Up In The Air Leads Golden Globe Nominations

George Clooney’s latest movie Up In The Air leads the Golden Globe nominations with six nominations, including Best Picture - Drama.

There were also nominations for Clooney himself for Best Actor in a Drama and there were two Best Supporting Actress nominations for Anna Kendrick and Vera Farmiga.

Clooney stars as Ryan Bingham whose job it is to fire people from theirs. When his boss hires arrogant young Natalie, she develops a method of video conferencing that will allow termination without ever leaving the office - essentially threatening the existence Ryan so cherishes.

Determined to show the naive girl the error of her logic, Ryan takes her on one of his cross country firing expeditions, but as she starts to realize the disheartening realities of her profession, he begins to see the downfalls to his way of life.

Up In The Air has been the early favourite of Oscar success picking up awards at the National Board of Review but was not the runaway success at yesterday’s Golden Globe nominations.

Musical Nine was just behind with five nominations including Best Picture - Musical or Comedy as well as a Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy nod for double Oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis.

There were also nominations for Marion Cotillard and Penelope Cruz for their performances as part of the ensemble cast. However there was no best Director nod for Rob Marshall.

The Hurt Locker is another movie that has been a success story in the early part of the awards season picking up gongs at the L.A. Film Critics Awards and the Gotham Awards and was not left out yesterday.

The critically acclaimed war movie will battle it out alongside Up In The Air for Best Picture - Drama, also in the category are Precious, Inglourious Basterds and Avatar.

While Jeremy Renner missed out on a Best Actor nod there was a Best director nomination for Kathryn Bigelow.

The big shock of the nominations was the absence of Invictus from the Best Picture - Drama category but Morgan Freeman did pick up a Best Actor in a Drama nomination and Matt Damon was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.

And after his movie Gran Torino was cruelly overlooked during this year’s Oscar nomination Clint Eastwood once gain finds himself a contender for Best Director for his biopic picture of nelson Mandela.

The Lovely Bones, which has been surrounded in Oscar talk for several weeks, was also missing from all the major categories with only Stanley Tucci picking up a nod for Best Supporting Actor.

It was great to see sci-fi movie Avatar representing the big budget blockbuster as it received a Best Picture - Drama and Best Director, for James Cameron, nominations.

There were double nods for Sandra Bullock as she found herself in both Best Actress categories; Drama for The Blind Side and Comedy or Musical for The Proposal.

There was also two Best Supporting Actress in a Musical or Comedy nominations for Meryl Streep for her role in Julie and Julia and It’s Complicated.

Matt Damon was the other actor to receive two nods for his central performance in The Informant and his supporting role in Invictus.

From a British perspective the Best Actress in a Drama is a very strong category with young guns Emily Blunt and current awards favourite Carey Mulligan taking on Helen Mirren.

While Up is expected to be nominated in the best Picture category at the Oscars the Pixar movie had to make do with Best animated Feature, but it will face some tough competition.

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, The Princess and the Frog, Coraline and Fanstastic Mr Fox, which beat Up to the L.A. Critics Awards best Animation prize have all been given nods.

Full list of nominees:

Best Motion Picture - Drama

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Up in the Air

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover
It's Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart
George Clooney for Up in the Air
Colin Firth for A Single Man
Morgan Freeman for Invictus
Tobey Maguire for Brothers

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

Emily Blunt for The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side
Helen Mirren for The Last Station
Carey Mulligan for An Education
Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Matt Damon for The Informant!
Daniel Day-Lewis for Nine
Robert Downey Jr. for Sherlock Holmes
Joseph Gordon-Levitt for (500) Days of Summer
Michael Stuhlbarg for A Serious Man

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

Sandra Bullock for The Proposal
Marion Cotillard for Nine
Julia Roberts for Duplicity
Meryl Streep for It's Complicated
Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Matt Damon for Invictus
Woody Harrelson for The Messenger
Christopher Plummer for The Last Station
Stanley Tucci for The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Penélope Cruz for Nine
Vera Farmiga for Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air
Mo'Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Julianne Moore for A Single Man

Best Director - Motion Picture

Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
James Cameron for Avatar
Clint Eastwood for Invictus
Jason Reitman for Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture

District 9 (2009): Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
The Hurt Locker (2008): Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds (2009): Quentin Tarantino
It's Complicated (2009): Nancy Meyers
Up in the Air (2009/I): Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

