Grey’s, Weeds Lead Globe Nods

LOS ANGELES, December 14: ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and Showtime’s Weeds have each scored four Golden Globe nominations,
including best drama and best comedy, respectively, while the most nominated
feature film was Babel, with seven
nods, including best motion picture, drama.

The nominations for the 64th Golden Globe Awards, which take
place in Los Angeles on January 15, were announced this morning.

In the television drama category, Grey’s Anatomy faces off against another ABC hit, Lost, as well as FOX’s 24, HBO’s Big Love and NBC’s freshman series Heroes. In the performance categories, Edie Falco picked up the sole
nomination for HBO’s The Sopranos.
Also nominated in this category are Patricia Arquette for NBC’s Medium, Evangeline Lilly for Lost, Ellen Pompeo for Grey’s Anatomy and Kyra Sedgwick for TNT’s The Closer. Grey’s Anatomy picked up another nod in the best actor category, for Patrick Dempsey,
who is up against Michael C. Hall for Showtime’s Dexter, Hugh Laurie for FOX’s House, Bill Paxton for Big
Love and Kiefer
Sutherland for 24.

ABC’s freshman series Ugly Betty picked up a nomination in the
best television series – comedy or musical category, alongside Desperate
Housewives, HBO’s Entourage, NBC’s The Office and Showtime’s Weeds. America Ferrera picked up
another nomination for Ugly Betty in the actress category, with two Desperate
Housewives, Marcia
Cross and Felicity Huffman, as well as Julia Louis-Dreyfus for The
New Adventures of Old Christine and Mary-Louise Parker for Weeds. The actor nominees are
dominated by NBC stars: Alec Baldwin for 30 Rock, Zach Braff for Scrubs,
Steve Carrell for The
Office and Jason Lee
for My Name Is Earl. The last actor nominee went to Tony Shalhoub for USA’s Monk.

HBO picked up two nominations in the mini-series/TV movie
category, for Elizabeth I and for Mrs.
Harris. PBS also picked up two, for
Bleak House and Prime Suspect:
The Final Act. The fifth nod went to AMC’s Broken
Trail. Elizabeth I and Prime Suspect garnered Helen Mirren two best actress nods, where
she is up against Gillian Anderson for Bleak House, Annette Bening for Mrs. Harris and Sophie Okonedo for HBO’s Tsunami, The
Aftermath. The actor nominees are André
Braugher for FX’s Thief, Robert
Duvall for Broken Trail, Michael
Ealy for Showtime’s Sleeper Cell: American Terror, Chiwetel Ejiofor for Tsunami, The
Aftermath, Ben Kingsley for Mrs.
Harris, Bill Nighy for Gideon’s
Daughter and Matthew Perry in The
Ron Clark Story.

The nominees for best motion picture – drama are Babel, Bobby,
The Departed, Little
Children and The Queen. Best actress nods went to Penélope Cruz for Volver, Judi Dench for Notes On A Scandal, Maggie Gyllenhaal for Sherrybaby, Helen Mirren for The Queen and Kate Winslet for Little Children. Leonardo Dicaprio scored two actor nods, for Blood
Diamond and The Departed. He is up against Peter O’toole for Venus, Will Smith for The Pursuit Of Happyness and Forest Whitaker in The Last King of
Scotland.

HBO led the television categories with 14 nominations,
followed by ABC with 11, NBC with 9 and Showtime with 6.

In the best motion picture – comedy or musical
category, nominations were given to Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For
Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan,
The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Little Miss Sunshine and Thank You For Smoking. In the actress category, Annette Bening in Running
With Scissors is up against Toni Collette
for Little Miss Sunshine, Beyoncé
Knowles for Dreamgirls, Meryl
Streep for The Devil Wears Prada
and Renee Zellweger for Miss Potter.
The actor nominees are Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat, Johnny Depp in Pirates Of The Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest, Aaron Eckhart for Thank
You For Smoking, Chiwetel Ejiofor for Kinky
Boots and Will Ferrell for Stranger
Than Fiction.

For best director, Clint Eastwood is up against himself with
nods for his work on Flags Of Our Fathers
and Letters From Iwo Jima. The
other contenders are Stephen Frears for The Queen, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu for Babel and Martin Scorsese for The Departed.

In the best animated feature category, Pixar’s Cars is up against Happy Feet (Kingdom Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures/Village
Roadshow Pictures) and Monster House
(Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures Releasing).

Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto is
a surprising entry in the best foreign language film category, where its
competitors are Letters From Iwo Jima, from the U.S. and Japan; Germany’s The Lives Of Others; Mexico’s Pan’s Labyrinth and Spain’s Volver.

Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. each took 12
nominations, followed by Paramount Vantage with 7 and Miramax, Sony Pictures
Releasing and Twentieth Century Fox, each with 6.