Golden Globe Nominations!

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#1

Yeah, they are here and Cars is nominated in

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE with Happy Feet and Monster House.
Unfortunately, Cars got

no nomination for Best Song.

The reaction of John Lasseter: (from Variety.com)

John Lasseter,

director of “Cars”: [i]"I’m so excited the HFPA would think there’s enough quality

animated films being made these days to create the category, and to be nommed for the first ever is such a

thrill.

“Cars” is the first Pixar film I’ve directed since “Toy Story 2” and this

nomination is special because it was a banner year in the animation industry. I love that the industry is so

healthy."[/i]

Here the full list of nominations:

And the nominees

are…

MOTION PICTURE
DRAMA
“Babel” - Anonymous Content Produc-tion/Una Producci?n De

Zeta Film/Central Film Production; Paramount Pictures/Paramount Vantage
“Bobby” - Bold Films; The

Weinstein Company
“The Departed” - Warner Bros. Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures
"Little

Children" - New Line Cinema; New Line Cinema
“The Queen” - A Granada Production; Miramax Films

ACTRESS (DRAMA)
Penelope Cruz - “Volver”
Judi Dench - "Notes on a

Scandal"
Maggie Gyllenhaal - “Sherrybaby”
Helen Mirren - “The Queen”
Kate

Winslet - “Little Children”

ACTOR (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”

MUSICAL

OR COMEDY
“Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” -

One America; Twentieth Century Fox
“The Devil Wears Prada” - Twentieth Century Fox; Twentieth

Century Fox
“Dreamgirls” - DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount Pictures; DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount

Pictures
“Little Miss SUnshine” - Big Beach/Bonafide Productions; Fox Searchlight

Pictures
“Thank You For Smoking” - Room 9 Entertainment/David O. Sacks Produc-tion/Content Film; Fox

Searchlight Pictures

ACTRESS (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
Annette Bening - "Running with

Scissors"
Toni Collette - “Little Miss Sunshine”
Beyonce Knowles -

“Dream-girls”
Meryl Streep - “The Devil Wears Prada”
Renee Zellweger - "Miss

Potter"

ACTOR (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
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”

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE

FILM
“Apocalypto” - Touchstone Pictures/Icon Productions; Buena Vista Pictures
"Letters

from Iwo Jima" - Warner Bros. Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures
"The Lives of

Others" - Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion; Sony Pictures Classics
“Pan’s Labyrinth” -

Estudios Picasso/Tequila Gang/Esperanto; Picture-house
“Volver” - El Deseo; Sony Pictures Classics

ANIMATED FILM
“Cars” - Walt Disney Pic-tures/Pixar Animation Studio; Buena Vista Pictures

Distribution
“Happy Feet” - Kingdom Pictures, LLC; Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures

“Monster House” - Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures Releasing

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Adriana

Barraza - “Babel”
Cate Blanchett - “Notes on a Scandal”
Emily Blunt - "The Devil

Wears Prada"
Jennifer Hudson - “Dreamgirls”
Rinko Kikuchi - “Babel”

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ben Affleck - “Hollywoodland”
Jack Nicholson - "The

Departed"
Eddie Murphy - “Dreamgirls”
Brad Pitt - “Babel”
Mark Wahlberg -

“The Departed”

DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood - “Flags of Our Fa-thers”
Clint Eastwood

  • “Letters from Iwo Jima”
    Stephen Frears - “The Queen”
    Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu -

“Babel”
Martin Scorsese - “The Departed”

SCREENPLAY
“Babel”-

Guillermo Ar-riaga
“Little Children” - Todd Field and Tom Perrotta
"Notes on a

Scandal" - Patrick Mar-ber
“The Departed” - Wiliam Monahan
“The Queen” - Peter

Morgan

ORIGINAL SCORE
“The Painted Veil” - Alexandre Desplat
“The Fountain” -

Clint Mansell
“Babel” - Gustavo Santaolalla
“Nomad” - Carlo Siliotto
"The Da

Vinci Code" - Hans Zimmer

ORIGINAL SONG
"A Father’s Way - “Pursuit of Happyness”

  • Music by: Seal and Christopher Bruce; Lyrics by: Seal
    “Listen” - “Dreamgirls” - Music

& Lyrics by: Henry Krieger, Anne Preven, Scott Cutler and Beyonc? 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

TELEVISION

DRAMA
“24” -Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox Television i.a.w.

