68th Annual Golden Globe Nominations (for 2010 - films only)

Golden Globe nominations were announced yesterday and for awards centric folk this is one of the lists that's a great precursor screening list to get in for possible Oscar nominations. I've come to enjoy the Globes more and more over the years as with having both Drama and Comedy/Musical categories for film, actor & actress it gives us more films to explore and enjoy. The heavy hitter this year is The King's Speech which has 7 nominees and I really enjoyed that one, but next up we have The Fighter and The Social Network both with 6. I'm a little surprized at The Fighter with that many noms, I guess it will be on my to-see list now. I wonder how The Social Network will do, in general people are really loving it but I really didn't connect to it. Add Black Swan & Inception at 4 nominations, again both I didn't connect to so I'm wondering if I'm going to be a bit of a grump this award season. The Kids Are All Right also chimes in with 4 noms, and in the 3 nomination club we have 127 Hours, Alice in Wonderland and the very fun Burlesque.

I did do a fair number of happy dances when reading the nominations including I Am Love (Italy) nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, it's shaping up to be my favourite film of the year. It was also great to see Jacki Weaver nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture in in Animal Kingdom. Score nominees that I'm thrilled to see include A.R. Rahman for 127 Hours, Alexandre Desplat for The King's Speech and Hans Zimmer for Inception. I'm a big fan of all of those guys. And it's freaking awesome that "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" Music & Lryics by Diane Warren from Burlesque was nominated, it's a very powerful song.

Few new-ish titles to me on this list include Blue Valentine which I just saw the trailer for last week and looks compelling and also have to see if it's possible to see Best Foreign Language Film nominations The Edge (Russia) and In a Better World (Denmark), hopefully we'll see those in Toronto at some point. And with Jeremy Renner nominated for The Town as supporting actor, that might just tip me to seeing that one as well.

Nominated Film Lists also available by number of nominations with nominations detailed or film list by number of nominations.

The 68th Golden Globes Awards will be presented January 16, 2011 at 8pm EST / 5pm PST live on NBC.

Best Motion Picture - Drama
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Halle Berry in Frankie and Alice
Nicole Kidman in Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network
Colin Firth in The King's Speech
James Franco in 127 Hours
Ryan Gosling in Blue Valentine
Mark Wahlberg in The Fighter

Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Alice in Wonderland
Burlesque
The Kids Are All Right
Red
The Tourist

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Annette Bening in The Kids Are All Right
Anne Hathaway in Love and Other Drugs
Angelina Jolie in The Tourist
Julianne Moore in The Kids Are All Right
Emma Stone in Easy A

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Johnny Depp in Alice in Wonderland
Johnny Depp in The Tourist
Paul Giamatti in Barney's Version
Jake Gyllenhaal in Love and Other Drugs
Kevin Spacey in Casino Jack

Best Director - Motion Picture
Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan
David Fincher for The Social Network
Tom Hooper for The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan for Inception
David O. Russell for The Fighter

Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy for 127 Hours
Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg for The Kids Are All Right
Christopher Nolan for Inception
David Seidler for The King's Speech
Aaron Sorkin for The Social Network

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Amy Adams in The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter in The King's Speech
Mila Kunis in Black Swan
Melissa Leo in The Fighter
Jacki Weaver in Animal Kingdom

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Christian Bale in The Fighter
Michael Douglas in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Andrew Garfield in The Social Network
Jeremy Renner in The Town
Geoffrey Rush in The King's Speech

Best Animated Film
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Tangled
Toy Story 3

Best Foreign Language Film
Biutiful (Mexico/Spain)
The Concert (France)
The Edge (Russia)
I Am Love (Italy)
In a Better World (Denmark)

Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Alexandre Desplat for The King's Speech
Danny Elfman for Alice in Wonderland
A.R. Rahman for 127 Hours
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for The Social Network
Hans Zimmer for Inception

Best Original Song - Motion Picture
"Bound to You" Music by Samuel Dixon, Lyrics by Christina Aguilera & Sia Furler - Burlesque
"Coming Home" Music & Lyrics by: Bob DiPiero, Tom Douglas, Hillary Lindsey, Troy Verges - Country Strong
"I See the Light" Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Glenn Slater - Tangled
"There's a Place for Us" Music & Lyrics by: Carrie Underwood, David Hodges, Hillary Lindsey - Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
"You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" Music & Lryics by Diane Warren - Burlesque

To see full nominations list including TV nominees look here.