Matthew McConaughey could continue the success of his last awards season, as he's nominated in the best
drama actor category for True Detective, alongside his co-star Woody Harrelson.
Not exact matches
Sterling K. Brown, of «This is Us,» made history, becoming the first black
actor to win the TV lead
actor drama category.
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 cate
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 cate
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.
His riveting performance as Ray garnered him a Golden Globe ® Award nomination in the
category of Best
Actor in a Television Series
Drama.
In 2013, the two - time Oscar winner aimed to score two more nominations, in the Lead
Actor category as «Captain Phillips» in the Paul Greengrass - directed thriller, and in the Supporting
Actor race as the iconic Walt Disney in the making - of «Mary Poppins»
drama «Saving Mr. Banks».
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.
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.
Acting veteran and multiple Tony Award — winning thespian Mark Rylance pulled off somewhat of an upset in the supporting
actor category, winning for Steven Spielberg's Cold War — era
drama «Bridge of Spies» ahead of Sylvester Stallone's projected win for reprising his role as Rocky Balboa in «Creed.»
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.
Drama Series Game of Thrones (1st win in this
category) Lead Actress,
Drama Viola Davis How To Get Away With Murder (1st win, also the 1st woman of color to win in this
category Lead
Actor,
Drama Jon Hamm, Mad Men (1st win in this
category) Supporting Actress,
Drama Uzo Aduba Orange is the New Black (2nd consecutive win for this character) Supporting
Actor,
Drama Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones (2nd win this
category) Writing / Directing Game of Thrones
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 Redm
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 Redm
Actor nod: «Foxcatcher»
actor Steve Carell, Cumberbatch, and «Theory» actor Eddie Redm
actor Steve Carell, Cumberbatch, and «Theory»
actor Eddie Redm
actor Eddie Redmayne.
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.
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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.
In the
Drama acting
categories you'll find broad support in Lead
Actor for Bobby Cannavale (Vinyl), Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) and Kevin Spacey (House of Cards), all of whom receive nomination predictions from all from The Emmy Experts.
Eddie Redmayne, as expected, won best
actor in the
drama category for playing Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
The Globes is famously a ceremony that creates space for comedies and musicals, unlike the Oscars, so it is probably fitting that the biggest nomination winner is the crazy, madcap, hellzapoppin» and entirely brilliant Birdman, which has seven nominations, including best
actor, comedy or musical (Michael Keaton), best supporting
actor (Edward Norton) and best director — these last two
categories applying to both
drama and comedy / musical.
Looking at the Lead
Actor in a
Drama Series
category ADTV breaks down the top contenders and questions whether or not anyone has what it takes to go up against the new awards darling, Sterling K. Brown.
Jake Gyllenhaal earned a Critics Choice Award Best
Actor nomination for «Stronger», but he didn't make it into the Best
Actor in a
Drama category here.
Star of the tense
drama, Jack O'Connell, has been nominated in the Best
Actor category and will go head to head with Brendan Gleeson (inset below) for his portrayal of troubled Father James in John Michael McDonagh's «Calvary».
Best
Actor In A
Drama Series went to Sterling K. Brown for his role in This Is Us, following his win in the same
category at Sunday's Globes
Two of the harrowing
drama's stars — Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong» o — are also up for Oscars in the lead
actor and supporting actress
categories.
Last year the
actors branch embraced Westworld in a major way by nominating members of its massive ensemble in all four main ceremony
drama acting
categories.
Jeff Daniels of the HBO
drama «Newsroom» was probably the most unexpected winner, declared best
actor in a
drama in a
category with heavyweights like Cranston, Jon Hamm of «Mad Men,» Kevin Spacey of «House of Cards» and Damian Lewis of «Homeland.»
Over in TV, Empire and black - ish swept their respective
categories; Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson took home Outstanding
Actor and Actress In A
Drama, respectively, with Henson joining numerous other voices trumpeting black performances during the night.
The best
actor in a
drama series
category also had a couple of new nominees — Clive Owen earned a nomination for his new show «The Knick» and Dominic West made the cut for «Affair.»
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.
In the acting
categories, there were a few great surprises as first time nominee Rami Malek took home the award for best
actor in a
drama for his performance on USA» sMr.
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 Globes will continue to nominate Slater for their crazy, all over the place supporting
actor on television
category (which combines supporting
actors from
dramas and comedies and limited series and made - for - TV movies), even when he's brushing aside nearly everybody from Game of Thrones in order to do so.
The show received nominations in three big
categories that it had never been nominated for previously: best
drama, buy information pills best actress and best
actor.
To no one's surprise, Daniel Day - Lewis won Best
Actor —
Drama from the Press, meaning that there's probably little to no chance of an upset for the Best
Actor category at the Oscars.
The film was submitted as a Comedy for Critics Choice and a
Drama for the Globes, earning Mortensen nominations in those respective Lead
Actor categories.
Still, Keaton will have competition in the form of Eddie Redmayne, who took home the best
actor statue in the
drama category for this performance as physicist Stephen Hawking in «The Theory of Everything.»
In the lead
actor in a
drama series
category, Jeff Daniels — who won last year for «The Newsroom» — goes up against Kevin Spacey for «House of Cards,» Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson for «True Detective,» as well as Cranston for «Breaking Bad» and Hamm for «Mad Men.»
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.
«The Revenant» led the movie
category with wins for best
drama, best
actor and best director, while «Mr. Robot» fared well in the TV division.
Manchester by the Sea's Casey Affleck, who won the best
actor Critics» Choice Award on Sunday, could continue his streak after scoring a mention in the movie
drama category but he will face off against British
actor Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge), Denzel Washington (Fences), Joel Edgerton (Loving) and Viggo Mortensen (Captain Fantastic).
Eight of the shared
actors were honored in the
Drama category, with only one in the Musical or Comedy iteration of the Best
Actor Award: 2011's Jean Dujardin, for «The Artist.»
Among the leading
actor Globe contenders who may go on to earn SAG and Oscar recognition are
drama nominees Hawkins, Jessica Chastain of «Molly's Game,» Frances McDormand of «Three Billboards,» Michelle Williams of «All the Money in the World,» Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks of «The Post,» Timothée Chalamet of «Call Me By Your Name,» Daniel Day - Lewis of «Phantom Thread,» Gary Oldman of «Darkest Hour,» and Denzel Washington of «Roman J. Israel, Esq.» Heading up the musical or comedy
categories are Judi Dench of «Victoria & Abdul,» Helen Mirren of «The Leisure Seeker,» Margot Robbie of «I, Tonya,» Saoirse Ronan of «Lady Bird,» Emma Stone and Steve Carell of «Battle of the Sexes,» Ansel Elgort of «Baby Driver,» James Franco of «The Disaster Artist,» Hugh Jackman of «The Greatest Showman,» and Daniel Kaluuya of «Get Out.»
While films and their leading
actors are split into «
drama» or «musical or comedy»
categories, the Golden Globes» supporting
actors hail from all films; for that reason the two
categories have a stronger correlation to the eventual Academy Award nominations than most others.