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Golden Globes: 'Shakespeare,' 'Truman' and NBC lead pack
Web posted on: Thursday, December 17, 1998 4:36:28 PM EST
BEVERLY HILLS, California (CNN) -- "Shakespeare In Love," "The Truman Show" and NBC led the way in Golden Globe nominations announced on Thursday. The annual awards ceremony held by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association honors the best on both the small and big screens.
"Shakespeare In Love" and "The Truman Show" set the pace among movie nominees, garnering six nominations each. "Saving Private Ryan" was nominated in five different categories.
Meantime, TV network NBC racked up 20 nominations, by far the most of the networks. ABC was a distant second with 12 nods.
"Shakespeare in Love" seems to be a surprise contender on the silver screen. Though it has received solid reviews, it was only recently released on limited scale. The story of the Bard as a struggling young playwright was nominated for top musical or comedy film, best actress (Gwyneth Paltrow), best supporting actors (Judi Dench and Geoffrey Rush), director (John Madden), and screenplay (Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard).
Unlike "Shakespeare," "The Truman Show" rode a summer marketing wave to success. The Jim Carrey vehicle about a man who unwittingly becomes the star of a 24-hour TV show, was nominated for dramatic film, best actor (Carrey), best supporting actor (Ed Harris), best director (Peter Weir), screenplay (Andrew Niccol), and for its original score.
"Saving Private Ryan," which has led the pre-Oscar buzz with its graphic depiction of D-Day and the World War II search for the lost Ryan, was nominated for best dramatic film, best actor (Tom Hanks), best director (Steven Spielberg), screenplay (Robert Rodat), and for the score by John Williams.
Along with "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Truman Show," "Elizabeth," the story of the virgin queen, "Gods and Monsters," a tale of "Frankestein" director James Whale, and "The Horse Whisperer," the Robert Redford flick based on the book by the same name, were the dramatic movie nominees.
"Bulworth," Warren Beatty's slam on the political process, "The Mask of Zorro," the Anthony Quinn-Antonio Banderas adventure, "Patch Adams," in which Robin Williams plays a 1970s medical student that treats patients with humor, "Still Crazy," the yet-to-be-released film starring Stephen Rea and Billy Connolly, and "There's Something About Mary," the grotesque Farrelly brothers comedy starring Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz, along with "Shakespeare In Love," were nominated for best musical or comedy.
The year's other World War II movie "The Thin Red Line," which is scheduled for a Christmas Day release, earned the unofficial distinction of most notable snub. The much-anticipated Terrence Malick film with an all-star cast received no Golden Globe nominations.
Another critical favorite, the dark comedy "Happiness," got just one nomination -- a screenplay nod for Todd Solondz, who also directed the movie.
The Golden Globes, which are decided by the 92 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, traditionally serve as predictors for the Oscars and provide a major promotional push for a movie or an Oscar hopeful.
NBC will televise the awards for the fourth straight year, devoting three live hours of prime time to the event on January 24.
The 1996 show ended a 14-year absence of major network exposure for the Globes ceremony, first triggered by accusations of corrupt voting practices by the Foreign Press Association. The association worked hard to regain respectability and lure network attention once again.
Associated Press contributed to this report.