Real Time
“Big Love” - Anima Sola and Playtone Prods. i.a.w. HBO Entertainment
"Grey’s

Anatomy" - Touchstone Television
“Heroes” - NBC Universal Television Studios i.a.w. Tailwind

Prods.
“Lost” - Touchstone Television

ACTRESS (DRAMA)
Patricia Arquette -

“Medium”
Edie Falco - “The Sopranos”
Evangeline Lily - “Lost”
Ellen Pompeo

  • “Grey’s Anatomy”
    Kyra Sedgwick - “The Closer”

ACTOR (DRAMA)
Patrick Dempsey

  • “Grey’s Anatomy”
    Michael C. Hall - “Dexter”
    Hugh Laurie - “House”
    Bill

Paxton - “Big Love”
Kiefer Sutherland - “24”

MUSICAL OR COMEDY
"Desperate

Housewives" - Touchstone Television
“Entourage” - Leverage and Closest to the Hole Prods.

i.a.w. HBO Entertainment
“The Office” - Deedle Dee Prods. with Reveille i.a.w. NBC Universal

Television Studio
“Ugly Betty” - Touchstone Television
“Weeds” - Showtime i.a.w.

Lionsgate Television and Tilted Prods., Inc

ACTRESS (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
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”

ACTOR (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
Alec Baldwin - “30 Rock”
Zach Braff -

“Scrubs”
Steve Carell - “The Office”
Jason Lee - “My Name is Earl”
Tony

Shaloub - “Monk”

MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
“Bleak House” - BBC and WGBH Boston Prod.

i.a.w. Deep Indigo
“Broken Trail” - Butchers Run Films and Once Upon a Time Films i.a.w. Sony

Pictures
“Elizabeth I” - Company Pictures and Channel 4 i.a.w. HBO Films
"Mrs.

Harris" - Killer Films, Number 9 Films and John Wells Prod. i.a.w. HBO Films
"Prime Suspect: The

Final Act" - Granada and WGBH-Boston Prod.

ACTRESS (MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE)
Gillian Anderson -

“Bleak House”
Annette Bening - “Mrs. Harris”
Helen Mirren - "Elizabeth

I"
Helen Mirren - “Prime Suspect: The Final Act”
Sophie Okonedo - "Tsunami, The

Aftermath "

ACTOR (MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE)
Andre 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”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Emily Blunt -

“Gideon’s Daughter”
Toni Collette - "Tsunami, The Aftermath "
Katherine Heigl -

“Grey’s Anat-omy”
Sarah Paulson - “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”
Elizabeth Perkins -

“Weeds”

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Thomas Haden Church - “Broken Trail”
Jeremy Irons -

“Elizabeth I”
Justin Kirk - “Weeds”
Masi Oka - “Heroes”
Jeremy Piven -

“Entourage”

CECIL B. DEMILLE AWARD
Warren Beatty

#2

Cool – I’m happy for Mr. Lasseter in that Cars has been

nominated for “Best Animated Feature”. Too bad that it wasn’t a final runner up in the "Best

Original Score" category, but it had a chance…

I noticed that two supporting actresses from the

same film (“Babel”) were nominated, as was Clint Eastwood in the directors’ category.
And

yes!! Song of the Heart (from [i]Happy

Feet[/i]) has been placed in the “Best Original Song” list! I’m ecstatic! I hope it

wins… (snigger)

Heheh – thank you for the long list of nominees,

Groaning. Cars may just grab that Oscar…

#3

Hmm, well,

that’s good then! Best Animated Feature is a pretty large category, so I hope Cars wins, though I still think it

will be very close.

