Netflix, Fox Won The Most Golden Globe Nominations

Blanchett, already a double Oscar victor, is being considered an Academy award front-runner in the best actress category for her performance in the Todd Haynes-directed film, which is based on the best-selling novel “The Price of Salt”.

Actors Angela Bassett, Chloe Grace Moretz, America Ferrera, and Dennis Quaid pose during the nominations for the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California December 10, 2015. Universal Pictures, with the help of “Trainwreck”, tied for eight nominations with The Weinstein Company, which got a boost from “Carol”.

Also making out well in the nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association: the comedy The Big Short, about the 2008 financial crisis; The Revenant, the Leonardo DiCaprio movie about a 19th-century explorer left for dead; and Steve Jobs, the Aaron Sorkin-penned drama about the Apple founder.

And like the actresses of “Carol”, Steve Carell and Christian Bale will compete against one another in the best actor category.

Since 1995, the SAG Awards have been a major Hollywood award event; they are the only major awards show that honor only actors, and are voted on by fellow actors, who are members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists group.

Entertainment website Moviefone.com called Quaid “the John Travolta of 2106 Golden Globe Pronounciations” likening his slip to Travolta’s introduction of “Wicked” singer Idina Menzel as “Adele Dazeem” at the 2014 Oscars ceremony. This year, the Globe nominations told a different story – and one that’s just as encouraging.

Fellow streaming video outlet Amazon snagged five nominations (up from two last year) and Hulu scored its first. There was some debate as to whether some films would be categorized in the drama or comedy categories, such as Joy and The Martian, though the Hollywood Foreign Press Association ruled them both as comedies.

Streaming pioneer Netflix led the overall television nominations with eight nods, including two each for drug cartel drama “Narcos” and “Orange is the New Black”, a comedy set in a women’s prison. Best drama went to Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood”, while Wes Anderson’s “Grand Budapest Hotel” captured the comedy category. It was nominated for best picture, comedy, actor (Matt Damon) and director (Ridley Scott).

It comes as no surprise that “Mad Max: Fury Road” is continuing to be a recurring nominee during the award season. This has been a bad week for Keaton, who also didn’t receive a SAG nomination, which casts doubt on the early season prediction that the “Batman”/”Birdman” star would finally win an Oscar.

While Mark Ruffalo is in the Golden Globe mix for Best Actor Musical/Comedy he has not been recognised for his performance in Spotlight… instead it is his turn in Infinitely Polar Bear for which he has picked up the nod.

Smith, whose upcoming “Concussion” has drawn headlines for its depiction of head trauma in football, apparently displaced Johnny Depp (“Black Mass”) from the best actor, drama, nominees.

Nominees for the best actress in a TV series- drama also include Caitriona Balfe (‘Outlander’), Eva Green (‘Penny Dreadful’) and Robin Wright (‘House of Cards’).