2013 GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS

The breadth of award season contenders came into sharp focus with the announcement of the 2013 Golden Globe nominations overnight in Los Angeles. The bookie favourites are solidifying; bolters like Salmon Fishing in the Yemen have emerged; and, once-fancied contenders (The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit, Cloud Atlas) are fading fast.

With the exception of Salmon Fishing..., which got less than stellar notices and did only ok business, there are no particularly out-there, Pia Zadora-like nominations, which were announced by Jessica Alba, Megan Fox and Ed Helms at the Beverly Hilton in front of the the Hollywood Foreign Press voting body.

Most nominations went to Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (7, the most ever for a Spielberg-directed film), which is firming as front-runner for Oscar honours, followed by Django Unchained (5), Argo (5), Silver Linings Playbook (4), Les Miserables (4), Zero Dark Thirty (4; pictured, right), The Master (3) and Life of Pi (3).

As usual, the real news is in the much-touted names that didn’t get a nod. This year, that dubious honour can be bestowed upon Ben Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild and its leading lady, Quvenzhane Wallis; Matthew McConnaughey for either Killer Joe or Magic Mike; director’s David O Russell (Silver Linings Playbook) and Tom Hooper (Les Miserables); Michael Haneke and the cast of Amour (although it did score a Foreign Language Film notice); lead actress Leslie Mann and Judd Apatow’s script for This is 40; Anthony Hopkins’ Hitchcock; Javier Bardem’s electrifying turn as Skyfall’s villain; and, writer/director Rian Johnson for Looper.

Australian’s Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts are flying the flag for the Down Under industry. Watts scored a Lead Actress nomination for her role in the tsunami drama The Impossible; Kidman was a double nominee, for her small-town vamp in Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy (gaining serious momentum after her recent SAG nod; pictured, left) and in Philip Kaufman’s telemovie, Hemingway and Gellhorn.

The Golden Globes ceremony will be hosted by actresses Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and will be announced on January 13.      

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