The Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning, with few surprises and a couple of disappointed contenders. But if there's one person who should be thrilled, it's Sandra Bullock who managed a nod in both the Best Actress Comedy and Drama categories for her performances in The Proposal and The Blind Side, respectively. This caps off a banner year for the actress. The Proposal grossed $160 million at the box office, and The Blind Side already has a tally of $150 million and counting. For an actress that many started to count out...this is big news.
It's also big news for adult Hollywood. Meryl Streep also garnered two nominations, for her turns in Julia and Julia and in It's Complicated. Julia Roberts is back in the running for Duplicity, while Helen Mirren and Julianne Moore will both contend for awards this year (Mirren for Actress, Drama for The Last Station; Moore for Supporting Actress for The Single Man). If the common notion is that starving starlets are ruling Hollywood, I just named at least five mature actresses who beg to differ.
You can check out all the Golden Globe nods here. For everyone who was dying to know, I correctly predicted around 80% of the nods in the major categories (check out my predix here). As I predicted, the TV side of the nominations were heavy on the buzzy freshman series like Glee, which scored a Best Comedy and three acting nods, Modern Family (Best Comedy), and The Good Wife (Best Actress, Drama for Julianna Marguiles).
And it's big news for Courteney Cox-Arquette, who scored the first major acting nod of her career for her performance in Cougar Town. She was the only cast member of Friends not to be nominated for an Emmy in its 10 seasons, and had been snubbed by the other major awards circuits as well. My favorite surprise nominations? Thomas Jane and Jane Adams being recognized for hysterical turns as a male prostitute and his fish-out-of-water pimp in Hung, Tobey Maguire deservedly scoring a nod for going scary psycho in Brothers, and Karen O's nomination for the eerily pitchperfect score of Where The Wild Things Are. The biggest turd nod? Entourage's Best Comedy bid. Ugh.
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