Not exact matches
The Golden Globe's Best Motion
Picture —
Drama category is the show's most important award, with the winner often becoming a Best
Picture favorite in the lead up to the Oscars.
Best Director is an exact repeat of the Best Motion
Picture —
Drama category, while the Best Screenplay one is the same save for David O. Russell and «Silver Linings Playbook» ousting David Magee and «Life of Pi.»
In the
category of best actress in a motion
picture -
drama, the nominees are: Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), Julie Christie (Away From Her), Jodie Foster (The Brave One), Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart) and Keira Knightley (Atonement).
The 12 nominations for «The King's Speech» — including crucial nods in key
categories such as Best
Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay — means Tom Hooper's historical
drama (and not David Fincher's Facebook film) is -LSB-...]
Director David O. Russell's comedy
drama and Alfonso Cuarón space epic both received nominations in the Best
Picture category, along with nominations for their leading male and female performances.
The Best
Picture category includes an eclectic mix of genre - spanning features from animated features to sci - fi
dramas to action - packed blockbusters.
Since the HFPA has two best
picture categories — Best Motion Picture, Drama, and Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy — it's unlikely to break any of the deadlock between Moonlight and La L
picture categories — Best Motion
Picture, Drama, and Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy — it's unlikely to break any of the deadlock between Moonlight and La L
Picture,
Drama, and Best Motion
Picture, Musical or Comedy — it's unlikely to break any of the deadlock between Moonlight and La L
Picture, Musical or Comedy — it's unlikely to break any of the deadlock between Moonlight and La La Land.
In one sense, the Golden Globes, voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, muddy the water by dividing the best actress, actor and
picture categories into
drama and musical or comedy, thereby doubling the number of nominees.
The big success of the night was Boyhood, which won three
categories in Best Motion
Picture —
Drama, Best Director (Richard Linklater) and Best Supporting Actress (Patricia Arquette), while Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel scooped Best Motion
Picture — Comedy or Musical.
But Barbra Streisand said it simply, echoing the night's rally cry, telling the room that she was dismayed that she was still the only woman to win the directing
category, saying, «Folks, time's up,» before naming the winner of Best Motion
Picture —
Drama.
In the top
categories (
picture, acting, writing, direction) the leader was Clint Eastwood's brooding
drama «Mystic River,» with six nominations, including Penn, Tim Robbins and Marcia Gay Harden.
The
category of Best Motion
Picture —
Drama was easier to predict, favoring such critical darlings as Todd Haynes's «Carol,» George Miller's «Mad Max: Fury Road» (which many viewers would consider quite comedic), Alejandro González Iñárritu's «The Revenant» and Todd McCarthy's «Spotlight.»
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was the overall winner of the night, securing awards for Best
Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor in the
Drama category.
The Oscar - tipped Call Me By Your Name also didn't receive any awards, despite being nominated in three
categories, all in the
drama section: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Motion
Picture.
Greta Gerwig's teen comedy, Lady Bird, won Best Motion
Picture and Best Actress for a comedy or musical, while Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri secured awards for Best
Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor in the
Drama category.
The Best Actor in a Motion
Picture —
Drama category included some of the actors long considered locks for an Oscar Best Actor nod: «Foxcatcher» actor Steve Carell, Cumberbatch, and «Theory» actor Eddie Redmayne.
Richard Linklater's «Boyhood» — nominated in five
categories — won more Golden Globes, ending the night with three: Best Motion
Picture —
Drama, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion
Picture by Patricia Arquette (her first) and Best Director — Motion
Picture.
Best
Picture (
Drama) seems like a showdown between The Shape of Water and The Post, while Lady Bird and Get Out are the frontrunners in the comedy
category.
