2012 Golden Globe Film Nominations: Artist, Help, Ryan Gosling Score Big
The nominations are out for the 69th Golden Globe Awards, and they favored pretty much everyone front-and-center in the awards race to date, with the requisite snubs, surprises and other laughable curios (they had to wedge War Horse in there somewhere, right?) with which Ricky Gervais will no doubt have a fine time on Jan. 15.
BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
The Descendants
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
Moneyball
War Horse
BEST MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
50/50
The Artist
Bridesmaids
My Week With Marilyn
Midnight in Paris
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis, The Help
Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA
George Clooney, The Descendants
Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar
Michael Fassbender, Shame
Ryan Gosling, The Ides of March
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Jodie Foster, Carnage
Charlize Theron, Young Adult
Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Kate Winslet, Carnage
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Brendan Gleeson, The Guard
Ryan Gosling, Crazy Stupid Love
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 50/50
Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Arthur Christmas
Cars 2
Puss In Boots
Rango
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Separation (Iran)
The Flowers Of War (China)
The Kid With The Bike (Belgium)
In The Land Of Blood and Honey (USA)
The Skin I Live In (Spain)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Berenice Bejo, The Artist
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer, The Help
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn
Albert Brooks, Drive
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
BEST DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE
Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
George Clooney, The Ides of March
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
BEST SCREENPLAY - MOTION PICTURE
The Artist
The Descendants
The Ides of March
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - MOTION PICTURE
Ludovic Bource - The Artist
Abel Korzeniowski - W.E.
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Howard Shore - Hugo
John Williams - War Horse
BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE
"Hello Hello" - Gnomeo & Juliet - Elton John
"Lay Your Head Down" - Albert Nobbs - Sinead O'Connor
"The Living Proof" - The Help - Mary J. Blige
"The Keeper" - Machine Gun Preacher - Gerard Butler
"Masterpiece" - W.E. - Madonna
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The Best Pic - Drama noms seem a little...softball, even for the Globes.
How so? This seems like a list most people can live with; they even added a sixth slot for _Ides_! It's hilarious if nothing else...
zzzz... *mumble mumble* goddamn tree of life *mumble mumble*... zzzz...
Very pleased to see The Ides of March receive the recognition it deserves. Unfortunately, Philip Seymour Hoffman continues to get snubbed. But nice to see Viggo Mortenson on the list. Drive & Dragon Tattoo have been snubbed again but I'm happy to see Rooney Mara get nominated.
Also, someone should probably tell the Globes that My Week with Marilyn is not a comedy or a musical.
Haven't you seen that trailer? My Week With Marilyn is most certainly a comedy.
Maybe not an INTENTIONAL comedy, but...
Also, even though I haven't seen it, I'm certain there's no way the score to W.E. is better than Drive. But I know it's the Globes and they want Madonna there. Surprised no Angelina Jolie Best Director nomination.
Hey, I thought Marilyn was a good movie, say what you want.
I think my imagination was running wild pre-caffeine-ingestion. This is exactly right.
Me, too! I had a blast.
And Winchester, Jolie got the nod in Foreign-Language Film, so she and Brad will be there with bells on as usual.
Truth be told, I haven't seen it. The idea of watching it feels like homework or making a salad: something I should do but prefer not to.
But the trailer with the 8,000 fade to blacks made me think it's one of those wry British comedies that Americans don't really understand until they remake them with.
Really? Out of all the Oscar hopefuls I've seen (that is, the shoe-ins), The Ides of March was probably the most disappointing. Or maybe it was because I had such high expectations for it, given what an outstanding cast it has. Gosling is really the only deserving one in that regard.
And, as I'm sure has been noted plenty of times, the genre divide (drama and comedy/musical) just doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I highly recommend giving it a second chance. It really is one of the better films to come out this year. High expectations can ruin everything, which is why I'm really worried about being disappointed by Dragon Tattoo, since I've been anticipating the thing for well over a year now.
If nothing else, its worth watching for Williams, Branagh and Dench's performances alone.
How was Emma Stone snubbed?