{"id":45097,"date":"2012-12-14T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=45097"},"modified":"2018-01-07T11:49:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T19:49:34","slug":"golden-globe-nominations-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/golden-globe-nominations-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Globe Nominations 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awards season has officially begun. Yesterday, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association revealed its nominations for the Golden Globes ceremony in January. As usual, the choices are a mix of predictable safe bets and mystifying oddballs.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As announced by presenters Jessica Alba, Megan Fox and Ed Helms, Steven Spielberg&#8217;s &#8216;Lincoln&#8217; received the most love with seven nominations in all. Ben Affleck&#8217;s &#8216;Argo&#8217; also fared well in the eyes of the HFPA, with five nominations. <\/p>\n<p>You can find the full list of nominees on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldenglobes.org\/2012\/12\/nominations-2013\/\">official Golden Globes web site<\/a>. I won&#8217;t go through them all here, but these are some of the big categories. <\/p>\n<h5>Best Picture &#8211; Drama<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Argo&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Django Unchained&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Life of Pi&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Lincoln&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Zero Dark Thirty&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No huge surprises here, but (based on early buzz) I doubt that &#8216;Django Unchained&#8217; will make the cut for the eventual Oscar short-list. <\/p>\n<h5>Best Actress &#8211; Drama<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Jessica Chastain, &#8216;Zero Dark Thirty&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Marion Cotiallard, &#8216;Rust and Bone&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Helen Mirren, &#8216;Hitchcock&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Naomi Watts, &#8216;The Impossible&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Rachel Weisz, &#8216;The Deep Blue Sea&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although Helen Mirren was singled out as the best part of it, that &#8216;Hitchcock&#8217; biopic received almost universally scathing reviews. I&#8217;d be surprised to see it nominated, but this is the Golden Globes, where normal rules of logic and taste don&#8217;t apply. I have no idea what &#8216;Rust and Bone&#8217; is.<\/p>\n<h5>Best Actor &#8211; Drama<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Daniel Day-Lewis, &#8216;Lincoln&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Richard Gere, &#8216;Arbitrage&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>John Hawkes, &#8216;The Sessions&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Joaquin Phoenix, &#8216;The Master&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Denzel Washington, &#8216;Flight&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8216;Arbitrage&#8217;? Someone remembered that? Huh.<\/p>\n<h5>Best Picture \u2013 Comedy or Musical<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Les Miserables&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Moonrise Kingdom&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Salmon Fishing in the Yemen&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Silver Linings Playbook&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Best Actress \u2013 Comedy or Musical <\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Emily Blunt, &#8216;Salmon Fishing in the Yemen&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Judi Dench, &#8216;The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Lawrence, &#8216;Silver Linings Playbook&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Maggie Smith, &#8216;Quartet&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Meryl Streep, &#8216;Hope Springs&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Best Actor \u2013 Comedy or Musical <\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Jack Black, &#8216;Bernie&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Bradley Cooper, &#8216;Silver Linings Playbook&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Hugh Jackman, &#8216;Les Miserables&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Ewan McGregor, &#8216;Salmon Fishing in the Yemen&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Bill Murray, &#8216;Hyde Park on Hudson&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8216;Les Mis&#8217; was a guaranteed Golden Globe nominee before anyone saw a frame of it, and &#8216;Moonrise Kingdom&#8217; was the indie comedy (really more of a dramedy) of the year. &#8216;Marigold Hotel&#8217; is the sort of feel-good, middlebrow production that HFPA voters go for, and I don&#8217;t think &#8216;Silver Linings&#8217; will come as a shock to too many. <\/p>\n<p>However, what&#8217;s with the adoration for the forgettable and poorly-reviewed &#8216;Salmon Fishing in the Yemen&#8217;? In addition to a Best Picture nomination, it also locked down nods for the main acting categories. Is that this year&#8217;s &#8216;The Tourist&#8217;?<\/p>\n<h5>Best Television Series &#8211; Drama<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Breaking Bad&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Boardwalk Empire&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Downton Abbey&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Homeland&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;The Newsroom&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Best Television Series \u2013 Comedy or Musical<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;The Big Bang Theory&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Episodes&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Girls&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Modern Family&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Smash&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The TV categories don&#8217;t contain any shockers. I don&#8217;t personally feel that &#8216;The Newsroom&#8217; deserves to be in contention, but the talent behind it was enough to lock down a nomination no matter how mediocre and misguided it turned out to be. <\/p>\n<p>It should go without saying that the Golden Globe awards are considered a joke in the industry, and are completely meaningless. The only thing the ceremony is good for is the telecast itself, in which celebrities are encouraged to drink and have a good time (unlike the overly serious Oscars).<\/p>\n<p>For the complete list of nominations, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldenglobes.org\/2012\/12\/nominations-2013\/\">official Golden Globes web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awards season has officially begun. 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