Silent movie The Artist painted a pretty picture at the Golden Globe nominations on Thursday, leading all movies with six nods overall includingbest film comedy or musical in the race to Hollywood’s Oscars.
Following The Artist among top nominees for the key film awards were The Descendants, starring George Clooney as a man struggling to keep his family together, and civil rights movie The Help with five nods each, including both in the keycategory of best film drama.
Joining Descendants and The Help among the films vying for top drama director Martin Scorsese’s 3D Hugo and Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, baseball movie Moneyball and Clooney’s political film The Ides of March.
“I see great versatility, there is a variety of subjects being brought up in a variety of formats,” said Aida Takla-O’Reilly, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which gives out the Golden Globe Awards.
The Golden Globes, which are voted upon by roughly 90 members of the HFPA, are among the most widely watched honors programs leading up to the Oscars in February.
But unlike the Oscars, Golden Globe movie nominations are grouped into two categories — dramas and musicals or comedies.
— Reuters