The Golden Globes Nominations

So, the Golden Globe nominations were announced, and I'm going to keep my tradition of tracking the award season on my blog! Here we go, for the 2014 Golden Globes. The 71st Annual Globes will be airing on January 12, 2014 - hosted once again by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

Check out www.goldenglobes.com for full details.

BEST ACTOR IN A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Matt Damon - Behind the Candelabra
Chiewetel Ejiofor - Dancing on the Edge
Idris Elba - Luther
Al Pacino - Phil Spector
Michael Douglas - Behind the Candelabra

BEST ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
Chiewetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club
Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips
Robert Redford - All Is Lost
Idris Elba - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

BEST ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE, MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
Christian Bale - American Hustle
Oscar Isaac - Inside Llewyn Davis
Joaquin Phoenix - Her

BEST ACTOR IN A TV SERIES, COMEDY
Jason Bateman - Arrested Development
Don Cheadle - House of Lies
Michael J. Fox - The Michael J. Fox Show
Jim Parsons - The Big Bang Theory
Andy Samberg - Brooklyn Nine-Nine

BEST ACTOR IN A TV SERIES, DRAMA
Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad
Michael Sheen - Masters of Sex
Kevin Spacey - House of Cards
James Spader - The Blacklist
Liev Schreiber - Ray Donovan

BEST ACTRESS IN A MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Helena Bonham Carter - Burton and Taylor
Rebecca Ferguson - The White Queen
Jessica Lange - American Horror Story: Coven
Helen Mirren - Phil Spector
Elisabeth Moss - Top of the Lake

BEST ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Emma Thompson - Saving Mr. Banks
Judi Dench - Philomena
Kate Winslet - Labor Day

BEST ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Meryl Streep - August: Osage County
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Enough Said
Amy Adams - American Hustle
Julie Delpy - Before Midnight
Greta Gerwig - Frances Ha

BEST ACTRESS IN A TV SERIES, COMEDY
Zooey Deschanel - New Girl
Lena Dunham - Girls
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Veep
Amy Poehler - Parks and Recreation
Edie Falco - Nurse Jackie

BEST ACTRESS IN A TV SERIES, DRAMA
Julianna Margulies - The Good Wife
Kerry Washington - Scandal
Tatiana Maslany - Orphan Black
Robin Wright - House of Cards
Taylor Schilling - Orange Is the New Black

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Frozen
The Croods
Despicable Me 2

BEST DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE
Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips
Alexander Payne - Nebraska

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Blue Is the Warmest Color (France)
The Past (France)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Wind Rises (Japan)
The Great Beauty (Italy)

BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
12 Years a Slave
Gravity
Captain Phillips
Rush
Philomena

BEST MOTION PICTURE, MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Nebraska
American Hustle
The Wolf of Wall Street
Inside Llewyn Davis
Her

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - MOTION PICTURE
Steven Price - Gravity
John Williams - The Book Thief
Hans Zimmer - 12 Years a Slave
Alex Ebert - All Is Lost
Alex Heffes - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE
Atlas - Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion)
Let It Go - Frozen (Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez)
Ordinary Love - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Bono, Adam Clayton, The Edge, Larry Mullen Jr., Brian Burton)
Please Mr Kennedy - Inside Llewyn Davis (T-Bone Burnett, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Justin Timberlake, George Cromaty, Ed Rush)
Sweeter Than Fiction - One Chance (Jack Antonoff, Taylor Swift)

BEST SCREENPLAY - MOTION PICTURE
John Ridley - 12 Years a Slave
Bob Nelson - Nebraska
Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell - American Hustle
Jeff Pope - Philomena
Spike Jonze - Her

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
Daniel Bruhl - Rush
Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Rob Lowe - Behind the Candelabra
Josh Charles - The Good Wife
Aaron Paul - Breaking Bad
Corey Stoll - House of Cards
Jon Voight - Ray Donovan

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
Julia Roberts - August: Osage County
June Squibb - Nebraska
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A SERIES, MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
Hayden Panetierre - Nashville
Jacqueline Bisset - Dancing on the Edge
Janet McTeer - The White Queen
Monica Potter - Parenthood
Sofia Vergara - Modern Family

BEST TV MOVIE OR MINISERIES
American Horror Story: Coven
Behind the Candelabra
Dancing on the Edge
Top of the Lake
The White Queen

BEST TV SERIES, COMEDY
The Big Bang Theory
Modern Family
Girls
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Parks and Recreation

BEST TV SERIES, DRAMA
Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
House of Cards
Masters of Sex
The Good Wife

Whew! There's quite a different crop here than in previous years. I'm excited to see these awards! I'm also determined to actually see all the nominees - excluding the TV series, because there's no way I could catch up on all of those in time.

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Idris Elba have cleaned up here - both are nominated in TWO categories. That's the first time I've ever seen this! It should be a banner year. Also, why was I not INFORMED that Helena Bonham Carter played Elizabeth Taylor in a movie?! That is now an absolute must see for me!

I still have a problem with the fact that the Globes categorize musicals and comedies in the same category - as we saw with Les Mis last year, it is not a comedy just because it's a musical, and it shouldn't be going up against comedies. Musicals either need their own category, or they need to be included where appropriate. Unfortunately, that's probably not going to change any time soon. So, we'll just have to see how everything goes.

As always, I'm a fan of Jennifer Lawrence, and I am rooting for Coop to win something this year after being snubbed for Silver Linings last year. I cannot wait to see American Hustle; it looks great and it's David O. Russell, who usually hits it out of the park for me.

Keep checking back for more blog posts! I'll be covering as many award shows as possible, and hopefully culminating with the Academy Awards in February. (Seriously. I book off work so I can watch it and I run a live blog during the broadcast!)