Awards Season Is On - The Golden Globes & Others

All hail The Queen.

That’s pretty much what seems to be the consensus among film critics this year, as The Queen’s Helen Mirren finds herself crowned Best Actress by several critics associations (Boston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco are just but a few of the cities showing her some awards love).

Mirren can add a nod from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which announced the nominations for the 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards today (you can find the complete list here). Among the highlights are nods to Babel’s Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi, Sherrybaby’s Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Thank You for Smoking and its Aaron Eckhart.

On the TV side, there was much love shown to all my favorites – 24, Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes, Lost, The Closer, The Office, and Scrubs – yet none (seriously?!) to Gilmore Girls or Veronica Mars.

If this awards people continue to ignore the sheer genius that are these two shows – and if I ever get to wield any power – I will tell'em one day that if they keep this up, they might go home with a black eye.

Photo: Miramax Films (The Queen).