Huffman, Hoffman, Dench and More Receive Golden Globe Nods
By: BWW News Desk Dec. 13, 2005
Kate Beckinsale, Steve Carell and Mark Wahlberg were the announcers of the nominations, which were made public this morning. The ceremony will be presented on January 16th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. NBC-TV will broadcast the Golden Globes, which are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, live at 8 PM.
Felicity Huffman and Gwyneth Paltrow were each nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture--Drama--Huffman for her turn as a pre-operative transsexual in Transamerica and Paltrow for her performance in Proof. Nominated in the Actor in a Motion Picture--Drama category was LAByrinth Theatre Company co-artistic director Philip Seymor Hoffman (Capote) and David Straitharn (Good Night, and Good Luck). Dame Judi Dench (Mrs. Henderson Presents), Laura Linney (The Squid and the Whale), and Sarah Jessica Parker (The Family Stone) were among the theatre veterans nominated for Actress in a Motion Picture--Musical or Comedy, while the male counterpoint of that category bestowed a nod on Nathan Lane (The Producers). Shirley MacLaine (In Her Shoes) and Frances McDormand (North Country) received nominations for Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture.
Theatre veterans were also nominated for their work in television. Those nominees include Glenn Close (for "The Shield"), Mary Louise Parker ("Weeds"), S. Epatha Merkerson (Lackawanna Blues), Cynthia Nixon (Warm Springs), Kenneth Branagh (Warm Springs), Ed Harris, Joanne Woodward, and Paul Newman--the latter three for HBO's Empire Falls. Lackawanna Blues, based on Ruben Santiago-Hudson's play, was also nominated as Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.
Woody Allen, who has written plays as well as films, saw his Match Point nominated for Best Motion Picture--Drama; his screenplay for the erotic thriller also received a nod. Competitors in that category include Brokeback Mountain (which topped the list of nominees with seven nods), The Constant Gardener, Good Night, and Good Luck, and A History of Violence. The Producers was nominated in the Best Motion Picture--Musical or Comedy category; it joins Mrs. Henderson Presents, Pride & Prejudice, Walk the Line and The Squid and the Whale. The Producers garnered three other nominations as well--for Lane (Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy), Will Ferrell (Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture) and the new song "There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway" (Best Original Song-Motion Picture). The film version of Rent, directed by Chris Columbus and starring most of the original Broadway cast, was shut out from the Golden Globes entirely.
For a complete list of the Golden Globe nominations, visit www.hfpa.org.
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