Best Picture, Drama
Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Picture Comedy/Musical
Burn After Reading
Happy Go Lucky
In Bruges
Mamma Mia
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Director
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry, The Reader
David Fincher, Benjamin Button
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Sam Mendes, Revolutionary Road

Actor, Drama
Leo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn, Milk
Brad Pitt, Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Actress, Drama
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Joie, Changeling
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Kristin Scott Thomas, I’ve Loved you So Long
Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

Supporting Actor
Tom Cruise, Tropic Thunder 
Robert Downey Jr. Tropic Tunder
Ralph Fiennes, The Duchess
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Doubt
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, Doubt
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Kate Winslet, The Reader

Actor, Comedy
Javier Bardem, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Colin Farrel, In Bruges
James Franco, Pineapple Express
Brendan Gleason, In Bruges
Dustin Hoffman Last Chance Harvey

Actress, Comedy
Rebecca Hall, Vicky Cristina
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading
Meryl Streep, Mamma Mia
Emma Thompson, Last Chance Harvey

Foreign Language Film
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Everlasting Moments
Gomorrah
I’ve Loved You So Long
Waltz with Bashir

Animated Feature
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

Screenplay
Slumdog Millionaire
The Reader
Frost/Nixon
Benjamin Button
Doubt

Score
Benjamin Button
Changeling
Defiance
Slumdog Millionaire
Frost/Nixon

Song
Down to Earth, Wall-E
Gran Torino
I thought I Lost You, Bolt
Once in a Lifetime, Cadillac Record
The Wrestler, The Wrestler 

Reaction: The Globes nominations prove that this year’s awards race is just all over the place. Not only do we not know what will win, but everyone else dosen’t seem to know what to nominate.  

In Bruges! Yes. Woody Allen (Vicky Christina Barcelona) and Mike Leigh (Happy Go Lucky) kicking old man ass in multiple categories. Hell yeah. No Clint Eastwood for once. Why not? Rachel Getting Married not emerging as the underdog picture and screenplay favorite. Bout time. Dark Knight and Milk getting snubbed for picture. Noooooo. Tom Cruse getting a nom for Tropic Thunder over Valkery. Wha-just-what?

A strange slate of nominations to say the least. Some will be reflected by the Oscars (the dominance of Frost, Slumdog and Button in the drama category is hard to deny at this point) but not representativeve in so many others, like the disturbingly random acting selections that range from out-of-the-blue love for Bruges (BRENDAN GLEESON!) and Tropic thunder to Ralph Finnes getting nominated for The Dutchess rather than The Reader. Also random is the exclusion of Milk. It’s stupid to cry homophobia at this point because, well, the Globes are the gayest awards ever. Hello, people, Dreamgirls won! Other than the randomness of missing Milk, the Globes went with a lot of obvious, high profile “artistic” titles that have wowed critics and at the same time were non-obvious when they shied away from fan AND critic favorites such as Wall-E and Dark Knight (two big winners with the LA film critics awards) so ratings and popularity were not a top priority–which is okay by me because if they were Beyonce would have been nominated… again. Oh, wait, she did. And so did Miley Cyrus. Fuck off, then, the Hollywood Foreign Press can suck it! The Globes picks were either safe prestige picks (see directors/best drama), eccentric ones (Burn After Reading, Clint for best song?) or just erratic. The latter is exciting in a way because where else could James Franco secure a nom for Pineapple Express rather than, say, his more lauded turn in Milk. Which reminds me, Josh Brolin, despite gaining a lot of momentum in the last two weeks, didn’t get nominated. And neither did Deborah Winger (thank god). But that’s all good because Kate Winslet got two!