BOYHOOD AND GRAND BUDAPEST WIN BEST PICTURE AT GOLDEN GLOBES

Boyhood and The Grand Budapest Hotel were the two Best Picture winners at the 2014 Golden Globe awards. A night of several big shockers in the TV categories saw few in the film categories, though ripples were felt as Birdman was beaten by Grand Budapest to win the top award in the Comedy or Musical field. A reminder of the nominees can be found here, with all of the night's winners right on this very page.

Best Picture - Drama

Boyhood

Best Picture - Comedy or Musical

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Best Director

Richard Linklater (Boyhood)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Drama

Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Comedy or Musical

Michael Keaton (Birdman)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Drama

Julianne Moore (Still Alice)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role - Comedy or Musical

Amy Adams (Big Eyes)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

J. K. Simmons (Whiplash)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)

Best Screenplay

Armando Bo, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolas Giacobone and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman)

Best Original Score

Johann Johannsson (The Theory of Everything)

Best Original Song

John Legend and Lonnie Lynn Jr. - 'Glory' (Selma)

Best Animated Film

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Best Foreign Language Film

Leviathan - Russia

BIRDMAN LEADS GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS WITH SEVEN

Today, the 11th of December, the HFPA announced its nominees for the 2015 Golden Globe awards. Among the choices was the usual selection of the expected and the unexpected. We discovered that the group had definitely seen, and liked, Ava DuVernay's Selma, as it picked up four nominations, though not as much as Birdman, which scored a total of seven, putting it ahead of all other nominated films. That's fairly rare for a film competing as a comedy at the Globes. Last-minute campaigns for films like Cake and Maps to the Stars brought about nominations for their leads (Maps' Julianne Moore is also nominated for Still Alice), while CBS Films' Pride scores again with a Best Picture nomination, following its success at the BIFAs on Sunday night. The awards ceremony will take place on the 11th of January. Here are all the nominees:

Best Picture – Drama

Boyhood

Foxcatcher

The Imitation Game

Selma

The Theory of Everything

Best Picture – Musical or Comedy

Birdman

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Into the Woods

Pride

St. Vincent

Best Director

Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Ava DuVernay (Selma)

David Fincher (Gone Girl)

Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)

Richard Linklater (Boyhood)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role – Drama

Steve Carell (Foxcatcher)

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)

Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler)

David Oyelowo (Selma)

Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role – Musical or Comedy

Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Michael Keaton (Birdman)

Bill Murray (St. Vincent)

Joaquin Phoenix (Inherent Vice)

Christoph Waltz (Big Eyes)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role – Drama

Jennifer Aniston (Cake)

Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)

Julianne Moore (Still Alice)

Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)

Reese Witherspoon (Wild)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role – Musical or Comedy

Amy Adams (Big Eyes)

Emily Blunt (Into the Woods)

Helen Mirren (The Hundred-Foot Journey)

Julianne Moore (Maps to the Stars)

Quvenzhané Wallis (Annie)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Robert Duvall (The Judge)

Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)

Edward Norton (Birdman)

Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher)

J. K. Simmons (Whiplash)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)

Jessica Chastain (A Most Violent Year)

Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)

Emma Stone (Birdman)

Meryl Streep (Into the Woods)

Best Screenplay

Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Armando Bo, Alexander Dinelaris, Nicolás Giacobone and Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)

Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl)

Richard Linklater (Boyhood)

Graham Moore (The Imitation Game)

Best Original Score

Alexandre Desplat (The Imitation Game)

Jóhann Jóhansson (The Theory of Everything)

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Gone Girl)

Antonio Sanchez (Birdman)

Hans Zimmer (Interstellar)

Best Original Song

Common and John Legend – ‘Glory’ (Selma)

Lana del Rey – ‘Big Eyes’ (Big Eyes)

Sia Furler, Will Gluck and Greg Kurstin – ‘Opportunity’ (Annie)

