OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD GLOBE RACES

Jack Lemmon vs. Paul Hogan. Dennis Hopper vs. Dennis Hopper. “ ‘Crocodile’ Dundee” vs. “Hannah and Her Sisters.”

These are a few of the oddball matchups among the 1986 Golden Globe nominees, announced Tuesday by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. The winners will be announced during a Jan. 31 awards show, which will be syndicated (Channel 11 locally at 9 p.m.) from the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Woody Allen’s “Hannah and Her Sisters” and Roland Joffe’s “The Mission” had the most nominees in the film categories, with five each. But since the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. splits its best picture and lead acting categories into dramas and musicals/comedies, the two films only go head-to-head twice--for best screenplay and best direction.

Allen, who wrote and directed “Hannah,” was one of several people nominated twice. Dennis Hopper also was a double nominee in the best supporting actor category. Hollywood’s comeback kid, who has dried out from years of alcohol and drug abuse, was nominated for his work both as a gas-sniffing psychopath in “Blue Velvet” and a whiskey-guzzling sports nut in “Hoosiers.”

Julie Andrews faced tragedy in “Duet for One” and “That’s Life!,” but was nonetheless nominated as best actress once for drama (“Duet”) and once for comedy (“That’s Life!”). Farrah Fawcett had an even greater reach, being nominated as best actress in a dramatic film, “Extremities,” and best actress in a miniseries or motion picture made for television, “Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story.”

The Golden Globes have always been laced with eccentric choices, but there have been more since the group of Los Angeles-based foreign journalists began sorting performances and pictures into genre--dramas over here, musicals and comedies over there. Academy voters may have trouble filling out the five spots on their Oscar nominating ballots, but altogether the foreign press managed 12 best picture nominees and singled out 31 actors and actresses for the finals.

With that many nominations, the foreign press managed to include most of the names likely to show up among the Oscar nominees when they are announced Jan. 30. The most eyebrow-raising inclusions on the Golden Globe list are the three nominations for “ ‘Crocodile’ Dundee.” Besides Hogan’s nomination as best actor in a comedy or musical, there were nominations for his American co-star Linda Kozlowski for best actress in a musical or comedy and one for “ ‘Crocodile’ Dundee” itself as best picture, comedy or musical (or adventure, or whatever it was).

The mind boggles.

Historically, the Golden Globes have closely paralleled the Oscar nominations. Certainly, the foreign journalists display more mainstream commercial tastes than the various critics organizations, whose 1986 pet discovery was David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet.”

“Blue Velvet” did get nominations for Lynch’s screenplay and Hopper’s kinky performance, but it was not included in the best dramatic picture category, which this year went six deep with “Children of a Lesser God,” “The Mission,” “Mona Lisa,” “Platoon,” “A Room With a View” and “Stand by Me.”

The best director category, which combines dramas with musicals and comedies, included Allen (“Hannah”), Joffe (“The Mission”), James Ivory (“A Room With a View”), Rob Reiner (“Stand by Me”) and Oliver Stone (“Platoon”).

“Platoon,” which closed the year with a critical and box office rush to establish itself as an Oscar front-runner, also earned Stone a Golden Globe nomination for best screenplay and Tom Berenger a nomination for best supporting actor.

Among the more glaring omissions, weighed against expectations, were Francis Coppola, not nominated for his direction of “Peggy Sue Got Married,” Jeff Goldblum, not nominated for his performance in “The Fly,” and Daniel Day Lewis, not nominated for his performance in “A Room With a View.”

The big news on the list of television nominees was the domination of “The Golden Girls,” which accounts for four of the five spots on the final ballot for best performance by an actress in a television series, musical or comedy. Lucky there are only four female stars in the geriatric hit, or Cybill Shepherd (“Moonlighting”) may have been shut out, too.

It was, as expected, a good day for NBC. The network that is trouncing its competitors in the ratings also trounced them in nominations, with a total of 31 to CBS’s 16 and ABC’s 11.

PAR FOR COURSE: Paramount Pictures’ three amigos--”The Golden Child,” “Star Trek IV” and “ ‘Crocodile’ Dundee”--continued to lead the pack around the final turn of the two-week holiday break. Although business dropped from 20% (for “ ‘Crocodile’ Dundee”) to 34% (for “The Golden Child”) from the first holiday weekend, the Paramount trio collected more than $18 million in grosses among them.

Meanwhile, Orion Pictures’ “Three Amigos!” and Warner Bros.’ “Heartbreak Ridge” were fading fast. “Three Amigos!” dropped 32% and “Heartbreak Ridge” 36%.

On a per screen basis, the two strongest movies in the waning days of the season were DEG’s “Crimes of the Heart” (an average of $4,789 at 454 theaters) and Warner Bros.’ “Little Shop of Horrors” ($4,624 at 866 theaters).

Emilio Estevez’s “Wisdom,” the only new major studio release (from 20th Century Fox), opened to nearly unanimous critical pans and a lukewarm box-office gross of $2 million in 788 theaters.

The Top 10: “The Golden Child” ($6.6 million over the weekend, $52.2 million cumulative grosses), “Star Trek IV” ($6.2 million, $81.3 million), “ ‘Crocodile’ Dundee” ($4.7 million, $122.9 million), “Lady and the Tramp” ($4.5 million, $20.7 million), “Little Shop of Horrors” ($4 million, $19.5 million), “Three Amigos!” ($3.7 million, $28.4 million), “The Morning After” ($3.4 million, $12.8 million), “Heartbreak Ridge” ($3.2 million, $34.9 million), “An American Tail” ($2.7 million, $37.2 million), “Crimes of the Heart” ($2.2 million, $11.4 million).

PAR FOR COURSE, II: Paramount also won the year at the box office. Of those movies released during 1986, Paramount ended up with four of the top 10 grossers.

The Top 10 1986 releases and their studios, with grosses through Dec. 31: “Top Gun,” $170.1 million (Paramount), “ ‘Crocodile’ Dundee,” $116.2 million (Paramount), “The Karate Kid, Part II,” $114.9 million (Columbia), “Back to School,” $90.4 million (Orion), “Aliens,” $77.6 million (Fox), “Ruthless People,” $71.6 million, “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” $70.1 million (Paramount), “Star Trek IV,” $67.9 million (Paramount).

(Box office figures from The Hollywood Reporter.)