Golden Globes - clearly I am not watching the right movies ! (1 Viewer)

[The Military Workshop]

Just saw a promo add on TV for Into the Woods which mentioned its Golden Globe Nominations. So looked up the nominations which are below.

If this the indicator to the Oscar nominations then this years awards going to be fairly meaningless to me. Luckily I watched The Imitation Game today as that is the only movie in the ten nominated for a best movie that I have seen ! I do plan to watch St Vincent but most of the others I have little knowledge of or did not find appealing. I think most have either just started to be shown in Australia or are coming in next few weeks. Some that have been on were only short runs indicating limited audiences.

What is noticeable is there is no blockbuster type movie nominated this year and most below seem not to be box office hits.

Having seen Imitation Game I am not surprised Cumerbatch nominated.

Anybody seen Birdman ?

Not seen many of the TV shows either but a fan of Homeland and Thrones. Will be looking out for True Detective.

MOTION PICTUREs with most nominations

BIRDMAN
7
BOYHOOD
5
THE IMITATION GAME
5
GONE GIRL
4
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
4
SELMA
4
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
4
BIG EYES
3
FOXCATCHER
3
INTO THE WOODS
3
ANNIE
2
ST. VINCENT
2


Best film, drama

Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything

Best film, comedy or musical

Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Into the Woods
Pride
St. Vincent

Best actress, comedy or musical

Amy Adams - Big Eyes
Emily Blunt - Into the Woods
Helen Mirren - The Hundred-Foot Journey
Julianne Moore - Maps to the Stars
Quvenzhané Wallis - Annie

Best supporting actor

Robert Duvall - The Judge
Ethan Hawke - Boyhood
Edward Norton - Birdman
Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher
JK Simmons - Whiplash

Best director

Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ava Duvernay - Selma
David Fincher - Gone Girl
Alejandro González Iñárritu - Birdman
Richard Linklater - Boyhood

Best actor, drama

Steve Carell - Foxcatcher
Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler
David Oyelowo - Selma
Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything

Best supporting actress

Patricia Arquette - Boyhood
Jessica Chastain - A Most Violent Year
Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game
Emma Stone - Birdman
Meryl Streep - Into the Woods

Best actress, drama

Jennifer Aniston, Cake
Felicity Jones, The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon, Wild

Best actor, comedy or musical

Ralph Fiennes - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Michael Keaton - Birdman
Bill Murray - St. Vincent
Joaquin Phoenix - Inherent Vice
Christoph Waltz - Big Eyes

Best screenplay
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo - Birdman
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Graham Moore - The Imitation Game

TELEVISION
Best series, drama

The Affair
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife
House of Cards

Best actress, drama series

Claire Danes – Homeland
Viola Davis – How to Get Away with Murder
Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife
Ruth Wilson – The Affair
Robin Wright – House of Cards

Best actor, drama series

Clive Owen - The Knick
Liev Schreiber - Ray Donovan
Kevin Spacey - House of Cards
James Spader - The Black List
Dominic West - The Affair

Best series, comedy or musical

Girls
Jane the Virgin
Orange is the New Black
Silicon Valley
Transparent

Best actress, comedy or musical series

Lena Dunham – Girls
Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie
Gina Rodriguez – Jane the Virgin
Julia Louis Dreyfuss – Veep
Taylor Schilling – Orange Is the New Black

Best actor, comedy or musical series

Don Cheadle – House of Lies
Ricky Gervais – Derek
Jeffrey Tambor – Transparent
Louis CK – Louie
William H. Macy – Shameless

Best mini-series or TV movie

Fargo
The Missing
True Detective
The Normal Heart
Olive Kitteridge

Best actress, mini-series or TV movie

Maggie Gyllenhaal - The Honorable Woman
Jessica Lange - American Horror Story: Freak Show
Frances McDormand - Olive Kitteridge
Frances O’Connor - The Missing
Allison Tolman - Fargo

Best actor, mini-series or TV movie

Martin Freeman - Fargo
Woody Harrelson - True Detective
Matthew McConaughey - True Detective
Mark Ruffalo - The Normal Heart
Billy Bob Thornton - Fargo

Best supporting actress

Uzo Aduba – Orange is the New Black
Kathy Bates – American Horror Story: Freak Show
Joanne Froggatt – Downton Abbey
Allison Janney – Mom
Michelle Monaghan – True Detective

Best supporting actor

Matt Bomer - The Normal Heart
Alan Cumming - The Good Wife
Colin Hanks - Fargo
Bill Murray - Olive Kitteridge
Jon Voight - Ray Donovan

 

[nysoldiers]

Selma is an excellent movie and historically accurate.
Birdman is well done and very different but not your run of the mill Hollywood movie.
Also just saw Big Eyes which is also entertaining and well acted.

I have gotten bored with the Hollywood, action/special effects movies and prefer more cerebral stuff. Not to say a good war or scifi movie can't get my attention if it is well done.

 

[nysoldiers]

I don't know if you get Netflix down under but "The Honorable Woman" is an excellent series about the Middle East and spy agencies......great acting!

 

[jazzeum]

I guess I better get on the stick because I haven't seen many of the movies on the list and there are definitely a few I want to see.

On the television side, I watched The Knick, Fargo, Ray Donovan, True Detective and Olive Kittredge and thought they and the actors in them were outstanding. I would be hard pressed to pick a winner but Martin Tyler in Fargo and Frances McDormand in Olive Kittredge were outstanding.

 

[nmrocks]

Thought Fargo was the best done on TV this year, kinda surprised not to see Billy Bob Thornton mentioned, he made a very understated menacing villain.
Ray Donavan sucked me in and Homeland as well, but with Homeland it's hard to accept that the top administrators are always in jeopardy by actually conducting field operations themselves???

Birdman was a movie with way too much "inside baseball" it was made for the industry, not the audience, I think thats why all the buzz.
Grand Budapest was a great throw back film I really liked.
Ray

 

[theBaron]

I don't pay much attention to awards and award shows, from the Oscars to the Golden Globes, to the People's Choice, to the local paper's Top Ten List. For one thing, there are awards that are promoted by industry insiders (eg, the Oscars), so they're not necessarily objective, or there are awards based on ratings or box office receipts, which, again, isn't really an objective way to judge whether a movie or a show is something that will interest me.

Prost!
Brad