Golden Globe nominations announced: "Hangover", "30 Rock", "Modern Family" get noms

[BillBrasky]

The nominations for the 2010 Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning, and there were some surprising first-time nominations, especially in the comedy categories. In the category of "Best Television Series- Comedy or Musical", previously nominated series "30 Rock", "The Office" and "Entourage" will be going up against freshman series "Modern Family" and "Glee". Alec Baldwin and Steve Carell are nominated again for best actor in a comedy, against David Duchovny for "Californication", Thomas Jane for "Hung", and Matthew Morrison for "Glee". Tina Fey competes for best actress in a comedy against Toni Collette for "United States of Tara", Courteney Cox for "Cougar Town", Edie Falco for "Nurse Jackie", and Lea Michele for "Glee".

Meanwhile, the nominations for best comedy film are "(500) Days of Summer", "The Hangover", "It's Complicated", "Julie & Julia" and "Nine". No nomination for Zach Galifianakis, unfortunately; he was pushed out of the Best Actor in a Comedy category by Matt Damon ("The Informant"), Daniel Day-Lewis ("Nine") , Robert Downey, Jr. ("Sherlock Holmes"), Joseph Gordon-Levitt ("(500) Days of Summer"), and Michael Stuhlbarg ("A Serious Man").

For a complete listing of the nominations, go to the Golden Globe website here. The awards will air January 17th on NBC, with host Ricky Gervais.

[CarolineEAnd]

And of course, Party Down is completely ignored. Of course.

[scamboogah]

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Funny People and Bruno were probably better than 'It's Complicated'...

[Joker]

I love DDL but was he really funnier than Zach? In a musical?

[Mr. Museum]

It's not about whether he was funnier, that category is just musical or comedy. It is also a dumb category.

[isoS]

It's best performance in a musical or comedy, not funniest performance in a movie. This didn't matter until Hwd started making one marquee musical a year just to win these awards.

Also, Zach was probably positioned for supporting actor, but that's even tougher since you're up against the drama guys too.

[andrearunge]

Courteney What now? They're high.

[BillBrasky]

Yeah, it's even more confusing because Robert Downey Jr. is in that category for "Sherlock Holmes", which doesn't appear to me to be a musical or a comedy.

Jane Lynch is a big ommission here, especially since they nominated Lea Michele and Matthew Morrison (???) for "Glee". I guess they didn't want to nominate two actresses for "Glee", but I would argue that Lynch has a lot more to do with the popularity and success of that show than Michele does.

[isoS]

Maybe Rbt Downey Jr. is just automatically funny to the foreign press no matter what he's doing. Come to think of it, that might go for me as well.

[Mr. Museum]

Jane Lynch was probably in the supporting actress role for glee. She's not even really in every episode of that show, so it wouldn't make sense to nominate her as a lead.

Also, I read Rbt Downey Jr. as Robot Downey Jr., and now I want to see him play a robot in a movie. Like Bicentennial Man, except nothing like Bicentennial Man.

[BillBrasky]

You're right, Lynch is actually nominated for supporting actress in a TV series. I forgot that the lead actor/actress categories are split up between comedy and drama, but the supporting actor/actress categories aren't.

[BillBrasky]

In case you haven't seen it, here's the ad for the Globes with Ricky Gervais that has been running on NBC lately:

[Having Fun!]

I don't want to sound cook'd nor bomb'd but Ricky seems a bit gross in those adverts.

[Phil]

Is "Glee" funny? I've never even heard of it

[Joker]

My bad. For some reason i thought it was just for comedy. But just for the record, DDL is not funnier than Zach.

[JPSpaulding]

I'm sick of hearing how funny Sherlock Holmes is and how great Courtney David Arquette is because seriously I cant get anything done around here because "people I know" wont stop plying me with this very important and accurate information!!!

[SlyBattery]

Could Flight of the Conchords of been nominated for Best Musical or Comedy this year for their second season? If so...why not? They are musical and comedy, and better than entourage.

[dorothy mantooth]

No Patton?!?!

[BillBrasky]

Not really worth creating a separate thread for, but here are the nominations for the 2009 Writers' Guild Awards...

