Golden Globe Nominations: Shape of Water Leads, Wonder Woman, Female Directors Snubbed

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The 75th annual Golden Globe nominations were announced this morning and it would be the Golden Globes if their nomination reveal spurred a whole lot of head scratching and mystery as to how the Hollywood Foreign Press came up with their voting methods.

Leading the pack with seven nods is Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water, followed close behind by Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri and The Post with six each.

Boss Baby scored a nod for Best Animated Feature and not The LEGO Batman Movie? Really? Also interesting is Christopher Plummer earning a nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his work on All the Money in the World in a role he took over for Kevin Spacey merely weeks ago. Talk about immediately getting a reaction to fresh work!

In a stroke of genius, Ansel Elgort earned a nod for Best Actor for his work on the astounding Baby Driver, but in a move that is baffling to say the least, not one female director was nominated in a year that featured a plethora of worthy candidates.

Here is the complete list of nominees, the awards will be handed out on January 7.

Best Motion Picture – Drama

  • Call Me by Your Name
  • Dunkirk
  • The Post
  • The Shape of Water
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

  • Jessica Chastain, Molly’s Game
  • Sally Hawkins, The Shape of Water
  • Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • Meryl Streep, The Post
  • Michelle Williams, All the Money in the World

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

  • Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
  • Daniel Day-Lewis, Phantom Thread
  • Tom Hanks, The Post
  • Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
  • Denzel Washington, Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

  • Judi Dench, Victoria & Abdul
  • Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
  • Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
  • Emma Stone, Battle of the Sexes
  • Helen Mirren, The Leisure Seeker

Best Director

  • Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
  • Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • Christopher Nolan, Dunkirk
  • Ridley Scott, All The Money in the World
  • Steven Spielberg, The Post

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

  • Steve Carell, Battle of the Sexes
  • Ansel Elgort, Baby Driver
  • James Franco, The Disaster Artist
  • Hugh Jackman, The Greatest Showman
  • Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

  • Mary J. Blige, Mudbound
  • Hong Chau, Downsizing
  • Allison Janney, I, Tonya
  • Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
  • Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

  • Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
  • Armie Hammer, Call Me by Your Name
  • Richard Jenkins, The Shape of Water
  • Christopher Plummer, All the Money in the World
  • Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Original Score in a Motion Picture

  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • The Shape of Water
  • Phantom Thread
  • The Post
  • Dunkirk

Best Screenplay in a Motion Picture

  • The Shape of Water
  • Lady Bird
  • The Post
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • Molly’s Game

Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language

  • A Fantastic Woman
  • First They Killed My Father
  • In the Fade
  • Loveless
  • The Square

Best Animated Film

  • The Boss Baby
  • The Breadwinner
  • Ferdinand
  • Coco
  • Loving Vincent