The 2011 Golden Globes Nominations were announced this morning, and I try not to say this lightly, but the television nominations are a SHAM. The heads of the Foreign Press Association live snugly in their own buttholes. Particularly in the comedy categories, the nominations are an embarrassment. No, “Community” did not get nominated for anything. But no one really expected it to. But neither did “Parks and Recreation” (save for an Amy Poehler nomination). Ron Swanson was DENIED. And so was “Happy Endings” and “It’s Always Sunny” and “The League” and every comedy on television with the slightest bit of edge. Instead, they give nominations to “Enlightened” (a critical favorite, but one that I couldn’t get into), Matt LeBlanc’s “Episodes” (seriously boring), “Glee” (seriously bad, also not funny), “Modern Family” (wholesome, conservative, safe) and “New Girl” because … I have no idea. Maybe they were really looking forward to Schmidt showing up and getting plastered with the Golden Globes crowd.
But the biggest, most boneheaded, off-the-charts ridiculous snub of all was the lack of a nomination for “Breaking Bad” in the Best Drama category, along with a snub for “Friday Night Lights.” They did have the good sense to nominate “Homeland,” but the nomination for “Boss” is a little head scratching (and I love “Boss”), as is the one for “American Horror Story,” the most entertaining train wreck on TV. But credit where credit is due: Peter Dinklage and “Game of Thrones” got warranted props, and so did Thomas Jane’s penis.
The mini-series category shows lots of love for British shows, and of the ones I’ve seen — “The Hour” and “Luther” — I can’t complain. I’m just surprised they didn’t find a way to nominate “Temple Grandin” again.
The full list of TV nominations is after the jump.
Best Comedy Series
“Enlightened”
“Episodes”
“Glee”
“Modern Family”
“New Girl”
Best Actor, TV Comedy
Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock”
David Duchovny “Californiacation”
Johnny Galecki “Big Bang Theory”
Thomas Jane “Hung”
Matt LeBlanc “Episodes”
Best Actress, Comedy
Laura Dern, “Enlightened”
Tina Fey “30 Rock”
Laura Linney “The C Word”
Amy Poehler “Parks and Recreation”
Zooey Deschanel “The New Girl”
Best Drama TV Series
“American Horror Story”
“Boardwalk Empire”
“Boss”
“Game of Thrones”
“Homeland”
Best Actor, TV Drama
Steve Buscemi, “Boardwalk Empire”
Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad”
Kelsey Grammer, “Boss”
Jeremy Irons, “The Borgias”
Damian Lewis, “Homeland”
Best Actress, TV Drama
Claire Danes “Homeland”
Mireille Enos “The Killing”
Julianna Margulies “The Good Wife”
Madeleine Stowe, “Revenge”
Callie Thorne, “Necessary Roughness”
Best Television Series – Miniseries/Movie
“Cinema Verite”
“Downton Abbey”
“The Hour”
“Mildred Pierce”
“Too Big to Fail”
Best Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Hugh Bonneville, “Downton Abbey”
Idris Elba, “Luther”
William Hurt, “Too Big to Fail”
Bill Nighy, “Page Eight”
Dominic West, “The Hour”
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Peter Dinklage, “Game of Thrones”
Paul Giamatti, “Too Big to Fail”
Guy Pearce, “Mildred Piece”
Tim Robbins, “Cineme Verite”
Eric Stonestreet, “Modern Family”
Best Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Romola Garai, “The Hour”
Diane Lane, “Cinema Verite”
Elizabeth McGovern, “Downton Abbey”
Emily Watson, “Appropriate Adult”
Kate Winslet, “Mildred Pierce”
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-series or TV Movie:
Jessica Lange, “American Horror Story”
Kelly Macdonald “Boardwalk Empire”
Maggie Smith, “Downton Abbey”
Sofia Vergara, “Modern Family”
Evan Rachel Wood, “Mildred Pierce”
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Those best comedy nominees look like they picked names out of a hat.
“Enlightened” is terrible, and I watched “Episodes” and laughed maaaaybe once.
And “Glee”? Is it really a comedy if we’re laughing at them and not with them?
Just one more awards show I won’t be watching.
Wow, there is so much here. (or I suppose not here actually) The foreign press should be forced to disband
All entertainment industry awards are given on a circle jerk basis. People not in the circle do not get jerked.
The foreign press is disbanding???