#4

Yes! Thanks for the information Groaning. I’m hoping

that Cars wins, but I guess I don’t exactly have the right to say that since I

haven’t seen the other animated films that were nominated. Nevertheless, Cars was a

brilliant movie, so I’d be really happy if it wins.

#5

And just to add to my comment, I’m really not that surprised that “Our Town”

wasn’t nominated for Best Original Song; a lot of awards prediction websites that I’ve seen have predicted that

Cars would not garner the Golden Globe nomination in

that category. However, the same websites also predict that Cars would garner the

Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. It may seem unusual, but in fact, Golden Globe voters and Oscar voters

seem to have different tastes in regards to film songs nowadays.

#6

Cars does have another shot at something incredible. I

will root for them. I am quite surprised that no song in Cars got nominated for best song. I mean, two were

nominated for an Oscar.

#7

Well… “Our Town” and “Real Gone” haven’t technically been

nominated for an Oscar yet, but they did make the long list, which, I think, is an honor in itself.

#8

But if you are good enough for an Oscar, shouldn’t you be good enough for a

Golden Globe?

#9

Not necessarily. You have to remember

that the majority of Oscar voters don’t necessarily hold the same opinion held by the majority of Golden Globe

voters. When it comes to judging movies, the Golden Globes and Oscars do not differ that much in opinion (except

for the past couple of years, I guess). But when it comes to judging songs from movies, the Golden Globes and

Oscars seem to differ a lot in opinion, especially in the past two/three years, when the Oscar winners for Best

Song were not even nominated for a Golden Globe award in the same category (which is

understandable, since most of these voters aren’t song critics, anyway, I think).

Ergo, a Golden Globe

nomination does not guarantee an Oscar nomination, and vice versa.

#10

I

see. I always thought the oscar was the award of all awards in the movie catagory. I thought is you are good

enough for an oscar, what makes you any different from getting nominated for a golden globe?

#11

[b]And Cars won

!!![/b] :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
Congratulations to John Lasseter !

#12

Wooooooo! Cars wins! Yesssssss!

John Lasseter looked like a mucho fun guy up on

stage. I’m glad he repeated the message of Cars to everyone there. :slight_smile:

#13

And Prince George Hugh Laurie got best TV Actor!

It seems like yesterday I was watching him getting blown up by Ade Edmonson…

While this is a great

honour, I still believe the Oscars will be a close one.

#14

Awww , you beat me to it !

We won !

Well , they won but you know what i mean . Woooohooo !!!
I was literally kicking my legs up in the air . My

dad called me too . But Cars won ! Today’s the best day of my life ! NOw i get to stick my tounge out at all my

classmates . And they said it was stupid . :wink:

#15

Congrats to Cars. They really, really

deserved it.

#16

Yess!I’m so jumping up and down right now! :smiley:

#17

I was about to announce that, but you beat me to it

:wink:

Nevertheless, I just want to say: YAY! I haven’t seen the other films in contention, but whether I

would, once I see them, think that either one is better than Cars or not, I can

already say that Cars deserves the award big time, being the masterpiece that I

think it is. Congratulations to John Lasseter and everyone involved in the movie.

Next up, the Oscars…

:slight_smile:

#18

As a side note, I was a little

surprised that “Listen” from Dreamgirls didn’t win the Best Original Song

Golden Globe (not that I wanted it to win). The eventual winner was “Song of the Heart” from

Happy Feet. This kind of makes me think that “Our Town” has a pretty

decent chance to get the Oscar…

#19

YAAAAHOOO!!! I KNEW CARS WOULD WIN!!! YAY!

#20

Saw the Award going to

Cars yesterday evening here.
Its amazing how the faces of these real leaders of

Pixar have changed even sinced I had seen them in docmentaries of Finding Nemo and

so forth.
But i’m sure that many of us saw (Or am hoping so) the last thing that Lasseter said before

finishing up on the thank yous for the Award. He said this in accordance to everyone at Pixar as the last word on

stage,
[i][b]John Lasseter:

“HOOOOORRRRRRRRRRAYYYYYYYY!!!”[/i][/b]

*How nice, LOL :smiley:! *