Rosario Dawson, Jessica Biel and comback kid Matthew Perry were on hand early this morning to announce the nominations for the 64th annual Golden Globe Awards, to be held January 15.
'Babel' led the cinematic pack with seven nods, while Helen Mirren, Leonardo DiCaprio, Clint Eastwood and Toni Collette were among those meriting multiple mentions.
The contenders from TV:
TV Series, Drama
24, Big Love, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, Lost
TV Series, Comedy
Desperate Housewives, Entourage, The Office, Ugly Betty, Weeds
Lead Actor, TV Drama
Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy), Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Hugh Laurie (House), Bill Paxton (Big Love), Kiefer Sutherland (24)
Lead Actress, TV Drama
Patricia Arquette (Medium), Edie Falco (The Sopranos), Evangeline Lilly (Lost), Ellen Pompeo (Grey's), Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
Lead Actor, TV Comedy/Musical
Alec Baldwin (30 Rock), Zach Braff (Scrubs), Steve Carell (The Office), Jason Lee (My Name Is Earl), Tony Shalhoub (Monk)
Lead Actress, TV Comedy/Musical
Marcia Cross, (TV Guide cover girl) America Ferrera, Felicity Huffman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mary-Louis Parker
Best Actor, Miniseries or TV-Movie
André 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)
Best 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)
Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or TV-Movie
Thomas Haden Church (Broken Trail), Jeremy Irons (Elizabeth I), Justin Kirk (Weeds), Masi Oka (Heroes), Jeremy Piven (Entourage)
Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or TV-Movie
Emily Blunt (Gideon's Daughter), Toni Collette (Tsunami), Katherine Heigl (Grey's Anatomy), Sarah Paulson (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip), Elizabeth Perkins (Weeds)
And here, the film nods:
Best Drama
Babel, Bobby, Little Children, The Queen, The Departed
Best Comedy/Musical
Borat, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Little Miss Sunshine, Thank You for Smoking
Best Director
Clint Eastwood (two nominations, for Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima), Stephen Frears (The Queen), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel), Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
Lead Actor, Drama
Leonardo DiCaprio (two nominations, for The Departed and Blood Diamond), Peter O'Toole (Venus), Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness), Forest Whitaker
Lead Actress, Drama
Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet
Lead Actor, Comedy
Sacha Baron Cohen, Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Will Ferrell (Stranger than Fiction), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Kinky Boots)
Lead Actress, Comedy
Annette Bening, Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine), Beyonce Knowles (Dreamgirls), Meryl Streep, Rene Zellweger (Miss Potter)
Supporting Actor
Ben Affleck (Hollywoodland), Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls), Jack Nicholson (The Departed), Brad Pitt (Babel), Mark Wahlberg (The Departed)
Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza (Babel), Cate Blanchett (Notes on a Scandal), Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada), Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls), Kikuchi Rinko (Babel)
Screenplay
Babel, Little Children, Notes on a Scandal, The Departed, The Queen
Animated Film
Cars, Happy Feet, Monster House