Golden Globes 2016: Snubs and Surprises

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association swooned hardest for Todd Haynes’ 1950s lesbian tale “Carol”, which landed a leading five nominations on Thursday, including best picture, drama.

Carol, Spotlight, The Martian, The Revenant, and Room will probably make out well when the Oscar nominations are announced January 14. The Big Short got a dose of good news, and the Steve Jobs actors have been singled out for their performances since the movie’s release in early October. But it failed to join the dramatic best picture nominees, which, along with “Carol” and “The Revenant”, are: “Mad Max: Fury Road”, “Room” and “Spotlight”. The others in the category were Michael Fassbender (“Steve Jobs”), Eddie Redmayne (“The Danish Girl”) and Bryan Cranston (“Trumbo”).

“Spotlight”, “Trumbo”, “Straight Outta Compton”, “The Big Short” and “Beasts of No Nation” landed nominations for best ensemble performance, SAG’s version of best picture.

See the full list of Golden Globes nominations here. The win not only marked Amazon’s first-ever Golden Globe award, but the Jill Soloway comedy also became the first online series to ever win a best series award-comedy or drama-at the annual award show.

FX’s “The Americans”, which seems to singularly suffer the role of best stealth drama (having been ignored for almost every award in its three seasons, other than the prestigious Peabody), maintained that status by escaping Globes notice again this year.

Sylvester Stallone showed his acting chops in Creed and was rewarded with a nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

-Animated Film: “Anomalisa”, “The Good Dinosaur”, “Inside Out”, “The Peanuts Movie,” “Shaun the Sheep Movie”. And he went on to receive Oscar nominations in both categories.

In the best foreign movie category, four European films and one from Latin America made the cut – “The Brand New Testament” (Belgium/France/Luxembourg), “The Club” (Chile), “The Fencer (Finland/Germany/Estonia), “Mustang” (France) and “Son of Saul” (Hungary)”. Netflix’s Narcos was also nominated for best television series in the drama category. She got a lead actress – drama nomination for “The Danish Girl” as expected, but she also scored a supporting nod for “Ex Machina”. ABC fared the best of the lot, picking up four nominations in total, with most of those going to its high-minded anthology series “American Crime”. Still, they got many of their nominations right in a year when the awards race is wide open and unpredictable.

-Actor, Musical or Comedy: Jeffrey Tambor, “Transparent”; Aziz Ansari, “Master of None”; Rob Lowe, “The Grinder”; Patrick Stewart, “Blunt Talk”; Gael Garcia Bernal, “Mozart in the Jungle”. Veep will compete against representatives from every major SVOD: Orange is the New Black, Casual, Transparent and Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle.

The best actress in a TV series- comedy contenders are Rachel Bloom, Jamie Lee Curtis, Gina Rodriguez, Lilly Tomlin, Grace & Frankie, besides Louis-Dreyfus.

For drama series, the HFPA nominated three newcomers: Fox’s smash hit soap opera “Empire”, USA’s paranoid thriller “Mr. Robot”, and Starz’s time-travel adventure “Outlander”.