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Film drama Up in the Air soared away with six Golden Globe nominations, more than any film, while Sandra Bullock, Meryl Streep and Matt Damon each earned two nominations for the major awards show.
Up in the Air, starring George Clooney as a corporate hatchet man forced to consider his life's direction, took home nominations for best film drama and for Clooney as best actor.
Jason Reitman grabbed a nod for director and best screenplay
with co-writer Sheldon Turner, while both Anna Kendrick and Vera
Farmiga will compete for supporting actress.
Reitman said the combined nominations for his actors were
especially gratifying.
"We're celebrating this as a family, which is how we made the movie," he said.
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Golden Globes film nominations and
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Close behind was Nine, about the life and loves of an Italian film
director, with five nominations, including best musical or
comedy.
Its stars, Daniel Day-Lewis and Marion Cotillard, received nods for actor and actress in a musical or comedy, respectively.
Penelope Cruz landed in the supporting actress group, and Nine
received one nod for best song.
Bullock scored nominations for best dramatic actress for football
film The Blind Side and actress in a musical or comedy with
relationship movie The Proposal.
"I am beyond stunned," Bullock said in a statement.
"Just to be included in the company of these amazing women I
have so admired through the years, has left me slack-jawed with
awe."
For her part, Streep will compete against herself for best actress
in a musical or comedy with two movies, culinary movie Julie &
Julia and relationship film It's Complicated.
Matt Damon also received two nominations, one for best actor in a
musical or comedy for The Informant! and a second for supporting
actor with Invictus.
The Golden Globes, given out on January 17 by the Hollywood Foreign
Press Association, are among the most-watched awards and a key
indicator of which movies will compete for the world's top film
honours, the Oscars, in March.
Among other movies to watch in the weeks ahead will be
science-fiction adventure Avatar, which earned four Golden Globe
nominations, including best drama, best director for James Cameron
and original song and movie score.
Glory for Inglourious
Quentin Tarantino's World War Two fantasy, Inglourious Basterds
also earned four nods: drama, director, screenplay for Tarantino
and supporting actor for Christoph Waltz.
Rounding out the best film drama nominees were Iraq war movie The
Hurt Locker and urban drama Precious: Based on the Novel Push by
Sapphire, which each earned three nominations.
Hurt Locker brought a best director nomination to Kathryn Bigelow
and a screenplay nod for Mark Boal.
Precious, a dark tale about an abused young woman, landed newcomer Gabourey Sidibe in the category for best actress and Mo'Nique in the supporting actress group.
The movie's director, Lee Daniels, failed to earn a nod in that
category, but was nonetheless excited about the film and its
actors.
"We (initially) expected to go straight to DVD, so anything beyond
that is great," he said.
Joining Nine in the race for best movie musical or comedy were
Julie & Julia, box office sensation The Hangover and indie hit
(500) Days of Summer, which claimed a best actor in a comedy nod
for its star, Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Competing against Clooney for best drama actor are Jeff Bridges
playing a country singer in Crazy Heart, Colin Firth as a grieving
man in A Single Man, Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in Invictus
and Tobey Maguire in Brothers.
In the group for best actor in a comedy or musical, Gordon-Levitt
and Day-Lewis will face competition from Matt Damon in The
Informant!, Robert Downey Jr for Sherlock Holmes, and Michael
Stuhlberg for A Serious Man.
Along with Bullock and Sidibe, best dramatic actress nods went to
Helen Mirren for The Last Station, Emily Blunt in The Young
Victoria and Carey Mulligan with An Education.
Rounding out the list of nominees for best actress in a musical or
comedy was Julia Roberts in Duplicity.
Foreign language nominees were Italy's Baaria, Spanish director
Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces, Chile's The Maid, France's A
Prophet and Germany's The White Ribbon.
