The awards ceremony will be broadcast live from the Beverly Hills Hilton on NBC tonight at 8 p.m.
Golden Globe awards will be presented tonight at 8 p.m. on NBC. Is silence golden? The answer will be revealed tonight when the winners of the 69th annual Golden Globe awards are revealed.
“The Artist” leads the pack with six nominations, among them best comedy or musical, as well as nods for its French star Jean Dujardin and director Michel Hazanavicius.
Hazanavicius’s black and white salute to the silent film era has already received trophies from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle, Boston Society of Film Critics, and New York Online.
The awards ceremony will be broadcast live from the Beverly Hills Hilton on NBC beginning at 8 p.m. Sharp-tongued comic Ricky Gervais returns as host.
George Clooney is up for three awards. He has been nominated for best actor in a drama for “The Descendants,” and for writing the screenplay and directing “The Ides of March.”
“The Artists,” “The Descendants” and “The Ides of March” are all considered likely contenders for Academy Award nominations. Those nominations will be revealed on Jan. 24.
For years, the Golden Globes were seen as a harbinger of the Oscars, though in recent years the two have differed. For example, last year the Golden Globes chose “The Social Network” as best picture, while the Oscar went to “The King’s Speech.”
The Golden Globes are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association annually for best in film and television.
Five-time Academy Award and Globe nominee Morgan Freeman – who won the supporting-actor Oscar for “Million Dollar Baby” and a best-actor Globe for “Driving Miss Daisy” – will receive the group’s Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement.
The 69th annual Golden Globe Awards will be presented Sunday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and broadcast live on NBC.
The list of nomineees for the 69th Golden Globes include:
BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
“War Horse”
“The Ides of March”
“The Help”
“Moneyball”
“Hugo”
BEST MOTIION PICTURE, COMEDY
“The Artist”
“50/50”
“Bridesmaids”
“My Week With Marilyn”
“Midnight in Paris”
BEST FILM ACTOR, DRAMA
George Clooney, “The Descendants”
Brad Pitt, “Moneyball”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “J.Edgar”
Ryan Gosling, “The Ides of March”
Michael Fassbender, “Shame”
BEST FILM ACTRESS, DRAMA
Viola Davis, “The Help”
Meryl Streep, “The Iron Lady”
Tilda Swinton, “We Need to Talk About Kevin”
Rooney Mara, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
Glenn Close, “Albert Nobbs”
BEST FILM ACTOR, COMEDY
Jean Dujardin, “The Artist”
Brendan Gleeson, “The Guard”
Owen Wilson, “Midnight in Paris”
Joseph Gorden-Levitt, “50/50”
Ryan Goslin, “Crazy, Stupid, Love”
BEST FILM ACTRESS, COMEDY
Michelle Williams, “My Week With Marilyn”
Jodie Foster, “Carnage”
Kristen Wiig, “Bridesmaids”
Charlize Theron, “Young Adult”
Kate Winslet, “Carnage”
BEST SUPPORTING FILM ACTOR
Albert Brooks, “Drive”
Christopher Plummer, “Beginners”
Kenneth Branagh, “My Week With Marilyn”
Jonah Hill, “Moneyball”
Viggo Mortensen, “A Dangerous Method”
BEST SUPPORTING FILM ACTRESS
Berenice Bejo, “The Artist”
Octavia Spencer, “The Help”
Jessica Chastain, “The Help”
Janet McTeer, “Albert Nobbs”
Shailene Woodley, The Descendants”
BEST FILM DIRECTOR
Martin Scorsese, “Hugo”
George Clooney, “The Ides of March”
Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist”
Alexander Payne, “The Descendants”
Woody Allen, “Midnight in Paris”
BEST FILM SCREENPLAY
“Midnight in Paris”
“The Ides of March”
“The Artist”
“The Descendants”
“Moneyball”
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
“Rango”
“The Adventures of Tintin”
“Puss in Boots”
“Arthur Christmas”
“Cars 2”
BEST FOREIGN FILM
“In the Land of Blood and Honey”
“Flowers of War”
“The Skin I Live In”
“The Kid With a Bike”
“A Separation”
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“W.E.”
“The Help”
“Albert Nobbs”
“Machine Gun Preacher”
“Gnomeo and Juliet”
BEST SCORE
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
“War Horse”
“The Artist”
“W.E.”
BEST DRAMA TV SERIES
“American Horror Story”
“Boardwalk Empire”
“Boss”
“Game of Thrones”
“Homeland”
BEST COMEDY TV SERIES
“New Girl”
“Enlightened”
“Episodes”
“Glee”
“Modern Family”
BEST TV ACTOR, DRAMA
Steve Buscemi, “Boardwalk Empire”
Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad”
Kelsey Grammer, “Boss”
Jeremy Irons, “The Borgias”
Damian Lewis, “Homeland”
BEST TV ACTRESS, DRAMA
Claire Danes, “Homeland”
Mireille Enos, “The Killing”
Julianna Margulies, “The Good Wife”
Madeleine Stowe, “Revenge”
Callie Thorne, Necessary Roughness”
BEST TV ACTOR, COMEDY
Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock”
David Duchovny, “Californication”
Johnny Galecki, “The Big Bang Theory”
Thomas Jane, “Hung”
Matt LeBlanc, “Episodes”
BEST TV ACTRESS, COMEDY
Tina Fey, “30 Rock”
Amy Poehler, “Parks and Recreation”
Laura Dern, “Enlightened”
Zooey Deschanel, “New Girl”
Laura Linney, “The Big C”
BEST TV-MOVIE OR MINISERIES
“Mildred Pierce”
“Too Big Too Fail”
“Cinema Verite”
“Downton Abbey”
“The Hour”
BEST ACTOR, TV-MOVIE OR MINISERIES
William Hurt, “Too Big Too Fail”
Hugh Bonneville, “Downton Abbey”
Idris Elba, “Luther”
Bill Nighy, “Page Eight”
Dominic West, “Appropriate Adult”
SUPPORTING ACTOR, TV-MOVIE OR MINISERIES
Peter Dinklage, “Game of Thrones”
Paul Giamatti, “To Big To Fail”
Guy Pearce, “Mildred Pierce”
Tim Robbins, “Cinema Verite”
Eric Stonestreet, “Modern Family”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, TV-MOVIE OR MINISERIES
Jessica Lange, “American Horror Story”
Kelly Macdonald, “Boardwalk Empire”
Maggie Smith, “Downton Abbey”
Sofia Vergara, “Modern Family”
Evan Rachel Wood, “Mildred Pierce”