It is that time of year again; awards season is upon us. The day the Golden Globe nominations come out is usually the day I realize how many movies I need to watch before the year is all said and done. Leading the way this year with 7 nominations is The King’s Speech. The Social Network and The Fighter both received 6 nominations. Inception, Black Swan and The Kids Are All Right all came in with 4 nods. The complete list of nominations is after the jump.
Best Picture — Drama
- Black Swan
- The Fighter
- Inception
- The King’s Speech
- The Social Network
Best Picture — Musical or Comedy
- Alice in Wonderland
- Burlesque
- The Kids Are All Right
- Red
- The Tourist
Best Actor — Drama
- Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
- Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
- James Franco, 127 Hours
- Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine
- Mark Wahlberg, The Fighter
Best Actress — Drama
- Halle Berry, Frankie and Alice
- Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
- Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
- Natalie Portman, Black Swan
- Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine
Best Actor — Musical or Comedy
- Johnny Depp, Alice in Wonderland
- Johnny Depp, The Tourist
- Paul Giamatti, Barney’s Version
- Jake Gyllenhaal, Love and Other Drugs
- Kevin Spacey, Casino Jack
Best Actress — Musical or Comedy
- Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
- Anne Hathaway, Love and Other Drugs
- Angelina Jolie, The Tourist
- Julianne Moore, The Kids Are All Right
- Emma Stone, Easy A
Best Supporting Actor
- Christian Bale, The Fighter
- Michael Douglas, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
- Andrew Garfield, The Social Network
- Jeremy Renner, The Town
- Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech
Best Supporting Actress
- Amy Adams, The Fighter
- Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech
- Mila Kunis, Black Swan
- Melissa Leo, The Fighter
- Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
Best Director
- Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
- David Fincher, The Social Network
- Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
- Christopher Nolan, Inception
- David O. Russell, The Fighter
Best Screenplay
- 127 Hours, Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
- Inception, Christopher Nolan
- The Kids Are All Right, Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
- The King’s Speech, David Seidler
- The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin
Best Original Score
- Inception, Hans Zimmer
- The King’s Speech, Alexandre Desplat
- The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
- Alice in Wonderland, Danny Elfman
- 127 Hours, A.R. Rahman
Best Original Song
- “Bound to You,” Burlesque
- “Coming Home,” Country Strong
- “I See the Light,” Tangled
- “There’s a Place For Us,” The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- “You Haven’t Seen the Last of Me Yet,” Burlesque
Best Foreign Language Film
- Biutiful
- The Concert
- The Edge
- I Am Love
- In a Better World
Best Animated Feature
- Despicable Me
- How to Train Your Dragon
- The Illusionist
- Tangled
- Toy Story 3
If you want to check out the television nominations, you can see the list at the Golden Globes website.
Thoughts on the nominations? Anybody get snubbed? Crimes against nature? The thing that stands out to me is what a horrible musical/comedy bunch it is this year. I also would have liked to see a little more love for The Town, but I still have many films to see yet this year. Use your keyboard or other authorized typing device to let us know what you think.
Looks like the big one left for me to see is THE FIGHTER. And maybe some of the animated films since I’ve only seen HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON. Doing much better than usual this year!
The Best Picture – Musical or Comedy category is extremely weak this year. Red? Alice in Wonderland? They are really scratching the bottom of the barrel. The Kid Are All Right should easily take that one. Glad to see that Blue Valentine is finally getting some love on the award circuit.
Obviously nobody at the Golden Globes FP have seen the English Language film from Malaysia, SELL OUT. Which knocks things out of the park both musically and comedically.
My vote is for Emma Stone in Easy A. WHich does even have a musical number in there, just for the heckofit.
Jolie and Depp nom’d for The Tourist? Interesting. Now I’m a little dismayed I didn’t go see it last night – maybe a Thursday night screening is in order.
