Golden Globes. Nominations.

As one of the announcers of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's nominations for the Golden Globes, Quentin Tarantino didn't bother to hide his preferences. Twice, he lifted a raised fist and added a mini-"Yay!" - when reading out the names Diablo Cody, one of the nominees for Best Screenplay (Juno), and Daniel Day-Lewis, nominated for Best Actor (There Will Be Blood.

Updated through 12/14.

Seven films have been nominated for Best Motion Picture, Drama: American Gangster, Atonement, Eastern Promises, The Great Debaters, Michael Clayton, No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood.

Again, here's the full list. Commentary will surely be pouring in all day.

Updates: With seven nominations, Atonement leads the pack, note Michael Cieply and David Carr in the New York Times. Also: "Denzel Washington had a huge day, with both Great Debaters, which he directed and wherein he played a role, and American Gangster, in which he starred, picking up best-drama nominations. Mr Washington was also nominated as best actor for American Gangster." However, "I'm Not There and Into the Wild, two films that have shown up on a number of critic's lists this year, received no nominations from the press association."

Nathaniel R comments up and down the list and nods in silence to those who have been snubbed.

Jeffrey Wells offers his thoughts on nearly every category. For example: "The HFPA's belief that David Cronenberg's Russian penis movie is among the year's best dramas while not even including Zodiac and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is amusing, at the very least. History will judge their lack of vision and backbone accordingly."

Variety's Anne Thompson lists a few "Globe surprises that may not be mirrored on the Oscar side of the ledger."

Monika Bartyzel rounds up some of the nominees' reactions at Cinematical.

The New York Times' David Carr and the New York Post's Lou Lumenick post strings of Globe-related entries.

Gabriel Shanks measures the noms against his predictions.

Along comes the HFPA "to remind Hollywood that there is a middle way between ornery independent films and the mindless mainstreamers: the period romantic drama," suggests Time's Richard Corliss. "It's still OK, the HFPA said, to have an elevated, old-fashioned cry at the movies." Then: "Random notes from a Thursday morning quarterback."

For Variety, Jeff Sneider and Stuart Levine round up a whole lot of nominee reactions.

Update, 12/14: You'll find more Globes sorting than you'll know what to do with in the Envelope and Variety.

Posted by dwhudson at December 13, 2007 5:58 AM