By Leroy Douresseaux
December 19, 2004 - 11:05
Sideways Tops Golden Globe Nominations
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