FSpot was talking about the yer in pictures and how the higher concept comedies completely fell flat this year. There just weren’t any Hangovers this year. Hot Tub Time Machine? Dinner for Schmucks? Hardly.
I’ll get to THE TOURIST eventually, the initial enthusiasm, by director and actors involved was completely dampened by the awful reviews. And there were so many more interesting movies playing in the Toronto Area This weekend, it didn’t make the cut (Neither did The King’s Speech for that matter)
On the TV front, awesome to see Kelly MacDonald get some love for “Boardwalk Empire!” And Laura Linney makes her annual appearance in an awards nominations bout. That woman needs an award always.
Easy A, Scott Pilgrim, Youth In Revolt and Greenberg strike me as other alternatives in the Comedy/Musical category, but I’ve only seen “The Kids Are All Right” (which doesn’t feel like a comedy). Actually the entire Animated category could fit in here as well…
Easy A is the only one I’m probably willing to see. Didn’t think Pilgrim was as amazing as everyone else. Greenberg was annoying mumblecrap and I highly doubt I’ll ever get around to YiR. Get Him to the Greek was fine, but nothing I’d ever watch again. I’m just getting bitter as an old man. Charlto Copley (or whatever his name is) in The A-Team was funnier than anything in any of these other pictures.
Also not entirely sure I consider Kids Are Alright as comedy. It’s far more a drama imo. Great movie though. Speaking of that WFT!? No Mark Ruffalo but Depp is nominated for his 2 minutes of paycheck grab in Alice in Wonderland!? Ridiculous.
That’s a terrible musical/comedy category. I wanna just throw out all the noms except for The Kids Are All Right and tell them to try again. I agree with Bob, any/all of those he mentioned should be in there instead.
Is The Concert France’s entry to the Oscars, too? I skipped a chance to see it because the trailer didn’t really intrigue me, but it does have Melanie Laurent in it, which does. Wish I’d caught it now.
How the frak is Community not nominated for TV comedy? (And Big Bang Theory and Glee are?) That’s utterly ridiculous – it’s the best show on network TV right now, comedy OR drama. It’s like NBC asks them only to consider 30 Rock and The Office or something, even though both shows passed their prime two years ago. (Though 30 Rock has been better this year, I hear, and I caught last week’s ep and enjoyed it, so maybe I shouldn’t dismiss it.)
What Bob said, adding also Get Him to The Greek which I think was funnier than The Hangover.
Watch Easy A Andrew, join the cult
This reminds me of a local press article bemoaning 2010 as one of the worst years for film in recent memory. Different tastes I guess but, for me, this is the best year of quite some time. I think the article was focusing more on the Oscar bait films, the lack thereof supposed to be some kind of litmus test of the year, but the less of those the better… indies, art-house, popcorn films brought their A game.
And I agree with the article you read Rot. This year has some quality titles, but getting to a top ten films that I truly LOVE is a struggle for me this year. (I don’t count festival titles that weren’t officially released).
I hope we haven’t built up Easy A too much for you Andrew, but I think it’ll charm ya…
Rot, I was going to add “Get Him To The Greek” too – it wasn’t great, but it was a lot funnier than I expected it to be. And waaaay funnier than The Hangover in my opinion. Greenberg doesn’t resonate with me as much as you, but I found it stronger than Andrew’s dismissal of it – there’s more to it than whining.
Anyway, this is the Golden Globes. It’s not like it, you know, matters…
Rot, where was this local press article about how horrid a year it was?
I might agree in terms of major releases – but including festival films, I have to get down to #30 on my list before there are any I don’t really, really like. And there are a bunch of big ones, both theatrical and festival, that I haven’t/didn’t see. Best year since 2007 for me, but I admit a lot of that is due to festivals.
Bob: http://www.eyeweekly.com/feature/article/108208
In your defense, Andrew, you haven’t seen
Blue Valentine
Another Year
This Movie is Broken
Easy A
Trigger
Meek’s Cutoff
and you are just categorically wrong about Greenberg.
