The Golden Globe Nominations For 2014 Are Released And There Are A Couple Of Surprises

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.