Golden Globe Nominations: Film

Posted by: Paul Little  •  December 12, 2008 @ 4:16am

The season is upon us... joy to the world! No, I'm not talking about the holiday season -- I'm talking about Hollywood awards season. The Emmys and Grammys always get things started in the fall, early every new year are the 2 big film awards: The Golden Globes and the Academy Awards. The Globes start off first in January, and the nominations just came out Thursday.

The big film nominations included The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and In Brudges, while a couple over-the-top comedies -- Tropic Thunder and Pineapple Express -- even scored acting nominations. A complete list of Golden Globe nominees for motion pictures is after the jump.

Best Picture (Drama)

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frost/Nixon
• The Reader
• Revolutionary Road
• Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actress (Drama)

• Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
• Angelina Jolie – Changeling
• Meryl Streep – Doubt
• Kristin Scott Thomas – I've Loved You So Long
• Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road

Best Actor (Drama)

• Leonardo DiCaprio – Revolutionary Road
• Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
• Sean Penn – Milk
• Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)

• Burn After Reading
• Happy-Go-Lucky
• In Bruges
• Mamma Mia!
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Actress (Musical or Comedy)

• Rebecca Hall – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
• Frances McDormand – Burn After Reading
• Meryl Streep – Mamma Mia!
• Emma Thompson – Last Chance Harvey

Best Actor (Musical or Comedy)

• Javier Bardem – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Colin Farrell – In Bruges
• James Franco – Pineapple Express
• Brendan Gleeson – In Bruges
• Dustin Hoffman – Last Chance Harvey

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams – Doubt
• Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Viola Davis – Doubt
• Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
• Kate Winslet – The Reader

Best Supporting Actor

• Tom Cruise – Tropic Thunder
• Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
• Ralph Fiennes – The Duchess
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
• Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight

Best Animated Feature Film

• Bolt
• Kung Fu Panda
• Wall-E

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
• Everlasting Moments (Sweden, Denmark)
• Gomorrah (Italy)
• I've Loved You So Long (France)
• Waltz With Bashir (Israel)

Best Director

• Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
• Stephen Daldry – The Reader
• David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
• Sam Mendes – Revolutionary Road

Best Screenplay

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Eric Roth)
• Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
• Frost/Nixon (Peter Morgan)
• The Reader (David Hare)
• Slumdog Millionaire (Simon Beaufoy)

Best Original Score

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Alexandre Desplat)
• Changeling (Clint Eastwood)
• Defiance (James Newton Howard)
• Slumdog Millionaire (A. R. Rahman)
• Frost/Nixon (Hans Zimmer)

Best Original Song

• "Down to Earth" – Wall-E
• "Gran Torino" – Gran Torino
• "I Thought I Lost You" – Bolt
• "Once in a Lifetime" – Cadillac Records
• "The Wrestler" – The Wrestler

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Paul Little is the founder and Managing Editor of ShowbizMonkeys.com. When not interviewing his favourite musicians and comedians, he can also be found putting on and promoting music and comedy events with The Purple Room in Winnipeg, or co-producing the live comedy game shows Pants on Fire and The Great Patio Showdown. (@comedygeek)