64th Annual Golden Globe Nominees - Motion Picture Awards

[tobynosker]

64th Annual Golden Globe Nominees

Best Motion Picture - Drama
Babel (****/****)
Bobby (***.5/****)
The Departed (****/****)
Little Children
The Queen (***.5/****)

Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (**.5/****)
The Devil Wears Prada (***/****)
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine (***.5/****)
Thank You for Smoking (***.5/****)

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 Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Penelope 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 - 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 Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Annette Bening - Running with Scissors
Toni Collette - Little Miss Sunshine
Beyonce Knowles - Dreamgirls
Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
Renee Zellweger - Miss Potter

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 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 Director - Motion Picture
Clint Eastwood - Flags of our Fathers (****/****)
Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears - The Queen (***.5/****)
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Babel (****/****)
Martin Scorsese - The Departed (****/****)

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Guillermo Arriaga - Babel
Todd Field & Tom Perrota - Little Children
Patrick Marber - Notes on a Scandal
William Monahan - The Departed
Peter Morgan - The Queen

Best Animated Feature Film
Cars (**.5/****)
Monster House (***/****)
Happy Feet (**/****)

Best Foreign Language Film
Apocalypto (***.5/****)
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Lives of Others
Pan's Labyrinth
Volver

Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat - The Painted Veil
Clint Mansell - The Fountain
Gustavo Santaolalla - Babel
Hans Zimmer - The Da Vinci Code

Best Original Song
"A Father's Way" by Seal - The Pursuit of Happyness
"Listen" by Beyonce - Dreamgirls
"Never Gonna Break My Heart" by Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige - Bobby
"The Song of My Heart" by Prince Rogers Nelson - Happy Feet
"Try Not to Remember" by Sheryl Crow - Home of the Brave





PREDICTIONS:
The Departed
Dreamgirls
Forest Whitaker
Helen Mirren
Aaron Eckhart
Meryl Streep
Eddie Murphy
Jennifer Hudson
Clint Eastwood (for Letters from Iwo Jima)
Peter Morgan
Happy Feet
Letters from Iwo Jima
Gustavo Santaolalla
"Listen"

[nojob67]

tobynosker
I have heard from a couple friends that "Bobby" wasn't all that good and you have given a fairly good rating, do you mind telling me a little about the movie?

[tobynosker]

Bobby has a tremendous ensemble cast with so many tremendous performances from actors in bit-parts (namely Harry Belafonte and Anthony Hopkins) who, while they weren't on the screen long enough or showcased enough to garner any awards, helped make the execution of the film work and intermingle several different character studies together.

Also, the final minutes of Bobby are some of the most emotionally draining moments I have seen in a movie this year (outside of United 93), and had my mother and most of the theatre audience openly weeping.



THIS YEAR's GOLDEN GLOBE SNUBS:
Robert Altman
Sophia Coppola
Matt Damon
Kirsten Dunst
Shareeka Epps
Ryan Gosling
The Good German
The Good Shepherd
Paul Greengrass
Half Nelson
Marie Antoinette
Michael Sheen
Steven Soderbergh
United 93
World Trade Center

[nojob67]

Thanks for the info on the movie, I think I'll check it out.

[bama4256]

I have to go with Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Actor in a Performance.

[Marc]

Where's Daniel Craig? He was awesome!

[tobynosker]

I went eight of fourteen on my predictions last night, and I have to admit that I was shocked that BillyD's favorite movie Babel was able to defeat The Departed in the Best Motion Picture - Drama category last night.