/jumps out window
The Glades was robbed again. Fuck this shit.
Huh – I thought Mildred Pierce got nominated for a bunch of stuff last year. Apparently the uselessness of all these awards has rendered time meaningless.
/still angry about The Killing, btw
where’s breaking bad?
I like how Cranston gets the nom but the show doesn’t. Fuck New Girl and fuck these people.
New Girl? The promos for that show make me want to shoot out my TV every time they appear.
Glee? The only thing funny about that show is how fucking awful it is.
I shouldn’t get as pissed off at seeing these nominations as I do. However, I can’t stand seeing excellent shows and actor’s work go unrecognized because people love mediocre shit.
3 of their 5 best comedies are not funny.
And giving a Big Bang theory actor the nod over Nick Offerman or Joel McHale says it all, really.
A friends star has a show that made it a whole season?
It’s pretty bad when the only nominations I agree on are the mini-series and made for TV movies.
Finally, Laura Dern got the best comedic actress nomination she’s been waiting on since she was elbow-deep in dinosaur turds.
Is anyone really surprised at this point?
The comedy doesn’t surprise me. American Horror Story does and I watch the damn show.
It’s entertaining, trashy and over the top, but not awards material.
Which just goes to show that awards material in my mind is not the same as actual awards material.
I read the noms over on Filmdrunk and was shocked at how good the movie nominations and how poor the television nominations are.
I watched like 10 minutes if Enlightened the other night and thought it was a drama.
Was Justified somehow not eligible? Otherwise W.T.F., no noms?
The awesome, bluegrass singing lady from season 2 won last year. (margo?) Maybe since the season just started they weren’t eligible.
Probably they just got f’d over because our culture sucks and likes crappy shows.
WTF is Enlightened?
I just want Game of Thrones and Peter Dinkelage to win, don’t care about anything else.
Also New Girl is quite funny
and Zooey > Emily
WHAT!?!? No Community and New Girl gets a nom. WTF! The HFPA must be on something to snub Community and It’s Always Sunny. In fact they must have some serious delusions or are smoking some hectic herb whilst watching New Girl and Glee to find them remotely funny. FAIL!
I like Enlightened, but I would never call it a comedy. Only ever watched a few minutes of Glee, but it didn’t really strike me as a comedy either; just a stupid teen drama that has Jane Lynch in it for some reason. Episodes, Modern Family, and New Girl are funny, but they’re all well outside of top 5 territory. The other categories are much less terrible, but Breaking Bad’s snub makes no sense at all. I thought everyone loved that shit.
No Mandy Patinkin for Homeland is surprising…thought he was going to be a runaway favorite.
Damian Wayans Jr. made the right move by sticking with HappyEndings. He was in the pilot of New Girl and i was kinda excited to watch it. Then in the next episode it was a total different black guy – as if we wouldn’t notice! Nice try, Fox. Amy > Zooey. Also, Andy should have gotten a nom as well for just being Andy.
Clarification: Andy Dwyer.
SisterJac: thank you for talking about the Damon Wayans Jr. thing. I watched the New Girl pilot, and then I started watching Happy Endings and thought it was weird that the same guy would star in two sitcoms at the same time. Then I watched another episode of New Girl and saw a different black guy, who looked nothing like Damon Jr., and I started worrying that I was a racist.
I shit bigger than the Foreign Press.
Also, Damon Wayans joined New Girl when Happy Endings was on hiatus. When Happy Endings was renewed he was contractually obligated to go back to that show instead of New Girl. Hence the new black guy character on New Girl.
I checked to make sure I wasn’t a racist.
Dustin, you say the comedy nominees aren’t edgy. Unless the commercials have lied, wasn’t Glee addressing a gay teenaged romance, gay bashing and teenaged pregnancy?
I won’t watch this awards show, as I don’t watch any awards show, but if I did, I’d be pulling for Modern Family in the comedy section. Only funny show on there. Yes, it’s not as funny as the show was 40+ episodes ago, but it still guarantees you 3 good laughs a show.
@Dawgarilious – Just what I thought. Eric Stonestreet from Modern Family is nominated but not Mandy Patinkin? Piss off.
MAGGIE SMITH, BITCHES
And Ricky Gervais cackles with laughter at all the material the Foreign Press Association just gave him.
@Thatsamare — Glee addresses [that stuff you said] like Saved By the Bell addressed organized crime and diamond theft.