Kamis, 13 Desember 2007

Who Wasn't Nominated for a Globe? (E! Online)

Los Angeles (E! Online) - Assuming there is a Golden Globes, planners better order extra tables.

Seven films, from A (for Atonement) to T (for There Will Be Blood, were nominated Thursday for Best Drama as awards seasons biggest pre-Oscar race picked its horses.

Other races were almost as crowded, with six TV shows up for Best Drama Series and and a septet of small-screen stars up for Best Drama Series Actress. (See complete list of Globe nominations.)

With the Hollywood Foreign Press showering so much love on so many, snubs for the likes of Desperate Housewives, 24, Heroes and The Sopranos James Gandolfini, all high-profile no-shows in the TV categories, and Russell Crowe, passed over for American Gangster, all the more glaring.

Overall, the British period drama Atonement led the way with seven nominations, including one in the crowded Best Drama category, where itll try to elbow out the drug-lord tale American Gangster, the tattooed Eastern Promises, the Denzel Washington-directed, Oprah Winfrey-produced The Great Debaters, the principled Michael Clayton, and the critics pets, the Coen brothers thriller No Country for Old Men and the Paul Thomas Anderson oil saga, There Will Be Blood.

The Comedy/Musical field sports the traditional number of nominees, five: the Beatles-tuned Across the Universe, the Tom Hanks-Julia Roberts political yarn, Charlie Wilsons War, the all-dancing, all-bopping Hairspray, the deadpan Juno and the all-singing, all-bloodletting Sweeney Todd.

Charlie Wilsons War, heretofore a small-time player in the year-end awards, was the second-biggest Globe nominee, with five. No Country for Old Men, which dominated the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, stayed on the Oscar track with four nominations. Sweeney Todd and Michael Clayton also had four each.

In TV, two shows that, judging by their ratings, were unfamiliar to most viewers were the biggest nominees: FXs legal drama Damages and the HBO TV movie Longford, with four each.

Damages will compete for the Drama Series Globe against the extremely little-watched Big Love, Mad Men and The Tudors. House and Greys Anatomy sneaked themselves, and their sizable fan bases, into the category, too.

In the Comedy Series race, two pay-cable shows with devoted, but tiny audiences, Californification and Extras, will face one pay-cable show with big buzz, but smallish ratings, Entourage, and two broadcast network shows, 30 Rock and Pushing Daisies, that would kill for Two and a Half Mens Nielsen numbers.

The film categories are exactly packed with box-office favorites, either.

Michael Clayton, for one, never found much of an audience for its ethical dilemma, but George Clooney still found his latest Globe nomination, for Drama Actor.

Clooney is up against Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood), James McAvoy (Atonement), Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises) and Washington, in the game for American Gangster, not his upcoming The Great Debaters.

Owing to his recent wins in the New York and L.A. critics awards, anti-star Day-Lewis is probably the category frontrunner, although the race is far harder to call than last year when Forest Whitaker won everything on his way to the Oscar for The Last King of Scotland.

The Drama Actress category, likewise a pick-em category once again after last years Helen Mirren sweep for The Queen, pits critical favorites Julie Christie (Away from Her) and Kiera Knightley (Atonement) against box-office queen Jodie Foster (The Brave One), and Globe favorites Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart) and Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age). Knightley is the only non-Oscar owner in the bunch.

The Comedy/Musical acting categories feature bigger movies, if not always bigger names.

Hairspray newcomer Nikki Blonsky, Enchanteds on-the-rise Amy Adams and Sweeney Todds Helena Bonham Carter are up for Comedy/Musical Actress opposite Ellen Page, for her buzz-making performance in the indie hit Juno, and French star Marion Cotillard, for her rendering of Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose.

Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd) and Tom Hanks (Charlie Wilsons War) lend their brand names to the Comedy/Musical Actor category. Onetime Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Savages), Ryan Gosling (Lars and the Real Girl) and, in this years Sacha Baron Cohen spot for unapologetic comedic performance, John C. Reilly (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) round out the field.

The 65th Golden Globes are scheduled for Jan. 13 in Beverly Hills, provided the writers strike doesnt hinder plans--and a picket line doesnt keep limos and their A-list occupants away from the show.

Developing story. More to come.

Get the complete list of nominees.

(Originally published Dec. 13, 2007 at 6:16 a.m. PT.)

 
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