The 2016 Golden Globes Nominations Are In – And It’s All About ‘Carol’

Awards season is almost upon us. The 2016 Golden Globe nominations have just landed, and it's all about Carol, as the Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett drama received five nominations.

America Ferrera, Dennis Quaid, Angela Bassett, and Chloe Moretz revealed the nominations live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California first thing US time, meaning Hollywood's finest have woken up to some very good news. Especially as the Globes are thought to preempt the front-runners for the Oscars.

Here's the full list of 2016 Golden Globes nominees.

Best Motion Picture

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Carol
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Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant

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Room
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Spotlight

Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama

Bryan Cranston


Leonardo DiCaprio


Michael Fassbender

Eddie Redmayne

Will Smith

Best Actress, Musical/Comedy – Film

Jennifer Lawrence

Amy Schumer


Melissa McCarthy

Maggie Smith


Lily Tomlin

Best Comedy or Musical – Feature

*Joy *

*The Martian *

*Spy *

Trainwreck

Best Screenplay

*Room *

*Spotlight *

*The Big Short *

*Steve Jobs *

The Hateful Eight

Best actress in a comedy/musical TV series

Rachel Bloom

Jamie Lee Curtis

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Gina Rodriguez

Lily Tomlin

Supporting actor, TV

Alan Cumming Damian Lewis

Ben Mendelsohn

Tobias Menzes

Christian Slater

TV movie/limited series

*American Crime *

*AHS *

*Fargo *

*Flesh and Bone *

Wolf Hall

Best Original Song

'Love Me Like You Do'

'One Kind of Love'

'See You Again'

'Simple Sound #3'

'Writing’s On The Wall'

Best supporting actress in TV series/movie/mini-series

Uzo Aduba

Joanna Froggett

Regina King

Maura Tierney

Best actor in a TV movie/mini-series

Idris Elba

Oscar Isaac

David Oyelowo

Mark Rylance

Patrick Wilson

Best Animated Feature

*Anomalisa *

*The Good Dinosaur *

*Inside Out *

*The Peanuts Movie *

Shaun The Sheep

Best comedy/musical TV series

*Casual *

*Mozart in the Jungle *

*Silicon Valley *

*Transparent *

*Orange is the New Black *

Veep

Last year's Golden Globes belonged to Julianne Moore's moving performance in Still Alice, Patricia Arquette's 12-year role in Boyhood, and big wins for* Game Of Thrones*.

Bets are on for who will dominate this year. Bring on the ceremony on 10 January.

Relive the best red carpet moments of the 2015 Golden Globes in the gallery below.

Earlier we wrote...

'Fasten your seatbelts!' Ricky Gervais is returning to host the Golden Globes.

He may have vowed never to grace the stage at the ceremony again, but it's just been announced he'll be back to host the Globes for 2016.

After his three year stint as host between 2010 and 2012, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have riffed their way through the past three ceremonies, but he'll now usurp the role on for the Globes on January 10.

Announcing the news, NBC Entertainment Chairman, Robert Greenblatt, said in a press release: 'We're excited to have Ricky Gervais back to host the most enjoyable awards show of the season in his own inimitable was. Disarming and surprising, Ricky is ready to honor - and send up - the best work of the year in film and television. Fasten your seat belts.'

It's fair to say Ricky ruffled a few feathers with his previous stints on the stage, with some critics saying he'd crossed the line with his jokes. In 2012 he famously introduced Bruce Willis as 'Ashton Kutcher’s Dad'. Needless to say, Bruce wasn't amused.

In 2012 Ricky wrote on his blog: 'I've told my agent to never let me be persuaded to [host the Globes] again. It's like a parachute jump. You can only really enjoy it in retrospect when you realise you didn't die and it was quite an amazing thing to do.'

Clearly he's a thrill-seeker.