HBO, ABC Top Golden Globe TV Noms

Babel Leads Movie Categories

Multiple artists earned multiple nominations for the 64th annual Golden Globe Awards, which were announced this morning by the Hollywood Foreign Press.

Clint Eastwood grabbed two director nominations for his companion World War II epics Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima, while Leonardo DiCaprio achieved a similarly unprecedented milestone for his dramatic roles in The Departed and Blood Diamond.

Most auspicious, however, was Helen Mirren, who equaled Jamie Foxx’s 2005 haul of three nominations in a single year. In addition to her performance as England’s current monarch in the feature film The Queen, Mirren was nominated for playing England’s 16th-century ruler in HBO’s Elizabeth I, as well as for her work as a tough but vulnerable police detective in the terminal installment of PBS’ Prime Suspect: The Final Act. Both productions are also nominated in the miniseries category.

Television Categories

Among the television categories, ABC made a strong showing, while HBO, NBC and Showtime also fared well.

HBO garnered the most nominations of any network, with 14, most of which went to he long-form productions such as Elizabeth I, Mrs. Harris and Tsunami, The Aftermath.

ABC led the broadcast networks with 11 nominations, all of which went to its weekly series. Among all series, ABC’s medical hit Grey’s Anatomy and Showtime’s marijuana-laced comedy Weeds led the field with four each.

NBC scored nine nods, including notices for the new season offerings Heroes, 30 Rock and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

Meanwhile, Showtime shone with six nominations. In addition to Weeds, the pay-cable network was recognized with nominations for Michael C. Hall as the title character in the Dexter and Michael Ealy for his work in Sleeper Cell: American Terror.

Fox earned three nominations—two for 24 and one for House. CBS earned just one, which went to Julia Louis-Dreyfus for The New Adventures of Old Christine. The CW was not nominated in any categories.

First-year series earning two nominations each were NBC’s Heroes, ABC’s Ugly Betty and HBO’s Big Love. Single nominations went to two newcomers from NBC—30 Rock and Studio 60—as well as CBS’s Old Christine and Showtime’s Dexter.

Best series drama nominees were 24, Big Love, Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes and Lost. In the comedy series category, the nominees were Desperate Housewives, Entourage, The Office, Ugly Betty and Weeds.

Nominees for best actor in a drama series are Patrick Dempsey for Grey’s Anatomy, Michael C. Hall for Dexter, Hugh Laurie for House, Bill Paxton for Big Love and Kiefer Sutherland for 24. Vying for best actress in a drama series are Patricia Arquette for Medium, Edie Falco for The Sopranos, Evangeline Lily for Lost, Ellen Pompeo for Grey’s Anatomy and Kyra Sedgwick for The Closer.

AMC’s Broken Trail and HBO’s Elizabeth I, Mrs. Harris and Tsunami, the Aftermath led long-form productions with three nominations each.

Best miniseries nominees drew from pay cable, basic cable and public television: PBS’ Prime Suspect: The Final Act and Bleak House will vie against Elizabeth I, Mrs. Harris and Broken Trail.

The best actor in a miniseries or made-for-television movie drew seven finalists: Andre Baugher, Robert Duvall, Michael Ealy, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ben Kingsley, Bill Nighy and Matthew Perry.

Best actress in a miniseries or made-for-television movie, by contrast, resulted in a field of four because Mirren’s two nominations. The other two nominees were Gillian Anderson, Annette Bening and Sophie Okonedo.

Film Categories

On the feature film side, the global-spanning Babel, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Led all others with dominated the 64th annual Golden Globe nominations with seven nominations, including best picture and best director for Alejandro Gonzalez-Iñarritu.

The film was also nominated for best screenplay, three supporting acting awards and best original score.

Joining Babel as best film nominees in the drama category were Bobby, The Departed, The Queen and Little Children.

Nominees for best motion picture comedy or musical are Borat, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Little Miss Sunshine and Thank You for Smoking.

In a first for the Golden Globes, double nominations in the same category went to Clint Eastwood for best director and Leonardo DiCaprio for best actor.

Matched against DiCaprio are Peter O’Toole in Venus, Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness and Forest Whitaker The Last King of Scotland.

Eastwood will compete with Babel’s Gonzalez-Iñarritu as well as Martin Scorsese for The Departed and Stephen Frears for The Queen.

Best actress in a drama nominees are Mirren for The Queen, Penelope Cruz Volver, Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal, Maggie Gyllenhaal in Sherrybaby and Kate Winslet in Little Children.