Lenny Kaye and Patti Smith – ‘Mercy Is’ (Noah)

Ella Yelich-O’Connor – ‘Yellow Flicker Beat’ (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1)

Best Animated Film

Big Hero 6

The Book of Life

The Boxtrolls

How to Train Your Dragon 2

The LEGO Movie

Best Foreign Language Film

Force Majeure – Sweden

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem – Israel

Ida – Poland

Leviathan – Russia

Tangerines – Estonia

GOLDEN GLOBES FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM AWARD - 53 TITLES COMPETE FOR NOMINATIONS

Unlike the Academy, the Golden Globes' HFPA permits more than one film hailing from a particular country to compete for its Foreign Language Film award. And so, a number of countries appear a number of times on their recently-announced list of eligible titles for that award. Nominations will confirm the group's top five from these 53 when they are announced next Thursday, the 11th of December.

• 1,001 Grams (Norway)
• Beloved Sisters (Germany)
• Brancusi from Eternity (Romania)
• Cantinflas (Mexico)
• Charlie's Country (Australia)
• Chinese Puzzle (France)
• The Circle (Switzerland)
• Coming Home (China)
• Concrete Night (Finland)
• The Continent (China)
• Corn Island (Georgia)
• The Dark Valley (Austria)
• The Dead Lands (New Zealand)
• Dearest (China)
• Difret (Ethiopia)
• Eyes of a Thief (Palestine)
• Fandry (India)
• Force Majeure (Sweden)
• Forgotten (Bolivia)
• Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Israel)
• The Great Victory (Brazil)
• The Grump (Finland)
• Human Capital (Italy)
• Ida (Denmark / Poland)
• Kurmanjan Datka Queen of the Mountains (Kyrgyzstan)
• Leviathan (Russia)
• Liar's Dice (India)
• The Liberator (Venezuela)
• Mateo (Colombia)
• Mea Culpa (France)
• Miss Violence (Greece)
• Mommy (Canada)
• Norte, the End of History (Philippines)
• One Candle Two Candles (Kurdistan / USA)
• The Raid 2 (Indonesia)
• Saint Laurent (France)
• See Fog (South Korea)
• Siddharth (Canada)
• Tangerines (Estonia)
• Timbuktu (Mauritania)
• To Kill a Man (Chile)
• Two Days, One Night (Belgium)
• Uzumasa Limelight (Japan)
• Die Vampirischwestern 2 (Germany)
• Venus in Fur (France)
• The Way He Looks (Brazil)
• We Love You, You Bastard (France)
• White God (Hungary)
• Wild Tales (Argentina)
• Winter Sleep (Turkey)
• Words with Gods (Mexico)
• Work Weather Wife (Canada)
• Yves Saint Laurent (France)

HFPA WILL HONOUR GEORGE CLOONEY WITH CECIL B DEMILLE AWARD

George Clooney has won two Oscars because he's George Clooney and people don't bat an eye at giving icons like George Clooney Oscars whether they deserve them or not. He's won four Golden Globes also because he's George Clooney, and also because they're the Golden Globes. He'll take another one (at least) home in January when he is the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille award. That's fine, because he's George Clooney and they're the Golden Globes. Jodie Foster used the podium to confirm her sexual orientation in a wonderful speech two years back, and Diane Keaton sang a song to commemorate Woody Allen molesting his children last year. I wonder what Georgey will do this year?

SLIGHT CHANGE TO GOLDEN GLOBE RULES

The big buzz atm around Golden Globe rule changes is about the TV categories, but that's not my scene, so I'm focusing on a different one. In order to flesh out the animation category, foreign language animated films will no longer be eligible for the HFPA's Foreign Language Film award, and will instead be permitted inclusion in its Animated Film category. The HFPA doesn't allow films to be nominated for more than one award for the film itself, as some may remember from years ago when English-language foreign films (such as Gandhi) weren't included in the main Best Picture - Drama category.