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A few rather unusual surprises here, with the Best Actor category being the only one to stay the same as the Golden Globe noms, with the swapping of Tobey Maguire for Jeremy Renner.

Marion Cotillard, Emily Blunt, Abbie Cornish and Saoirse Ronan have been overlooked in the Best Actress category, and it’s not looking good for any for an Oscar nom.

Perhaps the biggest surprise is Diane Kruger’s nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category for her work in Inglorious Basterds.

Best Cast

An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Nine
Precious

Best Actor

Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker.

Best Actress

Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Actor

Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress

Penélope Cruz, Nine
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Diane Kruger, Inglourious Basterds
Mo’Nique, Precious

The Screen Actors Guild awards are often seen as the closest thing to hang your hat on when it comes to seeing who may be nominated for an Academy Award, and the nominations were released this morning!

In the TV field there is once again no huge surprises, except for the lack of a nominations for Jane Lynch (Glee), Jim Parsons (Big Bang Theory) or John Lithgow (Dexter)………………WTF?

Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series

The Closer
Dexter
The Good Wife
Mad Men
True Blood

Outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series

30 Rock
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Glee
Modern Family
The Office

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a drama series

Simon Baker, The Mentalist
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series

Patricia Arquette, Medium
Glenn Close, Damages
Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Holly Hunter, Saving Grace
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series

Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Tony Shalhoub, Monk
Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a comedy series

Christina Applegate, Samantha Who?
Toni Collette, United States Of Tara
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine

Outstanding performance by a male actor in a television movie or miniseries

Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance (HBO)
Cuba Gooding Jr., Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (TNT)
Jeremy Irons, Georgia O’Keefe” (Lifetime)
Kevin Kline, Great Performances: Cyrano De Bergerac (PBS)
Tom Wilkinson, A Number (HBO)

Outstanding performance by a female actor in a television movie or miniseries

Joan, Georgia O’Keefe (Lifetime)
Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens (HBO)
Ruby Dee, America (Lifetime)
Jessica Lange, Grey Gardens (HBO)
Sigourney Weaver, Prayers For Bobby (Lifetime)

On the TV side of things there were some notable ommissions made by the Hollywood Foreign Press.

Most surprisingly was the snub of Jim Parsons in the Best Supporting Actor category. Nothing short of criminal there! Also as much as I LOVE “Glee” I am not sure that Matthew Morrison gave one of the best 5 performances by an Actor this year. With nominees like Steve Carell and Alec Baldwin, his inclusion here seems a little vapid!

Tell us what you think!

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
Big Love (HBO)
Dexter (Showtime)
House (Fox)
Mad Men (AMC)
True Blood (HBO)

BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
30 Rock (NBC)
Entourage (HBO)
Glee (FOX)
Modern Family (ABC)
The Office (NBC)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
Simon Baker, The Mentalist
Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Hugh Laurie, House
Bill Paxton, Big Love

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES –
DRAMA
Glenn Close, Damages
January Jones, Mad Men
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Anna Paquin, True Blood
Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES –
COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Steve Carell, The Office
David Duchovny, Californication
Thomas Jane, Hung
Matthew Morrison, Glee

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES –
COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Toni Collette, United States of Tara
Courteney Cox, Cougar Town
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Lea Michele, Glee

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES,
MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Michael Emerson, Lost
Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother
William Hurt, Damages
John Lithgow, Dexter
Jeremy Piven, Entourage

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A
SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Jane Adams, Hung
Rose Byrne, Damages
Jane Lynch, Glee
Janet McTeer, Into the Storm
Chloe Sevigny, Big Love

BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Georgia O’Keefe (Lifetime)
Grey Gardens (HBO)
Into the Storm (HBO)
Little Dorrit (PBS)
Taking Chance (HBO)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION
PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance
Kenneth Branagh, Wallander: One Step Behind
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Endgame
Brendan Gleeson, Into the Storm
Jeremy Irons, Georgia O’Keefe

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION
PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Joan Allen, Georgia O’Keefe
Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens
Jessica Lange, Grey Gardens
Anna Paquin, The Courageous Heart of Irena
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Sigourney Weaver, Prayers for Bobby

The nominees for the 2010 Golden Globes were announced this morning. All was pretty much as to be expected in the movie arena with “Up In The Air” receiving six noms and five for “Nine”.

Both “Avatar” and “Inglourious Basterds” received four nominations, and rounding out the pack was “The Hurt Locker”, “Invictus,” “It’s Complicated,” “Precious” and “A Single Man” with three.

The one HUGE snub here is Lee Daniels in the Best Director category for Precious. Absolutely a crime!

Best Motion Picture – Drama
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious”
“Up in the Air”

Best Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical
“(500) Days of Summer”
“The Hangover”
“It’s Complicated”
“Julie and Julia”
“Nine”

Best Actress In A Motion Picture – Drama
Emily Blunt for “The Young Victoria”
Sandra Bullock for “The Blind Side”
Helen Mirren for “The Last Station”
Carey Mulligan for “An Education”
Gabourey Sidibe for “Precious”

Best Actor In A Motion Picture – Drama
Jeff Bridges for “Crazy Heart”
George Clooney for “Up in the Air”
Colin Firth for “A Single Man”
Morgan Freeman for “Invictus”
Tobey Maguire for “Brothers”

Best Actress In A Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical
Sandra Bullock for “The Proposal”
Marion Cotillard for “Nine”
Julia Roberts for “Duplicity”
Meryl Streep for “Julie & Julia”
Meryl Streep for “It’s Complicated”

Best Actor In A Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical
Matt Damon for ” The Informant”
Daniel Day Lewis for “Nine”
Robert Downey Jr. for “Sherlock Holmes”
Joe Gordon Levitt for “500 Days of Summer”
Michael Stuhlbarg for “A Serious Man”

Best Animated Feature Film
“Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”
“Coraline”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“The Princess and the Frog”
“Up”

Best Foreign Language Film
“A Prophet”
“Baaria”
“Broken Embraces”
“The Maid”
“The White Ribbon”

Best Supporting Actress In A Motion Picture
Penelope Cruz for “Nine”
Vera Farminga for “Up in the Air”
Anna Kendrick for “Up in the Air”
Monique for “Precious”
Julianne Moore for “A Single Man”

Best Supporting Actor In A Motion Picture
Matt Damon for “Invictus”
Woody Harrelson for “The Messenger”
Christopher Plummer for “The Last Station”
Stanley Tucci for “The Lovely Bones”
Christoph Waltz for “Inglourious Basterds

Best Director – Motion Picture
Kathryn Bigelow for “The Hurt Locker”
James Cameron for “Avatar”
Clint Eastwood for “Invictus”
Jason Reitman for “Up in the Air”
Quentin Tarantino for “Inglourious Basterds”

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Neill Blomkampt & Terri Tatchell for “District 9″
Mark Boal for “The Hurt Locker”
Nancy Meyers for “It’s Complicated”
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner for “Up in the Air”
Quentin Tarantino for “Inglourious Basterds”

Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Michael Giacchino for “Up”
Marvin Hamlisch for “The Informant”
James Horner for “Avatar”
Abel Krozeniowski for “A Single Man”
Karen O. and Carter Burwell for “Where the Wild Things Are”

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“Cinema Italiano” from “Nine”
“I Want To Come Home” from “Everybody’s Fine”
“I See You” from “Avatar”
“The Weary Kind” from “Crazy Heart”
“Winter” from “Brothers”