LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Dreamy musical romance La La Land, set in modern-day Los Angeles, topped nominations for the Golden Globes on Monday, as Hollywood's awards seasons revs up in the march to the Oscars.
Damien Chazelle's tribute to the Golden Age of American musicals picked up seven nods, including for best musical/comedy film and for its two stars, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.
Dramas Moonlight, Manchester By The Sea, Florence Foster Jenkins and Lion followed with six, five, four and four nominations, respectively.
The announcements will give the nominees a welcome boost going into the race for February's Oscars, with the influential Screen Actors Guild nominations to come later this week.
La La Land will face competition from 20th Century Women, Deadpool, Florence Foster Jenkins, and Sing Street in the race for best comedy or musical film.
Vying for best motion picture drama are Mel Gibson's war movie Hacksaw Ridge, heist thriller Hell Or High Water, family dramas Lion and Manchester By The Sea and coming-of-age story Moonlight. Experts have Chazelle's musical in the lead in several races for the Globes, which will take place on January 8 with comedian Jimmy Fallon as host.
"Normally the Globe voters like to spread the wealth among a lot of different films, but I could honestly see it winning the film award and (awards) for Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone," Chris Beachum, the managing director of the Gold Derby awards predictions website told AFP.
"It's got a very good shot at 'directing' and maybe the score or song categories - it could do really well."
Kenneth Lonergan's unflinching Manchester By The Sea, which earned Casey Affleck a nomination for best actor in a drama film, has been monopolising attention on the drama side of the Globes competition.
Another frontrunner is Barry Jenkins's Moonlight, with the director and cast members Naomie Harris and Mahershala Ali all garnering nominations.
Lion, about a young man from India adopted by an Australian family who searches for his long-lost blood relatives using Google Earth, is also considered a favorite for the Oscars.
Garth Davis's drama received Globes nods for best drama motion picture, and in the supporting acting categories for Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman.
Stars took to social media to voice their shock, delight or gratitude as they woke up to the announcements, presented in the pre-dawn hours in California.
"Thank you, Golden Globes! As we speak, the entire Deadpool team is engaged in a grotesque, early morning tickle-fight," the superhero comedy's star Ryan Reynolds, who was nominated for best comedy/musical actor, joked on Twitter.
Lily Collins, nominated for her performance in Warren Beatty's Rules Don't Apply, posted a picture to Instagram of her clasping her hand to her mouth in elation.
"The moment your mom captures you being nominated for your first Golden Globe. Priceless. I still can't breathe. Beyond honored, thankful, and proud. This can't be real!" she said.
Hamilton superstar Lin-Manuel Miranda, who penned How Far I'll Go for Disney animation Moana, celebrated his best original song nomination with a tweet which said simply: "Bit of a day, bit of a day, bit of a day!" .
Notable by its absence was Nate Parker's The Birth of A Nation, which was seen as firm awards material until news emerged over the summer of the director's acquittal over rape allegations in 1999 by a woman who ended up committing suicide.
Other surprise omissions were Denzel Washington, nominated on seven previous occasions, who looked like a good bet to earn his first directing nod for Fences, and Silence director Martin Scorsese, who won in 2012 for Hugo. Washington nevertheless earned a nomination for his acting in Fences, as did co-star Viola Davis.
Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann, a German comedy about a troubled father-daughter relationship, added a Golden Globe nomination in the foreign language category after sweeping the board at the European film awards on Saturday.
It will vie for the prize with three French films - Divines, Elle and The Salesman, a joint French-Iranian production - as well as Chile's Neruda. Among the television nominations, FX true crime anthology The People vs O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story led with five nominations.
AMC crime drama The Night Manager was close behind with four nominations, while Black-ish, The Crown, The Night Of, This Is Us and Westworld grabbed three each.
HBO comfortably led the television nominations with 14.
Although more high-profile than the SAGs, the Golden Globes are seen as less of an indicator of Oscars glory, as a relatively small group of non-US journalists - the Hollywood Foreign Press Association - chooses the winners, rather than the industry itself.
