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[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

HOLLYWOOD, CA, December 13, 2004 –

Alexander Payne's comedy "Sideways" led the nominations with seven and actor Jamie Foxx scored the most individual nominations with three when contenders for the 62nd annual Golden Globe Awards were announced December 13.

Other nomination leaders in the movie categories were "The Aviator" (six), "Closer", "Finding Neverland" and "Million Dollar Baby", each with five.

In the television categories, "Desperate Housewives" was prominent in its first season and the made-for-TV movie "The Life and Death of Peter Sellers" scored four nominations.

The Golden Globe Awards will be presented Sunday, January 16, 2005, during a star-studded ceremony broadcast live on NBC at 8 p.m. Eastern.

• BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

THE AVIATOR Initial Entertainment Group/Forward Pass; Miramax Films/ Warner Bros.

Pictures/Initial Entertainment Group CLOSER Columbia Pictures;

Sony Pictures Releasing FINDING NEVERLAND

Film Colony Productions; Miramax Films HOTEL RWANDA

Miracle Pictures/Seamus Productions; United Artists Films/ Lions Gate Films/MGM Distribution Co. KINSEY

Qwerty Films; Fox Searchlight Pictures MILLION DOLLAR BABY

Warner Bros. Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

SCARLETT JOHANSSON -A LOVE SONG FOR BOBBY LONG

NICOLE KIDMAN - BIRTH

IMELDA STAUNTON- VERA DRAKE

HILARY SWANK -MILLION DOLLAR BABY

UMA THURMAN -KILL BILL VOL. 2

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

JAVIER BARDEM - THE SEA INSIDE

DON CHEADLE - HOTEL RWANDA

JOHNNY DEPP - FINDING NEVERLAND

LEONARDO DICAPRIO - THE AVIATOR

LIAM NEESON - KINSEY

• BEST MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND Anonymous Content/This is that; Focus Features

THE INCREDIBLES Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios; Buena Vista Pictures Distribution

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Really Useful Films; Warner Bros. Pictures

RAY Anvil Films/Baldwin Entertainment; Universal Pictures/Bristol Bay Productions

SIDEWAYS Sideways Productions, Inc.; Fox Searchlight Pictures

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

ANNETTE BENING- BEING JULIA

ASHLEY JUDD- DE-LOVELY

EMMY ROSSUM- THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

KATE WINSLET -ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

RENEE ZELLWEGER -BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE -MUSICAL OR COMEDY

JIM CARREY - ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

JAMIE FOXX - RAY

PAUL GIAMATTI- SIDEWAYS

KEVIN KLINE - DE-LOVELY

KEVIN SPACEY -BEYOND THE SEA

• BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM THE CHORUS

(LES CHORISTES) (FRANCE) Galatée Films/Pathé Renn Productions/Jacques Perrin, Arthur Cohn & Nicholas Mauvernay Productions/France 2 Cinéma/Novo Arturo Films; Miramax Films

HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS (CHINA) Elite Group (2003) Enterprises, Inc.; Sony Pictures Classics

THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (BRAZIL) South Fork Pictures/Tu Vas Voir Productions; Focus Features/Film Four

THE SEA INSIDE (SPAIN) Sogecine/Himenoptero; Fine Line Features

A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (FRANCE) 2003 Productions/ Warner Bros. France/Tapioca Films/TFI Films; Warner Independent Pictures

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE

CATE BLANCHETT- THE AVIATOR LAURA LINNEY - KINSEY

VIRGINIA MADSEN- SIDEWAYS

NATALIE PORTMAN - CLOSER

MERYL STREEP- THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE

DAVID CARRADINE -KILL BILL VOL. 2

THOMAS HADEN CHURCH- SIDEWAYS

JAMIE FOXX -COLLATERAL

MORGAN FREEMAN - MILLION DOLLAR BABY

CLIVE OWEN -CLOSER

• BEST DIRECTOR - MOTION PICTURE

CLINT EASTWOOD- MILLION DOLLAR BABY

MARC FORSTER - FINDING NEVERLAND

MIKE NICHOLS - CLOSER

ALEXANDER PAYNE - SIDEWAYS

MARTIN SCORSESE- THE AVIATOR

• BEST SCREENPLAY - MOTION PICTURE

CHARLIE KAUFMAN -ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

JOHN LOGAN -THE AVIATOR

DAVID MAGEE -FINDING NEVERLAND

PATRICK MARBER - CLOSER

ALEXANDER PAYNE & JIM TAYLOR -SIDEWAYS

• BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - MOTION PICTURE

CLINT EASTWOOD- MILLION DOLLAR BABY

JAN A.P. KACZMAREK - FINDING NEVERLAND

ROLFE KENT -SIDEWAYS

HOWARD SHORE -THE AVIATOR

HANS ZIMMER -SPANGLISH

• BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE

“ACCIDENTALLY IN LOVE”- SHREK 2 Music & Lyrics by: Adam Duritz, Dan Vickery, David Immergluck, Matthew Malley & David Bryson

