(Brian Truitt, USA TODAY)
The women of Carol and men of The Big Shortmade a big push in the Oscar race Thursday with their nominations for the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards.
Todd Haynes' 1950s love story Carol picked up five nods total — best drama actress honors for Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, plus best drama, director and score — and bank-fail dramedy The Big Short picked up four thanks to Steve Carell and Christian Bale's nominations for best actor plus best film in the musical/comedy categories and best screenplay. The Golden Globes air live on NBC Jan. 10 at 8 ET/5 PT.
Other notables on the cinema side include four nods for Steve Jobs and The Revenant and three nominations apiece for Room, Hateful Eight, Spotlight, The Martian and The Danish Girl, whose star Alicia Vikander got a best actress and a supporting actress pick for Ex Machina. As for TV shows, Mr. Robot, Transparent, Fargo, Wolf Hall, American Crime and Outlander each picked up three nominations, while the broadcast TV networks were shut off of the best TV comedy series field for the first time.
The best movie drama field stars Carol, Mad Max, The Revenant, Room andSpotlight, while The Big Short is joined in the musical/comedy group by Joy, The Martian, Spy and Trainwreck.
Screen Actors Guild nominees Bree Larson (Room) and Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn) are in the best drama actress category with Blanchett, Mara and Vikander. The latter also shares the supporting actress field with Jane Fonda (Youth), Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hateful Eight), Helen Mirren (Trumbo) and Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs). And funny women Amy Schumer (Trainwreck), Melissa McCarthy (Spy) and Lily Tomlin (Grandma) — who nabbed a TV comedy actress nomination for Grace and Frankieas well — are up for best actress in a musical/comedy with Maggie Smith (The Lady in the Van) and Jennifer Lawrence (Joy).
The best drama actor category is filled with heavyweights Bryan Cranston (Trumbo), Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant), Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs), Eddie Redmayne (The Danish Girl) and Will Smith (Concussion). Carell and Bale pace the musical/comedy actor contingent and will compete against Matt Damon (The Martian), Al Pacino (Danny Collins) and Mark Ruffalo (Infinitely Polar Bear).
Creed's Sylvester Stallone got into the awards ring with a nomination for supporting actor, a category filled with recent SAG contenders Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation), Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies) and Michael Shannon (99 Homes) plus Paul Dano (Love & Mercy). Elba and Rylance also picked up TV nominations for their work on Luther and Wolf Hall respectively.
In the best director category, Haynes faces Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu (The Revenant), Tom McCarthy (Spotlight), George Miller (Mad Max) and Ridley Scott (The Martian). Up for the screenplay prize are Hateful Eight, Spotlight, Room, Steve Jobs and The Big Short, while the nominees for original score are Hateful Eight, Carol, Steve Jobs, The Revenant and The Danish Girl.
Two Pixar movies, Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur, are in the running for best animated film alongside Anomalisa, Shaun the Sheep Movie and The Peanuts Movie.
The best original sing contingent includes Love Me Like You Do from Fifty Shades of Grey, One Kind of Love from Love & Mercy, See You Again from Furious 7, Simple Song #3 from Youth and Writing's on the Wall from Spectre.
Over on the small-screen side, Mr. Robot and Outlander are up for best TV drama with Empire, Game of Thrones and Narcos, and the best comedy grouping is all about streaming and cable shows: Casual, Mozart in the Jungle, Orange Is the New Black, Silicon Valley, Transparent and Veep.
Mad Men's Jon Hamm makes one last play for a Globe — and a second win — in the TV drama actor category against Rami Malek (Mr. Robot), Wagner Moura (Narcos), Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) and Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan). The nominees for musical/comedy actor include previous winner Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent), Aziz Ansari (Master of None), Gael Garcia Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle), Rob Lowe (The Grinder) and Patrick Stewart (Blunt Talk).
The CW snagged two nominations in the musical/comedy actress category — Rachel Bloom for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and reigning winner Gina Rodriguez of Jane the Virgin— that'll go up against Tomlin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep) and Jamie Lee Curtis (Scream Queens). Robin Wright, who won the drama actress trophy in 2014, faces Caitriona Balfi (Outlander), Eva Green (Penny Dreadful), Taraji P. Henson (Empire) and Viola Davis (How to Get Away with Murder).
In supporting categories, Christian Slater (Mr. Robot), Alan Cumming (The Good Wife), Ben Mendelsohn (Bloodlines), Damian Lewis (Wolf Hall) and Tobias Menzies (Outlander) are up for the actor honor, and the actress slate includes last year's honoree Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey), Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black), Regina King (American Crime), Judith Light (Transparent) and Maura Tierney (The Affair).
For American Horror Story: Hotel and Flesh and Bone respectively, pop star Lady Gaga and ballet dancer Sarah Hay were notable nominees for best actress in a TV movie/miniseries, and their shows are up for top limited series along with Fargo, Wolf Hall and American Crime.