Best actor in a comedy or musical are Chiwitel Ejiofor for Kinky Boots, Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat, Johnny Depp Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Aaron Eckhart in Thank You for Smoking  and Will Ferrell in Stranger Than Fiction.

Best actress in a comedy or musical went to Annette Bening for Running with Scissors, Toni Collette for Little Miss Sunshine, Beyoncé Knowles for Dreamgirls, Meryl Streep The Devil Wears Prada and Renee Zellweger in Miss Potter.

Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, which is in Mayan, earned a nomination for best foreign language film along with Letters From Iwo Jima, which is in Japanese. Other nominees included Germany’s Lives of Others, Mexico’s Pan’s Labyrinth and Spain’s Volver.

Letters, which has won several recent critics’ association prizes, was ineligible for the best picture category because it is in a foreign language.

In the best supporting actor for film category, Ben Affleck was nominated for Hollywoodland, as were Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls, Jack Nicholson in The Departed, Brad Pitt in Babel and Mark Wahlberg in The Departed.

Best supporting actress in a film nominees are Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada, Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls, Cate Blanchett in Notes on a Scandal, Rinko Kikuchi in Babel and Adriana Barraza, also from Babel.

In the animated film category, the nods went to Cars, Happy Feet and Monster House.

The 64th annual Golden Globe award show will be held Monday, January 15, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and telecast on NBC.

A complete list of nominees for the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards follows:

64th Annual Golden Globe Awards

Television

DRAMATIC TV SERIES
24
Big Love
Grey’s Anatomy
Heroes
Lost

BEST ACTOR, TV DRAMA
Patrick Dempsey, Grey’s Anatomy
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Hugh Laurie, House
Bill Paxton, Big Love
Kiefer Sutherland, 24

BEST ACTRESS, TV DRAMA
Patricia Arquette, Medium
Edie Falco, The Sopranos
Evangeline Lilly, Lost
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer
Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy

TV SERIES, MUSICAL OR COMEDY
The Office
Desperate Housewives
Entourage
Ugly Betty
Weeds

BEST ACTOR, TV MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Zach Braff, Scrubs
Steve Carell, The Office
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Jason Lee, My Name is Earl
Tony Shalhoub, Monk

BEST ACTRESS, TV MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Marcia Cross, Desperate Housewives
Felicity Huffman, Desperate Housewives
America Ferrera, Ugly Betty
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine
Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds

BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Bleak House
Broken Trail
Elizabeth I
Mrs. Harris
Prime Suspect: The Final Act

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Gillian Anderson, Bleak House
Annette Bening, Mrs. Harris
Helen Mirren , Eilzabeth I
Helen Mirren, Prime Suspect: The Final Act
Sophie Okonedo, Tsunami, The Aftermath

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Andre 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

Motion Pictures

DRAMATIC PICTURE
Babel
The Departed
The Queen
Bobby
Little Children

MUSICAL OR COMEDY PICTURE
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
The Devil Wears Prada
Thank You For Smoking

FOREIGN LANGUAGE PICTURE
Apocalypto (USA)
Letters From Iwo Jima (USA/Japan)
Lives of Others (Germany)
Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico)
Volver (Spain)

BEST DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood, Letters From Iwo Jima
Clint Eastwood, Flags Of Our Fathers
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel

BEST DRAMATIC ACTOR
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

BEST DRAMATIC ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Maggie Gyllenhaal, SherryBaby
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Kate Winslet, Little Children

BEST ACTOR, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Aaron Eckhart, Thank You For Smoking
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kinky Boots
Will Ferrell, Stranger Than Fiction

BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Annette Bening, Running With Scissors
Toni Collette, Little Miss Sunshine
Beyonce Knowles, Dreamgirls
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Renee Zellweger, Miss Potter

SUPPORTING DRAMATIC ACTOR
Ben Affleck, Hollywoodland
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Brad Pitt, Babel
Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

SUPPORTING DRAMATIC ACTRESS
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

ANIMATED FILM
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

SCREENPLAY
Guillermo Arriaga, Babel
Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, Little Children
Patrick Marber, Notes on a Scandal
William Monahan, The Departed
Peter Morgan, The Queen

ORIGINAL SCORE
Alexandre Desplat, The Painted Veil
Clint Mansell, The Fountain
Gustavo Santaolalla, Babel
Carlo Siliotto, Nomad
Hans Zimmer, The Da Vinci Code

SONG
“A Father’s Way” from The Pursuit of Happyness
“Listen” from Dreamgirls
“Never Gonna Break My Faith from Bobby
“The Song of the Heart” from Happy Feet
“Try Not to Remember” from Home of the Brave

CECIL B. DEMILLE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Warren Beatty