Channel.
Al Pacino, Judi Dench, Dennis Quaid, Claire Danes, Ian McShane and Jennifer Love Hewitt are among the well-known actors with Golden Globes nominations for movies or miniseries.
Martin Scorsese On “The Saints,” Faith In Filmmaking and His Next Movie
When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. "Who are these people? What is a saint?" Scorsese recalls. "The minute I walk out the door of the cathedral and I don't see any saints. I saw people trying to behave well within a world that was very primal and oppressed by organized crime. As a child, you wonder about the saints: Are they human?" For decades, Scorsese has pondered a project dedicated to the saints. Now, he's finally realized it in "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints," an eight-part docudrama series debuting Sunday on Fox Nation, the streaming service from Fox News Media. The one-hour episodes, written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko, each chronicle a saint: Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe. Joan of Arc kicks off the series on Sunday, with three weekly installments to follow; the last four will stream closer to Easter next year. In naturalistic reenactments followed by brief Scorsese-led discussions with experts, "The Saints" emphasizes that, yes, the saints were very human. They were flawed, imperfect people, which, to Scorsese, only heightens their great sacrifices and gestures of compassion. The Polish priest Kolbe, for example, helped spread antisemitism before, during WWII, sheltering Jews and, ultimately, volunteering to die in the place of a man who had been condemned at Auschwitz. Scorsese, who turns 82 on Sunday, recently met for an interview not long after returning from a trip to his grandfather's hometown in Sicily. He was made an honorary citizen and the experience was still lingering in his mind. Remarks have... Read More