The Golden Globes are chosen by a group of around 90 journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, rather than members of the film industry. But the Globes do mirror picks by critic's groups and are seen as one of the indicators of Oscar contenders.
Lesbian romance drama Carol led the Golden Globe nominations on Thursday with five nods, including the top category for best drama, while Wall Street misdeeds movie The Big Short led the comedy film categories with four nominations.
Carol, the story of a married older woman who falls in love with a young shopgirl in the 1950s, will contend for best drama opposite Pioneer-era movie The Revenant, psychological thriller Room, Catholic Church abuse probe Spotlight and action thriller Mad Max: Fury Road.
Carol lead stars Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara both landed best actress nominations, and the movie also picked up nods for director Todd Haynes and for best original score.
The Big Short, which takes a quirky look at the housing bubble crash that led to the 2008 recession, will contend for best comedy/musical film alongside space adventure The Martian, Melissa McCarthy caper Spy, coming-of-age comedy Trainwreck and Joy, inspired by the story of the Miracle Mop creator.
The Big Short also landed two best actor nods for Christian Bale and Steve Carell, and best screenplay for Charles Randolph and Adam McKay. The Revenant and biopic Steve Jobs also landed four nominations each.
Nominees in the best actress - drama are Brie Larson (Room), Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn) and Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl).
In the best actor - drama category The Revenant star DiCaprio will fight it out with this year's Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne for his gender-bending role in The Danish Girl. Michael Fassbender's turn as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is also a strong contender in this category and so is Bryan Cranston's performance in the role of a blacklisted Hollywood writer Dalton Trumbo in Trumbo and Will Smith for sports thriller Concussion.
In the best director category Ridley Scott (The Martian), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (The Revenant), Tom McCarthy's Spotlight, Todd Haynes's Carol and George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road have been nominated.
The nominees in the best supporting actress category are Jane Fonda (Youth), Jennifer Jason Leigh for The Hateful Eight, Helen Mirren for Trumbo, Alicia Vikander for Ex Machina and Kate Winslet for Steve Jobs. Paul Dano (Love & Mercy), Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation), Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies), Michael Shannon (99 Homes) and Sylvester Stallone (Creed) have bagged nods in the best supporting actor list.
In the nominations for TV, Empire, which centers on a hip hop music and entertainment company, Empire Entertainment, has bagged two nominations-- the best television drama series and for its lead actress Taraji P Henson in the best performance by an actress in a television series drama.
Viola Davis is nominated in the best performance by an actress in a television series drama category for her work in How to Get Away with Murder. Nominees for the best actress in a TV series- drama also include Caitriona Balfe (Outlander), Eva Green (Penny Dreadful) and Robin Wright (House of Cards).
Nominees for best actor in a TV Series- drama are Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Rami Malek (Mr Robot), Wagner Moura (Narcos), Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul), Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan).
Game of Thrones, a top winner at this year's Emmys, received only one nomination-- the best television drama series. Also nominated in the best television drama series are Mr Robot, Narcos and Outlander. Veep earned nomination in the best television series musical or comedy, and the best actress category for Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Best actor in a TV series- comedy nods are Indian-American Aziz Ansari (Master of None), Gael Garcia Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle), Rob Lowe (The Grinder), Patrick Stewart (Blunt Talk) and Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent).
Besides Veep, others nominated in the best TV series- comedy are Casual, Mozart in the Jungle, Orange Is the New Black, Silicon Valley and Transparent.
The best actress in a TV series- comedy contenders are Rachel Bloom, Jamie Lee Curtis, Gina Rodriguez, Lilly Tomlin, Grace & Frankie, besides Louis-Dreyfus.
The nominees for TV movie or limited series are American Crime, American Horror Story: Hotel, Fargo, Flesh and Bone, and Wolf Hall.
Pop star Lady Gaga received a nod in the best actress in a limited series or motion picture made for television for "American Horror Story: Hotel".
The Golden Globes are chosen by a group of around 90 journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, rather than members of the film industry. But the Globes do mirror picks by critic's groups and are seen as one of the indicators of Oscar contenders. Last year's Golden Globe best comedy/musical film winner, Birdman, went on to win the best picture Oscar.
Golden Globe winners will be announced at a televised ceremony in Los Angeles on January 10, hosted by comedian Ricky Gervais.
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