Category: Golden Globe Awards

  • Golden Globe nominations out

    MUMBAI: The Golden Globe Awards has released its list of nominations for the upcoming award ceremony scheduled to be held on 17 January at the Beverly Hilton.


    The nominations are:


    Best Motion Picture – Drama


    Avatar, Lightstorm Entertainment; Twentieth Century Fox


    The Hurt Locker, Voltage Pictures ; Summit Entertainment


    Inglourious Basterds, The Weinstein Company


    Precious: Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Group Production; Lionsgate


    Up In The Air, Paramount Pictures; Paramount Pictures
    Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama


    Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria


    Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side


    Helen Mirren, The Last Station


    Carey Mulligan, An Education


    Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama


    Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart


    George Clooney, Up In The Air


    Colin Firth, A Single Man


    Morgan Freeman, Invictus


    Tobey Maguire, Brothers
    Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical


    (500) Days of Summer, Watermark Pictures; Fox Searchlight Pictures


    The Hangover, Warner Bros. Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures


    It‘s Complicated, Relativity Media, Scott Rudin Productions; Universal Pictures


    Julie & Julia, Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures Releasing


    Nine, The Weinstein Company; The Weinstein Company


    Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picturee – Comedy or Musical


    Sandra Bullock, The Proposal


    Marion Cotillard, Nine


    Julia Roberts, Duplicity


    Meryl Streep, It‘s Complicated


    Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical


    Matt Damon, The Informant!


    Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine


    Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes


    Joseph-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer


    Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man
    Best Animated Feature Film


    Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation; Sony Pictures Releasing


    Coraline, Laika, Inc.; Focus Features


    Fantastic Mr. Fox, American Empirical Picture; Twentieth Century Fox


    The Princess and The Frog, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures


    UP, Walt Disney Pictures/PIXAR Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
    Best Foreign Language Film


    Baaria (Italy), Medusa Film; Summit Entertainment


    Broken Embraces (Spain), El Deseo SA; Sony Pictures Classics


    The Maid (Chile), (La Nana), Forastero; Elephant Eye Films


    A Prophet (France), Chic Films; Sony Pictures Classics


    The White Ribbon (Germany), (Das Weisse Band – Eine Deutsche Kindergeschichte), Wega Films; Sony Pictures Classics

  • Paramount Motion Pictures tops Golden Globe Awards with 15 nominations

    Paramount Motion Pictures tops Golden Globe Awards with 15 nominations

    MUMBAI: Paramount Motion Pictures Group has received 15 nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards beating all other studios. This also marks a record for Paramount.

    Babel, the first film to be green-lighted by Paramount Vantage, topped all films with seven nominations; Dreamgirls, produced by DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, followed with five nominations; and the co-productions (with Warner Bros.) Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima received one and two nominations respectively, states an official release.

    Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a unit of Viacom, produces and distributes filmed entertainment through the Paramount Motion Picture Group which includes Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Paramount Classics, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies.

    PPC operations also include Paramount Pictures International, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Digital Entertainment, Paramount Studios and Worldwide Television Distribution.

  • ‘Lost’, ‘Grey’s Anatomy, ‘Weeds’ competing at Golden Globe Awards

    ‘Lost’, ‘Grey’s Anatomy, ‘Weeds’ competing at Golden Globe Awards

    MUMBAI: Nominations for the 64th edition of the Golden Globes have been announced.

    ABC’s hospital soap Grey’s Anatomy and Showtime’s Weeds got four Golden Globe nominations, including best drama and best comedy, respectively.

    Keeping Grey’s Anatomy company for best drama are Lost, 24, Heroes, and Big Love. For comedy the nominees are Desperate Housewives, Weeds, Entourage, The Office and Ugly Betty. In India the Golden Globe Awards will air on Star World next month.

    HBO led the television categories with 14 nominations, followed by ABC with 11, NBC with nine and Showtime with six. HBO’s Elizabeth I and Mrs. Harris got nominated for best mini series or TV movie. Tsunami The Aftermath which will air in India on HBO on 26 December picked up acting nominations for Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Okonedo and Toni Collette.

    On the film side Babel with its multiple narrative threads picked up six nominations along with Martin Scorcese’s gangster epic The Departed. Director Clint Eastwood got two nominations for directing the war films Flags Of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima. So it is a Clint vs Marty showdown again. Leonardo Dicaprio got two nominations for acting in The Departed and Blood Diamond. On the actress side Helen Mirren is the favourite for the playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen.