Today the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced their nominations and as usually happens every year there are a lot of surprises, especially in what they define as "comedy" which this year I find particularly hilarious as made me laugh loud for a few minutes! and amazingly NONE of the films nominated in the "Comedy or Musical" category is a Comedy!!! Perhaps Inside Llewyn Davis could be considered "sort of" a Musical but the rest definitively not. Biggest surprises for me are Paul Greengrass, Sally Hawkins and Idris Elba nominations; the total absence of The Butler. With SAG and Golden Globes nods out our guessing game seems a bit cloudy -with a few category exceptions- so I'm looking forward to learn the Guilds nominations to gain a clearer vision.
12 Years A Slave and American Hustle lead the pack with seven nominations each and if you like stats check distibutor tally: Sony Pictures Releasing leads the pack with 11 nods followed by The Weinstein Co with 9 nods.
As we know Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will host the awards ceremony and Sosie Bacon, daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedwick, is this year Miss Golden Globe. Awards ceremony will be on January 12, 2014 and will air live on NBC.
The Nominees Motion Pictures
Best Motion Picture - Drama
12 Years A Slave
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
Rush
Best Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
American Hustle
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Animated Feature Film
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Best Foreign Language Film
Blue is the Warmest Color, France
The Great Beauty, Italy
The Hunt, Denmark
The Past, Iran
The Wind Rises, Japan
Best Director - Motion Picture
Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity
Paul Greengrass for Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen for 12 Years A Slave
Alexander Payne for Nebraska
David O. Russell for American Hustle
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock in Gravity
Judi Dench in Philomena
Emma Thompson in Saving Mr. Banks
Kate Winslet in Labor Day
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Amy Adams in American Hustle
Julie Delpy in Before Midnight
Greta Gerwig in Francis Ha
Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Enough Said
Meryl Streep in August: Osage County
Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Sally Hawkins in Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o in 12 Years A Slave
Julia Roberts in August: Osage County
June Squibb in Nebraska
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Chiwetel Ejifor in 12 Years A Slave
Idris Elba in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford in All is Lost
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Christian Bale in Amerian Hustle
Bruce Dern in Nebraska
Leonoardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street
Oscar Isaac in Inside Llewyn Davis
Joaquin Phoenix in Her
Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Barkhad Abdi in Captain Phillips
Daniel Brühl in Rush
Bradley Cooper in American Hustle
Michael Fassbender in 12 Years A Slave
Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Spike Jonze for Her
Bob Nelson for Nebraska
Jeff Pope and Steve Coogan for Philomena
John Ridley for 12 Years a Slave
Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russel for American Hustle
Best Original Score
Alex Ebert for All is Lost
Alex Heffes and Freedom for Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Steven Price for Gravity
John Williams for The Book Thief
Hans Zimmer for 12 Years A Slave
Best Original Song - Motion Picture
Atlas in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Music and Lyrics by Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion
Let It go in Frozen - Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson Lopez, Robert Lopez
Ordinary Love in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom - Music by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen, Jr., Brian Burton and Lyrics by Bono
Please Mr. Kennedy in Inside Llewyn Davis - Music and Lyrics by Ed Rush, George Cromarty, T Bone Burnett, Justin Timberlake, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Sweeter than Fiction in Once Chance - Music and Lyrics by Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff
To learn TV categories nominations go Official site. Have to say that I'm very pleased with the two nominations for incredibly good Masters of Sex.
Tally by Movie
7 - 12 Years a Slave
7 - American Hustle
5 - Nebraska
4 - Captain Phillips
4 - Gravity
3 - Inside Llewyn Davis
3 - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
3 - Philomena
3 - Her
3 - August: Osage County
2 - All is Lost
2 - Blue Jasmine
2 - Dallas Buyers Club
2 - Frozen
2 - Rush
2 - The Wolf of Wall Street
1 - Before Midnight
1 - Blue is the Warmest Color
1 - Despicable Me 2
1 - Enough Said
1 - Frances Ha
1 - Labor Day
1 - One Chance
1 - Saving Mr. Banks
1 - The Book Thief
1 - The Croods
1 - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
1 - The Hunt
1 - The Past
1 - The Wind Rises