Jean Dujardin in The Artist, which led the way with 6 nominations.
List of nominees, with my comments at the end:
Best Motion Picture - Drama
The Descandants
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
Moneyball
War Horse
Best Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
50/50
The Artist
Bridesmaids
Carnage
Midnight in Paris
My Week with Marilyn
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
George Clooney - The Descendants
Leonardo DiCaprio - J. Edgar
Michael Fassbender - Shame
Brad Pitt - Moneyball
Ryan Gosling - The Ides of March
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Viola Davis, The Help
Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Jodie Foster, Carnage
Charlize Theron, Young Adult
Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids
Michelle WIlliams, My Week With Marilyn
Kate Winslet, Carnage
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Brendan Gleeson, The Guard
Joseph Gordon Levitt, 50/50
Ryan Gosling, Crazy Stupid Love
Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris
Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Berenice Bejo, The Artist
Jessica Chastain , The Help
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Octavia Spencer, The Help
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn
Albert Brooks, Drive
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Best Director - Motion Picture
Woody Allen, Midnight In Paris
George Clooney, The Ides of March
Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Midnight in Paris
The Ides of March
The Artist
The Descendants
Moneyball
Best Animated Feature Film
The Adventures of Tintin
Arthur Christmas
Cars 2
Puss in Boots
Rango
Best Foreign Language Film
Flowers of War
The Land of Blood and Honey
The Kid with A Bike
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Best Original Score - Motion Picture
The Artist, Ludovic Bource
W.E., Abel Korzeniowski
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
Hugo, Howard Shore
War Horse, John Williams
Best Original Song - Motion Picture
"Lay Your Head Down," Albert Nobbs
"Hello Hello," Gnomeo and Juliet
"The Living Proof," The Help
"The Keeper," Machine Gun Preacher
"Masterpiece," W.E.
The Golden Globes have long been considered one of the better Oscar predictors during the pre-Oscar awards season. However, the SAG awards have since trumped them in reliability. Part of the problem is that the Globes split up the Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress categories to Drama and Musical/Comedy. That makes it hard to determine anything from the Globe nominations in those categories. Also, the Globes often make some peculiar choices such as last year's nomination of Michael Douglas for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and the dual Angelina Jolie/Johnny Depp nominations for The Tourist. They are often accused of celebrity whoring (Sharon's 4 nominations being another great example) and nominations like that don't help. Still, they are considered an important part of the Oscar season and have an 83% success rate in the non-split categories over the last two years.
One of the biggest surprises has to be George Clooney's Best Director nomination for The Ides of March. The film got good reviews, but not quite as good as expected and wasn't thought to be a major factor in the Oscar race. Multiple Globe nominations could be a sign that its Oscar prospects have been underrated or another example of the Globes going overboard for a major Hollywood star. Clooney's other film The Descendants secured it's status as a frontrunner with several nominations, including a much needed (and deserved) Supporting Actress nomination for Shailene Woodley, who surprisingly got snubbed at the Screen Actors Guild awards.
Michael Fassbender also rebounded from a SAG snub, but it's hard to tell if it was meaningful since the Lead Actor category is split and frontrunner Jean Dujardin was nominated in the Comedy/Musical category. Even more suspect is the Rooney Mara nomination in Lead Actress. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo star is surrounded by Oscar frontrunners Close, Davis, Streep, and Swinton, with two more Oscar frontrunners Williams and Theron in the Comedy/Musical category. There were fewer surprises in the Supporting categories, which more or less confirmed frontrunners (Branagh, Plummer, Bejo, Chastain, Spencer, McTeer) or corrected snubs from the SAG Awards (Brooks, Woodley). One notable omission is Melissa McCarthy, who was a surprise at the SAGs, but her failure to get a nomination here spells trouble for her chances.
Once again, I did not go through the TV nominations, but I was very pleased that Homeland and New Girl both scored multiple nominations.
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