2017 Golden Globe Nominations Are Here

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominees for the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards, which will take place Sunday, January 8 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, with Jimmy Fallon hosting this year’s awards ceremony. The critically-acclaimed musical hit La La Land lead all nominees, picking up seven nods, followed by the hit drama Moonlight with six nominations and Manchester-by-the-Sea with five nominations. On the TV side, FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story lead the way with five nominations, followed by AMC’s The Night Manager with four nominations and several shows earning three nominations, including HBO’s Westworld, ABC’s Black-ish, HBO’s The Night Of, NBC’s This Is Us and Netflix’s The Crown.

The nominations were announced this morning at the Beverly Hilton Hotel by Don Cheadle, Laura Dern and Anna Kendrick, who were joined by the previously-announced Miss Golden Globe trio, Sophia, Sistine and Scarlet Stallone, Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) President Lorenzo Soria and Executive VP of Television at dick clark productions, Barry Adelman. Vying for Best Picture – Drama is A24’s Moonlight, CBS Films’ Hell or High Water, The Weinstein Company’s Lion, Summit Entertainment’s Hacksaw Ridge and Amazon Studios’ Manchester-By-The-Sea. Nominees for Best Picture – Musical or Comedy are Lionsgate’s La La Land, A24’s 20th Century Women, 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool, Paramount Pictures’ Florence Foster Jenkins and The Weinstein Company’s Sing Street. We also have a few reactions to the nominations, with Focus Features providing us with a few statements from the nominees. Here’s what Ruth Negga, who was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama for her role as Mildred Loving in Loving, had to say in her statement.

“I am profoundly grateful for this recognition… I can’t thank the HFPA enough for their support, this is such an honor. I am humbled to be in the company of all of these extraordinary, talented, and powerful women. It has been such a gift to share Mildred and Richard Loving’s important story with the world. I share this honor with my partner in the film, Joel Edgerton, our incredible director Jeff Nichols and everyone involved in bringing Loving to life.”

Her co-star Joel Edgerton was also nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama, alongside Casey Affleck for Manchester-by-the-Sea, Andrew Garfield for Hacksaw Ridge, Viggo Mortensen for Captain Fanastic and Denzel Washington for Fences. Ruth Negga wil be going up against Amy Adams for Arrival, Jessica Chastain for Miss Sloane, Isabelle Huppert for Elle and Natalie Portman for Jackie in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama category. Focus Features also provided us with another statement from Travis Knight, who directed the Best Animated Feature Film nominee Kubo and the Two Strings. Here’s what he had to say below.

“My heartfelt thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press for honoring Kubo and the Two Strings with this wonderful distinction. Working with the team of wizards and geniuses at LAIKA to bring Kubo to the world has been the most rewarding, most moving experience of my professional life. I’m grateful for it. And I’m grateful that the lovingly handcrafted efforts and brilliance of our extraordinary cast and crew have been so meaningfully recognized with this nomination. At LAIKA, our great hope is that our stories reach, resonate with, and enrich the lives of people around the world, and so it means a great deal to us that the Hollywood Foreign Press, representing so many different countries and cultures, has found our work worthy of recognition. I’m elated.”

It was previously announced that reviously announced, eight-time Golden Globe-winner Meryl Streep will receive the 2017 Cecil B. DeMille Award. Produced by dick clark productions in association with the HFPA, the Golden Globe Awards are viewed in more than 236 countries worldwide and are one of the few awards ceremonies to include both motion picture and television achievements. Lorenzo Soria is President of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Allen Shapiro, CEO of dick clark productions; Mike Mahan, President of dick clark productions; and Barry Adelman, Executive VP of Television at dick clark productions, will serve as executive producers. Take a look at the full list of Golden Globes nominations below.