What movies were nominated for Best Picture at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards?
Think of this year’s Golden Globes as the semi-finals of the Academy Awards’ Best Picture race. For the first time this year, the Oscars will have 10 Best Picture nominees, just like the Globes always do. So the winner of the Globes’ drama race and the Globe’s comedy/musical race could be facing off against each other as finalists at the Oscars. BEST PICTURE – DRAMA Quentin Tarantino has to be happy with this morning’s nomination announcements; he seems to have drop-kicked Clint Eastwood and taken what seemed predestined to be the rugby-minded director’s slot in this race. Tarantino’s fanciful World War II revenge drama ‘Inglourious Basterds’ landed a slot, while Eastwood’s high-minded ‘Invictus’ did not (even though it did get a Best Director citation for Eastwood and acting nods for lead Morgan Freeman and supporting player Matt Damon). Tarantino has a strong shot here with four nominations, including Best Director and Screenplay for himself and Best Supporting Actor for Christoph Wa
Just in. James Horner has received a nomination for Best Original Score at next years Golden Globe awards. Other nominees were unsurprisingly Michael Giacchino for Up and Marvin Hamlisch for The Informant!. A new name is Abel Korzeniowski for A Single Man and Karen O/Carter Burwell are also nominated for Where The Wild Things Are. Sources: http://soundtrackgeek.
Best Motion Picture – Drama Avatar – Lightstorm Entertainment; Twentieth Century Fox The Hurt Locker – Voltage Pictures; Summit Entertainment Inglourious Basterds – The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg GmbH Production; The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire – A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood Entertainment Group Production; Lionsgate Up In The Air – Paramount Pictures; Paramount Pictures Best Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical (500) Days Of Summer – Watermark Pictures; Fox Searchlight Pictures The Hangover – Warner Bros. Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures It’s Complicated – Relativity Media, Scott Rudin Productions; Universal Pictures Julie & Julia – Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures Releasing Nine – The Weinstein Company/Relativity Media/Lucamar Productions/Marc Platt Productions; The Weinstein Company Sources: http://www.goldenglobes.
