Golden Globe Nominations: Factoids and Shut-outs

December 21, 2009 · Posted in Lists

One can glance at this year’s nominees for the Golden Globes and the top nominees are joyful indeed–literally. Up in the Air and Glee were just two of the highly buoyant movie titles (the other, of course, is Up) taking the most nominations in film and television, announced this morning.

With no clear front-runner in any of the races (Glee vs. 30 Rock? Goodness gracious!), here are some notes on the list. (You can see the complete list here and sign up to be notified when any favorites are available to pre-order on DVD or Blu-ray.)

1. Best dramatic picture noms included films that had no acting nominations (Avatar, The Hurt Locker), but shut out Invictus, which had nods for both Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon and director Clint Eastwood.

2. Tobey Maguire’s nod for Brothers appeared to come out of left field; reviews for that film were decidedly mixed, then again, the fifth slot in this race doesn’t seem very crowded.

3. Sandra Bullock, Damon and Meryl Streep are both enjoying double nominations; Bullock for her two box-office blockbusters The Proposal and The Blind Side; Damon for Invictus and The Informant!, and Streep for It’s Complicated and Julie & Julia. Unfortunately, Streep has no shot of winning two this night, because she’s running against herself in the comedy actress category (unless there is a tie, which has happened before).

4. As expected, The Hangover scored a best comedy film nod, but none for its stars.

5. Of the top television drama nominees, only one (House, M.D.) airs on network television.


6. Led by Glee’s three nods, the freshman fall shows receiving nods include The Good Wife (best actress in a drama), Cougar Town (best actress in a comedy), Hung (best comedy actor and supporting actress) and Modern Family for best musical or comedy show.

What did the Hollywood Foreign Press miss this year? Star Trek? The Big Bang Theory?

–Ellen

P.S. To the Hollywood Foreign Press–please have John Krasinski and
Justin Timberlake announce the nominations every year. Seriously, they
could be a comedy team. (Watch at the 1:00 mark when Timberlake
announces Krasinski’s fiancee, Emily Blunt, as one of the nominees). At
least at 5 a.m. it’s pretty funny.



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