No HUGE snubs, though, right? Everything seems about right. I'll give them a pass for The Great Debaters.

Glad to see CWW still in the mix.

It always bugs me that the Globes have two picture categories but only one category for director and screenplay. It's like they want to acknowledge as many films as they can without also acknowledging those who made the film.

That said, I'm relatively happy with these nominations. Lots of No Country + Sweeney love, and no real surprises, outside of that bizarre Great Debaters showing. Seriously, it makes the dramatic picture category look like a joke.

All that's missing is a Paris Hilton nom.
Oh well, maybe next year HFPA.

I finish my college applications last night. I go to my last day of work today. What could possibly make me feel awful? The fuckin' HFPA, that's who. Of course there's no reason they would nominate Into the Wild or Once for anything, they hate anything where large sums of money aren't visibly onscreen. Halbrook though is just . All this love for Atonement and Charlie Wilson's War just make me think that this could be another 1999, where after such great, great films came out, the nominations were the most bland, sippy cup shit on the market. Seriously, does anyone hold The Cider House Rules or even The Sixth Sense in any regard anymore?

To be fair to Into the Wild, in terms of indicators BFCA >>> Globes. The Globes have been off the wall the last couple years. Crash got nominated for zilch, Babel won best Drama, MDB didn't make a splash, Dreamgirls and Walk the Line dominated then got their butts kicked at Oscar. The acting categories are always a bit funny too.

7 fucking Best Drama noms?

"And the award goes to... everybody!"

Great boost for Juno. It could feasibly win 2 awards with Page and Cody winning (I think Cody is almost a sure thing). I hope Page wins though and I'd love to see the movie itself win too.

Can't believe Clooney got nominated for Michael Clayton. He wasn't very good in it.

I was hoping for Ben Affleck to get a Best Director nomination but it didn't happen.

Atonement or No Country will win BP Drama.

The Coen Bros. will win Best Director.

The Great Debaters getting nominated is a joke. It looks like the same crap we've seen a hundred times before.

Why are there 7 BP drama nominations and why is one of them The Great Debaters?

Exactly. It didn't get any other nominations.

I'm really disappointed.

But I think the Globes are starting to become more and more relevant with every year.

And how about TV? Zilch for Lost?? Are you freakin kidding me?

Atonement was amazing, by the way.

People are always overly critical of the Globes, and this year is no different. Boo hoo, people don't care that the HFPA didn't nominate your favorites. I've never really taken the Globes all that seriously, I guess I just don't understand why people freak out every single year when they don't like the nominations.

That's a typo right? You meant irrelevant?

Predicts:

Best Director
Joel & Ethan Coen - No Country For Old Men

Best Motion Picture - Drama
No Country for Old Men

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Keira Knightley – Atonement

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood

Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Sweeney Todd

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Amy Adams – Enchanted

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy
Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd

Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There

Best Screenplay
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men

Best Foreign Language Film
The Diving Bell

Best Score
Atonement

Best Song
Enchanted

Best Animiated Feature Film
Ratatouille

Predictions:

Best Director

1. Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd
2. Joel & Ethan Coen - No Country For Old Men
3. Joe Wright - Atonement
4. Ridley Scott - American Gangster
5. Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and The Butterfly

Best Motion Picture - Drama

1. Atonement
2. No Country for Old Men
3. Michael Clayton
4. There Will Be Blood
5. American Gangster
6. Eastern Promises
7. The Great Debaters

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

1. Julie Christie – Away From Her
2. Keira Knightley – Atonement
3. Angelina Jolie – A Mighty Heart
4. Cate Blanchett – Elizabeth: The Golden Age
5. Jodie Foster – The Brave One

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

1. Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood
2. George Clooney – Michael Clayton
3. Viggo Mortensen – Eastern Promises
4. James McAvoy – Atonement
5. Denzel Washington – American Gangster

Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy

1. Sweeney Todd
2. Juno
3. Charlie Wilson's War
4. Hairspray
5. Across The Universe

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

1. Marion Cotillard – La Vie En Rose
2. Ellen Page – Juno
3. Amy Adams – Enchanted
4. Helena Bonham Carter – Sweeney Todd
5. Nikki Blonsky – Hairspray

