The Golden Globes were announced today and the big news are the duel nominations given out to Clint Eastwood for Best Director (Flags of Our Fathers, Letters From Iwo Jima) and Leonardo DiCaprio for Best Actor (Drama) (The Departed, Blood Diamond). As always it would have been nice to see The Hollywood Foreign Press think outside the box and give nominations to say Ryan Gosling for Best Actor or Pedro Almodovar for Best Director instead of taking the safe route but I guess that would be asking too much. The Globes will take place on January 15 on NBC.

And the nominees are…

MOTION PICTURE

DRAMA
“Babel” – Anonymous Content Produc-tion/Una Producción De Zeta Film/Central Film Production; Paramount Pictures/Paramount Vantage
“Bobby” – Bold Films; The Weinstein Company
“The Departed” – Warner Bros. Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures
“Little Children” – New Line Cinema; New Line Cinema
“The Queen” – A Granada Production; Miramax Films

ACTRESS (DRAMA)
Penelope Cruz – “Volver”
Judi Dench – “Notes on a Scandal”
Maggie Gyllenhaal – “Sherrybaby”
Helen Mirren – “The Queen”
Kate Winslet – “Little Children”

ACTOR (DRAMA)
Leonardo DiCaprio – “Blood Diamond”
Leonardo DiCaprio – “The Departed”
Peter O’Toole – “Venus”
Will Smith – “The Pursuit of Happyness”
Forest Whitaker – “The Last King of Scotland”

MUSICAL OR COMEDY
“Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” – One America; Twentieth Century Fox
“The Devil Wears Prada” – Twentieth Century Fox; Twentieth Century Fox
“Dreamgirls” – DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount Pictures; DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount Pictures
“Little Miss SUnshine” – Big Beach/Bonafide Productions; Fox Searchlight Pictures
“Thank You For Smoking” – Room 9 Entertainment/David O. Sacks Produc-tion/Content Film; Fox Searchlight Pictures

ACTRESS (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
Annette Bening – “Running with Scissors”
Toni Collette – “Little Miss Sunshine”
Beyonce Knowles – “Dream-girls”
Meryl Streep – “The Devil Wears Prada”
Renee Zellweger – “Miss Potter”

ACTOR (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
Sacha Baron Cohen – “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”
Johnny Depp – “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest”
Aaron Eckhart – “Thank You for Smoking”
Chiwetel Ejiofor – “Kinky Boots”
Will Ferrell – “Stranger Than Fiction”

FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
“Apocalypto” – Touchstone Pictures/Icon Productions; Buena Vista Pictures
“Letters from Iwo Jima” – Warner Bros. Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures
“The Lives of Others” – Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion; Sony Pictures Classics
“Pan’s Labyrinth” – Estudios Picasso/Tequila Gang/Esperanto; Picture-house
“Volver” – El Deseo; Sony Pictures Classics

ANIMATED FILM
“Cars” – Walt Disney Pic-tures/Pixar Animation Studio; Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
“Happy Feet” – Kingdom Pictures, LLC; Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures
“Monster House” – Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures Releasing

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Adriana Barraza – “Babel”
Cate Blanchett – “Notes on a Scandal”
Emily Blunt – “The Devil Wears Prada”
Jennifer Hudson – “Dreamgirls”
Rinko Kikuchi – “Babel”

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ben Affleck – “Hollywoodland”
Jack Nicholson – “The Departed”
Eddie Murphy – “Dreamgirls”
Brad Pitt – “Babel”
Mark Wahlberg – “The Departed”

DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood – “Flags of Our Fa-thers”
Clint Eastwood – “Letters from Iwo Jima”
Stephen Frears – “The Queen”
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu – “Babel”
Martin Scorsese – “The Departed”

SCREENPLAY
“Babel”- Guillermo Ar-riaga
“Little Children” – Todd Field and Tom Perrotta
“Notes on a Scandal” – Patrick Mar-ber
“The Departed” – Wiliam Monahan
“The Queen” – Peter Morgan

ORIGINAL SCORE
“The Painted Veil” – Alexandre Desplat
“The Fountain” – Clint Mansell
“Babel” – Gustavo Santaolalla
“Nomad” – Carlo Siliotto
“The Da Vinci Code” – Hans Zimmer

