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DiCaprio, Eastwood, Mirren and "Babel" of Languages Lead Golden Globe Noms
By Jeffrey Jolson-Colburn
HOLLYWOOD-CA(rushprnews)12/14/20006 -- Leonardo DiCaprio, Clint Eastwood and Helen Mirren will battle themselves at the Golden Globes this year as each took two nominations in their respective categories when voting was announced this morning. The other news was the globalization of the Globes, as the five-language film "Babel," starring Brad Pitt, led balloting with seven noms, while foreign language pictures were represented in top categories like Best Director and Actress. Plus two U.S. films crept into the Foreign Language zone. Comprende?
DiCaprio is up for best actor for two films, "Blood Diamond" and "The Departed," whose director Martin Scorsese is head to head with Eastwood in the directing field. Scorsese has lost out to Eastwood before but there's a chance of Eastwood cancelling himself out, notes entertainment newsmagazine Hollywood Today (www.hollywoodtoday.net)
Both of his ying and yang WWII dramas are up, "Flags of our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima." The latter, also honored by a number of critic's associations this year, is in Japanese. Which led to the U.S. film's nomination in the foreign language category. Capisca?
It's joined there by Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto," which is in something like Mayan. Yet neither U.S. film is eligible for an Academy Award in the Foreign Language category (only overseas productions need apply for that Oscar). And it's joined in the Golden Globe nominations with "Pan's Labyninth" and "The Lives of Others," which both have non-foreign language Oscar aspirations. And more notably in the category is "Volver," which actually has a slim chance of a full best picture or director Oscar nomination but more likely will get a best actress shot with Penelope Cruz in a Spanish-speaking role. Verstehen Sie?
If you, like Oscar Wilde, consider the U.S. and the U.K. two nations divided by a common language, than the Queen's English and Helen Mirren will be your cup of tea this year. Mirren's up for three acting kudos, two for playing Queen Elizabeths - QEII in best picture nominee "The Queen" and her mother Queen Elizabeth in HBO's "Elizabeth I." For the latter, she is nominated in the best actress in a motion picture or miniseries made for TV - where she will compete against herself from "Prime Suspect: The Final Act." Comprenez-vouz?
Still don't understand? Doesn't matter, that's what will make it fun at the 64th annual Golden Globe Awards this year, when they try to break their two-year losing streak (after a 10 and 1 record) as an accurate predictor of the Academy Awards' Best Picture. And the year the voting organization of international journalists behind the Globes will have to live up to their name: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
The awards will be presented Jan. 15 and televised for the 12th consecutive year on NBC. Warren Beatty will receive the Cecil B. DeMille award.
Complete List of nominations follows.
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64th Annual Golden Globe Award Nominees
Complete List of Nominations
MOTION PICTURE
DRAMA
"Babel" "Bobby" "The Departed" "Little Children" "The Queen"
ACTRESS (DRAMA)
Penelope Cruz - "Volver" Judi Dench - "Notes on a Scandal" Maggie Gyllenhall - "Sherrybaby" Helen Mirren - "The Queen" Kate Winslet - "Little Children"
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"
MUSICAL OR COMEDY
"Borat" "The Devil Wears Prada" "Dreamgirls" "Little Miss Sunshine" "Thank You For Smoking"
ACTRESS (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
Annette Bening - "Running with Scissors" Toni Collette - "Little Miss Sunshine" Beyonce Knowles - "Dreamgirls" Meryl Streep - "The Devil Wears Prada" Rene Zellweger - "Miss Potter"
ACTOR (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
Sasha Baron Cohen - "Borat" Johnny Depp - "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" Aaron Eckhart - "Thank You for Smoking" Chiwetel Ejiofor - "Kinky Boots" Will Farrell - "Stranger Than Fiction"
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
"Apocalypto'" "Letters from Iwo Jima" "The Lives of Others" "Pan's Labyrinth" "Volver"
ANIMATED FILM
"Cars" "Happy Feet" "Monster House"
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Adriana Barraza - "Babel" Kate Blanchett - "Notes on a Scandal" Emily Blunt - "The Devil Wears Prada" Jennifer Hudson - "Dreamgirls" Rinko Kikuchi - "Babel"
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ben Affleck - "Hollywoodland" Jack Nicholson - "The Departed" Eddie Murphy - "Dreamgirls" Brad Pitt - "Babel" Mark Wahlberg - "The Departed"
DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood - "Flags of Our Fathers" Clint Eastwood - "Letters from Iwo Jima" Stephen Freers - "The Queen" Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - "Babel" Martin Scorcese - "The Departed"
SCREENPLAY
"Babel" "Little Children" "Notes on a Scandal" "The Departed" "The Queen"
ORIGINAL SCORE
"The Painted Veil" "The Fountain" "Babel" "Nomad" "The Da Vinci Code"
ORIGINAL SONG
- "Pursuit of Happyness" "Listen" - "Dreamgirls" "Never Gonna Break My Faith" - "Bobby" - "Happy Feet"
BEST TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA
24 (FOX)
Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox Television i.a.w. Real Time Prods.
