The Golden Globes are the first major award ceremony of the year. Handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes honor the year’s highlights in both film and television and offer a wider variety of categories, breaking its awards into Comedy and Drama. Even so, these awards are often looked to as precursors to the biggest awards in television and film, the Emmys and Academy Awards, respectively.
The nominations were announced today by ‘American Horror Story: Hotel‘ star Angela Bassett along with America Ferrera, Chloë Grace Moretz, Dennis Quaid, Miss Golden Globe Corinne Fox, HFPA president Lorenzo Soria, and Dick Clark Productions EVP Barry Adelman. The winners will be announced on the live broadcast of the ceremony on January 10th, hosted by Ricky Gervais.
In the field of television, ‘Game of Thrones‘ and ‘American Horror Story: Hotel’ proved strong competition as did the greatly underrated (and only borderline sci fi) USA series ‘Mr. Robot’. In what must be a sign of vindication, STARZ’ also very much overlooked ‘Outlander’ scored nominations in many major categories.
Not only did ‘Mr. Robot’ receive a nod for Best Television Series, Drama, but its two male leads were nominated for Best Performance By an Actor in a Television Series, Drama for Rami Malek and Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Christian Slater.
Already some are reacting to the strong performance by ‘Outlander’ a time travel fantasy series which doesn’t generate much buzz normally, but scored in some major areas. It is nominated for Best Television Series, Drama, Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series for Tobias Menzies and Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Drama for Caitriona Balf.
‘Outlander”s (or possibly ‘Mr. Robot”s) success may have come at the expense of ‘Game of Thrones’, which only ranked for Best Television Series, Drama. The most glaring ‘GoT’ omission is Peter Dinklage, who has not only won the Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role award in the past, but is also a multiple Emmy Award winner in the same category. So his absence is quite noticeable. And many feel that Kit Harrington deserved notice for his role as Jon Snow in this year’s season.
As for other surprises, Lady Gaga got a nod for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Series for her role as The Countess on ‘American Horror Story: Hotel’ while Jamie Lee Curtis was recognized in the Best Performance By an Actress in a Television Series, Musical, or Comedy, which is essentially a lead actress nominations, even though it isn’t listed that way. This is quite startling as ‘Scream Queens’ wasn’t nominated in any other categories, has not been critically praised and Curtis’ Dean Munsch isn’t really the lead character on the show. (And strictly from my own perspective, her performance is essentially a carbon copy of Jane Lynch’s portrayal of Coach Sue Sylvester from ‘Glee’ from the same creators.)
And criminally omitted is Tatiana Maslany who plays something like 50 characters on ‘Orphan Black’.
Here is the full list of nominations for television:
Best Television Series, Drama
Empire, Fox
Game of Thrones, HBO
Mr. Robot, USA
Narcos, Netflix
Outlander, Starz
Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy
Casual, Hulu
Mozart in the Jungle, Amazon Video
Orange Is the New Black, Netflix
Silicon Valley, HBO
Transparent, Amazon Video
Veep, HBO
Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
American Crime, ABC
American Horror Story: Hotel, FX
Fargo, FX
Flesh and Bone, Starz
Wolf Hall, PBS
Best Performance By an Actor in a Television Series, Drama
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Rami Malek, Mr. Robot
Wagner Moura, Narcos
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan
Best Performance By an Actor in a Television Series, Musical, or Comedy
Aziz Ansari, Master of None
Gael García Bernal, Mozart in the Jungle
Rob Lowe, The Grinder
Patrick Stewart, Blunt Talk
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television
Idris Elba, Luther
Oscar Isaac, Show Me a Hero
David Oyelowo, Nightingale
Mark Rylance, Wolf Hall
Patrick Wilson, Fargo
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television
Alan Cumming, The Good Wife
Damien Lewis, Wolf Hall
Ben Mendelson, Bloodline
Tobias Menzies, Outlander
Christian Slater, Mr. Robot
Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, Drama
Caitriona Balfe, Outlander
Viola Davis, How to Get Away With Murder
Eva Green, Penny Dreadful
Taraji P. Henson, Empire
Robin Wright, House of Cards
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Actress in a Series, Limited Series, or Motion Picture Made for Television
Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black
Joanna Froggatt, Downton Abbey
Regina King, American Crime
Judith Light, Transparent
Maura Tierney, The Affair
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Kirsten Dunst, Fargo
Lady Gaga, American Horror Story: Hotel
Sarah Hay, Flesh and Bone
Felicity Huffman, American Crime
Queen Latifah, Bessie
Best Performance By an Actress in a Television Series, Musical, or Comedy
Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Jamie Lee Curtis, Scream Queens
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin
Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie
How do you feel about the nominations? Were any shows or performers shafted? Who do you think should have made the cut?
Source: Entertainment Weekly