BELIEVE”- THE POLAR EXPRESS “Music & Lyrics by: Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri

“LEARN TO BE LONELY”- THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Music by: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics by: Charles Hart

“MILLION VOICES”- HOTEL RWANDA Music by: Wyclef Jean, Jerry “Wonder” Duplessis, Andrea Guerra Lyrics by: Wyclef Jean

“OLD HABITS DIE HARD”- ALFIE Music & Lyrics by: Mick Jagger & David A. Stewart

• BEST TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA

24 (FOX) Imagine Television/20th Century Fox Television; Real Time Television; Fox

DEADWOOD (HBO) Red Board Productions/Paramount Television/HBO Entertainment; HBO

LOST (ABC) Touchstone Television; ABC

NIP/TUCK (FX) Shephard-Robin Company/Warner Bros. Television Production, Inc.; FX

THE SOPRANOS (HBO) Chase Films/Brad Grey Television/HBO Entertainment; HBO

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA

EDIE FALCO -THE SOPRANOS

JENNIFER GARNER -ALIAS

MARISKA HARGITAY -LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT

CHRISTINE LAHTI -JACK & BOBBY

JOELY RICHARDSON -NIP/TUCK

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA

MICHAEL CHIKLIS -THE SHIELD

DENIS LEARY -RESCUE ME

JULIAN MCMAHON- NIP/TUCK

IAN MCSHANE- DEADWOOD

JAMES SPADER -BOSTON LEGAL

• BEST TELEVISION SERIES - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT (FOX) 20th Century Fox Television/Imagine Television

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES (ABC) Touchstone Television

ENTOURAGE (HBO) Leverage/Closest to the Hole Productions/HBO Entertainment

SEX AND THE CITY (HBO) Darren Star Productions/HBO Entertainment

WILL & GRACE (NBC) NBC Universal Television/KoMut Entertainment/Three Sisters

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

MARCIA CROSS -DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES

TERI HATCHER -DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES

FELICITY HUFFMAN -DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES

DEBRA MESSING -WILL & GRACE

SARAH JESSICA PARKER -SEX AND THE CITY

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - MUSICAL OR COMEDY

JASON BATEMAN -ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

ZACH BRAFF -SCRUBS

LARRY DAVID -CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

MATT LEBLANC- JOEY

TONY SHALHOUB- MONK

CHARLIE SHEEN - TWO AND A HALF MEN

• BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

AMERICAN FAMILY – JOURNEY OF DREAMS (PBS) El Norte Productions/KCET/Greenblatt-Janollari Studios/Fox Television Studios

IRON JAWED ANGELS (HBO) Spring Creek Productions/HBO Films

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS (HBO) DeMann Entertainment/Company Pictures/BBC Films/HBO Films

THE LION IN WINTER (SHOWTIME) Showtime/Hallmark Entertainment/Mat IV Productions

SOMETHING THE LORD MADE (HBO) Cort-Madden Productions/HBO Films

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

GLENN CLOSE -THE LION IN WINTER

BLYTHE DANNER -BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWN UPS

JULIANNA MARGULIES -THE GRID

MIRANDA RICHARDSON -THE LOST PRINCE

HILARY SWANK - IRON JAWED ANGELS

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR A MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

MOS DEF -SOMETHING THE LORD MADE

JAMIE FOXX -REDEMPTION

WILLIAM H. MACY -THE WOOL CAP

GEOFFREY RUSH - THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS

PATRICK STEWART -THE LION IN WINTER

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

DREA DE MATTEO -THE SOPRANOS

ANJELICA HUSTON - IRON JAWED ANGELS

NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN -DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES

CHARLIZE THERON -THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS

EMILY WATSON -THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS

• BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

SEAN HAYES -WILL & GRACE

MICHAEL IMPERIOLI - THE SOPRANOS

JEREMY PIVEN- ENTOURAGE

OLIVER PLATT- HUFF

WILLIAM SHATNER- BOSTON LEGAL

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

RE: "Lots of luck trying to talk Freepers into seeing a Spike Lee film!"


Won't even try to, and it's their loss. Freed from the usual albatross of racial issues that hangs over even his best movies (like the shocking, fiery Do The Right Thing), 25th Hour was as moving and personal a film as I've seen this decade. It's probably been a year since I last saw it, but The final sequense still rings in my memory from time to time (as well as the fade-out to Bruce Springsteen's beautiful "The Fuse").

