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GAYATHRI JAYARAMAN
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The 70th Golden Globe Awards has a lot of
surprises in store not only for the awaiting audiences, but also for the
nominees. This year’s group of nominees chosen for nominations were announced on
December 13, 2012 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California, while
the awards will be presented on January 13, 2013.
The nominees
for the best drama motion pictures include “Argo,” “Django Unchained,” “Life of Pi,” “Lincoln,” and “Zero
Dark Thirty.”
The movies “Argo,” “Life of Pi” and “Lincoln” were also selected
for nominations for the best original score, in addition to “Anna Karenina” and
“Cloud Atlas.”
It is yet again a great fortune for the
four movies “Argo,” “Django Unchained,” “Lincoln,” and “Zero Dark Thirty”, which
scored extra nominations along with “Silver Linings Playbook” under the best
screenplay category.
For the best musical or comedy motion
pictures-“Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” “Les Miserables,” “Moonrise Kingdom,” “Salmon
Fishing in the Yemen,” and “Silver Linings Playbook” were the movies selected
for nominations.
Among all the movies, Civil War based
drama “Lincoln” notched up seven nods including best director for Steven Spielberg
and best actor for Daniel Day- Lewis. While the rest of the movies also fetched
five nods for the best director Ben Affleck for Argo, Kathryn Bigelow for Zero
Dark Thirty, Ang Lee for Life of Pi and Quentin Tarantino for Django Unchained.
Not to be missed- the prominent
celebrities including Joaquin Phoenix for The Master, Richard Gere for Arbitrage,
Denzel Washington for Flight, John Hawkes for The Sessions were nominated for
the best actors for drama. Categorized under Musical or Comedy, the actor
Bradley Cooper and actress Jennifer Lawrence of “Silver Linings Playbook” were
nominated for best actor and best actress award respectively. On the other
hand, the movie “Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” also hit the nominations for the
best actor Ewan McGregor and for the best actress Emily Blunt.
Here are the other categories of nominations
for:
Best Supporting Actor:
Alan Arkin, Argo
Leonardo Di Caprio, Django
Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The
Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Hope Springs
Christophe Waltz, Django
Unchained
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Best Original Song
Safe and Sound, The Hunger Games,
Skyfall, Skyfall
Suddenly, Les Miserables
Not Running Anymore, Stand Up Guys
For You, Act of Valor
Best Foreign Language Film
Amour
Rust and Bone
The Untouchables
A Royal Affair
Kon-Tiki
Best Animated Feature
Brave
Frankenweenie
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck It Ralph
Hotel Transylvania
Cecil B DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award
Jodie Foster