Best Original Song - Motion Picture

Avatar (2009): James Horner, Simon Franglen, Kuk Harrell("I Will See You")
Brothers (2009/I): U2, Bono("Winter")
Crazy Heart (2009): T-Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham("The Weary Kind")
Everybody's Fine (2009): Paul McCartney("(I Want To) Come Home")
Nine (2009): Maury Yeston("Cinema Italiano")

Best Original Score - Motion Picture

Avatar (2009): James Horner
The Informant! (2009): Marvin Hamlisch
A Single Man (2009): Abel Korzeniowski
Up (2009): Michael Giacchino
Where the Wild Things Are (2009): Carter Burwell, Karen Orzolek

Best Animated Film

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Coraline (2009)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Up (2009)

Best Foreign Language Film

Los abrazos rotos (2009)
Baarìa (2009)
Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009)
La nana (2009)
Un prophète (2009)

The winners will be announced 17th January.

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George Clooney’s latest movie Up In The Air leads the Golden Globe nominations with six nominations, including Best Picture - Drama.

There were also nominations for Clooney himself for Best Actor in a Drama and there were two Best Supporting Actress nominations for Anna Kendrick and Vera Farmiga.

Clooney stars as Ryan Bingham whose job it is to fire people from theirs. When his boss hires arrogant young Natalie, she develops a method of video conferencing that will allow termination without ever leaving the office - essentially threatening the existence Ryan so cherishes.

Determined to show the naive girl the error of her logic, Ryan takes her on one of his cross country firing expeditions, but as she starts to realize the disheartening realities of her profession, he begins to see the downfalls to his way of life.

Up In The Air has been the early favourite of Oscar success picking up awards at the National Board of Review but was not the runaway success at yesterday’s Golden Globe nominations.

Musical Nine was just behind with five nominations including Best Picture - Musical or Comedy as well as a Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy nod for double Oscar winner Daniel Day Lewis.

There were also nominations for Marion Cotillard and Penelope Cruz for their performances as part of the ensemble cast. However there was no best Director nod for Rob Marshall.

The Hurt Locker is another movie that has been a success story in the early part of the awards season picking up gongs at the L.A. Film Critics Awards and the Gotham Awards and was not left out yesterday.

The critically acclaimed war movie will battle it out alongside Up In The Air for Best Picture - Drama, also in the category are Precious, Inglourious Basterds and Avatar.

While Jeremy Renner missed out on a Best Actor nod there was a Best director nomination for Kathryn Bigelow.

The big shock of the nominations was the absence of Invictus from the Best Picture - Drama category but Morgan Freeman did pick up a Best Actor in a Drama nomination and Matt Damon was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.

And after his movie Gran Torino was cruelly overlooked during this year’s Oscar nomination Clint Eastwood once gain finds himself a contender for Best Director for his biopic picture of nelson Mandela.

The Lovely Bones, which has been surrounded in Oscar talk for several weeks, was also missing from all the major categories with only Stanley Tucci picking up a nod for Best Supporting Actor.

It was great to see sci-fi movie Avatar representing the big budget blockbuster as it received a Best Picture - Drama and Best Director, for James Cameron, nominations.

There were double nods for Sandra Bullock as she found herself in both Best Actress categories; Drama for The Blind Side and Comedy or Musical for The Proposal.

There was also two Best Supporting Actress in a Musical or Comedy nominations for Meryl Streep for her role in Julie and Julia and It’s Complicated.

Matt Damon was the other actor to receive two nods for his central performance in The Informant and his supporting role in Invictus.

From a British perspective the Best Actress in a Drama is a very strong category with young guns Emily Blunt and current awards favourite Carey Mulligan taking on Helen Mirren.

While Up is expected to be nominated in the best Picture category at the Oscars the Pixar movie had to make do with Best animated Feature, but it will face some tough competition.

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, The Princess and the Frog, Coraline and Fanstastic Mr Fox, which beat Up to the L.A. Critics Awards best Animation prize have all been given nods.

Full list of nominees:

Best Motion Picture - Drama

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Up in the Air

Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy

(500) Days of Summer
The Hangover
It's Complicated
Julie & Julia
Nine

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart
George Clooney for Up in the Air
Colin Firth for A Single Man
Morgan Freeman for Invictus
Tobey Maguire for Brothers

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

Emily Blunt for The Young Victoria
Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side
Helen Mirren for The Last Station
Carey Mulligan for An Education
Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

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