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TheGolden Globesrightfully takes a lot of guff for being so starstruck andso susceptibleto fancy campaign tactics.
This gives the Hollywood Foreign Press more chances to get it right.
And because tis the (belated) season, we decided to rank them.
The Bottom 24
50.
Awkwafina,The Farewell49.
Richard Gere,Chicago48.
Courtney Love,The People vs. Larry Flynt47.
Uma Thurman,Kill Bill, Vol.
Eddie Murphy,Dolemite Is My Name45.
Catherine Zeta-Jones,Traffic44.
Jeff Daniels,The Squid and the Whale43.
Kirsten Dunst,Interview With the Vampire42.
Hugh Grant,About a Boy41.
Renee Zellweger,Nurse Betty40.
Colin Farrell,In Bruges39.
Julie Delpy,Before Midnight38.
Greta Gerwig,Frances Ha37.
Rupert Everett,My Best Friends Wedding36.
Emma Stone,Easy A35.
Peter Sarsgaard,Shattered Glass34.
Ralph Fiennes,The Grand Budapest Hotel33.
Toni Collette,Muriels Wedding32.
Nicole Kidman,Birth31.
Ewan McGregor,Moulin Rouge30.
Tilda Swinton,We Need to Talk About Kevin29.
Pam Grier,Jackie Brown28.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus,Enough Said27.
Cameron Diaz,Being John Malkovich
The Top 26
26.
The Golden Globes nominated it for Best Picture (Comedy) and Lane for his extravagant/vulnerable lead performance.
Leonardo DiCaprio,TitanicTitanicwas famously a towering Oscar triumph.
It took the Oscars until the firstPiratesmovie to finally break the glass on Johnny Depp.
Now, 14 years later, we arestillwaiting for Emily Blunts first Oscar nomination.
Melissa McCarthy,SpyThe Oscars reticence about nominating comedy performances has been well documented.
One of their rare exceptions was Melissa McCarthys 2011 supporting actress turn inBridesmaids.
Like the Vespa-driving, gun-throwing, Rose Byrnedeceiving tradecraft she displayed inSpy.
In a perfect world, McCarthy would have walked Oscars red carpet as a Best Actress nominee.
It sounds so weird to say it, but: the Golden Globes represent that more perfect world!
He won the Golden Globe for it, and rightly so.
That was, quite frankly, never going to happen in 2001.
Plus he wasMichael Douglas!
He and his new wife Catherine Zeta-Jones both starred in that years Best Picture nomineeTraffic!
(For which Catherine, see above, was also snubbed.)
Oscar … went in another direction (read on).
Only Jude Laws breakthrough performance got a major nomination.
It wasnt to be.
Ultimately, her votes were spread too thin.
Her Golden Globe triumph in Best Actress (Musical/Comedy) for 1995sTo Die Forwas a huge step toward legitimacy.
Adam Sandler,Punch-Drunk LoveIf the sight of a we didnt think he had this in him!
There were always going to be casualties.
Look no farther than Beanie Feldsteins nomination forBooksmartlast year.
Tracy Flick deserved better!
Only the Golden Globes recognized that.
Not only wasHustlers Ramona a career-pinnacle performance by J.
This was the stuff that Oscar nominations are made of!
Supporting actors Thomas Haden Church and Virginia Madsen were also Oscar-nominated.
Its enough to make you want to chug an entire spit bucket of Merlot.
We all have to live with that decision!
Well, not the Golden Globes, and they rightly nominated both women.
Michael Douglas,The American President2.
A beautiful fairy tale!
So this was the year Oscar decided to sidle up to ultraviolent God-warrior Mel Gibson andBraveheart?
Thank you, Golden Globes, for being there for me, for us, for Hanks.
