Hey! The Golden Globe nominees have been announced! Isn’t that amazing? Your day just went from pretty average to spectacular on the waft of a bunch of nominations for a bunch of actors who barely know you exist!
Tip top stuff.
Two veritable strangers to us all are having a particularly good day today, namely, Ryan Gosling and George Clooney. Everyone in Hollywood loves them. Loves them hard. The little bestubbled, preening, walking piggy banks!
Gosling and Clooney were among the top repeated nominees, while David Fincher got something or other. Bully for those guys.
In the key Best Motion Picture Drama category, the Clooney-directed Ides of March is oddly, going to go up against the Clooney-starring The Descendants. The people choosing the noms clearly didn’t spend their youth making compilation tapes and adhering to the ‘One Artist Per Comp’ rule.
Swine.
The Help, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo, Moneyball and Steven Spielberg’s War Horse were nominated, too, even though Clooney has nothing to do with them. Impressive!
Gosling meanwhile, with that long gormless face of his, goes up against Clooney for Best Drama Actor. He also got a nomination for Best Comedy-Musical Actor for Crazy Stupid Love, which absolutely no-one has seen.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo picked up two nominations: one for Original Score, and one key one for breakout star Rooney Mara (Best Drama Actress).
50/50, The Artist, Bridesmaids, Midnight in Paris and My Week With Marilyn are up for Best Motion Picture Comedy-Musical while over in the TV series nominees, we get American Horror Story, Glee, Game of Thrones and New Girl.
The ceremony is set for January 15th and, of course, Ricky Gervais is hosting.