COMEDY SERIES

30 Rock, Written by Jack Burditt, Kay Cannon, Robert Carlock, Tom Ceraulo, Vali Chandrasekaran, Tina Fey, Donald Glover, Steve Hely, Matt Hubbard, Dylan Morgan, Paula Pell, Jon Pollack, John Riggi, Tami Sagher, Josh Siegal, Ron Weiner, Tracey Wigfield; NBC

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Written by Larry David; HBO

Glee, Written by Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy; Fox

Modern Family, Written by Paul Corrigan, Sameer Gardezi, Joe Lawson, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Dan O ' Shannon, Brad Walsh, Caroline Williams, Bill Wrubel, Danny Zuker; ABC

The Office, Written by Jennifer Celotta, Danny Chun, Greg Daniels, Lee Eisenberg, Anthony Q. Farrell, Brent Forrester, Daniel J. Goor, Charlie Grandy, Mindy Kaling, Ryan Koh, Lester Lewis, Paul Lieberstein, Warren Lieberstein, BJ Novak, Michael Schur, Aaron Shure, Justin Spitzer, Gene Stupnitsky, Halsted Sullivan; NBC


NEW SERIES

Glee, Written by Ian Brennan, Brad Falchuk, Ryan Murphy; Fox

The Good Wife, Written by Angela Amato Velez, Corinne Brinkerhoff, Ted Humphrey, Dee Johnson, Todd E. Kessler, Michelle King, Robert King; CBS

Hung, Written by Colette Burson, Ellie Herman, Emily Kapnek, Brett C. Leonard, Dmitry Lipkin, Angela Robinson; HBO

Modern Family, Written by Paul Corrigan, Sameer Gardezi, Joe Lawson, Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd, Dan O ' Shannon, Brad Walsh, Caroline Williams, Bill Wrubel, Danny Zuker; ABC

Nurse Jackie, Written by Taii K. Austin, Liz Brixius, Rick Cleveland, Evan Dunsky, Nancy Fichman, Liz Flahive, Jennifer Hoppe, Mark Hudis, John Hilary Shepherd, Linda Wallem, Christine Zander; Showtime


EPISODIC COMEDY – any length – one airing time


“Apollo, Apollo” (30 Rock), Written by Robert Carlock; NBC

“Broke” (The Office), Written by Charles Grandy; NBC

“Chapter 1” (Eastbound & Down), Written by Ben T. Best & Jody L. Hill & Danny McBride; HBO

“Gossip” (The Office), Written by Paul Lieberstein; NBC

“Pilot” (Modern Family), Written by Steven Levitan & Christopher Lloyd; ABC

“ Reunion ” (30 Rock), Written by Matt Hubbard; NBC


ANIMATION – any length – one airing time

“The Burns and the Bees” (The Simpsons), Written by Stephanie Gillis; Fox

“Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe” (The Simpsons), Written by John Frink; Fox

“Gone Maggie Gone” (The Simpsons), Written by Billy Kimball & Ian Maxtone-Graham; Fox

“Take My Life, Please” (The Simpsons), Written by Don Payne; Fox

“Wedding for Disaster” (The Simpsons), Written by Joel H. Cohen; Fox


COMEDY / VARIETY – (INCLUDING TALK) SERIES


Real Time with Bill Maher, Head Writer: Billy Martin, Writers Scott Carter, Adam Felber, Matt Gunn, Brian Jacobsmeyer, Jay Jaroch, Chris Kelly, Bill Maher, Jonathan Schmock, Danny Vermont; HBO

Saturday Night Live, Head Writer: Seth Meyers, Writers Doug Abeles, James Anderson, Alex Baze, Jessica Conrad, James Downey, Steve Higgins, Colin Jost, Erik Kenward, Rob Klein, John Lutz, Lorne Michaels, John Mulaney, Paula Pell, Simon Rich, Marika Sawyer, Akiva Schaffer, John Solomon, Emily Spivey, Kent Sublette, Jorma Taccone, Bryan Tucker, Additional Sketch by Adam McKay, Andrew Steele; NBC

The Colbert Report, Head Writers: Barry Julien, Thomas Purcell, Writers Michael Brumm, Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Robert Dubbin, Glenn Eichler, Peter Grosz, Peter Gwinn, Alon Jay Katsir, Frank Lesser, Opus Moreschi, Meredith Scardino, Allison Silverman, Max Werner; Comedy Central

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Head Writer: Steve Bodow, Writers Rory Albanese, Kevin Bleyer, Rich Blomquist, Tim Carvell, Wyatt Cenac, JR Havlan, David Javerbaum, Elliott Kalan, Josh Lieb, Sam Means, John Oliver, Jason Ross, Jon Stewart; Comedy Central

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, Head Writer: Mike Sweeney, Writers Chris Albers, Jose Arroyo, Josh Comers, Dan Cronin, Kevin Dorff, Andres du Bouchet, Michael Gordon, Berkley Johnson, Brian Kiley, Rob Kutner, Todd Levin, Brian McCann, Guy Nicolucci, Conan O'Brien, Matt O'Brien, Andy Richter, Brian Stack, Andrew Weinberg; NBC