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

1. Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd
2. Ryan Gosling – Lars and the Real Girl
3. Tom Hanks – Charlie Wilson's War
4. Phillip Seymour Hoffman - The Savages
5. John C. Reilly - Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Best Supporting Actor

1. Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
2. Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
3. Casey Affleck -Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
4. Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton
5. John Travolta - Hairspray

Best Supporting Actress

1. Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
2. Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
3. Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
4. Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
5. Julia Roberts - Charlie Wilson's War

Best Screenplay

1. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
2. Christopher Hampton - Atonement
3. Diablo Cody - Juno
4. Aaron Sorkin - Charlie Wilson's War
5. Ronald Harwood - The Diving Bell & the Butterfly

Best Foreign Language Film

1. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2. The Kite Runner
3. Persepolis
4. Lust, Caution
5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days

Best Score

1. Atonement
2. Into the Wild
3. Grace is Gone
4. The Kite Runner
5. Eastern Promises

Best Song

1. Into The Wild
2. Enchanted
3. Love in the Time of Cholera
4. Grace Is Gone
5. Walk Hard

Best Animated Feature Film

1. Ratatouille
2. The Simpsons Movie
3. Bee Movie

Exactly what I've been expecting. It's simply by far not the kind of a film the HFPA would go for.

Where's andaroo and his race-pressuring phone calls joke

"What do you mean you're not voting for The Great Debaters? Do you want people to know you hate the african-american race?"

Couldn't agree more. 7 nominees is just silly.

The Sixth Sense is excellent.

Well, MDB won Director which was quite a big indicator.

Weird, I always thought it was Marty.

Yeah!

Okay, so my general comments:


- 7 BP nominees in drama, 12 overall is pretty ridiculous especially when you've got only FIVE BD nominees. Moronic.

- Which brings me to the next point - how the hell did P.T. Anderson miss a Directing nom for There Will Be Blood. I bet he ended up as #6 or something because of the insanely crowded category.

- I KNEW American Gangster would get a big boost here and it did. I only expected a directing nom for it, a BP nom helps it very much too. I am actually a bit surprised Crowe wasn't nominated as well for it. I think AG is still at least a legit contender for a BP OR a BD nom at the Osracs. Won't get both, though, definitely not.

- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly got soem great boost too, though for such an acting-heavy film, there are no acting noms, I'm surprised.

- Cate Blanchett and Jodie Foster getting noms for the BA Drama category just shows how weak it is

- Best Actress (Comedy/Musical) is a huge surprise, though. Nikki Blonsky over Linney and Russell? The hell?! They really liked Hairspray, giving it two acting noms.

- Charlie Wilson's War got some real love as well, though the absence of a directing nom is not good. But three acting noms is quite great, one of them should appear at the Oscars and I think its Screenplay is pretty much a lock for a nom.

- Bardem, Wilkinson, Affleck and Hoffman seem to be locks for the Best Sup. Actor noms, the 5th spot is up in the air between Travolta, Halbrook and von Sydow.

- The Best Picture Musical/Comedy will be a tight race between Juno, Sweeney Todd and Hairspray, IMO. I think all have a legit chance with the latter two having two acting noms and Juno a Screenplay nom, while ST has a directing nom.

Predictions:

Best Director

Ethan and Joel Coen


Best Motion Picture - Drama

No Country for Old Men


Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama

Keira Knightley


Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

Daniel Day-Lewis – There Will Be Blood

Best Motion Picture - Musical Or Comedy

Sweeney Todd

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

Ellen Page – Juno

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

Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd

Best Supporting Actor

Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone

Best Screenplay

Diablo Cody - Juno

Best Foreign Language Film

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Best Score

Atonement

Best Song

Into The Wild

Best Animated Feature Film

Ratatouille

Seriously, no Picture nod for Into the Wild AND a nomination for John Travolta?

At least they kind of made up for it with Eastern Promises getting a Picture nod.

I'm sorry that I was bothered by the freaking Golden Globes, when one spends as much time watching the Oscar race it can be hard to step back and realize how truly vain it can all be. That said I'm certainly not sorry I don't have the same soft spot for predictable and bland Oscar bait.