Jamie Foxx Earns a Record 3 Acting Noms



BEVERLY HILLS, California. Monday, December 13, 2004, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced nominations for the 2005 Golden Globe Awards.

Alexander Payne’s Sideways, the critically acclaimed film about two men looking for love in the California’s wine country as the wedding day of one of them approaches, led the nominations with seven. Martin Scorsese’s Howard Hughes biopic, The Aviator, earned six nominations.

In a Golden Globe first, actor/comedian Jamie Foxx was nominated in three categories: “Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy” for Ray; “Best Performance by an Actor in Supporting Role in a Motion Picture” for Collateral; and “Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for Redemption. Foxx earned these honors on the same day as his 37th birthday.

The winners of the 62nd annual edition of the Golden Globes will be announced January 16, 2005, 8 p.m. Eastern on NBC. The awards are usually seen as an indicator of the winners of the U.S.’s top film industry awards, the Oscars, which will be announced in February. This may be especially true this year as Oscar prognosticators see those awards as wide open.

The Golden Globe nominees in the motion picture categories only are as follows:



Best Motion Picture – Drama

THE AVIATOR

CLOSER

FINDING NEVERLAND

HOTEL RWANDA

KINSEY

MILLION DOLLAR BABY



Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

Scarlett Johansson for A Love Song for Bobby Long

Nicole Kidman for Birth

Imelda Staunton for Vera Drake

Hilary Swank for Million Dollar Baby

Uma Thurman for Kill Bill, Vol. 2



Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Javier Bardem for The Sea Inside

Don Cheadle for Hotel Rwanda

Johnny Depp for Finding Neverland

Leonardo DiCaprio for The Aviator

Liam Neeson for Kinsey



Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF A SPOTLESS MIND

THE INCREDIBLES

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

RAY

SIDEWAYS



Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Annette Bening for Being Julia

Ashley Judd for De-Lovely

Emmy Rossum for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

Kate Winslet for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Renee Zellweger for Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason



Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Jim Carrey for Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind

Jamie Foxx for Ray

Paul Giamatti for Sideways

Kevin Kline for De-Lovely

Kevin Spacey for Beyond the Sea



Best Foreign Language Film

THE CHORUS (Les Choristes) from France

HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS from China

THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES from Brazil

THE SEA INSIDE from Spain

A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT from France



Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Cate Blanchett for The Aviator

Laura Linney for Kinsey

Virginia Madsen for Sideways

Natalie Portman for Closer

Meryl Streep for The Manchurian Candidate



Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

David Carradine for Kill Bill, Vol. 2

Thomas Haden Church for Sideways

Jamie Foxx for Collateral

Morgan Freeman for Million Dollar Baby

Clive Owen for Closer



Best Director – Motion Picture

Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby

Marc Forster for Finding Neverland

Mike Nichols for Closer

Alexander Payne for Sideways

Martin Scorsese for The Aviator

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

Charlie Kaufman for Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind

John Logan for The Aviator

David Magee for Finding Neverland

Patrick Marber for Closer

Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor for Sideways



Best Original Score – Motion Picture

Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby

Jan A.P. Kaczmarek for Finding Neverland

Rolfe Kent for Sideways

Howard Shore for The Aviator

Hans Zimmer for Spanglish



Best Original Song – Motion Picture

“Accidentally in Love” from SHREK 2 – Music & Lyrics by Adam Duritz, Dan Vickery, David Immergluck, Matthew Malley, & David Bryson

“Believe” from THE POLAR EXPRESS – Music & Lyrics by Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri

“Learn to Be Lonely” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA – Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lyrics by Charles Hart

“Million Voices” from HOTEL RWANDA – Music by Wyclef Jean, Jerry “Wonder” Duplessis, and Andrea Guerra and Lyrics by Wyclef Jean

“Old Habits Die Hard” from ALFIE – Music & Lyrics by Mick Jagger & David A. Stewart