Chicago gets eight Globe nominations
Chicago received a leading eight Golden Globe nominations today, including best musical or comedy and best actress for stars Catherine Zeta Jones and Renee Zellweger.
The Hours, a three-tiered story about women whose lives are linked to a novel by Virginia Woolf, had seven nominations including best film drama, best actress for Nicole Kidman and supporting actor for Ed Harris.
The comedy of in-jokes Adaptation, about its own writers’ attempts to fashion its screenplay, had six mentions including best musical or comedy, screenplay by Charlie Kaufman and best comedy actor for Nicolas Cage.
Nominees in 13 movies and 11 television categories for the 60th annual Golden Globes were announced by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in Beverly Hills.
The awards are regarded by some as indicators of front-runners for the Academy Award nominations in February.
The Globes will be awarded on January 19.
