Best Motion Picture -- Drama
The Descendants
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
Moneyball
War Horse
There's no doubt about it -- the Hollywood Foreign Press Association loves them some George Clooney. Both of the Cloon-ster's 2011 releases were showered with love in multiple categories, including the night's big prize. The nod for The Descendants isn't a big surprise, but the one for The Ides of March certainly is, given that the critical and commercial reaction to it was largely lukewarm. The Help, Moneyball and War Horse are all fairly obvious picks, but hurray for wild card Hugo slipping in there. The most glaring omission? Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. But then, the HFPA has always had little use for Malick, as both The Thin Red Line and The New World went Globe-less. The last time they did throw a nomination his way was waaay back in the '70s for Days of Heaven.

Best Motion Picture -- Comedy or Musical
50/50
The Artist
Bridesmaids
Carnage
Midnight in Paris
My Week with Marilyn
They should just go ahead and give this award to The Artist and be done with it, but Midnight in Paris may prove to be the dark horse, thanks to its Parisian setting and box-office success. Of course, Woody Allen would never ever show up to accept the award in person, whereas Harvey Weinstein will make sure the entire cast of The Artist works the room like a stripper pole. We're happy to see some recognition for both Bridesmaids (expected) and 50/50 (unexpected), as well as the yet-to-be-released Carnage, which is quite funny in its own dark way. The head-scratcher in the bunch is My Week with Marilyn, which is not, repeat not a comedy even if it depicts the making of a comedy. This slot should have gone to Young Adult instead; it had no chance of winning but at least it's actually intended to be funny.

Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture -- Drama
George Clooney (The Descendants)
Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar)
Michael Fassbender (Shame)
Ryan Gosling (The Ides of March)
Brad Pitt (Moneyball)
Hard to argue too much with Clooney, Pitt and Fassbender, but picking Gosling for Ides over Drive is looney tunes. And DiCaprio's nomination feels like an obligatory attempt to get more star wattage in the room and give the movie's director, Clint Eastwood, a "Thanks anyway and better luck next year" pat on the shoulder. That spot deserved to go to Michael Shannon for Take Shelter or Gary Oldman, the best thing about Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture -- Comedy or Musical
Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
Brendan Gleeson (The Guard)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (50/50)
Ryan Gosling (Crazy, Stupid, Love)
Owen Wilson (Midnight in Paris)
A much stronger list than the one for Best Actor in a Drama. We like all of these performances and could make a good case for any one of them to win, but the effortlessly charming Dujardin is an almost certain lock.

Best Performance By An Actor in a Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Kenneth Branagh (My Week With Marilyn)
Albert Brooks (Drive)
Jonah Hill (Moneyball)
Viggo Mortensen (A Dangerous Method)
Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
Swap Branagh out for Sacha Baron Cohen's surprisingly mature (and yet still funny) performance in Hugo and drop-kick Plummer (Beginners was a favorite in some quarters, but its tweeness rubbed us completely the wrong way) in favor of Patton Oswalt's memorable turn in Young Adult and we'd be much happier with this category. But good on the HFPA for climbing aboard the Albert Brooks train.

Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture -- Drama
Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs)
Viola Davis (The Help)
Rooney Mara (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)
Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin)
A fairly predictable list of nominees, with the exception of newcomer Rooney Mara. We would have liked to have seen this year's most ubiquitous performer Jessica Chastain recognized for her great leading lady work in either Take Shelter or The Debt, but apparently nobody in the HFPA got around to watching those screeners.

Best Performance By an Actress in a Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy
Jodie Foster (Carnage)
Charlize Theron (Young Adult)
Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids)
Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn)
Kate Winslet (Carnage)
That Michelle Williams' performance as an emotionally shattered Marilyn Monroe is nominated in the comedy category as opposed to drama is a joke in and of itself. But hey, what do we know? It's also interesting to note that both of the female actresses from Carnage got a nod while the two male stars -- John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz -- were left out. We'd love for this race to be between Charlize Theron and Kristen Wiig (though Theron wins that showdown handily in our book) but there's no way Williams is going home empty-handed, even if she's in the wrong group.

Best Performance By an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Berenice Bejo (The Artist)
Jessica Chastain (The Help)
Octavia Spencer (The Help)
Shailene Woodley (The Descendants)
Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs)
It's strange that Berenice Bejo was nominated in the supporting category when she's the female lead in The Artist. She must have gotten forced out to make room for Kristen Wiig. [Note: Her SAG nod was also for Supporting Actress, so apparently this is the Weinstein Company's strategy for making sure she doesn't get boxed out of an Oscar nomination in an overcrowded Actress field. Doesn't change the fact that she's the movie's female lead. This is one of those annoying quirks of the awards season. -- Ethan] It's also weird that the one Jessica Chastain performance that the HFPA deigned to recognize was The Help. I mean, she's quite good there, but c'mon... The Help over The Tree of Life? (Oh right -- we already established that the HFPA has no affection for that movie.) We're also surprised that Melissa McCarthy didn't make the cut, despite all the attention her Bridesmaids role has gotten so far. Based on her recent SAG nod though, an Oscar nomination still seems likely. Finally, it's great to see Shailene Woodley get some recognition. The clock on her ABC Family contract starts ticking... now.

Best Director -- Motion Picture
Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris)
George Clooney (The Ides of March)
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
Alexander Payne (The Descendants)
Martin Scorsese (Hugo)
This is gonna be a super-tight race between Michel Hazanavicius and Alexander Payne -- it'll be interesting to see which way the HFPA decides to go. Despite War Horse picking up a Best Picture nod, Spielberg gets left out in favor of Scorsese (yay!), Allen (okay) and Clooney (huh?). And again... no Malick. Sigh. At least the Academy has a better track record for recognizing the reclusive filmmaker's unique vision.

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