We're heading into that great time of year again, award ceremonies galore and one of our favourites and certainly one of Hollywood's favourites is the Golden Globes.
The nominations for each category have been released today for film and TV and there were a few shocks in here and quite a few questionable choices. For the nominations in full, head on over to the
Golden Globes site.
As you may already know, the Globes doesn't work exactly like the Oscars; the best film nominations are split into Best Film, Drama and Best Film, Musical or Comedy.
There really weren't any surprises in best drama with
12 Years a Slave, Gravity, Captain Phillips, Rush and
Philomena made the cut. Surprisingly, Lee Daniel's
The Butler failed to pick up a single nomination.

Best Film, Musical or Comedy nominations included
Nebraska (yes, lots of laugh and musical numbers in here),
American Hustle, The Wolf of Wall Street (also, quite musical)
Inside Llewyn Davis and
Her.
For the Best Actor nominations, the nominations were Matthew McConaughey for
Dallas Buyers Club, Chiwetel Ejiofor for
12 Years a Slave, Tom Hanks for
Captain Phillips, Robert Redford for
All is Lost and Idris Elba for
Mandela.
Best Actor for a Musical or Comedy nominations included Bruce Dern for
Nebraska (he might get that Oscar yet), Leonardo DiCaprio for
The Wolf of Wall Street, Christian Bale for
American Hustle, Oscar Isaac for
Inside Llewyn Davis and Joaquin Phoenix for
Her.

In terms of Best Actress for Drama, the nominations weren't that shocking. Cate Blanchett, of course, received the nomination for
Blue Jasmine, Sandra Bullock for
Gravity, Emma Thompson for
Saving Mr. Banks, Judi Dench for
Philomena and Kate Winslet for
Labor Day.
Best Actress for Musical or Comedy nominations were Meryl Streep for August: Orange County, Julia Louis-Dreyfus for
Enough Said, Amy Adams for
American Hustle, Julie Delpy for
Before Midnight and Greta Gerwig for
Frances Ha. However, the leads from
Blue is the Warmest Colour were sadly overlooked here.
For the Best Supporting Actor category, there were gasps all round when James Franco failed to achieve a nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Neither was James Gandolfini nominated for
Enough Said. The nominations included Michael Fassbender for
12 Years a Slave, Jared Leto for
Dallas Buyers Club, Bradley Cooper for
American Hustle Daniel Bruhl for
Rush and Barkhad Abdi for
Captain Phillips.

Best Supporting Actress included Lupita Nyong'o for
12 Years a Slave, Jennifer Lawrence for
American Hustle, Julia Roberts for
August: Orange County, June Squibb for
Nebraska and the amazing Sally Hawkins for
Blue Jasmine. However, there was no mention of Oprah in the category which came as quite the shock.
In terms of TV nominations, the biggest shock was the omission from Best Actress category of the brilliant Anna Gunn from
Breaking Bad. Anna lost out to Helena Bonham Carter for Burton and Taylor, Rebecca Ferguson, shockingly, for the
White Queen, Jessica Lange for
American Horror Story, Helen Mirren for
Phil Spector and Elisabeth Moss for the
Top of the Lake.
Her fellow actors picked up nominations no problem with Bryan Cranston taking a Best Actor nomination against the likes of Martin Sheen, Kevin Spacey for the brilliant
House of Cards, James Spader for the
Blacklist and Liev Schreiber for
Ray Donovan. Aaron Paul also picked up a Best Supporting Actor nomination for a TV series.

The nominations for Best TV series, Drama were
Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey, House of Cards, Masters of Sex and the
Good Wife.
For best series Comedy the nominations were
The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, Girls, Brooklyn 99 and
Parks and Recreation.