Dan: December is my favorite month of the year, and not just because of the Holidays and the idea of getting some well needed time away from work. It’s the ramp up for awards season!

Patrick: The nominees were announced by John Krasinski, Diane Kruger and Justin Timberlake from LA this morning for this year’s Golden Globes, airing January 17th from Beverly Hills at the Beverly Hilton. We’ve compiled the list of nominees for both the Television category and Movie categories for the 67ths Annual Award show below. It’s great to see Glee, and several of it’s actors making their debut on the list this year – well deserved! I certainly hope Jane Lynch takes it away for best supporting actress in a comedy/musical. She is insanely funny. The movie nominees are what you’d expect, although one surprise is Invictus, which just came out last week. The surprise is that it wasn’t nominated for Best Picture, when it was nominated for Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor. I’m always baffled when that happens. I’ve heard great things about the film, and former cast member Jamie says that Matt Damon’s South African accent in the movie was bang on. The list made me realize how many movies I have yet to catch up on – something to look forward to!

Dan: There’s no surprise that major Hollywood blockbusters are leading the pack with the most nominations; Up in the Air starring George Clooney is the front-runner with six nominations, followed closely by Nine with five nods (confusing right) and James Cameron’s Avatar with four. Above all the Hollywood hype I was stoked to see both actresses from Precious, Gabourey Sidibe and Mo’nique be nominated for best actress and supporting actress in a motion picture – drama, respectively.

Instead of us ruining all the mystery and excitement, check out the full list of nominees here…

Here are the nominations in the TV categories:

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

• Big Love (HBO)
• Dexter (Showtime)
• House (Fox)
• Mad Men (AMC)
• True Blood (HBO)

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL

• 30 Rock (NBC)
• Entourage (HBO)
• Glee (FOX)
• Modern Family (ABC)
• The Office (NBC)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

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

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES –
DRAMA

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

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES –
COMEDY OR MUSICAL

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

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES –
COMEDY OR MUSICAL

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

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES,
MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

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

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A
SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

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

BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

• Georgia O’Keefe (Lifetime)
• Grey Gardens (HBO)
• Into the Storm (HBO)
• Little Dorrit (PBS)
• Taking Chance (HBO)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION
PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

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

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION
PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

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

Here are the nominations in the MOVIE categories categories:

BEST PICTURE, DRAMA

• Avatar
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Precious
• Up in the Air

BEST PICTURE, MUSICAL/COMEDY

• 500 Days of Summer
• The Hangover
• It’s Complicated
• Julie & Julia
• Nine

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 ACTRESS, DRAMA

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

BEST ACTOR, MUSICAL/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, MUSICAL/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 DIRECTOR

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

BEST SCREENPLAY

• District 9
• The Hurt Locker
• It’s Complicated
• Inglourious Basterds
• Up in the Air

BEST SCORE

• Up
• The Informant!
• Avatar
• A Single Man
• Where the Wild Things Are

BEST SONG

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

BEST ANIMATED FILM

• Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Princess & The Frog
• Up

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Baria
• Broken Embraces
• The Maid
• A Prophet
• The White Ribbon

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