Best Motion Picture - Drama
Hell Or High Water
Lion
Manchester By The Sea
Moonlight
Hacksaw Ridge
Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
20th Century Women
Deadpool
Florence Foster Jenkins
La La Land
Sing Street
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Amy Adams - Arrival
Jessica Chastain - Miss Sloane
Isabelle Huppert - Elle
Ruth Negga - Loving
Natalie Portman - Jackie
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Casey Affleck - Manchester By The Sea
Joel Edgerton - Loving
Andrew Garfield - Hacksaw Ridge
Viggo Mortensen - Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington - Fences
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Annette Bening - 20th Century Women
Lily Collins - Rules Don't Apply
Hailee Steinfeld - The Edge Of Seventeen
Emma Stone - La La Land
Meryl Streep - Florence Foster Jenkins
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Colin Farrell - The Lobster
Ryan Gosling - La La Land
Hugh Grant - Florence Foster Jenkins
Jonah Hill - War Dogs
Ryan Reynolds - Deadpool
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Naomie Harris - Moonlight
Nicole Kidman - Lion
Octavia Spencer - Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams - Manchester By The Sea
Viola Davis - Fences
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture
Mahershala Ali - Moonlight
Jeff Bridges - Hell Or High Water
Simon Helberg - Florence Foster Jenkins
Dev Patel - Lion
Aaron Taylor-Johnson - Nocturnal Animals
Best Director - Motion Picture
Damien Chazelle - La La Land
Tom Ford - Nocturnal Animals
Mel Gibson - Hacksaw Ridge
Barry Jenkins - Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan - "Manchester By The Sea
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Damien Chazelle - La La Land
Tom Ford - Nocturnal Animals
Barry Jenkins - Moonlight
Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester By The Sea
Taylor Sheridan - Hell or High Water
Best Motion Picture - Animated
Moana
My Life As A Zucchini
Sing
Zootopia
Kubo And The Two Strings
Best Motion Picture - Foreign Language
Divines - France
Elle - France
Neruda - Chile
The Salesman - Iran, France
Toni Erdmann - Germany
Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Nicholas Britell - Moonlight
Justin Hurwitz - La La Land
Johann Johannsson - Arrival
Dustin O'Halloran, Hauschka - Lion
Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams, Benjamin Wallfisch - Hidden Figures
Best Original Song - Motion Picture
Can't Stop The Feeling! - Trolls
City Of Stars - La La Land
Faith - Sing
Gold - Gold
How Far I'll Go - Moana
Best Television Series - Drama
Game Of Thrones
Stranger Things
This Is Us
Westworld
The Crown
Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Atlanta
Black-ish
Mozart In The Jungle
Transparent
Veep
Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
American Crime
The Dresser
The Night Manager
The Night Of
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Riley Keough - The Girlfriend Experience
Sarah Paulson - The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Charlotte Rampling - London Spy
Kerry Washington - Confirmation
Felicity Huffman - American Crime
Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Riz Ahmed - The Night Of
Bryan Cranston - All The Way
Tom Hiddleston - The Night Manager
John Turturro - The Night Of
Courtney B. Vance - The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series - Drama
Caitriona Balfe - Outlander
Claire Foy - The Crown
Keri Russell - The Americans
Winona Ryder - Stranger Things
Evan Rachel Wood - Westworld
Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama
Rami Malek - Mr. Robot
Bob Odenkirk - Better Call Saul
Matthew Rhys - The Americans
Liev Schreiber - Ray Donovan
Billy Bob Thornton - Goliath
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Rachel Bloom - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Veep
Sarah Jessica Parker - Divorce
Issa Rae - Insecure
Gina Rodriguez - Jane The Virgin
Tracee Ellis Ross - Black-ish
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Anthony Anderson - Black-ish
Gael García Bernal - Mozart In The Jungle
Donald Glover - Atlanta
Nick Nolte - Graves
Jeffrey Tambor - Transparent
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Olivia Colman - The Night Manager
Lena Headey - Game Of Thrones
Chrissy Metz - This Is Us
Mandy Moore - This Is Us
Thandie Newton - Westworld
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Sterling K. Brown - The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Hugh Laurie - The Night Manager
John Lithgow - The Crown
Christian Slater - Mr. Robot
John Travolta - The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
