PICTURE (DRAMA): Babel, Bobby, The Departed, Little Children & The Queen PICTURE (COMEDY/MUSICAL): Borat, Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Little Miss Sunshine & Thank You for Smoking ACTRESS (DRAMA): Penelope Cruz (Volver), Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Sherrybaby), Helen Mirren (The Queen) & Kate Winslet (Little Children) ACTRESS (COMEDY/MUSICAL): Annette Bening (Running with Scissors), Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine), Beyonce Knowles (Dreamgirls), Meryl Streep (Devil Wears Prada) & Renee Zellweger (Miss Potter) ACTOR (DRAMA): Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond), Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed), Peter O'Toole (Venus), Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness) & Forest Whitaker (Last King of Scotland) ACTOR (MUSICAL/COMEDY): Sasha Baron Cohen (Borat), Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean 2), Aaron Eckhart (Thank You for Smoking), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Kinky Boots) & Will Ferrell (Stranger Than Fiction) SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Adriana Barraza (Babel), Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal), Emily Blunt (Devil Wears Prada), Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls) & Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) SUPPORTING ACTOR: Ben Affleck (Hollywoodland), Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls), Jack Nicholson (The Departed), Brad Pitt (Babel) & Mark Wahlberg (The Departed) ANIMATED FILM: Cars, Happy Feet & Monster House FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Apocalypto, Letters from Iwo Jima, Lives of Others, Pan's Labyrinth & Volver DIRECTOR: Clint Eastwood (Flags of Our Fathers), Clint Eastwood (Letters from Iwo Jima), Stephen Frears (The Queen), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel) & Martin Scorsese (The Departed) SCREENPLAY: Babel, Little Children, Notes on a Scandal, The Departed & The Queen (Omitted: Best Song, Best Score)
TELEVISION: SERIES (DRAMA): 24, Big Love, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes & Lost SERIES (COMEDY/MUSICAL): Desperate Housewives, Entourage, The Office, Ugly Betty & Weeds ACTRESS (DRAMA): Patricia Arquette (Medium), Edie Franco (Sopranos), Evangeline Lilly (Lost), Ellen Pompeo (Grey's Anatomy) & Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) ACTRESS (COMEDY/MUSICAL): Marcia Cross (Desperate Housewives), America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives), Julia Louis-Dreyfuss (New Adventures of Old Christine) & Mary-Louise Parker (Weeds) ACTOR (DRAMA): Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy), Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Hugh Laurie (House), Bill Paxton (Big Love) & Kiefer Sutherland (24) ACTOR (COMEDY/MUSICAL): Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Zach Braff (Scrubs), Steve Carrell (The Office), Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl) & Tony Shalhoub (Monk) Other notables: Katherine Heigl (Grey's Anatomy), Elizabeth Perkins (Weeds) & Sarah Paulson (Studio 60) get Supporting Actress nominations. Jeremy Piven (Entourage), Justin Kirk (Weeds) & Masa Oka (Heroes) get Supporting Actor nods.
Clint taking up TWO slots on the Director ballot is absolute bullshit. Neither FATHERS nor IWO JIMA were great shakes, and taking not one, but two potential nominations away from more deserving guys like Alphonso Cuaron, Paul Greengrass, Darren Aranofsky and Guillermo del Toro is ridiculous.
To those who say people wouldn't look; they wouldn't be interested; they're too complacent, indifferent and insulated, I can only reply: There is, in one reporter's opinion, considerable evidence against that contention. But even if they are right, what have they got to lose? Because if they are right, and this instrument is good for nothing but to entertain, amuse and insulate, then the tube is flickering now and we will soon see that the whole struggle is lost. This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires, and lights, in a box.-Edward R. Murrow
Most of these seem to be deserving, but no love for The Shield, or Battlestar Gallactica. Gues I will have to just root for 24, The Office, Borat, and Alec Baldwin.
Dean! Have you been shooting dope into your scrotum? You can tell me! I'm hip!
I have this weird feeling that Cohen's going to end up at the Oscars. BORAT seems to be gathering steam as a critical darling, and a win at the Globes would certainly put him on the Oscar nominee shortlist.
To those who say people wouldn't look; they wouldn't be interested; they're too complacent, indifferent and insulated, I can only reply: There is, in one reporter's opinion, considerable evidence against that contention. But even if they are right, what have they got to lose? Because if they are right, and this instrument is good for nothing but to entertain, amuse and insulate, then the tube is flickering now and we will soon see that the whole struggle is lost. This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires, and lights, in a box.-Edward R. Murrow
Originally posted by FreewayACTOR (COMEDY/MUSICAL): Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Zach Braff (Scrubs), Steve Carrell (The Office), Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl)
The NBC's Thursday night is so totally awesome.
Ken Kennedy debuted a new finisher: Jeff Hardy fans will insist on calling it the Swanton Bomb, but it looks WAY more devastating when not performed by a 180-pound fruitcake. -Rick Scaia 06.12.2006
It's weird seeing movies directed by Clint Eastwood and Mel Gibson up for foreign language awards. I don't care how many nominations Clint takes up, just as long as Scorsese wins (and, more importantly, wins at the Oscars).
The TV acting nominees always make me laugh at the Globes. Of all the people to nominate on Lost, Evangeline Lilly? Really? Sarah Paulson? The guy from Weeds?
"I don't know what is more disquieting -- the fact that the rest of the statue is missing, or that it has four toes."
Originally posted by FreewayACTOR (COMEDY/MUSICAL): Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Zach Braff (Scrubs), Steve Carrell (The Office), Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl)
The NBC's Thursday night is so totally awesome.
The lack of a John Krasinski nomination for Supporting Actor hurts my heart, but Alec Baldwin getting the nomination makes me happy.