Picks in film, TV from foreign press
Here’s a complete list of nominees for the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.’s Golden Globe Awards, to be presented Jan. 15:
MOTION PICTURES
Picture (Drama)
“Babel,” Paramount Vantage
“Bobby,” MGM/The Weinstein Co.
“The Departed,” Warner Bros.
“Little Children,” New Line Cinema
“The Queen,” Miramax Films
Actress (Drama)
Penelope Cruz, “Volver”
Judi Dench, “Notes on a Scandal”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, “Sherrybaby”
Helen Mirren, “The Queen”
Kate Winslet, “Little Children”
Actor (Drama)
Leonardo DiCaprio, “Blood Diamond”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Departed”
Peter O’Toole, “Venus”
Will Smith, “The Pursuit of Happyness”
Forest Whitaker, “The Last King of Scotland”
Picture (Comedy or Musical)
“Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” 20th Century Fox
“The Devil Wears Prada,” 20th Century Fox
“Dreamgirls,” DreamWorks/Paramount
“Little Miss Sunshine,” Fox Searchlight
“Thank You for Smoking,” Fox Searchlight
Actress (Comedy or Musical)
Annette Bening, “Running With Scissors”
Toni Collette, “Little Miss Sunshine”
Beyonce Knowles, “Dreamgirls”
Meryl Streep, “The Devil Wears Prada”
Renee Zellweger, “Miss Potter”
Actor (Comedy or Musical)
Sacha Baron Cohen, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”
Johnny Depp, “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
Aaron Eckhart, “Thank You for Smoking”
Chiwetel Ejiofor, “Kinky Boots”
Will Ferrell, “Stranger Than Fiction”
Animated film
“Cars,” Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studio
“Happy Feet,” Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow
“Monster House,” Columbia/Sony
Foreign-language film
“Apocalypto” (USA), Touchstone Pictures/Icon Productions
“Letters From Iwo Jima” (USA/Japan), Warner Bros./DreamWorks
“The Lives of Others” (Germany), Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion; Sony Pictures Classics
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Mexico), Picturehouse
“Volver” (Spain), Sony Pictures Classics
Supporting actress
Adriana Barraza, “Babel”
Cate Blanchett, “Notes on a Scandal”
Emily Blunt, “The Devil Wears Prada”
Jennifer Hudson, “Dreamgirls”
Rinko Kikuchi, “Babel”
Supporting actor
Ben Affleck, “Hollywoodland”
Eddie Murphy, “Dreamgirls”
Jack Nicholson, “The Departed”
Brad Pitt, “Babel”
Mark Wahlberg, “The Departed”
Director
Clint Eastwood, “Flags of Our Fathers”
Clint Eastwood, “Letters From Iwo Jima”
Stephen Frears, “The Queen”
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, “Babel”
Martin Scorsese, “The Departed”
Screenplay
Guillermo Arriaga, “Babel”
Todd Field & Tom Perrotta, “Little Children”
Patrick Marber, “Notes on a Scandal”
William Monahan, “The Departed”
Peter Morgan, “The Queen”
Original score
Alexandre Desplat, “The Painted Veil”
Clint Mansell, “The Fountain”
Gustavo Santaolalla, “Babel”
Carlo Siliotto, “Nomad”
Hans Zimmer, “The Da Vinci Code”
Original song
“A Father’s Way” -- “The Pursuit of Happyness”; Seal and Christopher Bruce, music; lyrics, Seal
“Listen” -- “Dreamgirls”; Henry Krieger, Anne Preven, Scott Cutler and Beyonce Knowles, music & lyrics
“Never Gonna Break My Faith” -- “Bobby”; Bryan Adams, Eliot Kennedy and Andrea Remanda, music & lyrics
“The Song of the Heart” -- “Happy Feet”; Prince Rogers Nelson, music & lyrics
“Try Not to Remember” -- “Home of the Brave”; Sheryl Crow, music & lyrics
TELEVISION
Series (Drama)
“24,” Fox
“Big Love,” HBO
“Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC
“Heroes,” NBC
“Lost,” ABC
Actress in a series (Drama)
Patricia Arquette, “Medium”
Edie Falco, “The Sopranos”
Evangeline Lilly, “Lost”
Ellen Pompeo, “Grey’s Anatomy”
Kyra Sedgwick, “The Closer”
Actor in a series (Drama)
Patrick Dempsey, “Grey’s Anatomy”
Michael C. Hall, “Dexter”
Hugh Laurie, “House”
Bill Paxton, “Big Love”
Kiefer Sutherland, “24”
Series (Comedy or Musical)
“Desperate Housewives,” ABC
“Entourage,” HBO
“The Office,” NBC
“Ugly Betty,” ABC
“Weeds,” Showtime
Actress in a series (Comedy or Musical)
Marcia Cross, “Desperate Housewives”
America Ferrera, “Ugly Betty”
Felicity Huffman, “Desperate Housewives”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, “The New Adventures of Old Christine”
Mary-Louise Parker, “Weeds”
Actor in a series (Comedy or Musical)
Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock”
Zach Braff, “Scrubs”
Steve Carell, “The Office”
Jason Lee, “My Name Is Earl”
Tony Shalhoub, “Monk”
Miniseries or motion picture made for television
“Bleak House,” PBS
“Broken Trail,” AMC
“Elizabeth I,” HBO
“Mrs. Harris,” HBO
“Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act,” PBS
Actress in a miniseries or motion picture made for television
Gillian Anderson, “Bleak House”
Annette Bening, “Mrs. Harris”
Helen Mirren, “Elizabeth I”
Helen Mirren, “Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act”
Sophie Okonedo, “Tsunami, The Aftermath”
Actor in a miniseries or motion picture made for television
Andre Braugher, “Thief”
Robert Duvall, “Broken Trail”
Michael Ealy, “Sleeper Cell: American Terror”
Chiwetel Ejiofor, “Tsunami, The Aftermath”
Ben Kingsley, “Mrs. Harris”
Bill Nighy, “Gideon’s Daughter”
Matthew Perry, “The Ron Clark Story”
Supporting actress in a series, miniseries or motion picture made for television
Emily Blunt, “Gideon’s Daughter”
Toni Collette, “Tsunami, The Aftermath”
Katherine Heigl, “Grey’s Anatomy”
Sarah Paulson, “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”
Elizabeth Perkins, “Weeds”
Supporting actor in a series, miniseries or motion picture made for television
Thomas Haden Church, “Broken Trail”
Jeremy Irons, “Elizabeth I”
Justin Kirk, “Weeds”
Masi Oka, “Heroes”
Jeremy Piven, “Entourage”
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