Golden Globe 2016 Nominees: 'The Revenant' Shines; 'Spotlight' & 'Mad Max: Fury Road' Front-Runners
The Hollywood Foreign Press has announced the nominations for the annual Golden Globes.
A day after the Screen Actors Guild shunned Latinos from nominations, the Golden Globes showed some support. The Latinos nominated this year for the Golden Globes included Oscar Isaac for "Show Me a Hero," Gael Garcia Bernal for "Mozart in the Jungle," Wagner Moura for "Narcos," and Gina Rodriguez for "Jane the Virgin." "Narcos" was also nominated for Best TV Dramatic series.
The Globes continued to show how the Oscar season is currently without a front-runner and will be a close race.
"The Revenant" was among the big nominees at the Globes as the film obtained nominations for Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Leonardo DiCaprio as well as Best Dramatic Film. The film also landed a Best Score nomination.
Competing with "The Revenant" for Best Dramatic Film are "Room," "Spotlight," "Carol" and "Mad Max: Fury Road" were nominated for Best Dramatic Film.
Alongside Inarritu, Todd Haynes was nominated for "Carol," Tom McCarthy for "Spotlight," George Miller for "Mad Max: Fury Road" and Ridley Scott for "The Martian."
DiCaprio was joined by Michael Fassbender for is work on "Steve Jobs," Eddie Redmayne for "The Danish Girl," Bryan Cranston for "Trumbo," and Will Smith for "Concussion."
In the Best Dramatic Actress category, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara were nominated for their work in "Carol" and were also joined by Brie Larson for "Room," Saoirse Ronan for "Brooklyn" and Alicia Vikander for "The Danish Girl."
The Best Comedic Film nominees were made up of high profile awards films including "Joy," "The Martian," "The Big Short," "Spy" and "Trainwreck,"
The nominees for Best Comedic Actor were Matt Damon for "The Martian," Christian Bale and Steve Carell for "The Big Short," Al Pacino for "Danny Collins" and Mark Ruffalo for "Infinitely Polar Bear."
For Best Comedic Actress, the nominees were Jennifer Lawrence for "Joy," Lily Tomlin for "Grandma," Melissa McCarthy for "Spy," Amy Schumer for "Trainwreck" and Maggie Smith for "The Lady in the Van."
In the Best supporting Actor category front-runner Mark Rylance was nominated for "Bridge of Spies" alongside Sylvester Stallone for "Creed," Paul Dano for "Love and Mercy," Idris Elba for "Beasts of No Nation," and Michael Shannon for "99 Homes."
Kate Winslet led the Supporting Actress race for her work on "Steve Jobs" and she is nominated alongside Jane Fonda for "Youth," Jennifer Jason Leigh for "The Hateful Eight," Helen Mirren for "Trumbo" and Alicia Vikander for "Ex Machina."
The Best Animated Feature nominees were "Anamalisa," "The Good Dinosaur," "Inside Out," "The Peanuts Movie" and "Shaun the Sheep Movie."
Meanwhile the Best Song category showed a number of blockbusters nominated. Among the songs were "Love Me Like You Do" from "Fifty Shades of Grey," One Kind of Love" from "Love and Mercy," "See you Again" from "Furious 7," "Simple Song No.3" from "Youth" and "Writings on the Wall" from "Spectre."
The Nominees for Best Screenplay were "Room," "Spotlight," "The Big Short," "Steve Jobs," and "The Hateful Eight."
Chile led the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film as "The Club" will compete with Hungary's "Son of Saul," France's "Mustang," Finland's "The Fencer" and Luxembourg's "The Brand New Testament."
The Golden Globes are important precursors as the organization has chosen a number of Oscar winners and has influenced the Oscar race. For example, in 2007, the organization gave the Best Picture award to "Atonement," which helped give the film a bigger profile and ultimately get a Best Picture nomination at the Academy Awards. The Globes also gave the Best Picture award to "Avatar" and made it a front-runner in the race before losing to "The Hurt Locker" at the Oscars.
However, the Globes have been criticized for being too obsessed with stars and that was seen in 2010 when the organization nominated "The Tourist" for Best Picture. That film was loathed by critics and audiences. Throughout the past few years, however, the Globes have tried to get back their legitimacy and have chosen more Indie fare. Last year the organizations surprised most when it nominated "Pride" for Best Comedic film and also nominated Julianne Moore for "Maps to the Stars." The year before that, it chose to nominate Greta Gerwig for "Frances Ha" as well as Julie Delpy for "Before Midnight." This year actors like Johnny Depp were left off while Indie films like "99 Homes" and "Ex Machina" surged into the race.
Chloe Grace Moretz, America Ferrera, Angela Bassett and Dennis Quaid presented the nominations. The Golden Globes will be held on Jan. 10.
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