It seems the Keira Knightley period drama Atonement is suddenly the Oscar favorite, picking up 7 Golden Globe nominations to lead the pack. Eastern Promises made a surprising showing, and Cate Blanchett, while a shoe-in for Best Supporting with I'm Not There, was also not expected to show up in the Best Actress category with the widely-panned Elizabeth: The Golden Age. It's rare to see that double-up, much less twice in the same year, but Philip Seymour Hoffman also pulled off the two-fer, nominated in Best Actor and Best Supporting for The Savages and Charlie Wilson's War, respectively, and the Supporting categories don't even have the luxury of being broken up into Drama and Comedy/Musical, so that's even more impressive, even if The Savages is only debatably a comedy, and Laura Linney should be in there somewhere.
Other notable snubs include Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin for No Country for Old Men, both of whom really carried that film to its Best Motion Picture nomination, and Into the Wild being nominated only in musical categories, although it's a tip of the hat to Eddie Vedder. Sorry about your luck, Emile Hirsch.
Man. Now I have to watch Hairspray.
Here's the list of film nominees.
Best Motion Picture, Drama
American Gangster
Atonement
Eastern Promises
The Great Debaters
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
James McAvoy, Atonement
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Denzel Washington, American Gangster
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away From Her
Jodie Foster, The Brave One
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Keira Knightley, Atonement
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Across the Universe
Charlie Wilson's War
Hairspray
Juno
Sweeney Todd
Best Actor, Musical or Comedy
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl
Tom Hanks, Charlie Wilson's War
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Savages
John C. Reilly, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Best Actress, Musical or Comedy
Amy Adams, Enchanted
Nikki Blonsky, Hairspray
Helena Bonham Carter, Sweeney Todd
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Ellen Page, Juno
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Julia Roberts, Charlie Wilson's War
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
John Travolta, Hairspray
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
Best Director
Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, No Country for Old Men
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Ridley Scott, American Gangster
Joe Wright, Atonement
Best Screenplay
Diablo Cody, Juno
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, No Country for Old Men
Christopher Hampton, Atonement
Ronald Harwood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Aaron Sorkin, Charlie Wilson's War
Best Foreign Language Film
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (France/U.S.)
The Kite Runner (U.S.)
Lust, Caution (Taiwan)
Perseopolis (France)
Best Animated Film
Bee Movie
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie
Best Original Score
Michael Brook, Kaki King, Eddie Vedder, Into the Wild
Clint Eastwood, Grace is Gone
Alberto Iglesias, The Kite Runner
Dario Marianelli, Atonement
Howard Shore, Eastern Promises
Best Original Song
"Despedida," Love in the Time of Cholera
"Grace is Gone," Grace is Gone
"Guaranteed," Into the Wild
"That's How You Know," Enchanted
"Walk Hard," Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
