Golden Globes nominations were announced today with Steven Spielberg's heavily-hyped historical drama "Lincoln" leading the pack of nominees.
Spielberg's latest, which is garnering plenty of critical praise, took home a record seven Golden Globe nominations for the director. The film's nominations included best director, best picture, and best actor honors for Daniel Day-Lewis, best supporting nods for Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field, as well as best screenplay and score. For comparison, Spielberg's iconic holocaust film, 1993's "Schindler's List," carried away six Golden Globe nominations.
Made up of journalists from around the world, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association voted for best drama as most critics predicted it would. Other than "Lincoln," "Argo," "Django Unchained," "Life of Pi" and "Zero Dark Thirty" earned nominations.
For insight into how the Oscars may play out, pay close attention to those best drama or best comedy-musical categories, nominees for those awards are usually a good indication of what movies will win best picture at the Academy Awards.
"The best picture Oscar has mirrored the Globes' choice for best drama or best comedy-musical about two-thirds of the time over the last two decades. The Globes last year gave its top movie prizes to "The Descendants" and "The Artist," which went on to win the Academy award for best picture," The New York Times noted.
This year the Golden Globe nominations were released unusually close to when Oscar voting begins, which may help under-seen and/or currently unreleased films bankroll their Golden Globe nominations into an Oscar nod as well, noted the Times.
"This year the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of 80 or so mostly freelance writers, announced its picks just four days before the unusually early onset of Oscar voting. So an armful of Globes nominations will without question put momentum behind certain Academy Award hopefuls. And that could swing the race. The movie industry's self-congratulatory season is typically well defined by now, with favorites firmly established and dark horses looming. But consensus has yet to form fully around any best picture contender this year, perhaps because an unusual number of films are arriving late," the Times said.
Ben Afleck's political thriller "Argo" was another big winner in Thursday's nominations. The film about a brave operation to recover American hostages from Iran in 1980 earned five nominations, including best picture, director, screenplay, score and a best supporting actor nod for Alan Arkin.
Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty," which tells the story of the 10-year manhunt for Al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden, also scored big, snagging four nominations, including best film, director, screenplay and best actress for Jessica Chastain.
Movies with less box office success domination the comedy and music category this year: "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," "Les Miserables," "Moonrise Kingdom," "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" and "Silver Linings Playbook," received nominations. "Les Miserables" is the only one of those films to be opening in wide-release in mainstream theaters, and not until Christmas Day.
Familiar faces rounded out the best director category. Kathryn Bigelow was nominated for "Zero Dark Thirty," Ben Afleck for "Argo," Ang Lee for "Life of Pi," Steven Spielberg for "Lincoln" and Quentin Tarantino for "Django Unchained."
In TV, "Breaking Bad," "Boardwalk Empire," "Downton Abbey," "Homeland" and "The Newsroom" were drama nominees. "The Big Bang Theory," "Episodes," "Girls," "Modern Family" and "Smash" were nominated for best TV musical or comedy.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, both nominees in the TV best actress category, will host the Golden Globes on NBC Jan. 13.
For the complete list of Golden Globe nominations click here.
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