Golden Globe Nominees announced

The HFPA 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards is always the runner up to the Academy Awards in a way. Still providing about the same round of nominations as the Oscars but spreads the love between drama and comedy. The award show is a more diverse and fun sort of reception each year for those who end up on the list to go along with those who watch. Indie Wire is awesome enough to stream away the official announcement, and here are the nominees (which are being updated as each announcement comes out):

Best Picture (Drama)

• Avatar - Twentieth Century Fox
• The Hurt Locker – Summit Entertainment
• Inglourious Basterds – Universal Pictures
• Precious - Lionsgate
• Up in the Air – Paramount Pictures

Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)

• 500 Days of Summer – Fox Searchlight
• The Hangover – Warner Bros Pictures
• It’s Complicated – Universal Pictures
• Julie & Julia – Columbia Pictures
• Nine – The Weinstein Company

Best Director

• Katheryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
• James Cameron –  Avatar
• Clint Eastwood – Invictus
• Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
• Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

Best Actor (Drama)

• Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
• George Clooney – Up in the Air
• Colin Firth – A Single Man
• Morgan Freeman – Invictus
• Tobey Maguire – Brothers

Best Actor (Musical or Comedy)

• Matt Damon – The Informant
• Daniel Day Lewis – Nine
• Robert Downey Jr. – Sherlock Holmes
• Joseph Gordon Levitt – 500 Days of Summer
• Michael Stuhlbarg – A Serious Man

Best Actress (Drama)

• Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria
• Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
• Helen Mirren – The Last Station
• Carey Mulligan – An Education
• Gabourey Sibide – Precious

Best Actress (Musical or Comedy)

• Sandra Bullock – The Proposal
• Marion Cotillard – Nine
• Julia Roberts – Duplicity
• Meryl Streep – It’s Complicated
• Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Actor

• Matt Damon – Invictus
• Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
• Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
• Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
• Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress

• Penelope Cruz – Nine
• Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
• Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
• Mo’Nique – Precious
• Julianne Moore – A Single Man

Best Screenplay

• District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
• The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
• It’s Complicated – Nancy Meyers
• Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
• Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino

Best Original Score

• Up - Michael Giacchino
• The Informant - Marvin Hamlisch
• Avatar – James Horner
• A Single Man - Abel Krozeniowski
• Where the Wild Things Are – Karen O. and Carter Burwell

Best Original Song

• “I See You” – Avatar
• “The Weary Kind” - Crazy Heart
• “Winter” - Brothers
• “Cinema Italiano” - Nine
• “I Want to Come Home” - Everybody’s Fine

Best Foreign Language Film

• Baria - Italy
• Broken Embraces - Spain
• The Maid - Chile
• A Prophet - France
• The White Ribbon - Germany

Best Animated Feature Film

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – Columbia Pictures
• Coraline - Focus Features
• The Fantastic Mr. Fox - Fox Searchlight
• The Princess and the Frog - Disney
• Up – Disney

Best Television Series

• Big Love - HBO
• Dexter – Showtime
• House – Fox
• Mad Men - AMC
• True Blood - HBO

Best Actor in a Television Drama

• Simon Baker – The Mentalist
• Michael C. Hall – Dexter
• Jon Hamm – Mad Men
• Hugh Laurie – House
• Bill Paxton – Big Love

Best Actor in a Television Musical or Comedy

• Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock
• Steve Carrell – The Office
• David Duchovny – Californication
• Thomas Jane – Hung
• Matthew Morrison – Glee

Best Actress in a Television Drama

• Glenn Close – Damages
• January Jones – Mad Men
• Julianna Margulies – The Good Wife
• Anna Paquin – True Blood
• Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer

Best Actress in a Television Musical or Comedy

• Toni Collette - United States of Tara
• Courteney Cox – Cougar Town
• Edie Falco – Nurse Jackie
• Tina Fey – 30 Rock
• Lea Michele – Glee

Best Actor in a Television Mini-Series or Feature

• Kevin Bacon – Taking Chance
• Kenneth Branagh Wallander – One Step Behind
• Chiwetel Ejiofor – Endgame
• Brendan Gleeson – Into the Storm
• Jeremy Irons – Georgia O’Keeffe

Best Actress in a Television Mini-Series or Feature

• Joan Allen – Georgia O’Keeffe
• Drew Barrymore – Grey Gardens
• Jessica Lange – Grey Gardens
• Anna Paquin – The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
• Sigourney Weaver- Prayers for Bobby

Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series, Mini-Series or Feature

• Michael Emerson – Lost
• Neil Patrick Harris – How I Met Your Mother
• William Hurt – Damages
• John Lithgow- Dexter
• Jeremy Piven – Entourage

Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series, Mini-Series or Feature

• Jane Adams – Hung
• Rose Bryne – Damages
• Jane Lynch – Glee
• Janet McTeer – Into the Storm
• Chloe Sevigny – Big Love