Award season is here, and the Golden Globes 2015 are fast approaching, as the first major movie award show of the season will be televised live in exactly one month, on January 11 - featuring the best of what has happened in television and movies in the past year and hosted by Amy Poehler and Tina Fey in their third year in a row!
Now that the Golden Globe 2015 nominations have been announced, it can officially be said that the time to honor 2014's best films has finally arrived, as many of the year's top movies will be honored in the upcoming ceremony.
As CBS News noted, the biggest contender for the Golden Globe 2015 awards is "Birdman," racking a total of seven nominations: for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical), Best Actor (Comedy or Musical) for Michael Keaton, Best Supporting Actress for Emma Stone, Best Supporting Actor for Edward Norton, Best Director for Alejandro González Iñárritu, Best Screenplay and Best Original Score.
Before the Golden Globe 2015 nominations had been released on Thursday, the Screen Actors Guild released its own list of nominees on Wednesday, and it was fairly similar to the one made by the Foreign Hollywood Press - although, of course, the Globes have more nominees, due to the fact that they make the distinction between Comedy and Drama.
According to MTV, the next spot in the Golden Globe 2015 list of nominees was a tie between the Richard Linklater film "Boyhood" (which took years into making, as the director followed the actors through different periods of their lives as they grew old on camera) and "The Imitation Game" starring Benedict Cumberbatch; both of these films got five nominations as a whole.
Other big contenders in the film categories are the Stephen Hawking biopic "The Theory of Everything" (with four nods: Best Motion Picture Drama, Best Lead Actress Drama for Felicity Jones, Best Actor Drama for Eddie Redmayne and Best Original Score) and Wes Anderson's "Grand Budapest Hotel" (also with four nods: Best Picture Comedy, Best Actor Comedy for Ralph Fiennes, Best Director for Wes Anderson and Best Screenplay).
In the meantime, the Golden Globe 2015 television nominations offered few surprises, with HBO shows like "Game of Thrones," "Girls" and "True Detective" getting a lot of love from the Foreign Press - though some other critics' darlings were snubbed, like the BBC series "Sherlock" starring Benedict Cumberbatch (nominated for "The Imitation Game") and Martin Freeman (nominated for "Fargo")
Other odd snubs, as The Daily Beast points out, were Kerry Washington for her work as Olivia Pope in "Scandal", the widely acclaimed historic 60s dramas "Masters of Sex" and "Mad Men" (both of which were snubbed entirely, even though star Lizzy Caplan was nominated for her portrayal of pioneer sexologist Virginia Johnson in the past Emmys and Don Draper has won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Don Draper and has been nominated for four more).
In other odd choices, the huge past winner Jim Parsons wasn't even nominated for his performance as oddball theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper in "The Big Bang Theory," even after having just won the Emmy for his performance earlier this year); Maggie Smith was also snubbed for her work in the British period series "Downton Abbey" (though co-star Joanne Froggatt received a surprise nomination, after her character Anna Bates went through a controversial storyline regarding rape).
After Andy Samberg's win last year for the first season of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," many thought it would be the beginning of a series of awards - but, when it was time for the Golden Globe 2015 nominations to be announced, the SNL alumnus was nowhere to be seen.
In any case, in just one month we'll get to see who will be getting the top prizes for this year's films and television shows - and so the road to the Oscars begins!
