The Golden Globes are normally a good indication to who Oscars will go to this year and the nominations were annouced today:-
BEST MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA Babel Bobby The Departed Little Children The Queen BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA Penélope Cruz - Volver Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal Maggie Gyllenhaal - Sherrybaby Helen Mirren - The Queen Kate Winslet - Little Children BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DRAMA 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 MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan The Devil Wears Prada Dreamgirls Little Miss Sunshine Thank You for Smoking BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - COMEDY OR MUSICAL Annette Bening - Running with Scissors Toni Collette - Little Miss Sunshine Beyoncé Knowles - Dreamgirls Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada Renée Zellweger - Miss Potter BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - 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 ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Cars Happy Feet Monster House BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Apocalypto (USA) Letters From Iwo Jima (USA/Japan) The Lives of Others (Germany) Pan's Labyrinth (Mexico) Volver (Spain) BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE Adriana Barraza - Babel Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal Emily Blunt - The Devil Wears Prada Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls Rinko Kikuchi - Babel BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls Jack Nicholson - The Departed Brad Pitt - Babel Mark Wahlberg - The Departed BEST DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE Clint Eastwood - Flags of Our Fathers Clint Eastwood - Letters From Iwo Jima Stephen Frears - The Queen Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel Martin Scorsese - The Departed BEST SCREENPLAY - MOTION PICTURE Guillermo Arriaga - Babel Todd Field & Tom Perrotta - Little Children Patrick Marber - Notes on a Scandal William Monahan - The Departed Peter Morgan - The Queen BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - MOTION PICTURE Alexandre Desplat - The Painted Veil Clint Mansell - The Fountain Gustavo Santaolalla - Babel Carlo Siliotto - Nomad Hans Zimmer - The Da Vinci Code BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE "A Father's Way" - The Pursuit of Happyness Music by: Seal and Christopher Bruce Lyrics by: Seal "Listen" - Dreamgirls Music & Lyrics by: Henry Krieger, Anne Preven, Scott Cutler and Beyoncé Knowles "Never Gonna Break My Faith" - Bobby Music & Lyrics by: Bryan Adams, Eliot Kennedy and Andrea Remanda "The Song of the Heart" - Happy Feet Music & Lyrics by: Prince Rogers Nelson "Try Not to Remember" - Home of the Brave Music & Lyrics by: Sheryl Crow BEST TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA "24" (FOX) "Big Love" (HBO) "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC) "Heroes" (NBC) "Lost" (ABC) BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA Patricia Arquette - "Medium" Edie Falco - "The Sopranos" Evangeline Lilly - "Lost" Ellen Pompeo - "Grey's Anatomy" Kyra Sedgwick - "The Closer" BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA Patrick Dempsey - "Grey's Anatomy" Michael C. Hall - "Dexter" Hugh Laurie - "House" Bill Paxton - "Big Love" Kiefer Sutherland - "24" BEST TELEVISION SERIES - COMEDY OR MUSICAL "Desperate Housewives" (ABC) "Entourage" (HBO) "The Office" (NBC) "Ugly Betty" (ABC) "Weeds" (Showtime) BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - COMEDY OR MUSICAL Marcia Cross - "Desperate Housewives" America Ferrera - "Ugly Betty" Felicity Huffman - "Desperate Housewives" Julia Louis-Dreyfus - "The New Adventures of Old Christine" Mary-Louise Parker - "Weeds" BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - COMEDY OR MUSICAL Alec Baldwin - "30 Rock" Zach Braff - "Scrubs" Steve Carell - "The Office" Jason Lee - "My Name Is Earl" Tony Shalhoub - "Monk" BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION "Bleak House" (PBS) "Broken Trail" (AMC) "Elizabeth I" (HBO) "Mrs. Harris" (HBO) "Prime Suspect: The Final Act" (PBS) BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION Gillian Anderson - "Bleak House" Annette Bening - "Mrs. Harris" Helen Mirren - "Elizabeth I" Helen Mirren - "Prime Suspect: The Final Act" Sophie Okonedo - "Tsunami, The Aftermath" BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION André 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"
