Glee brought in four nominations for Fox when this morning's Golden Globe nominations were announced.
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Movie Nominations
In what’s rapidly becoming a trend, Up In The Air did very well — it’s nominated for Best Drama, George Clooney is nominated, supporting actresses Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick are both nominated, the director Jason Reitman is nominated, and his screenplay is nominated.
Invictus, meanwhile, pulled off the perplexing feat of not being nominated at the Best Drama level, but having its director and actors (Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman) nominated.
Perhaps the closest thing to a surprise — and it’s not really surprising so much as noteworthy — in the big movie categories is that James Cameron’s Avatar is nominated for Best Drama. This hasn’t been a major player in the awards that have been handed out thus far by various circles of critics, but it’s important to keep in mind that the Globes love this kind of big, popular, ambitious audience bait.
As many expected, Meryl Streep was double-nominated in the same category — actress in a comedy/musical — for her roles in It’s Complicated and Julie & Julia. As formidable as Streep is, this does seem like it’s also a symptom of what a weak year it was in good roles for women, particularly in comedies. (See also: the fact that her category includes Julia Roberts in Duplicity, certainly a likable movie but nothing that would be awards material in a better year, and Sandra Bullock in The Proposal, which: likewise.)
Other double nominees include Bullock (also nominated for The Blind Side over in drama) and Matt Damon (for Invictus and The Informant!).
One of the films people are watching closely this year to see if there’s any chance it could sneak into some awards recognition is The Hangover — note that it was nominated for Best Comedy/Musical, but that’s the only recognition it received. Compare that to the comedy It’s Complicated, for instance, which not only received Streep’s nomination but one for the Nancy Meyers screenplay. Meyers, also the writer of films like The Holiday and Something’s Gotta Give as well as the updates of Father Of The Bride and The Parent Trap, doesn’t exactly have an extensive history of award-winning; the fact that she got the only nomination given to a comedy screenplay seems ... well, as stated earlier, the Globes can be a bit perplexing. (Full disclosure: Haven’t seen It’s Complicated yet; just going by expectations versus reality.)