Golden Globe Nominations

The Golden Globe nominations were announced on December 15. The awards, which are given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, will be presented on January 17. Categories with nominees of genre interest are listed below.

Best motion picture, drama

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

Best animated feature film

• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Princess and the Frog
• Up

Best screenplay, motion picture

• District 9, by Neill Blomkamp
• The Hurt Locker, by Terri Tatchell and Mark Boal
• It’s Complicated, by Nancy Meyers
• Up in the Air, by Jason Reitman
• Inglourious Basterds, by Sheldon Turner and Quentin Tarantino

Best director, motion picture

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

Best TV series, drama

• Big Love
• Dexter
• House
• Mad Men
• True Blood

Best performance by an actor in a TV series, drama

• Simon Baker in The Mentalist
• Michael C. Hall in Dexter
• Jon Hamm in Mad Men
• Hugh Laurie in House
• Bill Paxton in Big Love

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