People v. O.J. Simpson Leads Golden Globes TV Nominations

LOS ANGELES: The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story garnered the most nominations in the TV arena for the 2017 Golden Globes, followed by The Night Manager.

By network, HBO was way out ahead with 14 nominations. FX followed with nine nods and ABC, Amazon, AMC and Netflix each scored five.

The nominees for best TV drama series are The Crown, Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, This Is Us and Westworld. In the performance arena for drama series, the best actress nominees are Caitriona Balfe (Outlander), Claire Foy (The Crown), Keri Russell (The Americans), Winona Ryder (Stranger Things) and Evan Rachel Wood (Westworld). The male nominees in the category are Rami Malek (Mr. Robot), Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul), Matthew Rhys (The Americans), Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan) and Billy Bob Thornton (Goliath).

The People v. O.J. Simpson, which scored five nominations in total, is up for best TV limited series or TV movie, alongside The Night Manager, which landed four nods in total. They are up against American Crime, The Dresser and The Night Of. The best actress nominees in the category are Felicity Huffman (American Crime), Riley Keough (The Girlfriend Experience), Sarah Paulson (The People v. O.J. Simpson), Charlotte Rampling (London Spy) and Kerry Washington (Confirmation). Up for best actor in the TV movie/limited series arena are Riz Ahmed (The Night Of), Bryan Cranston (All the Way), John Turturro (The Night Of), Tom Hiddleston (The Night Manager) and Courtney B. Vance (The People v. O.J. Simpson).

The nominees for best TV series musical or comedy are Atlanta, black-ish, Mozart in the Jungle, Transparent and Veep. The best actress nominees in this category are Rachel Bloom (My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep), Sarah Jessica Parker (Divorce), Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin), Tracee Ellis Ross (black-ish) and Issa Rae (Insecure). The best actor nominees are Anthony Anderson (black-ish), Gael García Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle), Donald Glover (Atlanta), Nick Nolte (Graves) and Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent).

On the motion picture side, the Golden Globe nominations are led by La La Land, with seven nods, and Moonlight, with six. Manchester By the Sea scored five nominations, followed by Florence Foster Jenkins and Lion with four each.

The 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards will air live coast-to-coast on NBC Sunday, January 8, 2017, from the Beverly Hilton Hotel with host Jimmy Fallon. Previously announced, eight-time Golden Globe winner Meryl Streep will be the recipient of the 2017 Cecil B. DeMille Award.