Those two films led
a best drama category that also included «Foxcatcher», «Selma» and «The Theory of Everything».
In the coveted
best drama category, «12 Years a Slave» will compete against piracy tale «Captain Phillips,» space thriller «Gravity,» adoption drama «Philomena,» and race - car rivalry «Rush.»
In the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) sponsored
Best Drama category, Northern Irish based police investigations drama «The Fall» is nominated alongside the epic fantasy «Game of Thrones» and the historical action drama «Vikings» which is shot in co Wicklow.
Boyhood and The Imitation Game trailed with five nods apiece, and led
a best drama category that also included Foxcatcher, Selma and The Theory of Everything.
On the TV side, Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale won twice — in
the Best Drama category and for New Series, joining drama series wins for the Emmys and the Globes, while HBO's Veep won Best Comedy.
Meanwhile, on the television side, Netflix stands a solid chance of repeating last year's win
the Best Drama category, with returning winner The Crown and popular sci - fi series Stranger Things both nominated again.
Not exact matches
But I will say this Jordan Peele wrote a masterpiece that has horror,
drama, suspense and comedy in it... And it all was
good so hey maybe it just fits in a bunch of
categories!!!
«Christian
drama» was an elusive
category and few
good playwrights attempted it.
On the movie side, Birdman, St. Vincent, Into the Woods, Pride and The Grand Budapest Hotel were all nominated in the
best comedy
category, with Boyhood, The Imitation Game, Selma, The Theory of Everything and Foxcatcher all snagging nominations for
best drama.
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.
Adonaijah Owiriwa and Izu Ojukwu's movie, «76» a 2016 Nigerian historical fiction
drama film which stars Ramsey Nouah, Chidi Mokeme, Rita Dominic and Ibinabo Fiberesima, won in five categories, which includes, Best Actress in Drama / TV / Movies (Rita Dominic), Best Director (Izu Ojukwu), Best Art Director (Pat Nebo), Best Costume Designer (Pat Egwur
drama film which stars Ramsey Nouah, Chidi Mokeme, Rita Dominic and Ibinabo Fiberesima, won in five
categories, which includes,
Best Actress in
Drama / TV / Movies (Rita Dominic), Best Director (Izu Ojukwu), Best Art Director (Pat Nebo), Best Costume Designer (Pat Egwur
Drama / TV / Movies (Rita Dominic),
Best Director (Izu Ojukwu),
Best Art Director (Pat Nebo),
Best Costume Designer (Pat Egwurube).
Unlike previous years, Ghana recorded a lot of new faces on the nomination list; some of whom Included new actor, Joseph Otsiman who got the nod for
Best Actor In Supporting Role for his performance in the
drama thriller film, The Cursed Ones directed by Nana Obiri Yeboah, who was also nominated for AMAA 2016 Award For
Best Director
category.
Breaking Bad's Anna Gunn may have
bested Clarke in the
category of supporting actress in a
drama, but not a single star comes close to having arches as killer as these.
His riveting performance as Ray garnered him a Golden Globe ® Award nomination in the
category of
Best Actor in a Television Series
Drama.
If you thought picking
best drama was hard, then this
category is an absolutely killer.
With Gravity and 12 Years a Slave already announcing themselves as major frontrunners in multiple
categories,
well - received smaller
dramas duking it out to overtake...
(PG - 13 for violence and mature themes) Oscar - nominated
drama (in the
Best Foreign Film
category) about the occupation of Timbuktu in 2012 by Islamic jihadists known as the Ansar Dine.
Still on top: Game Of Thrones earned one of the highest honors of the night with a win in the
Best Drama Series
category
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).
In the television
category, Sam Esmail's «Mr. Robot» took home the award for
Best Series,
Drama, as
well as
Best Supporting Actor for Christian Slater.
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 La L
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 La L
Best Motion Picture,
Drama, and
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy — it's unlikely to break any of the deadlock between Moonlight and La La L
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy — it's unlikely to break any of the deadlock between Moonlight and La La Land.
This film might be a
good bet for the Golden Globes regardless of release date since they've shown affection to Iñárritu in the past and have separate
Drama / Comedy
categories.
As at September's Emmy awards, the television
categories were dominated by Big Little Lies, which won
best limited series, and The Handmaid's Tale, which was awarded
best drama.
James Ivory, 89, became the oldest winner of an Oscar for the gay coming of age
drama Call Me by Your Name, in the
best adapted screenplay
category.
Again, the Globes have twice the
categories as the Oscars, honoring the
best lead and supporting players in both
drama and musical / comedy films.
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.
«Thank you HFPA for the great honor of being nominated for a supporting TV actor Golden Globe award this year, and for nominating «Stranger Things» in the
best TV
drama category as
well.
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.
The 13 Reasons Why star, who's nominated for
Best Actress in a TV
Drama Series category for her performance as Hannah Baker on the Netflix drama, accentuated her black Prada jersey plissé gown with custom - made hairpieces by Jennifer
Drama Series
category for her performance as Hannah Baker on the Netflix
drama, accentuated her black Prada jersey plissé gown with custom - made hairpieces by Jennifer
drama, accentuated her black Prada jersey plissé gown with custom - made hairpieces by Jennifer Behr.
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.
Angelina Jolie's Cambodian
drama, First They Killed My Father, was nominated in the
best - foreign - film
category, as was Paul Verhoeven's Elle, which raced through the stateside awards season last year.
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.
The winners of the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced last night at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California with The Revenant pulling off a sweep of top three
categories including
best drama film, and The Martian hilariously picking up
best comedy, while Amazon's «Mozart in the Jungle» and USA's «Mr. Robot» overcame intense competition to nab the highest television honors.
It would be one of five disappointments for Netflix and The Crown, with the show also losing out in the fields of
Best Actor (Matt Smith),
Best Supporting Actor (John Lithgow),
Best Supporting Actress (Vanessa Kirby) and
Best Drama, a
category also won by Happy Valley.
The big winner was Boyhood, which picked up
best drama,
best director for Richard Linklater and
best supporting actress for Patricia Arquette — it is a Globes quirk that the director and supporting actors
categories are not subdivided into
drama and comedy / musical.
It was no shock that Jonze won in the
category of
Best Original Screenplay with his romantic
drama HER and film critics the world over are predicting the same outcome at this year's Academy Awards.
The Shape of Water defeated Oscars frontrunner Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri in the majority of the
categories in which they competed, though Frances McDormand beat Sally Hawkins to the
Best Actress prize and Sam Rockwell was crowned
Best Supporting Actor for his work in Irish filmmaker Martin McDonagh's incendiary
drama.
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.
Especially with that latter performance, he was able to seamlessly blend comedy and
drama, which is the way he's going to one day win that statue, likely in the
Best Supporting Actor
category that he's gotten a pair of citations in already.
All of those actors got Oscar nominations for their sterling work, and deservedly so, but in the
Best Actor
category Christian Bale lost out to Matthew McConaughey, who capped a remarkable renaissance over the past few years with a formidable turn as a HIV - positive Texan cowboy in Dallas Buyers Club, a fine
drama that's
well worth a look.