Nominees for 67th Golden Globes Announced

Tuesday morning, bright and early in Los Angeles, Justin Timberlake, John Krasinski, and Diane Kruger announced the nominees for the 67th Golden Globes which will be televised on January 17th, 2010 from The Beverly Hilton in LA. The nominees consisted of expected front runners like Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air and the musical Nine. Other big nominees include Inglourious Basterds and James Cameron’s Avatar. For a complete list of this years nominees continue reading.

This list includes all the nominees for movies:

Here’s the full list of film nominations:

BEST PICTURE: DRAMA
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
Up in the Air

BEST PICTURE: COMEDY OR MUSICAL
(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover
It’s Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine

BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
James Cameron, Avatar
Clint Eastwood, Invictus
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

BEST ACTOR: DRAMA
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Tobey Maguire, Brothers

BEST ACTRESS: DRAMA
Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious

BEST ACTRESS: COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Sandra Bullock, The Proposal
Marion Cotillard, Nine
Julia Roberts, Duplicity
Meryl Streep, It’s Complicated
Meryl Streep Julie & Julia

BEST ACTOR: COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Matt Damon, The Informant
Daniel Day Lewis, Nine
Robert Downey, Jr., Sherlock Holmes
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, Nine
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Anne Kendrick, Up in the Air
Mo’Nique, Precious
Julianne Moore, A Single Man

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Prophet
Baaria
Broken Embraces
The Maid
The White Ribbon

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
Up

BEST SCREENPLAY
Distrit 9
The Hurt Locker
It’s Complicated
Up in the Air
Inglourious Basterds

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Michael Giacchino, Up
Marvin Hamlisch, The Informant
James Horner, Avatar
Abel Krozeniowski, A Single Man
Karen O. and Carter Burwell, Where the Wild Things Are

BEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE
“Cinema Italiano,” Nine
“I Want To Come Home,” Everybody’s Fine
“I See You,” Avatar
“The Weary Kind,” Crazy Heart
“Winter,” Brothers

I am delighted to see Up in the Air leading the pack with six nominations. I am surprised to see all the love for Inglourious Basterds, which I did not expect to be an award show contender. Although Basterds was one of my favorite films of the year, the Hollywood Foreign Press can sometimes be unpredictable with what they chose.

The most surprising of all nominations has to be Sandra Bullock receiving two acting nominations. Best Actress in a drama for her current box office smash The Blindside and Best Actress in a comedy for her summer hit The Proposal. The Blindside has been a huge commerical success so this nomination honestly doesn’t surprise me.

Other nominations which I was happy to see included was the summer comedy hit The Hangover, (500) Days of Summer which was one of my favorite movies of the year, and Cristoph Waltz for Best Supporting Actor for Inglourious Basterds was much deserved.

Some surprises included the exclusion of Clint Eastwood’s Invictus for both best picture and director nominations, and very little attention for Peter Jackson’s adaptation of The Lovely Bones. The buzz for Avatar continues to grow with awards for Best Picture and Director for James Cameron.

The Golden Globes are considered a precursor for what to expect come Oscar nomination time. What do you think of this years nominations? Who do you think was snubbed? Who shouldn’t have made the cut? Share with us your thoughts below.