BIG LOVE (HBO)
Anima Sola and Playtone Prods. i.a.w. HBO Entertainment
GREY'S ANATOMY (ABC)
Touchstone Television
HEROES (NBC)
NBC Universal Television Studios i.a.w. Tailwind Prods.
LOST (ABC)
Touchstone Television
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA
PATRICIA ARQUETTE MEDIUM
EDIE FALCO THE SOPRANOS
EVANGELINE LILLY LOST
ELLEN POMPEO GREY'S ANATOMY
KYRA SEDGWICK THE CLOSER
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA
PATRICK DEMPSEY GREY'S ANATOMY
MICHAEL C. HALL DEXTER
HUGH LAURIE HOUSE
BILL PAXTON BIG LOVE
KIEFER SUTHERLAND 24
BEST TELEVISION SERIES - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a. DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES (ABC)
Touchstone Television
b. ENTOURAGE (HBO)
Leverage and Closest to the Hole Prods. i.a.w. HBO Entertainment
c. THE OFFICE (NBC)
Deedle Dee Prods. with Reveille i.a.w. NBC Universal Television Studio
d. UGLY BETTY (ABC)
Touchstone Television
e. WEEDS (SHOWTIME)
Showtime i.a.w. Lionsgate Television and Tilted Prods., Inc.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES -COMEDY OR MUSICAL
MARCIA CROSS DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
AMERICA FERRERA UGLY BETTY
FELICITY HUFFMAN DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE
MARY-LOUISE PARKER WEEDS
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
ALEC BALDWIN 30 ROCK
ZACH BRAFF SCRUBS
STEVE CARRELL THE OFFICE
JASON LEE MY NAME IS EARL
TONY SHALHOUB MONK
BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
BLEAK HOUSE (PBS)
BBC and WGBH Boston Prod. i.a.w. Deep Indigo
BROKEN TRAIL (AMC)
Butchers Run Films and Once Upon a Time Films i.a.w. Sony Pictures Television
ELIZABETH I (HBO)
Company Pictures and Channel 4 i.a.w. HBO Films
MRS. HARRIS (HBO)
Killer Films, Number 9 Films and John Wells Prod. i.a.w. HBO Films
PRIME SUSPECT: THE FINAL ACT (PBS)
Granada and WGBH-Boston Prod.
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
GILLIAN ANDERSON BLEAK HOUSE
ANNETTE BENING MRS. HARRIS
HELEN MIRREN ELIZABETH I
HELEN MIRREN PRIME SUSPECT: THE FINAL ACT
SOPHIE OKONEDO TSUNAMI, THE AFTERMATH
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
ANDRÉ BRAUGHER THIEF
ROBERT DUVALL BROKEN TRAIL
MICHAEL EALY SLEEPER CELL: AMERICAN TERROR
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR TSUNAMI, THE AFTERMATH
BEN KINGSLEY MRS. HARRIS
BILL NIGHY GIDEON'S DAUGHTER
MATTHEW PERRY THE RON CLARK STORY
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
EMILY BLUNT GIDEON'S DAUGHTER
TONI COLLETTE TSUNAMI, THE AFTERMATH
KATHERINE HEIGL GREY'S ANATOMY
SARAH PAULSON STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP
ELIZABETH PERKINS WEEDS
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH BROKEN TRAIL
JEREMY IRONS ELIZABETH I
JUSTIN KIRK WEEDS
MASI OKA HEROES
JEREMY PIVEN ENTOURAGE
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