ORIGINAL SONG
“A Father’s Way – “Pursuit of Happyness” – Music by: Seal and Christopher Bruce; Lyrics by: Seal
“Listen” – “Dreamgirls” – Music & Lyrics by: Henry Krieger, Anne Preven, Scott Cutler and Beyoncé Knowles
“Never Gonna Break My Faith” – “Bobby” – Music & Lyrics by: Bryan Adams, Eliot Kennedy and Andrea Remanda
“The Song of the Heart” – “Happy Feet” – Music & Lyrics by: Prince Rogers Nelson
“Try Not to Remember” – “Home of the Brave” – Music & Lyrics by: Sheryl Crow

TELEVISION

DRAMA
“24” -Imagine Television and 20th Century Fox Television i.a.w. Real Time
“Big Love” – Anima Sola and Playtone Prods. i.a.w. HBO Entertainment
“Grey’s Anatomy” – Touchstone Television
“Heroes” – NBC Universal Television Studios i.a.w. Tailwind Prods.
“Lost” – Touchstone Television

ACTRESS (DRAMA)
Patricia Arquette – “Medium”
Edie Falco – “The Sopranos”
Evangeline Lily – “Lost”
Ellen Pompeo – “Grey’s Anatomy”
Kyra Sedgwick – “The Closer”

ACTOR (DRAMA)
Patrick Dempsey – “Grey’s Anatomy”
Michael C. Hall – “Dexter”
Hugh Laurie – “House”
Bill Paxton – “Big Love”
Kiefer Sutherland – “24”

MUSICAL OR COMEDY
“Desperate Housewives” – Touchstone Television
“Entourage” – Leverage and Closest to the Hole Prods. i.a.w. HBO Entertainment
“The Office” – Deedle Dee Prods. with Reveille i.a.w. NBC Universal Television Studio
“Ugly Betty” – Touchstone Television
“Weeds” – Showtime i.a.w. Lionsgate Television and Tilted Prods., Inc

ACTRESS (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
Marcia Cross – “Desperate Housewives”
America Ferrera – “Ugly Betty”
Felicity Huffman – “Desperate Housewives”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – “The New Adventures of Old Christine”
Mary-Louise Parker – “Weeds”

ACTOR (MUSICAL OR COMEDY)
Alec Baldwin – “30 Rock”
Zach Braff – “Scrubs”
Steve Carell – “The Office”
Jason Lee – “My Name is Earl”
Tony Shaloub – “Monk”

MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE
“Bleak House” – BBC and WGBH Boston Prod. i.a.w. Deep Indigo
“Broken Trail” – Butchers Run Films and Once Upon a Time Films i.a.w. Sony Pictures
“Elizabeth I” – Company Pictures and Channel 4 i.a.w. HBO Films
“Mrs. Harris” – Killer Films, Number 9 Films and John Wells Prod. i.a.w. HBO Films
“Prime Suspect: The Final Act” – Granada and WGBH-Boston Prod.

ACTRESS (MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE)
Gillian Anderson – “Bleak House”
Annette Bening – “Mrs. Harris”
Helen Mirren – “Elizabeth I”
Helen Mirren – “Prime Suspect: The Final Act”
Sophie Okonedo – “Tsunami, The Aftermath “

ACTOR (MINISERIES OR TV MOVIE)
Andre Braugher – “Thief”
Robert Duvall – “Broken Trail”
Michael Ealy – “Sleeper Cell: American Terror”
Chiwetel Ejiofor – “Tsunami, The Aftermath”
Ben Kingsley – “Mrs Harris”
Bill Nighy – “Gideon’s Daughter”
Matthew Perry – “The Ron Clark Story”

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Emily Blunt – “Gideon’s Daughter”
Toni Collette – “Tsunami, The Aftermath “
Katherine Heigl – “Grey’s Anat-omy”
Sarah Paulson – “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”
Elizabeth Perkins – “Weeds”

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Thomas Haden Church – “Broken Trail”
Jeremy Irons – “Elizabeth I”
Justin Kirk – “Weeds”
Masi Oka – “Heroes”
Jeremy Piven – “Entourage”

CECIL B. DEMILLE AWARD
Warren Beatty