Watching Easy A tonight. That is all.
and neither of us have seen
Rabbit Hole
True Grit
The Fighter
All Good Things
The King’s Speech
Biutiful
Somewhere
Touche Rot. True Grit I’m seeing tonight and Rabbit Hole this weekend (along with Tron, Phillip Morris and Tempest). The rest of those are later this year (gonna be a crazy next couple of weeks in theater!). Though not much hope for All Good Things despite my Gosling man crush.
Dont have to say that Depp has a strangehold on comedy noms, but he’ll win so I just say, Kurt how about Jim BROADBENT for Another Year? Damn Good.
The Concert, ha the Hollywood Foreign Press r more sentimental that the oscars any day (generally a good movie) will see The Edge soon, want I Am Love to win there, as I do Jackie Weaver, Emma Stone, Jennifer Lawrence and INCEPTION to clean up, would that cause Rewatches or ‘re-lash’…
So if it wasn’t for Paul GIAMATTI, Australian would have got one more nod than Canada, regardless, we have three acting nods, in the four catogeries that r worthy this year, nice.
The Illusionst is very good, though if u say it’s better than Toy Story 3, go join the HFPress ya weeping bastard.
Lets just give every cast member of Another Year an award and wrap up best Actor (Broadbent), Actress (Manville), Supporting Supporting Actress (Sheen) and Supporting Actor (David Bradley). I’d be completely fine with that.
“The Edge” is very good, quite oscar bait-y type stuff, magnificently short, but a little bit on the long/saggy pacing. An enjoyable watch though. And a nude woman on woman fight in a steam-bathhouse is always a bonus…
I want to see both Goslings -> All Good Things and Blue Valentine. The director of the former is Eugene Jarkeki who did Capturing the Friedmans….worth it alone to support that directors work…
the comedy/musical section is absolute garbage. and it seems the Tourist is the HFPA doing its usually ‘nominate big stars hoping they’ll show’ up bullshit
Dianne Wiest is probably the best performance in Rabbit Hole, though she is essentially playing herself. Kidman is great, the film not so much, good companion piece to Birth, in terms of regret and distached relationships.
But Another Year for Comedy? Maybe? I mean if the The Tourist is. For me something like Up in the Air was more of a comedy, as is The Kids Are Alright which could win two globes, but non for my oscar fav Mark Ruffalo? Clearly the guy ain’t sucking up like others might be for a bit of gold.
So I just came up with about 35 films I ought to see before the end of the year. *sigh* And I felt like I was doing well at seeing stuff this year.
one film I wanna know about, Even The Rain, starring GG Bernal, how can that be up for an oscar? It does’nt come under new criteria, not coming out anywhere till Jan, might have to wait till May here In Melbourne to see it depending.
I think the last big US film i’ll see will be 127 Hours, hopefully on weekend of Jan 15/16th.
@Goon “the HFPA doing its usually ‘nominate big stars hoping they’ll show’ up bullshit”
That is ALL the HFPA does, the reason for the show/awards COMPLETELY, and that is why I don’t talk about the Golden Globes. (I’m aware of the irony of commenting on this, however)….
At least AMPAS had a more noble goal…Union Busting.
in the case of the Tourist, since I found out its the guy who made Lives of Others, it makes more sense. Propping up a European director…
Goon, it IS?! I would’ve been at least 23% more interested in seeing The Tourist if I’d realized that. None of the marketing (that I’ve seen) has mentioned that its director also directed a Best Foreign Film winner.
Obviously Jandy should be listening to the Cinecast more often. We help in that way.
LOL, Kurt. I know. I’ve been bad about listening to it lately. Kind of dropped off all my podcasts the last few months. Too much good music.
And we are one of the shorter podcasts out there, I know, I know.
I’m more confused how Breaking Bad and Aron Paul did not get nominations.