“12 Years a Slave’’ consolidated its Oscar lead Thursday with seven Golden Globe nominations, the same number collected by “American Hustle.’’
Snubbed in awards nods from the Screen Actors Guild, where “12 Years’’ also led on Wednesday, “Wolf of Wall Street’’ picked up just two nominations: for best comedy or musical, as well as for lead actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
But director Martin Scorsese was overlooked by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which gives out the Globes, as were the film’s screenplay and supporting actor Jonah Hill.
The twin nods for “Wolf’’ trailed “Nebraska’’ (five), “Captain Phillips’’ (four) and a quartet of films with three nominations apiece — “Gravity,’’ “Philomena,’’ “August: Osage County’’ and “Inside Llewyn Davis’’
The day’s biggest loser, though, was “Lee Daniels: The Butler,’’ passed over in all categories after scoring SAG nods for its acting ensemble, Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey on Wednesday. The Globes did reverse SAG’s snub of Robert Redford, the sole actor in “All Is Lost.’’
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association splits its top awards into separate categories for drama and comedy/musical, which often results in some head-scratching gerrymandering.
“American Hustle,’’ which also scored nods for director David O. Russell, lead actor Christian Bale, lead actress Amy Adams, supporting actress Jennifer Lawrence and screenplay, landed with “Wolf’’ in comedy — while the not-much-less-comedic “Philomena’’ was labeled a drama with nominations for best picture, female lead Judi Dench and its screenplay.
The unambiguously dramatic “12 Years a Slave’’ was nominated for best picture, lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, supporting actress Lupita Nyong’o, supporting actor Michael Fassbender, director Steve McQueen, its screenplay and its score.
“Nebraska’’ scored nods for best picture (comedy/musical), lead actor Bruce Dern, supporting actress June Squibb, director Alexander Payne and its screenplay. “Captain Phillips’’ was cited for best drama, lead actor Tom Hanks, supporting actor Barkhad Abdi and director Paul Greengrass.
The quirky “Inside Llewyn Davis,’’ snubbed by SAG yesterday, was the closest thing to a musical nominated for best picture in HFPA’s comedy/musical category, also scoring nods for lead actor Oscar Isaac and original song.
The dramatic best actress category pits Cate Blanchett of “Blue Jasmine’’ against Sandra Bullock (“Gravity’’), Judi Dench (“Philomena’’), Emma Thompson (“Saving Mr. Banks’’) — and Kate Winslet of “Labor Day,’’ which will not arrive in New York until the end of January.
Over in the corresponding comedy/musical category, the nominees were Adams, Meryl Streep (as a nasty but dying woman in “August: Osage County,’’) Julie Delpy (“Before Midnight’’), Greta Gerwig (“Frances Ha’’) and Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“Enough Said’’).
Besides Ejiofor, Hanks and Redford, the dramatic best actor nods went to: Idris Elba (“Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom’’) and Matthew McConaughey (“Dallas Buyers Club’’).
The remaining best actor nominee on the comedy/musical side is Joaquin Phoenix of “Her,’’ which was also nominated for best picture and for director Spike Jonze’s screenplay. Woody Allen, whose lifetime achievement award at the Jan. 12 awards will be accepted by Diane Keaton, did not receive a screenplay nomination for “Blue Jasmine.’’
There were only three nominations for best animated feature — “The Croods,’’ “Despicable Me 2’’ and “Frozen.’’ The foreign language category included the Japanese animated film “The Wind Rises’’ as well as “The Great Beauty,’’ “The Hunt,’’ “The Past’’ and the lesbian romance “Blue Is the Warmest Color.’’ The star of the latter, Adèle Exarchopoulos, was snubbed by the HFPA — just as she had been by SAG’s awards nominations committee the day before.
Given out by a dubiously credentialed group of about 90 part-time journalists given credibility by its popular broadcast on NBC, the Golden Globes have markedly improved their track record as an Oscar barometer in recent years. Last year’s upset of “Lincoln’’ by “Argo’’ in the HPFA’s best drama category predicted its triumph at the Academy Awards.
A film that could have easily been a theatrical release, Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace drama “Behind the Candelabra,” topped the Globes’ television nominations. The HBO film helped lead the cable network to a leading nine nominations.
The digital platform Netflix, though, emerged as a new challenger with six total nods. The subscription service’s first major foray into original programming, the political thriller “House of Cards,” tied “Candelabra” with four nominations. “House of Cards,” produced by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey, is also a product of filmmakers who turned to the small screen. HBO leads all television networks with nine Globe nominations.
List of film nominees for 71st Golden Globe Awards
Motion Pictures
— Picture, Drama: “12 Years a Slave,” ”Captain Phillips,” ”Gravity,” ”Philomena,” ”Rush.”
— Picture, Musical or Comedy: “American Hustle,” ”Her,” ”Inside Llewyn Davis,” ”Nebraska,” ”The Wolf of Wall Street.”
— Actor, Drama: Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave”; Idris Elba, “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”; Tom Hanks, “Captain Phillips”; Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”; Robert Redford, “All Is Lost.”
— Actress, Drama: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”; Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”; Judi Dench, “Philomena”; Emma Thompson, “Saving Mr. Banks”; Kate Winslet, “Labor Day.”
— Director: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”; Paul Greengrass, “Captain Phillips”; Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”; Alexander Payne, “Nebraska”; David O. Russell, “American Hustle.”
— Actor, Musical or Comedy: Christian Bale, “American Hustle”; Bruce Dern, “Nebraska”; Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street”; Oscar Isaac, “Inside Llewyn Davis”; Joaquin Phoenix, “Her.”
— Actress, Musical or Comedy: Amy Adams, “American Hustle”; Julie Delpy, “Before Midnight”; Greta Gerwig, “Frances Ha”; Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “Enough Said”; Meryl Streep, “August: Osage County.”
— Supporting Actor: Barkhad Abdi, “Captain Phillips”; Daniel Bruhl, “Rush”; Bradley Cooper, “American Hustle”; Michael Fassbender, “12 Years a Slave”; Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club.”
— Supporting Actress: Sally Hawkins, “Blue Jasmine”; Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”; Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”; Julia Roberts, “August: Osage County”; June Squibb, “Nebraska.”
— Foreign Language: “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” ”The Great Beauty,” ”The Hunt,” ”The Past,” ”The Wind Rises.”
— Animated Film: “The Croods,” ”Despicable Me 2,” ”Frozen.”
— Screenplay: Spike Jonze, “Her”; Bob Nelson, “Nebraska”; Jeff Pope and Steve Coogan, “Philomena”; John Ridley, “12 Years a Slave”; Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell, “American Hustle.”
— Original Score: Alex Ebert, “All Is Lost”; Alex Heffes, “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”; Steven Price, “Gravity”; John Williams, “The Book Thief”; Hans Zimmer, “12 Years a Slave.”
— Original Song: “Atlas” (music and lyrics by Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland and Will Champion), “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”; “Let it Go” (music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez), “Frozen”; “Ordinary Love” (music by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr. and Brian Burton, lyrics by Bono), “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”; “Please Mr. Kennedy” (music and lyrics by Ed Rush, George Cromarty, T Bone Burnett, Justin Timberlake, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen), “Inside Llewyn Davis”; “Sweeter Than Fiction” (music and lyrics by Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff), “One Chance.”