But some people just won't give a Spike Lee film the time of day do to the man's liberal wackiness. Oh, well.

[Borges]

It was greatly helped by the fact that he didn't write it so it was sans preaching. And he didn't act in it so it was sans his consistently awful acting.

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

Praise God, that woman is beautiful.

Like Berlin once said: "Take my breath away".

[varina davis]

Glengarry Glen Ross was a masterpiece of a film. Truly underrated and overlooked. Jack Lemmon was brilliant, as was the entire cast. Just a riviting movie.

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

1.) Lee is not really an actor, and his character (Mookie) was a weak link in Do The Right Thing. Now that he has stopped casting himself in his own movies, they are seemingly beginning to improve. Summer of Sam was good too, though the well-acted magnum opus of his on the life of Malcolm X suffered from a pointless injection of X-worship in the prologue and epilogue that came off as silly and besides the point. I never liked Malcolm X anyway, because he despised the Jews and whites (although he was beginning to turn from some of his hateful rhetoric when he was gunned down in 1965).

2.)Don't agree with you on Baldwin's role in Glengarry Glen Ross, which I thought should have been Oscar material if it was a bit longer (even though it wasn't in the original play). Sorry, but glad to know that you liked the movie too.

3.) I Still can't get over that pic of Natalie Portman, though.
How can such a classic "Beauty" as Portman love such a demented "Beast" as sKerry?

[Borges]

Overlooked commerically at the time but now highly ranked on imdb one of the most quoted films around. It's a masterpiece. I usually find James Foley's films slightly overcooked but if the hothouse style was ever justified that was the occasion.

[A CA Guy]

She must have loved his pro Palestinian views.

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

RE: "Glengarry Glen Ross was a masterpiece of a film. Truly underrated and overlooked. Jack Lemmon was brilliant, as was the entire cast. Just a riviting movie."


Amen and AMEN.

[Borges]

I found it difficult to get excited about Lee's film of Malcolm X because I regard 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X' as one of the great American books and impossible to improve upon. He would be a conservative if he were alive today.

Didn't think Baldwin was bad just when compared to the others around him.

Portman had to use an old photo of him since he's so scarier looking these days!

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

RE: "Overlooked commerically at the time but now highly ranked on imdb one of the most quoted films around."


Glengarry's best lines are too nemerous to count (and many are too profane to list here anyway).
For a list of some snippets of Mamet's masterful dialogue,
just type this url into your computer.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104348/quotes

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

My husband is a trumpet player who has gigged with Ray Charles. I loved Ray, but he was a cranky guy who yelled at people for not playing parts that weren't even on the charts (not my husband). Ray couldn't see that the parts weren't there, of course, but he screamed at people over their absence anyway.

[Borges]

That movie is proof that art should be above politics. Not just the actors. It's really a condemnation of capitalism. Mamet is critizing the dog-eat-dog aspects of the free market. It's a legitimate heir to 'Death of a Salesman' Socialists love it. But despite all this it remains a great play and can't be denied as a piece of drama.

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

I've never read the Autobiography of Malcolm X, but if it can prove that he'd be *In any way* a conservative today, I'll have to check it out just out of curiosity alone.

Did 'ya also notice how, um, "odd" John kerry seemed in that picture. The hippie-dippie flowers, the goofy grin and the squirrely hair...to think that that man almost became our president is a depressing thought. Thank God we chose Bush, who (for all of his faults) is at least a REAL man to serve as our Commander-in-Chief.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Wow. In that picture, she looks exactly like my niece looked when she was about fourteen. How old is "that woman", anyway?

[Petronski]

I cannot read music, nor do I play an instrument, but I will point out that Ray lived the music in his mind. Like most musical geniuses, he knew instinctively what was right or wrong. I have no defense for any abusiveness on his part, but I do SO love the work product.

I do not use the term 'genius' slightly, either. In soul and r&B, the man was a genius.

[Borges]

Ray Charles virtually invented soul.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I agree with you - but he really had no business screaming at a trombone section that failed to play a part that existed only in his mind. : )

I sing professionally (R&B, in fact) and like I said, I loved Ray. But I also know that's no way to run a band. Like Buddy Rich (only not as bad), his reputation was one of being a bit of a crank.

[Borges]

She'll turn 24 this year.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Thanks. She looks younger than that, to me.

[Vicki]

Glengarry Glen Ross was a masterpiece of a film. Truly underrated and overlooked. Jack Lemmon was brilliant, as was the entire cast. Just a riviting movie.

I couldn't agree more. I watch it everytime it is on. Drives my husband crazy. One time it aired with all the language edited out. Totally ruined it.