On the television side, which spanned 10 awards, «Justified» was a surprise winner for Best TV
Drama Series, while the deliciously ribald «It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,» now entering its seventh season, was named Best TV Comedy Series, knocking off last year's winner, «The Big C.» Kate Winslet («Mildred Pierce») and Jason Isaacs (PBS» «Case Histories») were awarded Best Actress and Best Actor prizes in the Miniseries or Motion
Picture Made for Television
categories, while Vanessa Williams («Desperate Housewives») and Ryan Hurst («Sons of Anarchy») won supporting performance trophies, which span both TV movie and serial work.
The Best
Picture category is an honor bestowed on the very best that cinema has to offer in the calendar year, and I believe we would do well to remember that this is not a moniker that is exclusive to
dramas.
A few
categories look less up in the air than others; Actress in a Motion
Picture (
Drama) has all GRG members who voted falling in line with the same five except for Evan.
Kidman's win set the stage for a night that ended up largely celebrating stories about women, including Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (which walked away with four prizes, including best actress and best motion
picture,
drama), Lady Bird (which won complementary best
picture and actress awards in the comedy
categories), and of course, Big Little Lies, which won several statuettes to match its horde of Emmys.
The Post garnered nominations in nearly every major
category, including Best Motion
Picture,
Drama, Best Actor and Actress nods for Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep, plus Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score.
The caustic, darkly comic ballbuster Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri walked away from the Globes with trophies in four of the six
categories it was nominated in, and the most awards of any feature film of the night: The movie took the Best Motion
Picture —
Drama) prize, stars Sam Rockwell and Frances McDormand both took home acting awards in their
categories, and director Martin McDonagh won for his screenplay.
And beginning with the 2010 Oscars, up to 10 movies could be nominated for Best
Picture, making it technically possible for all 10 Golden Globe Best
Picture nominations (in both the
Drama and Comedy / Musical
categories) to also appear in the Oscar Best
Picture nominations list.
Other winners in the film
categories were Lady Bird for Best
Picture (Comedy or Musical); Guillermo del Toro for Best Director for The Shape of Water; Gary Oldman for Best Actor (
Drama) for Darkest Hour; Saoirse Ronan for Best Actress (Comedy or Musical) for Lady Bird; James Franco for Best Actor (Comedy or Musical) for The Disaster Artist; Allison Janney for Best Supporting Actress for I, Tonya; In the Fade for Best Foreign Feature; Coco for Best Animated Feature; Alexandre Desplat for Best Original Score for The Shape of Water; and «This Is Me» from The Greatest Showman for Best Original Song.
The other nominees are Call Me by Your Name, a Best
Picture contender written by Hollywood luminary James Ivory; Dee Rees and Virgil Williams's literary, astute Mudbound, which marks the first time a black woman has ever been nominated in this
category; Aaron Sorkin's 10 - quips - per - minute poker
drama Molly's Game; and Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber's The Disaster Artist.
In the film
categories, «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» won best
picture (
drama)-- one of four awards Sunday night.
They did, however, award the eventual Best
Picture winner «Moonlight,» with a sole win in the
drama category.
When news broke that Get Out, Jordan Peele's runaway hit horror movie, would be in the «best motion
picture» Golden Globes
category for musicals and comedies, rather than
drama, the backlash was swift — due in no small part to the movie being an important expression of racial issues.
Rounding out the best
picture category were the romantic
drama «Call Me by Your Name,» the Winston Churchill biopic «Darkest Hour,» the coming - of - age dramedy «Lady Bird,» the period romance «Phantom Thread,» the Pentagon Papers
drama «The Post» and the smash hybrid of horror and social satire «Get Out,» which picked up four nominations overall, including writing and directing nods for Jordan Peele and a lead actor nomination for Daniel Kaluuya.
While introducing the nominees for best
picture —
drama at the close of the show, Streisand expressed disbelief that she remained the only woman to win in the directing
category in the show's 75 - year history.
Winning big in the film
drama categories — possible harbingers of Academy Award success — were best screenplay winner Martin McDonagh and directing winner Guillermo del Toro for Fox Searchlight
Pictures» «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» and «The Shape of Water,» respectively.